Page 17 - Tuck It News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

When the toilet fills up, it's fresh water now. now, i can just rinse it. as far as the cooking, we use a can, an empty coke can. >> i'll just demonstrate how it works. you wrap the toilet paper. you keep wrapping it. tuck it in. tuck it in on both sides. you know, in order to keep a fire going, you've got to let it breathe. this is basically what a bong looks like when you're finished. you sit it on the edge of the toilet because it's got to breathe. i might sit it here, i might light it at the bottom. as you see, it's like a fire. you hold your can over it and you cook. and you hold the can ...

>> with some inmates in their cells for up to 20 hour as day, they've got nothing but time in which to think up the most ingenious ways to use whatever is at hand to make the most deadly of weapons. >> the inmates manufacture weapons from something as simple as cellophane wrappers. they'll heat it, melt it, take socks, roll it together, get it so it's forming. they'll dip it in cold water. they'll heat it again. dip it in cold water until the molecular structure changes. and then what you end up having is that. this weapon, for instance, very crudely made. magazines rolled. this is a spear.

Ever get to the point you feel you're getting used to it, you need a job change. >> that means you're dropping your guard, get you and somebody else hurt. >> you got to form a thick skin in here. coming up, after several related gang attacks, officers search cells for weapons and find the most ingenious inmate-manufactured killing devices. like, keep one of these over your head. well, i wasn't "supposed" to need flood insurance, but i have it. fred over here chose not to have it. ♪ me, i've got a plan. fred he uh... fred what is your plan? do i look like i have a plan? not really. [ female...

Officer to serve an inmate a meal. he wore very little protection. today, since attacks are commonplace and vicious, it takes three officers wearing full riot gear. >> when we feed breakfast, we have all the food in serving containers. and we put it on the trays, serve it to the inmate. >> anytime that you pop open the food port, you're vulnerable. there's an opening for the inmate to assault you. officers des moines brittenum and kevin walker, have worked in death row for a total of 12 years. they say they can never be too careful in there. >> an inmate may try to grab your arm, pull it into ...

He's looking at every individual movement of this yard. when you grow up like how we grew up with gangs or whatever in the neighborhood, in the ghetto, you're raised to watch your back because you have enemies on the street. you go to school with your enemies and on the bus with them. when people come here it's not that new to us. we've been watching our back all our life. >> you never know which one of your enemies is going to come in here, you know what i'm saying? an enemy come in here you're not aware, something is going to happen to you. >> just like that. >> so to top everything off, you...