You have to keep your eyes open in the back of your head. The hairs are constantly up on the back of your neck. Because theyre violent places, and violence can and does break out at any time. [ bleep ]. Our cameras have been there to capture these dramatic lifeanddeath conflicts. Now we take an even closer look at them through the experiences of our field crews and their raw encounters with violence behind bars. California state prison, corcoran, home to hundreds of the states most violent and infamous offenders. Hosted lockup crews in both 2000 and 2005. Right before i walked in, i had to sign a document that kind of really made me think twice. And it basically said that in an event that there is a hostage situation inside the prison walls, they will not negotiate for your life because you know the risk that you are taking when you walk in. While at corcoran, you constantly hear these alarms going off. Youre never sure whats going to happen in this place. But then when you hear those
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how much more you could have taken. had he kicked you one more time, he could have killed you. without a doubt you could have died. her attacker received an additional ten-year sentence for aggravated battery. and after recovering from her injuries, officer talley took the brave step of returning to work at the prison. this time monitoring the trucks that deliver food to the facility. she no longer has any contact with the inmates. in life itself, within seconds your whole life can change. in a prison environment, sometimes it doesn t even take seconds. in the blink of an eye it could be over. all right. you re okay. the day after her interview with us, talley surprised our field producer when she said that she was ready to return to the cell block for the first time since the attack. escorted by officer chris st. martin and our crew, the return proved to be far more emotional than she could have imagined.
really don t feel that he s of any threat to himself or others at this point. released from the four-point restraints, etter is moved to a 24-hour observation cell and is placed in a suicide smock. a tear-proof gown to prevent him from hanging himself. our crew later accompanied the nurse when she asked etter to relay his version of what led to the extraction. the confrontation that he d had with a female officer. she started antagonizing me at my door. i said, get lost. get [ bleep ] out of here. i don t like you. i don t want to talk to you. she made a smart comment, so i smashed my head on the door and i said, you see that right there? i said, next time it s going to be yours. i said [ bleep ] and then i spit on the window. i said that s what i think of you. you re nothing but trash. so get the [ bleep ] she started [ bleep ]
in 2004, karen talley was in her sixth year as a correctional officer at indiana state prison when she was so brutally attacked by an inmate, she nearly died. we met her two years later. you know, they all know me. the guys know me. i used to work the intake unit in the new arrivals would come in. they know me. i ll be all right. never imagined all these years later. never imagined it. at the time of the attack, officer talley was responsible for supervising b cell house. an important part of her job was securing the inmates back in their cells with a system called rolling of the bar. an older, manual cell locking device. that day the chow lines had run late. i said, come on guys, go in your cell. you miss roll-in you know what happens. i figured all of them would be in. i rolled the bar. bigger than anything, here s three of them, didn t make it.