6510. today, the cpsu still houses the worst of the worst, but due to the re-arrest policy and its consequences, violent outbreaks are almost nonexistent. in the past when an inmate committed an infraction in the jail, basically he was just written up, he d go for a little hearing and he d go to what we call the bin for a few days. but now, they can get re-arrested. they get re-arrested for assaulting another inmate, they get re-arrested for assaulting a corrections officer. and when they re brought, we work with the district attorney s office. and when we tell the judge, and the judge knows that that person committed a crime in a jail, they re twice as hard on them. and the word got out. they don t want to commit crimes in jail no more. for the safety of the officers, there have been a lot of changes. like the food slots. before, they were just plain slots and now they added the full slots is what we call it. at one time, they used to splash a lot of officers. but with the new
you don t get to move out of this one spot unless you re going to the mess hall. it sucks. nine u on the count. you have to be very aggressive at times. sometimes it takes force, sometimes it doesn t. it is tough working with all men. a lot of men feel that women are inferior to them, so they don t have to listen to women, and that makes it a little tougher also. i haven t been on the job all that long to have anything really bad happen to me. since i ve been on the job, everything has been basically they keep everything pretty tight. we have officers who have been here for like 15 and better years, they ve seen a lot worse. because 15 years ago, supposedly it was really bad. msnbc first went inside one of the most haunting cell blocks at rikers in 1999. it s the cpsu, the central punitive segregation unit.
hold him there. 6510. today, the cpsu still houses the worst of the worst, but due to the re-arrest policy and its consequences, violent outbreaks are almost nonexistent. in the past when an inmate committed an infraction in the jail, basically he was just written up, he d go for a little hearing and he d go to what we call the bin for a few days. but now, they can get re-arrested. they get re-arrested for assaulting another inmate, they get re-arrested for assaulting a corrections officer. and when they re brought, we work with the district attorney s office. and when we tell the judge, and the judge knows that that person committed a crime in a jail, they re twice as hard on them. and the word got out. they don t want to commit crimes in jail no more. for the safety of the officers, there have been a lot of changes. like the food slots. before, they were just plain slots and now they added the full slots is what we call it. at one time, they used to splash
you get told what to do. when to eat. how long you get to eat. you don t get to move out of this one spot unless you re going to the mess hall. it sucks. nine u on the count. you have to be very aggressive at times. sometimes it takes force, sometimes it doesn t. it is tough working with all men. a lot of men feel that women are inferior to them, so they don t have to listen to women, and that makes it a little tougher also. i haven t been on the job all that long to have anything really bad happen to me. since i ve been on the job, everything has been basically they keep everything pretty tight. we have officers who have been here for like 15 and better years, they ve seen a lot worse. because 15 years ago, supposedly it was really bad. msnbc first went inside one of the most haunting cell blocks at rikers in 1999. it s the cpsu, the central punitive segregation unit.
6510. today, the cpsu still houses the worst of the worst, but due to the re-arrest policy and its consequences, violent outbreaks are almost nonexistent. in the past when an inmate committed an infraction in the jail, basically he was just written up, he d go for a little hearing and he d go to what we call the bin for a few days. but now, they can get re-arrested. they get re-arrested for assaulting another inmate, they get re-arrested for assaulting a corrections officer. and when they re brought, we work with the district attorney s office. and when we tell the judge, and the judge knows that that person committed a crime in a jail, they re twice as hard on them. and the word got out. they don t want to commit crimes in jail no more. for the safety of the officers, there have been a lot of changes. like the food slots. before, they were just plain slots and now they added the full slots is what we call it. at one time, they used to splash a lot of officers. but with the new