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Correctional officers showed our cameras how they quell the violence with an arsenal of their own. one that includes nonlethal and lethal weaponry. >> first rounds we fire are wood blocks. hopefully it will make them stop. we really have to escalate with our nonlethal options. we use what we call a scat round, which is really irritating. those are louder. the smoke you see there, that's cn gas. it's no fun. it messes up your sight. makes you, you know, makes your snot roll. and of course we have a lethal option. we have a mini-14 here the 223 round. we only use that as a last resort. >> today,...

And i believe that everybody should know the lord. if you don't know the lord, i encourage you to know the lord. >> i'd just gotten done putting the camera down. my cameraman was walking around. and then i started hearing a bing, like bing, bing, bing. literally five feet away i see this man probably in his late 50s, early 60s, and i look down and i saw these two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like, repeatedly, and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> what you saw here today was actually a battery. they were stomping his head. you can see he's pretty -- pretty messed up. >> ...

Up, facedown. whole yard of kind of like 600 inmates were completely down on the ground. >> okay, get up. >> so officer mitchell, what just happened just now? >> basically, what we had, two guys, they wanted to horseplay, get a little bit heavy. if we allowed things like that to continue, what's going to happen is they're going to start fighting, the possibility of other people getting involved. >> though the alarm call at corcoran ended peacefully, our cameras encountered a different situation at northern california's pelican bay state prison. >> one, two, three. >> just having a routine guar...

Other. >> this surveillance footage reveals a group of southern mexican gang members unleashing a vicious coordinated attack against a group of black inmates. the beginning of california's worst prison riot. >> i looked around and all over the yard there was fighting and stabbings going on. >> doug burrell and dozens of his fellow officers tried to subdue inmates with pepper spray and teargas, but every time it seemed the staff had the situation under control, another fight broke out. >> it looked like the movie "braveheart," the fight scene in "braveheart" but it was the real deal. >> they st...

. >> i'd just gotten done putting the camera down. my cameraman was walking around. and then i started hearing a bing, like bing, bing, bing. literally five feet away i see this man probably in his late 50s, early 60s, and i look down and i saw these two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like, repeatedly, and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> what you saw here today was actually a battery. they were stomping his head. you can see he's pretty -- pretty messed up. >> the inmate who was attacked survived because of a quick response by staff on the yard. his assailants were sent...