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Jig is starting to be up for the networks. basically, quality migrates to cable. >> "oz" comes on in '97. and it's set in this fictional penitentiary. wow. what a strange show that was. >> in "oz," sometimes the things you can't touch are more real than the things you can. for instance, here, hatred, fear, loneliness are more real to me than a shank and a soul. >> it was jaw-droppingly violent. it was a men's prison. it probably should be. but you know, it kind of announces the idea that hbo is going to get serious about doing scripted dramas. >> it's finished. it's over. >> but hbo really in ...

Medical, another orejones gang member, jeremy gonzalez, witnessed the procession. >> i seen him that he was bloody. and being that's my home bay, like i been knowing him for a long time and me and him been through a lot and i wasn't just going to let it just ride, you know what i'm saying? i let my anger kind of get the best of me, too, and popped my door and ran out there with the shank. >> inmate gonzalez apparently was able to defeat the locking device, open the cell door and he ran out of the cell and was holding a seven-inch piece of metal. >> it was made out of the top blade of a squeege...

Supervision unit after he burst out of his cell with a seven-inch shank and then flooded his housing unit. his murder trial has been postponed, and in the meantime, he's limited his contact with family because it's just too hard to deal with. >> i tried to use the phone. it breaks my hid. pushed me into water. i ain't going to be there for a while, you know? >> despite his efforts to avoid thinking about family, a reminder has just arrived by way of today's mail. >> i got this letter from my oldest little sister. she's 12 years old. she's real smart. she gets straight a's in school. so i'm rea...

He was a day late for the party. >> there was four laws down there. a sergeant, a lieutenant, corporal and regular officer. >> and he started to get real nervous, because, you know, he had no backup, he's over there with a weapon in a secured facility. >> with gonzalez already outnumbered four to one, members of the sert team escorting hidalgo and guerrero are called back to assist. >> go, go, go. >> i'm not stupid, you know, they laid it down real quick, threw the shank away from me. i just chilled out real quick. >> he threw the knife on the ground, not at the officer. it was very clearly, y...

This job that we have is such a gravy job and such an easy job. i challenge anybody to come in here and work this job for a week and see if we're overpaid. >> going to start flooding! start. >> later in the day, the disturbance escalates when one of the inmates starts flooding the unit. >> the guy in 12 cell started flooding his cell. i asked him why. he said just for no reason. he's notorious for doing stuff like that. >> the inmate is well known to staff, jeremy gonzalez. besides facing charges of murder and aggravated assault, gonzalez just picked up another felony charge after confronting ...