Transcripts For MSNBCW Lockup Corcoran - Extended Stay 20190908

Violence seems inevitable in prison. Get down. Get down whether it stems from racial tension they took our tape. Every other race got the tape. Or dispute between cellmates he stabbed me with a cigarette lighter. Being trapped in a cell with a bigass cellie whos going to beat the hell out of you or chop you up. You dont know what a man is thinking in prison. Its the officers job to prevent these attacks, and its their lives on the line. Get down get down let me see your hands, sally. Put your hands up corcorans a maximum security prison in the california state penal system. We house approximately 5,600 felons. This population includes infamous criminals like juan corona, sirhan sirhan, and charles manson. Built to hold the most violent offenders in the state, corcoran has seen its share of brutality. Today, a fresh group of inmates arrives at receiving and release, no doubt aware of this prisons reputation. When i get on the bus, they called your names out to come off the bus, and theyre tearyeyed coming to corcoran. Its a shock to them. I guess they have heard a lot about corcoran. What do you know about corcoran . What i know . I know it aint no joke. Thats what i know. I know this is serious business. Corcoran is a pretty rough prison here. If you get a draw, its one of the rougher prisons. This is how serious it is. Its a life or death situation. Pretty much, yeah. It is like that. I dont care what they tell you. It is like that. Okay . It is hardcore like that. Corcorans general population inmates are split into three main yards. The level one yard consists mainly of lowsecurity inmates, many of whom are in on parole violations. B yard holds the mediumsecurity level three inmates. And a yard is home to the maximum security level four inmates who are serving time for more violent crimes. But first they have to get past sergeant rangel. Im currently assigned as a receiving and release sergeant here at corcoran state prison. Im responsible for the intake of the inmates and the outgoing, departure inmates, paroling, going to court, transferring to another institution. Well get them processed, i. D. d, medical attention, a little orientation speech. Whats your number . Date of birth . 4 3 81. How old are you . 26. How much do you weigh . I weigh about 150. How tall are you . About 62. How many times have you been coming back, in and out . This is my sixth time in prison. Sixth . Yes, sir. Can you fill up with anybody on the yard . I can, but i prefer to be with the whites. You know the politics. Okay. Were going to find you a bunk in the low tier bottom bunk. First tier. Hes ready to go. All right. Lets go. When i interviewed him earlier, he could only be housed with his same race, which is white. He wouldnt house with any other ethnic group. Given the potential for cell mate violence this inmates request for a samerace arrangement is not uncommon. Its not race or nothing like that, its just right. People just stay with their own race. Its just been like that since i been in cdc. Thats how the politics are right now. You either stay with your own or suffer some consequences later. Our producers saw these consequences firsthand on a yard. Corcorans maximum security population. It looks like right now we had an attempted homicide between two inmates. Weve got a crime scene established. Youve got the Investigative Services unit, the security squad out there. And theyre collecting evidence. Because of the severity of the incident, our cameras are not allowed past the perimeter fence. We did locate a weapon, and the victim had some pretty serious injuries, so at this point we dont want anybody thats not supposed to be on the yard on the yard because of the crime scene. So there being an investigation, we want to make sure that we do everything right. We definitely identified the suspect. Its going to take some interrogation, some interviewing to find out exactly what happened and why it happened. So at this point i dont really want to comment on the suspect or the motive. As the investigation continues, one suspect turns into three. The suspects are individually escorted to separate Holding Cells for further questioning and examination. Were stripping out this suspect that was involved out here on a fight on the facility. Okay. Can you grab me some swabs and if you have any distilled water . We like to swab, uncontrolled and controlled swabs, any type of body fluids, blood, semen, whatever may be on our suspect. Obviously this individual doesnt have any type of injuries, so i would say 100 chance it was from the victim. Thats why we swab. Were going back to our office. Were going to process all the evidence that we collected, process the photographs. Some items were discovered during the search of the victim while he was getting medical aid. We are going to see what is inside the bindles and just start processing all our evidence, start writing reports. So thats where the real work happens. This is prison 101 stuff. This is just prison politics. Well get this thing cleaned up and well move on. All three suspects have been charged with attempted murder. When