really misses an opportunity to run. on that day, he suddenly hears a crash. guards think it s a bomb. guards think it s a bomb. but the explosion is actually the sound of a 25 ton bulldozer ramming into the prison wall. reducing it to rubble. when the wall crushed i say freedom, freedom, freedom. i run as i could. larsen and other inmates go through the gaping hole spilling out of the prison like air from a punctured balloon. kyle herman has never seen anything as strange as this. when i got here, it was total chaos. all the officers were outside
and for an intense 30 minutes, officers struggled to contain the chaos. i had a 180-degree vision of the yard, and it was a war zone. terror in a california vision after members unleashed a blood-thirsty attack. the thing that was so extraordinary is that the rifles didn t stop them. february 23rd, 2000, crescent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison, one of the country s highest correctional security facilities, a super max prison, housing some of the most dangerous and violent criminals. teda boyle is a retired lieutenant from pelican bay. she was a watch commander on the day of the riot. the kind of people that were there were guilty of some of the most heinous crimes. murder, strong-armed robbery,
will not allow anybody else to disrespect them. like what happened six months before. when you go into a prison, you have one thing that is not taken from you, your dignity, your respect. you have to stand up for yourself, or you re going to become a greater victim. the ravaged yard is eventually cleaned up, but the psychological carnage still haunts those who were there. people were walking around really depressed because they were still looking, smelling, seeing how much human suffering took place that day. it did affect us. it affected us psychologically and emotionally. coming up, jailbreak. two women ride under a bus in a daring escape. couldn t believe what i was seeing. and later inmates run free when a prison wall comes crumbling down. nobody has seen anything like that before. when caught on camera: inmates and outlaws continues.
12 inmates escape in a spectacular prison break. in this sleepy suburb 20 miles outside copenhagen is one of denmark s top maximum security prisons. the prison is from 1859 and some of the walls are even that old. the wall is just built of bricks and concrete. like any danish house would be built. the 19th century prison houses hundreds of denmark s most dangerous criminals. we have terrorists, we have murderers, we have gang members, we have drop crimes. prisons in denmark are not at all like their american counterparts. here they focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment. if you go into a prison wing in any danish prison, you
rape. within the 275-acre penitentiary is the security housing unit known as the shoe. a prison within a prison. shoe inmates spend about 22 hours of every day in solitary confinement. locked up in an 8 x 10 windowless cement cell with little human contact. inside the shoe are about 1,000 level-four prisoners, what boyle calls the worst of the worst. inmates that other wardens don t want or can t handle. dangerous gangs founded within the penal community. because of their gang leadership, they have the authority to authorize other people in the community to commit these types of crimes. and on that day two alleged gangs go to war. it s sunday, and it s raining. 200 shoe prisoners are released into b yard for exercise. boyle says that the entire prison is on edge dating back to a smaller racially charged riot