gangs. so the department adopted a policy to have assigned seating to where the staff controlled the flow of the offender population in the dining hall. >> as the inmates come in, we're going to have them sit two rows at a time. once they fill up the two rows we're going to step back and give them an additional two rows to sit down. i think it's a little easier, because we can keep them all in front of us. before they would be behind us, coming in and out, back and forth. and it's just easier for us to keep an eye on them. >> you have to fill every seat. you can't tell somebody you ain't sitting there. if you won't sit at a table, then you have to throw your tray away. you can't eat it. you can't take nothing off the tray. and you have to leave the chow hall. which makes you hate a little more. now you're hungry and you're pissed off. >> such anger reached a boiling point the very next day when an inmate assaulted a dining hall officer. >> what you got, cap? >> basically, [ bleep ] standing back in the corner by the serving line, and they told him