the officers have the equipment, pepper spray, stun shields, handcuffs, the manpower. one last chance to cuff up. inmate refuses, introduce gas. ow! whoo! the gas quickly convinces smith to cooperate with correctional staff. strip down to your boxers. take your shirt off. turn around. when we open this door, i want you to drop straight down to your knees, do you understand me? yes. because of the spitting incident when he first arrived, officers cover smith s head with a spit net. we re going to put a net over your head. don t pull away from us. i can t breathe. it s been hell, man. they threw gas on me and degraded me, treated me like an animal. i can t breathe. ow!
ow! whoo! the gas quickly convinces smith to cooperate with correctional staff. strip down to your boxers. take your shirt off. turn around. when we open this door, i want you to drop straight down to your knees, do you understand me? yes. because of the spitting incident when he first arrived, officers cover smith s head with a spit net. we re going to put a net over your head. don t pull away from us. i can t breathe. it s been hell, man. they threw gas on me and degraded me, treated me like an animal. i can t breathe. ow! as long as you re compliant, you ll get a decontamination shower. the more you rub the more
his disciplinary hearing for a night full of ssing correctional staff. it more memorable than most we ve ever covered. i admit that. yeah. i ve let that escalate. i escalated that. reid was serving an 11-year sentence. he had stabbed a friend during an argument, and the man died. but reid s personal demon had made him no stranger to prison. how long have you been in prison? most of my life. why? what was your life like out there before prison? just spun out of control through alcohol, you know. jimmy reid was probably one of the most forthright inmates i ve ever interviewed. he just was completely uncensored. very self-effacing. very honest about who he was, what he did, why he did it. and he had a great face.
pelican bay. correctional staff told us that when it comes to battling gang activity, they re fighting a system that starts long before inmates arrive in prison. they re convinced that at early ages, at 8, 9, 10, 11 years old that gangs are the way to go. such was the case with epi cortina. he joined a street gang at age 11. it led to a 16-year to life sentence for murder. i ve been pelican-bay raised. been up here going on 14 years. he d been in prison since he was 19. he was 32 at the time i interviewed him. and he d just been through years and years of just senseless violence. after his arrival at pelican bay, cortina, like many other hispanic gang-bangers from northern california, joined a
the officers have the equipment, pepper spray, stun shields, handcuffs, the manpower. one last chance to cuff up. inmate refuses, introduce gas. ow! whoo! the gas quickly convinces smith to cooperate with correctional staff. strip down to your boxers. take your shirt off. turn around. when we open this door, i want you to drop straight down to your knees, do you understand me? yes. because of the spitting incident when he first arrived, officers cover smith s head with a spit net. we re going to put a net over your head. don t pull away from us. i can t breathe. it s been hell, man. they threw gas on me and degraded me, treated me like an animal. i can t breathe.