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
it s approximately nine inches in length. the one closest to the ruler, as you can see, has a pretty big tapered point. that s some pretty thick metal. it easily, as you can see, could puncture the skin, and it could easily get to a vital organ. you know, that into your neck wouldn t be a good scenario. this is what we re looking for. we re always looking for weapons. any time we remove weapons out of the cell, that means it s one less weapon out there on the yard. one less weapon that could be used against staff. the search has yielded solid results, allowing officers to remove certain suspects from the general population and send them to ad seg, while releasing the rest of the southern hispanic population from lockdown. this day is unique because it s actually the first afternoon these guys have been on yard in about eight days. it s like a new kid on the playground right now. you go to a new school and you don t know anybody. you start all over again.
so i m being written up for the fight? yeah. so that s what s going to happen. all righty? i ll get an officer to get you some clothes here in just a minute. with a white suspect and a southern hispanic victim, officers are wary of retaliation that could explode into a race riot. hey, step outside for me real quick. how many south siders? you ve got two south siders over there? what s dude that came from level one? is that him? he s right here. actually, he s right here. out with these white boys right here. yeah. and then the dude to his right is a south sider as well. what s his name? that s that s a white dude. okay, okay. that s grande. he s a south sider. he s a south sider. that s grande. basically, since we have a white suspect and a southern
pictures of it. it s approximately nine inches in length. the one closest to the ruler, as you can see, has a pretty big tapered point. that s some pretty thick metal. it easily, as you can see, could puncture the skin, and it could easily get to a vital organ. you know, that into your neck wouldn t be a good scenario. this is what we re looking for. we re always looking for weapons. any time we remove weapons out of the cell, that means it s one less weapon out there on the yard. one less weapon that could be used against staff. the search has yielded solid results, allowing officers to remove certain suspects from the general population and send them to ad seg, while releasing the rest of the southern hispanic population from lockdown. this day is unique because it s actually the first afternoon these guys have been on yard in about eight days. it s like a new kid on the playground right now.
together with the intent of not being governed by any other prison gang. bulldogs they re not as organized as your other gangs. they don t have the leadership in their organization. their rule of thumb is, that majority rules. if there s issues on the yard they have to try to resolve, the bulldogs would get together and take a boat, if you will. and the majority rules to go with that, there s no set leader of bulldog. if a bulldog has a chance to attack a southern hispanic, it s on sight. if they can get away from staff during an escort, a door accidentally pops, anything. if there s another bulldog they re going to go at it, attack each other. we met robert galvan, a bulldog locked up in the shu, for numerous attacks on other inmates. bulldogs are at war right now