in a youth facility. at the time our cameras profiled him in 2000, he had been locked up for more than 12 years, almost half his life. everything is the same. nothing really changes too much. i mean, wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, go to the yard. when i get bored, i got i got to get into stuff, you know? the stuff hymes most frequently gets into is provoking officers to extract him from his cell. each inmate is assigned a security risk classification score based on his disciplinary record. [ bleep ] the average score ranges between 19 and 27 points. i probably have the highest classification score in this prison system, i m over 2,000 points now. i have caught over 30, almost 40 felonies in prison. various staff assaults, stabbed, anything you can think of. only thing i haven t been
pelican bay s worst riot was fueled by the inmates impulse for violence. and many of those inmates ended up here. the security housing unit, or the shu. inmates that were placed into the shu housing unit were placed in here for the most part because of violence. that violence could be against other inmates or against officers. it was here in pelican bay s most secure unit that we came across perhaps the prison s most dangerous inmate. my name is scanvinski hymes. i got the name from my mother. she wanted me to have the name no other black man in america would have. hymes was originally sent to prison for possessing a weapon in a youth facility. at the time our cameras profiled him in 2000, he had been locked up for more than 12 years. almost half his life. everything is the same. nothing really changes too much.
they might even be somebody you think you could be friends with. but sometimes you end up hearing a jaw-dropping story. the day we met james randall, we heard a jaw-dropping story. originally i came to jail february 21st, 1981, convicted in san bernardino county for murder/robbery. given a sentence of 34 years to life, randall was 18 at the time of his conviction. but his rap sheet started much earlier. i have been gang banging since i was 9 years old. coming from an impoverished neighborhood in southern california, my mother and father tried to move to pomona to establish a better life for us. by the time we moved there, it s mostly a middle-to-upper class neighborhood, being already bit by the gang bug, we just exported the gang life out there. randall s gang activity led to his incarceration at the youth facility and soon after, prison. there he joined a militant gang called the black guerrilla family. ended up in 15 years solitary
might even think you could be friends with. but sometimes you end up hearing a jaw-dropping story. the day we met james randall, we heard a jaw-dropping story. i originally came to jail february 21st, 1981. i was convicted in san bernardino county for murder/robbery. given a sentence of 34 years to life, randall was 18 at the time of his conviction. but his rap sheet started much earlier. i have been gang banging since i was 9 years old. coming from an impoverished neighborhood in southern california, my mother and father tried to move to pomona to establish a better life for us. by the time we moved to pomona, which is a mostly middle-to-upper class neighborhood, being already bit by the gang bug, we just exported the gang life out there. randall s gang activity led to his incarceration at the youth facility and soon after, prison. there he joined a militant gang called the black guerrilla family. ended up spending 15 years in solitary confinement for my prison activities an
sometimes they re very likable.ç they might even be somebody you think you could be friends with. but sometimes you end up hearing a jaw-dropping story. the day we met james randall, we heard a jaw-dropping story. originally i came to jail february 21st, 1981, convicted in san bernardino county for murder/robbery. given a sentence of 34 years to life, randall was 18 at the time of his conviction. but his rap sheet started much earlier. i have been gang banging since i was 9 years old. coming from an impoverished neighborhood in southern california, my mother and father tried to move to pomona to establish a better life for us. by the time we moved there, it s mostly a middle-to-upper class neighborhood, being already bit by the gang bug, we just exported the gang life out there. randall s gang activity led to his incarceration at the youth facility and soon after, prison. there he joined a militant gang called the black guerrilla