i ll get you 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. you ve got two south siders over there. what s the dude that came from level one? is that him? he s right here. 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. that s grande. he s a south sider. that s grande. basically, since we have a white suspect and a southern hispanic victim, we re seeing how the races are interacting on the yard. see if we may have a race problem.
and he was rushed out by ambulance to the hospital. most dangerous time for correctional officer is after someone related to a gang has been executed. we get rumbles that the gang investigators pick up and say so-and-so is executed, they ve sworn to get a peace officer. the mexican mafia is reputed to have a kid out on staff any time possible because our big riot back in 2000, we shot and killed a southern hispanic, because he was attempting to kill somebody else. so more so than normal there are just a lot of tensions in prison at the moment. this place right here, if you let it can suffocate the life out of you. steve castillo is also serving time in the shoe, convicted in 1987 for first-degree murder, his sentence is 35 years life. escort coming in. i think probably the main thing is staying busy, trying to find something positive to do
chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. what s it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. we ve got to be smart about this. it s a smart way to go. february 23, 2000, started as a typical day at pelican state prison, but as the b facility inmates were patted down as they were released for the yard, one difference went unnoticed. while it is typical for some inmates to stay in their cells, every southern hispanic in the facility went to the yard. i was in this exact spot and i noticed over here, some people started stabbing each other and
rules. the convict s job is to beat us, to find ways to beat us. they are gonna slide whatever they can under the rug every chance they get. we can t go under the rug. we have to be keep our hands on the table at all times. although violence in the shoe is rare, officers are trained and ready to respond at the first sign of trouble. i have seen inmates who have been speared in the shoe. cell fights in the shoe. i have never seen anybody killed in the shoe, but i have seen them seriously injured. it would take either a threat of imminent death, you know, one inmate on top of another pounding his head against the concrete floor or a threat of great bodily injury. that s when i m authorized to actually fire that weapon and in the security housing unit there are no warning shots because we ve got all this concrete. the last injury i ve seen in the shoe was an inmate, southern hispanic, speared by a northern hispanic in the chest and within centimeters from his heart.
personal observations and how i do my cell searches. i would take an overall view of their cell. it tells me a little bit about the individual. is there certain colors that are prevalent in the cell. it will tell me if he s some type of disruptive group, if he s a blood or crypt, just because of the colors. if he s a hispanic, if he s a northern hispanic or a southern hispanic. if i see swastikas in there, my clues tell me white supremacist. so that tells me a little about him. if it s unruly, unkept, is he a drug addict? so i take all of those things into account before i look, depending on what i m investigating. this was just a routine cell search. this time nothing suspicious was found. but that s not always the case. as you see here, we have a wide variety of weapons that have been discovered here at folsom. they go all the way from the big type of weapons all the way down to the slashing-type of instruments. they ll roll newspapers up. they will actually make real crude type