inmates commit acts of violence against other inmates or staff, theyre sent to the security housing unit or shu, in what is essentially a prison within a prison. Inmates like Jeremy Towner spend the majority of their time in an 8 by 12 cell. The first words i ever heard from another inmate was welcome to hell. It was a zoo for men. Our producers were granted an interview with jeremy under strict supervision of the officers because of his violent history. Ten days was our orientation to stay in the cell, i guess. Then after the ten days were up we were allowed to go to yard. We met some of the other inmates and they told us that there is a structure to live in, you know. Whites live with white, hang out with whites on the yard. You dont deal with any other race. The fact we were lifers, we were probably going to have to stab people. First thing that got into my head was, we better get some knives. Living on the street, you learn one thing. You survive by any means necessary. You do whatever it takes to get out of a situation like that. So if that means i have to become an accomplice, so be it. Im not going to die. You know, im just too young. It became it came from there. One day they came up to me and said, youre going on a mission in ad seg. My mission was to stab a man who came from another yard who was supposedly no good because they wouldnt have jump off in a riot after they got attacked. The woods on that yard was no good because they didnt attack the blacks after they got attacked. I stabbed this man three times and i got away with it. I walked off into the middle of the yard before the buzzer went off on the yard for everybody to get down. I had blood all over my hands. I was trying to get it off, so i licked the blood off my hands to get away with the crime. That brutal assault was not his last. Jeremy is currently held in the security housing unit for yet another violent attack. There was a man that came off a level three for beating up a child molester. The story was the child molester was going to get stabbed the next day and he let the child molester get off easy by beating him up. So i was sent to stab him. So we went out to the ad seg concrete yard, and i had a sixinch knife brought out there through the security and all that. We knew how to get past the cop security. And i stabbed him multiple times, and he died within five minutes. Thats why im here in the shu, so for murder. So where and how are you getting these knifes around . Its easy. Anybody whos got a sewing needle can make a knife. A sewing needle is made out of stainless steel. And stainless steel will cut this metal that they use. So over a period of time, you can shape a knife out of your toilet as long as the cops dont find the pattern cut in your toilet. Theres many things you can do to make weapons back here. Its not that hard. Usually in high desert we got them out when we got haircuts. Because they haircut they pull us out of the cell and take us to the concrete yard to cut hair. Thats when we would drop the knife off. And when they came to search for us for yard, they didnt find anything. We went out to yard and found the knife that we already stashed previously, and thats how we got it out. Some inmates choose to do it a little immorally. They put it in places where the sun dont shine, and they carry it out to yard. Thats how they get their knives out. I wasnt about to do that. Jeremys weapon smuggling days may be over now that hes locked up in the shu. But the officers in corcoran deal with thousands of other inmates who all know the same tricks and can be just as dangerous. Next on lockup extended stay, jeremy reveals to our producers the events that led him to a life of violence in prison. They kept beating this guy and beating this guy, and blood was going everywhere. And later, suspicious activity on b yard triggers a shakedown. Just kind of out here showing force, maybe get some intel. And. Thats your basic threepoint turn. [ scoffs ] if you say so. Im sorry . What teach here isnt telling you is that snapshot rewards safe drivers with discounts on Car Insurance. What . Or maybe he didnt know. [ chuckles ] im done with this class. Youre not even enrolled in this class. I know. Im supposed to be in ceramics. Do you know room 303. Oh. Thank you. Yeah. Good luck, everybody. 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College students stream nfl sunday ticket live on your favorite devices with nflsundayticket. Tvu order today and receive our exclusive studentonly price. In corcoran, the potential for violence is high, and officer love and the Investigative Services unit have reason to believe trouble is brewing on b yard. Recently about a month and a half weve recovered probably more than 40 weapons on this yard, different racial groups, which is an indication there is problems that are brewing. Were just kind of out here showing force, maybe get intel of why, whats going on, why so many weapons. While we were talking with some northern hispanic inmates over here, i noticed the one in the middle was fidgeting his tongue around, moving his lips. I asked him to open his mouth. I could see cellophane under his tongue. I