anything you can think of. the only thing i haven t been convicted of in prison is murder and drugs. hymes favorite form of mayhem, inciting cell extractions. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. hold it. come on, you [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. i can to this 24/7.
safety is utmost concern. when violence does erupt, officers are left with no option but to extract inmates from their cells by force. shoe facility captain r.j. andrews oversees cell extractions on a weekly basis. we do wear protective gear in a cell extraction or use of force, calculated-type use of force. but on some occasions, staff do get injured. i have seen occasions where staff have been injured to point of broken arms. i have seen staff receive feces thrown in their face. i have seen staff where they actually had their headgear broken into pieces because they was hit so hard when they entered the cell. after extracting him from a shower cell in the crisis unit, officers are transporting this inmate to the shoe for destroying prison property. he beat out a window with a handle. we had to go inside the cell, take him out. this is a spit mask. it s required by our institution so the inmate does not spit on us. this inmate will have to pay for the broken window and will
when inmates act out and refuse to comply with officers orders, they must be forcibly removed from their cells. for legal reasons, these extractions are always videotaped by prison staff. we can have something that can happen two, three times a week, sometimes even two a day, three a day, and then there s other times where we ll go months without anything going on. step back to the door. step back to be handcuffed. these cell extractions are dangerous for the officers involved. this is the third and final directive. as soon as you go to restrain them, they might have a shank, try to pull it out, stab one of the officers that are actually on the extraction team. so every every situation like this is somewhat volatile. in the most stubborn cases, officers lower the inmate s resistance with pepper spray. but the gas also has an effect on the extraction team. this is the end of the line when it comes to high-security
gassing when inmates throw urine or feces at the officers. this is a baton. it s used to escort inmates when we take them outside the building. the inmate that s escorted is handcuffed, and he can t protect himself. if other inmates are going to jump him, we have to protect him. the protective gloves we wear in case we come in contact with blood or other bodily fluids when we re searching a house or if the inmate has it on him when we touch him. we also wear a protective vest where it s stabproof. inmates will use elastic out of their waistbands from their boxers and can use it like a bungee and shoot metal objects out at us if they re able to get ahold of it. administrative segregation is not the only area of folsom where officers are at risk. i ve been on, you know, probably about two dozen cell extractions to where i ve had people jump on my back when we re going in and trying to get them.
it don t matter about what type of car you drive, what type of house you live in, how much money you got. that s kind of irrelevant in prison because it s a pecking order society. it s the strong, you know, and that s how you survive. before i met him, all i had was this image of this gruff, ripped guy who could take on the whole team of officers, and upon meeting him, i just was shocked to find out that he s actually kind of a calm and collected guy who is not this monster that you see on these cell extraction videos. i didn t even know how to turn the computer on until recently. what was most interesting to me about roy is he was just learning how to use a computer. and he had been told by everybody that he was somewhat famous thanks to the internet and these cell extractions that were on lockup. it s kind of fascinating to be able to talk to some of these people that i meet online and stuff, you know, to help me to adjust back into society because they re not convicts. the