Violence is a way of life. San quentin, the oldest prison in california, has one of the longest histories of violence. Theres fistfights going on, theres guys getting beat up pretty good. Whether its an inmate fresh off the street i refuse to get disrespected by anybody. A gang dropout in protective custody. It happened a couple of days ago so or an officer trying to maintain order. He was going for the jugular but he just missed. Theyve all fallen victim to violent attacks. In the three months we were at san quentin, we saw our fair share. For the ruler of all evil i pray to god i dont die for the wrong People Administrative segregation, otherwise known as ad seg, is a unit mainly reserved for the worst of the worst offenders at san quentin. Its a place where they need to be if they need to be separated from the general population. Step forward. Ad seg inmates live in single man cells, are on lockdown 23 hours a day and are handcuffed and escorted by officers for all moves. Represent
in ad seg, darrell samuels and michael edwards are being held for the fistfight they had on the basketball court. drop it! officer deed is the investigator who will talk with the inmates and determine who started the fight. we have certain behavior patterns that inmates must abide by according to the title 15, which is given by the director. and when they violate this, i have to write a written violation report 115, once it s written, the inmate is logged, inmate is served and heard by the hearing lieutenant. i m serving inmate edwards a 115 and inmate samuels a 115. they had a fistfight on the yard friday, the 30th of march. they ve both been charged with battery on an inmate because one inmate received serious injuries. oh, it s a serious 115. it s an a-1 offense.
do you want to have an investigative employee, want anybody investigating, want to make any statements? no, just the employee working that day. he ll be at the hearing then. see what he saw. do you have any questions? no. all right. thank you. hey, jamie. what happened was, man, i went on to see edwards, right? up at the hospital. at the hospital, yeah. doesn t look too good. worse for wear, yeah, he got facial lacerations. the only person he wanted at the hearing was reporting officer gunman, that s the only person he wants there. he doesn t want nobody investigated. so that s it on that, however, samuels wants somebody investigated. so i m going to go up there and get these guys out on the tier, right? 227. 227?
i went upstairs, investigated five guys up there now. talked to 27? yeah, talked to 27. what did he say? he said he didn t see anything at all, however i ve got about three individuals that said edwards swung on samuels first. that s right here, too, he was the aggressor. he was the aggressor. samuels is probably the one charged with great bodily injury because he the injury that edwards suffered, he got knocked out. although the evidence leads to self-defense, samuels could still receive an additional year on his sentence if found guilty. it s not the first time edwards had been aggressive out on the yard. a couple of times they tried to stop him from fighting. this time he wouldn t listen. he thought he was a big, tough guy out there. he ran into a buzz saw. yeah. that s what happened. that s what you call yard justice right there. that s it. coming up next on lockup: extended stay we got 24 hours to stay ahead of you.
going to get the log, see who was out there that day, ask them the questions you want me to ask them. was it self-defense, did he swing on you first, is that what you want me to ask them? that it was self-defense, he swung on me first. he swung on you first. the whole yard seen it. i will give you a copy of the i.e. report once it s typed. all right. all right? all right. see you in a little bit. what i m going to do right now, right, i have to get the yard list from the officer so i know who to question and i ll go ask these individuals per inmate samuels, right, did the other inmate swing on him first? friday was the 30th. right here, willie. just give me the house and the name. officer alejos locates witness names in the yard log. there are five inmates officer deed must question. thank you.