asked him to spit it out, and he bent over and spit out a tiny little bindle wrapped in cellophane, and in that, a couple of kites. You got to realize, sometimes you get these kites, and they wrap them in cellophane. In cellophane, or they will put them in their anal cavity, and thats how theyll transport them from prison to prison or yard to yard. You have to take it to the office and find out what theyre talking about. It could be about incidents that happened on the yard. Right . It could be a yard report. It just depends. Northern hispanics are very, very structured and they have positions and the whole biz. So its good information, whatever it is. Because if it wasnt, why would he have it under his tongue . With the weapons still hidden somewhere on the yard, these kites may be the officers key to their discovery. Out to the yard. That way and that way. Bring it out. Here we go. Another fine day, gents. Yes, sir. Come on out. Keep moving. Keep moving. Clear corcoran inmates selfsegregate to protect themselves. Vint than on the yard. Its a level three yard. Two level fours on here waiting for transfers. Generally all our whites hang out over here, and our asians on this side. You have a lot of southern hispanics on the other side playing handball with the whites. Head in toward the tower you got a lot of northern hispanic inmates and a lot of black hispanic inmates hang out over there. Thats where they work out over there. This is considered the west side of the yard. Just on the other side of the yard, the east side of the yard where the bars and everything is at is where all our southerners and whites work out at. In front of the buildings is where your blacks and your northerners generally hang out. Wait at the tables. They took our tables. Thats why we playing right here. We the only one got no tables. Blacks. Every other race got the tables. They wont go to urinals unless their race is only there. They always got guys posted. Two in the front, two in the back, make sure they dont get jumped. In the four months we spent in corcoran, our crews witnessed plenty of inmateoninmate fights. This time an alarm sounds in the chow line at the sensitive needs yard. By the time our crews had reached the yard, officers had broken up the fight and separated the suspects for questioning. I moved food off the chair and it almost hit the other gentleman, and he felt like i was disrespecting him on purpose, and we exchanged some words. And the next thing, we were fighting in the chow hall. He kicked some egg that was sitting on the seat violently towards my way. Violently . Violently. He did it with a frown face, so, you know, im thinking, you going to say excuse me, sir . I didnt say sir. I said, you going to say excuse me, the slang. And he said, excuse me. And i left it at that. I thought it was over with. We all sat down, and he was still running his mouth. So youre at the same table . Were at the same table. Was it a personal dispute or part of a larger thing . It was personal at that moment. It was personal at that moment. There has been a fistfight in the dining hall between a hispanic and a black inmate. Which is always a problem because the inmates tend to group amongst racial lines while incarcerated. I looked and found the combatants. The hispanic was bleeding from the head, not much, the black appeared to have no injuries. He still was talking. He said, well, we can talk about this outside. When he said that im like, oh, man, here we go. I said in my head, here we go. Right . Then he started balling his fists, said nobody is going to tell me what to say, he said, ill do what i want to do, ill get crazy. Thats when i swung on him right there. That would have been bad. When you start fighting in the dining hall, theres tables and not a lot of room, theres confusion, people get hurt. I didnt want to fight. He brought it on himself. I didnt want to fight. Im not a bad person. I walk around and mind my own business, and this guy, you know, he just disrespected me. A simple act of brushing food off of a seat and it coming close to hitting another person, you know. Obviously the levels of being disrespected in here are quite different than, you know, people out in the real world. I have three Staff Members who corroborate other versions of the story, not yours. Oh, i see. So its yours, his, and three Staff Members. None of whom saw that part. We have battery on an inmate. So youre going to go to ad seg. Okay. All right . All right. Okay. I would imagine, given the totality of the circumstance, hell be out of administrative segregation in like 72 hours. Get a little timeout. Coming up be careful. Use caution. The officers came up empty on the b yard shakedown. Leaving them no option, but to hit the inmates where they sleep. Plus some people accept me and some dont. What happens when cellmates arent happy at home. 