Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120805:08:06:00
>> in 1988 while on a routine count, officer dean lopez was taken hostage. >> this was the north side of the unit. i had let the porter out to get his cleaning supplies and he had a broom head in the back of his pants. well, he pulled that out, he smacked me. and by the time i turned around, the other three guys were actually coming running towards me. i was actually held inside this closet, and one of the inmates, we were sitting down, and he actually had a knife, homemade knife at my throat here and another one at my chest here. i had two male officers that were up here in the first part of ...