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Didn't stop them. >> february 23rd, 2000, crescent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison, one of the country's highest correctional security 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 of the riot. >> the kind of people that were there were guilty of some of the most heinous crimes. murder, strong-armed robbery, rape. >> within the 275-acre penitentiary is the security housing unit known as the shoe. a prison within a pr...

Negative energy in prison and as our lock up crews found out many times you never when things can explode. >> the assault was a cup of urine thrown in an officer's face yesterday. >> the day we arrived the colorado state penitentiary a super max prison, we found a sterile steel environment, steel doors behind which inmates are locked up 23 hours a day. but despite his surroundings, inmate shawn shields was in high

>> february 23rd, 2000, crescent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison, one of the country's highest correctional security 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 of the riot. >> the kind of people that were there were guilty of some of the most heinous crimes. murder, strong-armed robbery, rape. >> within the 275-acre penitentiary is the security housing unit known as the shoe. a prison within a prison. shoe inmates...

$900,000, whereas in a super max prison t would cost the u.s. government $60,000 to $70,000. this is just sort of an example that when it comes to national security, counterterrorism, the military, and defense operations, there's a different standard with republican budget hawks. >> money suddenly is no object. it's fascinating. although, one thing that's been puzzling is part of the perception michael is talking about is this kind of belief that terrorists are somehow so dangerous that if we put them in a super max prison, something unspecified but awful would happen. this was the argument ab...

Economic cost? i'm always a numbers guy. >> you are. >> $900,000 per inmate. that's the cost. >> compared to $60,000 to $70,000 for a super max. >> and $3,00,000 across the boa. if you're a republican and you want to cut costs, spend here. >> here we're spending $1 million per prisoner. >> i could talk about the moral costs and the diplomatic costs. we have a reporter at huff post ryan riley who spent time down there and told me what he had seen, the chilling, almost underworldly nature of observers coming and standing on a rooftop looking down through a plexiglass window at sad, rail-thin det...