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In the three years since, terrys been involved in many fights with cellmates. It takes a stronger person on the yard to be my cellie because of who i am. Just days before this interview, terry had another fight. I had a fight in my cell with my cellmate because i was tired of living with him. For like seven months, its like being forced into a relationship that you dont want, so when i moved out, he attacked me in the kitchen, and i seen tears and i seen frustration, but i didnt care. I mean, he stabbed me with a cigarette which they make here homemade. He i mean, pulled out all my hair, it grew back since, you know what im saying, but im dealing with that. If terry retaliates she runs the risk of going to the shu and possibly lengthening her sentence. With a parole date in sight, shes opting to remove herself from the situation. I feel like im a little bit better now than just to be everybodys piece of meat. So i try to pick a cellie that i can get along with. I talked to my home boy i went to school with. Hes just a friend. He could are more but i dont see it. He knows me when i was straight. And i went to school with him. He used to date my sister. If the prison approve as a transfer, he hopes it can keep him from being locked up. If staff allows it in this building for us to have a nonhiv cellmate, we have to get along, be compatible within the unit without being a problem. Came over here due to the simple fact that terry was having little issues. Getting into little fights and all that. Because of the transition he was going to. A lot of people cant dont accept it. We all grew up in compton. Terry turned out kind of funny, but he was rough. He was out there fighting with us. So what im trying to do, i said, im compatible. Put us in a cell together. I understand all the things we went through. He can talk to me. Some people accept me, some dont. We real close. I wouldnt let nothing happen to terry. I wouldnt let nothing happen to terry. My friends, the ones im close with that i know from the streets, they know me and terry are homies. We just friends, thats as far as it goes. Youre the homey, man, you know youre the homey. I would like to be noticed more than just a homey or a friend. Someone who is sincere and nice, that can be there to talk to them, you know, just as a person, instead of the situation as it was. Talk about putting somebody on the spot. What . Talk about putting somebody on the spot. Wow. With terrys future possibly hanging in the balance, terry and clarence will have to wait to find out if their request to live together is granted. Coming up on lockup extended stay will these potential cellmates become soul mates . When you see somebody acting just like a woman, theres always going to be some type of temptation. Plus, officers give these inmates a surprise wakeup call. Frsz and roar. And ride. Up, down, over. Powering through. This seat is for those that get down in it. Into the fray. The arena. 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The death toll from Hurricane Dorian stands at 43 in the bahamas and is expected to rise as search and rescue teams reach the hardest hit areas. Now back to lockup. Got to have some kind of hustle while youre in here. To operate here, you know. So its like this here. I just charge a dollar personally. You know, the first we still want to try looking at presentable as possible. You know what i mean. We want to get businesslike here. A lot of times you dont know when theyre coming, so in case you might want to take a picture, you know, you look your best. Appreciate it, junior. The kite found on b yard brought the officers no closer to the location of weapons. In order to prevent another stabbing, isu and the institutional gang investigators or igi plan an Early Morning raid. This time hitting the inmates while they sleep. Were looking for weapons, dope, tobacco. Weve got to be real careful with these guys. The last time we did this in june in that same facility, the northerners will make sure that they flush try to get to the toilets as soon as they can. The southerners we found a lot of weapons. Weapon stock, metal stock in recent months. Quite a bit of it. A lot of metal thats coming out of dining hall that theyre fashioning into some pretty righteous bone crushers. Be careful. Use caution. We do suspect the south siders of having weapons in their cell. Grab a mask. Weve got a cell phone going off. With weapons hidden somewhere on b yard, time is of the essence. This raid could be the officers last chance to find the location of the weapons before they are used. Get down get down get down the element of surprise is key as it will hopefully give them an extra step on any inmate hurrying to flush contraband. Put your hands up get on the ground, now get on the ground, now cellie on top. Put your hands up it was early because my eyes could barely open. I was asleep. I was dreaming about ashanti and sleeping. I was sleeping and suddenly i heard the door pop and heard yelling, get down, get down. So i just kind of froze, stayed still. And they informed us to get out and backed up in the cells and backed up and cuffed us and brought us into the shower and proceeded to search the cells. Well, if you run the flashlight through the back of the bottle, you will see if theres any kind of weapons or any kind of contraband. Youll see the outlining of a weapon or silhouette of a weapon. You might want to