every time i change it, i go pfft! do that. and then i step on it. shake it off and then i just put it on. that s it. that s all i do. and i just keep these on. kuhlman and another admitted member of the crips, jermaine knight, are both in administrative segregation. ad seg inmates are segregated from general population for security reasons. they are allowed out of their cells only one hour per day for either recreation or a shower. knight hopes his recent good behavior in the rec yard and ability to get along with others will prove to staff that he is no longer one of their biggest disciplinary problems. i like it. i play all the sports. i play anything. anything is just better than just sitting here dying. knight has been in segregation and has asked for a transfer to general population. he also says he s put his gang banging behind him.
the politics of race creates rigid demands, which control the smallest details of inmates lives. for the most part you re separated and broken off. you pretty much can walk around, but there are certain areas where you can just hang and sit. the same way it is on the street. we have neighborhoods and things like that. it s a territorial thing. so we try to keep it like that and give each other respect so we can give ourselves distance so we won t cross paths in the wrong fashion. the rules are merciless. and ignoring race politics can lead to catastrophic results. i d be in violation of prison rules if i were to sit there because that area is for mexicans and whites, and blacks are on the other side. i would set off a race riot if i sat right there. and that wouldn t be too nice. you know? i would probably hear a lot about that back in ad seg. you got to go all the way around. you can t go across. i can t even cut through the middle of this area here. i have to go all the way
a lot of times what these inmates will do is they ll conceal contraband items in their mattress. so this appears to be some ink from an inmate-manufactured tattoo gun. it s pretty common. they ll hide ink and needles and rigs and stuff like that inside of these mattresses. basically we hit the cell looking for paperwork that may incriminate these guys being participants in this threat against staff. we collected a bunch of paperwork. we re going to take it back to headquarters. and then we re going to go through it with a fine-toothed comb and see what we can come up with, see if these guys are actively involved. to err on the side of caution we ll place them in ad seg and do our investigation. pending the outcome, we ll determine what their program is
it s approximately nine inches in length. the one closest to the ruler, as you can see, has a pretty big tapered point. that s some pretty thick metal. it easily, as you can see, could puncture the skin, and it could easily get to a vital organ. you know, that into your neck wouldn t be a good scenario. this is what we re looking for. we re always looking for weapons. any time we remove weapons out of the cell, that means it s one less weapon out there on the yard. one less weapon that could be used against staff. the search has yielded solid results, allowing officers to remove certain suspects from the general population and send them to ad seg, while releasing the rest of the southern hispanic population from lockdown. this day is unique because it s actually the first afternoon these guys have been on yard in about eight days. it s like a new kid on the playground right now. you go to a new school and you don t know anybody. you start all over again.
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 it s yours, his, and three staff members. none of whom saw that part. we have battery on an inmate. so you re going to go to ad seg. okay. all right? all right. okay. i would imagine, given the totality of the circumstance, he ll be out of administrative segregation in like 72 hours. get a little time-out. 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 don t. what happens when cellmates aren t happy at home. i had a fight with my cell mate because i was tired of living with him. his key to the .