grahf is given a final chance to comply. grahf get the [ bleep ] away from my door! you understand? i m coming through the window. grahf has covered his window and food port with his mattress. but it won t protect him for long. the emergency response team is about to knock it down to administer oc gas, a form of pepper spray. grahf, we re coming in. we will not negotiate with terrorists! go, go, go. okay. open the window. don t stop there. unable to tolerate the burning effects of the oc gas,
over a two-day period, he got angry with correctional staff for photographing gang graffiti in his cell. he has had two cell extractions in which he was sprayed with burning oc gas. he s been put in a stripped-down cell and ordered to eat meal loaf after throwing his dinner at the door. but eventually he calmed down and spoke to us about what is really important to him. probably the most important piece of property i have is my pictures. it s memories, things that i m missing out there on the streets. so it s really important to me. this is me, my son, and my wife when my son was first born. i felt like my destiny was fulfilled, that that was what i was put on earth to do was to have my son. while our introduction to hall left an impression of an inmate out of control, we learned there was another side when we met his family during a visit. as a kid, he loved animals.
but his twin brother, ray, is an inmate at colorado s limon correctional facility. the prison gave our crew permission to show ray videotape of his brother s cell extractions. it s the first time he is seeing them. a lot of things going on your face watching that. you know, honestly, i wanted to jump in there and help him, you know what i mean? that s my first instinct is just to help him. that s the first time i seen a couple of those clips. to be honest with you, it makes me mad right away. i see the [ bleep ] cops dropping all their weight and they re 230 pounds right on one leg, boom. you know what i mean? i ain t no fool. i know what time it is. that s not cool. yeah, i don t like to see my brother get hurt. but the prison says extraction teams are only called when inmates do not cooperate with staff. a practice roy gave up when the prison began using oc gas.
it s been a rough spell for jonathan hall. over a two-day period, he got angry with correctional staff for photographing gang graffiti in his cell. he has had two cell extractions in which he was sprayed with burning oc gas. he s been put in a stripped-down cell and ordered to eat meal loaf after throwing his dinner at the door. but eventually he calmed down and spoke to us about what is really important to him. probably the most important piece of property i have is my pictures. it s memories, things that i m missing out there on the streets. so it s really important to me. this is me, my son, and my wife when my son was first born. i felt like my destiny was fulfilled, that that was what i was put on earth to do was to have my son.
a practice roy gave up when the prison began using oc gas. or pepper spray. that stuff is really powerful. that will make anyone tap out. i would rather have my ass kicked then get hit by that. it s really bad. you can t breathe and it burns like fire. this is really bad stuff. and jonathan hall has just gotten his second dose of it in two days. this time, officers extracted him after he flooded his cell and refused orders to comply. our crew shot the extraction on prison security monitors. hall eventually complied and was placed back in his cell. but there was more trouble overnight. last night we gave him his meal, spaghetti. he smeared it all over the window. he lunged at the officers. they had to restrain him with the shield. they took him over to the other holding cell. this morning we had medical go over and do an evaluation, mental health do an evaluation and we re starting meal loaf