come down here. Theres a lot of flushing going on in 107. Tenfour. The sound of flushing toilets leads officers to a stash of inmatemade wine or pruno. They make pruno. They grab apples and they let it ferment for a couple of days and smash them up, put them in the bag and put heat over it. A bunch of covers. They use a lot of blankets. It was under a lot of blankets in the corner, and they let it stay until it becomes sort of like wine. Usually typically what happens if its found in a cell in a common area where both inmates have access to it, which is obviously anywhere in the cell, they will be both charged for the possession of inmatemanufactured alcohol. No weapons are found, but the search does turn up an important clue. We just found some kites up here. We found more. What do you have in there . We havent opened up yet. Wrapped in cellophane. Tied with string. You dont have to open it yet. Any time officers find kites, theres a potential wealth of information. After completing their search, the isu and igi teams head back to headquarters to decode the message in hopes of learning more about the hidden weapons. The kites, they just take a pen, and sharpen it down and write as small as they can. They practice a lot. They write a lot of these kites. For us, were not used to reading small like that. So we take them, blow them up, and were able to read them a lot better. A lot easier. From the one kite i read already, its about weapons, razor blades in the yard. Officers finally have the information they have been seeking, the location of the weapons on b yard. This intel may be the only way to prevent future attacks like the ones carried out by jeremy. I licked the blood off my hands to get away with the crime. But jeremys brush with violence didnt start with prison. It was a brutal crime that brought him to corcoran in the first place. Ive been in prison since the end of 99. I was originally arrested for murder in Boulder Creek next to santa cruz. Before that i was living on the streets for approximately two years since i was 13 years old. Just, you know, trying to survive on the streets and hanging out with the wrong people. We were downtown santa cruz at a youth shelter, and i was looking for a place to sleep, and i met somebody there by the name of 48. That was his street name. And my street name was storm. He said he had a dry place to sleep in Boulder Creek. So all we needed to do was find somebody with a car. And we found two people who had a car. It was a woman and her boyfriend. And her boyfriend was a chronic heroin user, and he had a gun on him. He was trying to sell it for heroin or for money. They needed a place to stay as well. As soon as we got there, there were people already in the house by the name of Eddie Munster and rush. Somebody got the idea in their head to borrow the gun from this man, [ bleep ], who was in the car, who provided the ride up there. And take the gun and rob a mountain store. He said no and that was that. I was fine with it. And when i walked through the door, i was pushed. Somebody was behind the door. I think it was eddie. He had a baseball bat. He started beating him upside the head with the bat. And i was just in shock. I didnt know what to do, so i backed up, and i sat on the bed, and they kept beating this guy and beating this guy. His blood was going everywhere. Just bits of skull and brain going all over the walls. And i remember getting blood in my mouth and on my face and on my clothes, and i was just frozen. I didnt know what to do. I could hear him screaming, help me and there was nothing i could do. They beat him for a good half hour. They beat him, they cut him. They cut his throat. They did everything imaginable that you could do to destroy one man. And when they were done, they looked at me, and they asked me to help them. And i wasnt going to say no after what i just witnessed. I was not going to say no. I helped them carry the body downstairs, and you could hear the air coming out of his throat. I guess eddie thought he was still alive, so he took a cinderblock and dropped it on his head a couple times more. I lost my lunch right there. I lost all the liquor i drank, all the food i ate. I told 48 everything that happened. And he didnt say anything. Just like a normal occurrence. You know, [ bleep ] happens. Jeremys confession to his friend is what led to his arrest weeks later when 48 ran into trouble of his own. He testified to get out of a drug warrant in oklahoma city. He turned himself in to testify against us because i told him what happened that night. Thats how i got caught, just like that, you know . Every attorney said i had no chance. They postponed my sentencing until after i was 18. And county jail was where i started learning about prison. What was to come, you know. All the stabbings and the fights and the riots. The drugs. Everything that was going to come my way. Being isolated in a single cell has prevented jeremy from further violence. But solitary confinement wont last forever. Coming up, he gets a cellmate, but will it be his last . You dont know what another man is thinking in prison. Wait till youre asleep and cut your throat. Later, can corcorans officers get to the weapons on b yard before they are used . It looks like its made out of aluminum. 