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Officers struggled to contain the chaos. >> i had a 180-degree vision of the yard, and it was a war zone. >> terror in a california vision as gang members unleash a blood-thirsty attack. >> the thing that was so extraordinary is the rifles didn't stop them. >> february 23, 2000, crescent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison, one of the country's highest security correctional facilities, a super max prison, housing some of the most dangerous and violent criminals. teda boyle is a retired lieutenant from pelican bay. she was a watch commander on the day o...

Pentagon correspondent barbara starr who broke this story earlier today. >> reporter: empty out guantanamo as much as they possibly can. why hasn't it happened? some of the detainees are in legal limbo, not enough evidence to take them to a trial but you can't release them. some, the president would like to put in federal prison in the united states, potentially a super max. congress, deeply opposed to that. now the strategy is to empty it out by transferring as many as they can under the current process. two ways to do this. either send them back to their home country after you find they're n...

Federal super max. >> why is that? >> because there are 15 staff members for every prisoner at guantanamo. there are 2,200 people who work at guantanamo. and so it is a very -- it's cost over $5 billion since we set up guantanamop. this is money. the more important question, what are you going to do with these people? others, besides me, will have to -- >> there's not a good answer to that. no country -- >> if there was we would have it. >> one of the things you've heard on the talk shows lately about recidivism, are these people going to go back into the terrorism business. >> they had a big ...

There's a lot of bottled up negative energy in prison, and as the lockup crews have found out many times, you never know when things can explode. >> i have a bad impulse problem. >> the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an officer's face yesterday. >> and it is chaos. they throw us in here like an animal in a cage. the day we arrived at colorado state penitentiary, a super max prison at the base of the rocky mountains, we found a sterile, austere environment, steel doors behind which inmates are locked up 23 hours a day, but despite his surroundings, inmate shawn shields was in high spiri...

Is broken up with moments of sheer terror. there's a lot of bottled up negative energy in prison, and as the lockup crews have found out many times, you never know when things can explode. >> i have a bad impulse problem. >> the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an officer's face yesterday. >> and it is chaos. they throw us in here like an animal in a cage. the day we arrived at colorado state penitentiary, a super max prison at the base of the rocky mountains, we found a sterile, austere environment, steel doors behind which inmates are locked up 23 hours a day,