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. 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 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 hispanic victim, we re seeing how the races are interacting on the yard.
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.
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
almost had to join a gang just for protection. it was at that time that we realized that we need to do something to try to curb gang activity within our prison system before it led to a violent nature. captain darren smith is the head of the stg unit which has documented more than 150 different gangs inside the prison. we have our hispanic gangs, which basically fall under southern cal or southern hispanic or northern cal, northern hispanic. we have crips, and we have bloods, and then we have our white supremacists. the most active gang members at usp are segregated into one section of the prison, away from the general population. it s pretty amazing. you got a bunch of different people associated with gangs for one reason or another. and you stick them all together, some people do get along, some people don t. it has its ups and downs. rival gangs bring problems from the streets in here. you know, and that brings problems for everybody in here, you know? part of getting al