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Mcdonalds is committing 150 Million Dollars in tuition assistance, education, and career advising programs. Prof Maria Ramirez mom and dad Maria Ramirez to help more employees achieve their dreams. On corcorans a yard, after weeks of waiting, inmates clarence and terry receive approval to be cellies. You got to have a good cellie. Youre doing time. I dont care where you at. From the places ive been, i call them hot spots. For the last 15 years, all violence. Every day, lockdown. Fighting. So i was very tense. And i was really ready say anything wrong really ready to just thats all i knew was violence. Violence was my answer to everything. 18 months when i turned 7 1 2. Thats all you knew . Thats all i knew. Violence. Then i start seeing, know what im saying, start getting a hold of myself, checking myself out inside. Now that im here with terry, i feel like a whole lot of tension just eased. As their relationship evolves within the cell, clarence and terry discuss their future outside the prison walls. If you have a problem, what you going to do . Fall, back slide . Say, okay, im going to deal with this problem. Im not going to use this as an excuse to prostitute. To start smoking because you know youre going to have problems. Because society is against people like you. Straight up, society is against you all. Go through the program. The programs will get you a job. The program will put you into a environment where its a working environment. Its possible. Its a positive environment, and its up to you to stay positive. Its up to you to stay in that environment. Cant nobody bring you down but you. Lets say youre downtown. Right . Youre downtown. Im terry, im downtown. I know im downtown. Its up to me to better myself. Its up to me to bring myself up out of here. Just because im downtown dont mean i got to be downtown, i dont got to act like downtown. Its all up here, mentally. Its been different because people look at me different. They dont talk to me as brash as they used to. Im not easily like playing a lot. Like grownups like to horseplay in prison. This is prison. If you horseplay to a certain degree, you get into a fight. I dont get that no more. It sounds almost like a protection. Like youre a protection to her. No. Thats what it sounds like. Out of respect it is, out of respect for you. Because its consequences whenever someone doesnt like up whats going on inside the cell. So they respect you. If you put it like that. A lot of people dont agree with homosexuality. What about this decor, all so i try to make that be a focus of my upper body. The women, these are all you . I want to attain some of the attitudes and poses and degrees of entertainment with me as a female impersonator. I want to become that part fully in my mind that this is me every day, as a lady. I mean, its a part of my fantasy. It blows my mind sometimes, seeing him get dressed, some of the Little Things he puts on and it is like living with a woman . Exactly. Its like living everything terry do is as a woman. And you start asking yourself. Damn, what am i saying . You basically start researching yourself. And if i do go this way, if i do, oh terry, baby, like this, right, would that be giving me up as a man . Know what im saying . Would i turn, like, feminine or gay, or can i still say damn, terry, and still be a man . I say that all the time. How about romantically . Its a aplus. Hes very dominant. As far as being romantic. You got to you are you got to dominate. Theres a line with him as far as as far as his privacy as far as him being to a certain degree of an aggressive lover. He has a standpoint, which is a barrier which we work on, but like i said, its prison, hes here, he has a life outside of me. Thats it right there. Home sweet home, huh . Huh . Home sweet home, huh . You going to hug me . No. Okay. On b yard, officers are using the intel obtained in the cellblock raid in hopes of finding the hidden weapons. It looks like its made out of aluminum. Some type of cloth fashioned into a handle. This could ruin your day. So far we found nine in an hour and a half span and were about twothirds done with this yard. This right here looks like its made out of aluminum. Probably something from the kitchen. Aluminum cart. And a spike, looks like its coming from a fence or some kind of tie down. And these older ones, this is definitely aluminum from a food cart right here. The handles are usually made out of cloth, like this one here. Thats made out of a sheet wrapped with tape. Some of these inmates here, part of their code is to always have something on them to protect themselves, whether its on them themselves or in the yard. So whatever area youre in as far as your race or your gang affiliation, you have something there to protect yourself with. These officers may have prevented another attack by successfully recovering the hidden weapons. But they werent the first to be made and certainly wont be the last. Were not done yet. We just got started on the west side now. Help