this could ruin your day. so far we found nine in an hour and a half span and we re about two-thirds done with this yard. this right here looks like it s made out of aluminum. probably something from the kitchen. aluminum cart. and a spike, from a fence or some kind of tie down. and this is aluminum from a food cart right here. the handles are usually made out of cloth, like this one here. that s made out of a sheet wrapped with tape. some of these inmates here, part of their code is to always have something on them to protect themselves, whether it s on them themselves or in the yard. so whatever area you re in as far as your race or your gang affiliation, you have something there to protect yourself with. these officers may have prevented another attack by successfully recovering the hidden weapons. but they weren t the first to be
you don t know what another man is thinking in prison. you could be asleep, and then all of a sudden, you know, you ain t going to wake up. one of the ceos wanted to cell me up with a black man. i m not really a racist person, but i am afraid of their politics. i wasn t going to take that chance. so i asked the inmates on the yard, you know, is there anybody who needs a cellie. yeah, there s a dude upstairs. he s leaving in november. you can cell with him. i moved in with ian. he s a little crazy at times, but if you go with it, he s all right, you know? he is a pretty nice guy. he s really religious. he likes his catholic religion. he s doing quite well, i think. the rules in the cell are pretty much don t piss the other guy off. that s the only rule. the stress of living with a cellmate may subside, but the realities of jeremy s sentence still loom over him. you get stuck with your own thoughts and everything.
you have a lot of southern hispanics on the other side playing handball with the whites. head in toward the tower you got a lot of northern hispanic inmates and a lot of black hispanic inmates hang out over there. that s where they work out over there. this is considered the west side of the yard. just on the other side of the yard, the east side of the yard where the bars and everything is at is where all our southerners and whites work out at. in front of the buildings is where your blacks and your northerners generally hang out. wait at the tables. they took our tables. that s why we playing right here. we the only one got no tables. blacks. every other race got the tables. they won t go to urinals unless their race is only there. they always got guys posted. two in the front, two in the back, make sure they don t get jumped. in the four months we spent in corcoran, our crews witnessed plenty of inmate-on-inmate fights. this time an alarm sounds in the chow line at the sensiti
showing force, maybe get intel of why, what s going on, why so many weapons. while we were talking with some northern hispanic inmates over here, i noticed the one in the middle was fidgeting his tongue around, moving his lips. i asked him to open his mouth. i could see cellophane under his tongue. i asked him to spit it out, and he bent over and spit out a tiny little bindle wrapped in cellophane, and in that, a couple of kites. sometimes you get the kites in cellophane, or they will put them in their anal cavity, and that s how they ll transport them from prison to prison or yard to yard. you have to take it to the office and find out what they re talking about. it could be about incidents that happened on the yard. right? it could be a yard report. it just depends. northern hispanics are very, very structured and they have positions and the whole biz. so it s good information,
prostitution with hiv/aids relations because i tested positive on one of my arrest cases. this building is medical, but it s for hiv, and it s been open for integration with non-hiv inmates on the yard. we first met terry while shooting the lockup: return to corcoran episode in 2005. you re surviving here because you re going to get a job when you get out, you re going to reform yourself, or you re going to stay in the same pattern and you don t get out. in the three years since, terry s been involved in many fights with cellmates. it takes a stronger person on the yard to be my cellie because of who i am. just days before this interview, terry had another fight. i had a fight in my cell with my cellmate because i was tired