going to be, whether to place them back on this facility or retain them. it was very successful. we got what we wanted at this point. we ll see what kind of paperwork they have, documents they have that we might be interested in. these inmates will be held in administrative segregation until isu s investigation has been completed. although the incident at tehachapi forced corcoran to alter its day-to-day routine, the arrival of new inmates never ceases. and for these new inmates, survival depends on knowing the rules and knowing your place. everything comes down to how you conduct yourself. and the overall code of how you conduct yourself is pathetic. but it s by race. you know, you re no longer considered you no longer become human. you become a color. in the four months we spent inside corcoran, our producers learned that for most inmates the safest place is with their own race.
that type of threat doesn t exist on this facility or in this institution. so the decision was made to lock down the southerners, pending the outcome of additional investigation. we re going to limit their movement, limit their access while we re investigating the possibility of violence. what we want to make sure of is we go through cells on facility. we search southern hispanics and try to find any type of intelligence we can. although the lockdown affects only southern hispanic inmates, the resulting tension affects the entire prison. this stress increases the ever-present friction between all inmates and corcoran s officers. if a staff below me disrespects me, i have the opportunity to take care of him or i get taken care of. if you don t know what take care of means, i got to stab the officer or my people s gonna try to stab me up, point-blank. i don t care about no
inside corcoran, our producers saw violence erupt many times. though never between inmates and officers. as we neared the end of our stay, no one foresaw that the greatest threat to corcoran staff might come from an event in a california prison more than 100 miles away. three guards and two inmates were taken to area hospitals this afternoon after a stabbing in the maximum security area. two inmates used homemade weapons to stab two sergeants and a correctional officer around 1:00 this afternoon. it s significant enough that we lock down statewide the whole system. we made the determination that it had to do with a gang activity and southern hispanic gangs. in this particular case, the attacks seemed unprovoked. so that gave us cause to wonder about how widespread this might be. staff being assaulted and attacked is extremely serious. and we need to take all precautions to make sure that
after you see the nurse you re going to be interviewed by the sergeant. any questions? corcoran staff interviews each inmate individually in an attempt to facilitate his needs. how old are you? 22. you re 22. where were you born at? philippines. philippines. you got life, huh? yeah. okay. you take medication? no. can you cell up with any other race? i bunked up with asian. asian only? you re eligible to bunk up with any race now. why s that? you ve got no history of fighting blacks, hispanics, whites, you have none. you re eligible to be celled up with another race because you ve got no history of anything. you understand that? right. okay. you re going to be going to level 4 gp facility orientation unit and you ll begin your property here in a minute. you ll be escorted to a yard, okay? okay. all right, gary, next.
terrorist threat so my guns is quick to blow just like eliott ness hit that [ bleep ]. when it comes to staff threats, we take them seriously and do everything we can to collect all the information we can. definitely in light of recent events at other institutions we always take staff threats seriously. and we re going to act on them. 17 news at 5:00. two inmates stabbed three tehachapi prison guards in what s being described as a violent attack. following the attack, all state facilities went into immediate lockdown. authorities saying it won t be lifted until they re sure this incident was an isolated one. ever since the incident at tehachapi against officers, corcoran has been on full alert, searching cells and shaking down inmates to prevent similar attacks in their own prison.