next on lockup extended stay another day in corcoran. Another victim of the politics. As soon as the homeowners arrive, well inform them that Liberty Mutual customizes home insurance, so theyll only pay for what they need. Your turn to keep watch, limu. Wake me up if you see anything. [ snoring ] [ loud squawking and siren blaring ] only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. These days were all stressed. I hear you, sister. Stress can affect our minds. I call this dish, stress. Stress can also affect our bodies. So, im partnering with cigna to remind you that your emotional and physical health are more connected than you think. Go in for your annual checkup. And be open with your doctor about anything you feel. Physically, and emotionally. Body and mind. Cigna. Together, all the way. Thats better. Play it cool and escape heartburn fast with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. Tum tum tum tums with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. Hey. You must be stevens phone. Now you can know whos on your network and control who shouldnt be, only with xfinity xfi. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Just days after removing weapons from the yard, a fight breaks out. Staff in the yard observed, witnessed it. Put the yard down. Stopped fighting. We were coming from the unit. We respond. Make sure no one gets up. If they do, we respond and assist. It appears to be an isolated incident. It being just one on one, more like it was just a disagreement between those two. Now the yard resumes program, and well just go back in the unit. Meanwhile back in the security housing unit, inmate Jeremy Towner is nearing the end of his time in solitary confinement, and while hes scheduled to return to the general population, jeremy has requested placement in sny for fear of prison politics. If i go to sny, if i go back to the regular mainline, you know, daisies are going to be growing out of the ground real soon. Theyve got my name on a little tiny list. The list is the no good list. Inmates have them. They carry them around. When they get letters from the mainline, they check the list to see if anybody that persons name is on the list. And if it is, they send a secret message or Something Back to the main line saying go ahead and destroy him. Hes no good, and then ill probably get stabbed in the back real soon. Because im sny. Because i turned sny. Because i dont want to stab anybody anymore. I dont want to be their prison bitch. In order to be moved to an sny yard, jeremy must first prove he can interact nonviolently with other inmates. Transition to mainline, the only thing that has changed so far is going out to the yard with 20 other inmates and going out there and seeing if i can get along with them. We only get yard, like, three times a week. It lasts from 9 00 or 12 00 or 12 30. Usually right before i go out, i get panic attacks because i dont know if im coming back in. You dont know whats going to happen here. As another part of his gradual transition to an sny population, jeremy is no longer in a solitary cell. Its been about three years three and a half years since i had a cellie. As soon as i got to the shu, they made me single cell because i had too much violence. I knew i was going to have to take a cellie and i was kind of worried about it. Over here men tend to act a little more aggressive, chaotic, you know, a little more uncontrolled of their own emotions. But what did you fear . Being trapped in a cell with a bigass cellie whos going to beat the hell out of you or chop you up, you know. Wait until youre asleep and cut your throat. You dont know what another man is thinking in prison. You could be asleep, and then all of a sudden, you know, you aint going to wake up. One of the cos wanted to cell me up with a black man. Im not really a racist person, but i am afraid of their politics. I wasnt going to take that chance. So i asked the inmates on the yard, you know, is there anybody who needs a cellie. Yeah, theres a dude upstairs. Hes leaving in november. You can cell with him. I moved in with ian. Hes a little crazy at times, but if you go with it, hes all right, you know . He is a pretty nice guy. Hes really religious. He likes his catholic religion. Hes doing quite well, i think. The rules in the cell are pretty much dont piss the other guy off. Thats the only rule. The stress of living with a cellmate may subside, but the realities of jeremys sentence still loom over him. You get stuck with your own thoughts and everything. You start thinking, you know, why am i stuck in a life sentence . All im doing is waiting to die. Its the worlds longest waiting room. Its depressing sometimes. Americas prisons, dangerous, often deadly. There are 2 Million People doing time. Every day is a battle to survive and to maintain order. Down, on your feet down among the nations toughest, California State Prison corcoran, severely overcrowded and plagued by racial tension. We spent months inside, where officers try to maintain order in an institution with a notoriously violent past. This is lockup corcoran extended stay. Get on the ground on the ground hold him on the grou