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 of the prison 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 six months earlier between two gangs, the southern hispanics and the black guerilla family. you could feel the tension. staff were particularly alert. as it went on, the tension got more and more and more pronounced. the pent-up tension finally erupts.
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, 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.
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 six months earlier between two gangs, the southern hispanics and the black guerilla family. you could feel the tension. staff were particularly alert. as it went on, the tension got more and more and more pronounced. the pent-up tension finally erupts. just like that, somebody gives somebody a cue, and it s people chasing other people with knives. a full-scale attack.
what boyle calls the worst of the worst. inmates that other wardens don t want or can t handle. dangerous gangs found 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 six months earlier between two gangs, the southern hispanics and the black guerilla family. you could feel the tension. staff were particularly alert. as it went on, the tension got more and more and more pronounced. the pent-up tension finally erupts. just like that, somebody gives somebody a cue, and it s people chasing other people with knives.
dangerous gangs found 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 six months earlier between two gangs. the southern hispanics and the black gorilla family. you could feel the tension. staff were particularly alert. as it went on, the tension got more and more and more pronounced. the pent-up tension finally erupts. just like that, somebody gives somebody a cue, and it s people chasing other people with