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inmate would light those two fuses. basically what you have is a double-barreled shotgun. what s particularly scary is once an inmate finishes making his weapon, he finds a clever place to hide it for quick access. it s an old joint. you can hide stuff anywhere, like the i-beams up here. i m going to check these. it s just a beam. you walk under it every day. somebody is walking to the chow hall. a lot of guys know where it is. but they won t tell because they don t want to get killed, get hurt for ratting. i guess you can t reach up there, can you? i ll get them. you had to point that out, didn t you, partner? i can t help it. i call them like i see them. by 10:00 a.m., search teams had confiscated several homemade weapons, including sharpened bed springs and blades. the search was a success. and as a result, several prisoners will be prosecuted. coming up, inmates and the politics of staying alive on the exercise yard.
you can hide stuff anywhere, like the i-beams up here. i m going to check these. it s just a beam. you walk under it every day. somebody is walking to the chow hall. a lot of guys know where it is. but they won t tell because they don t want to get killed, get hurt for ratting. i guess you can t reach up there, can you? i ll get them. you had to point that out, didn t you, partner? i can t help it. i call them like i see them. by 10:00 a.m., search teams had confiscated several homemade weapons, including sharpened bed springs and blades. the search was a success. and as a result, several prisoners will be prosecuted. coming up, inmates and the politics of staying alive on the exercise yard. but first, a provocative and
just got to have a point. put your handle on it and do what you need to do. lockup crews are regularly exposed to the tools of a deadly trade. you know, in every prison we film in, there s always a shank museum. a place where the authorities display all the weapons that are confiscated by staff. homemade weapons the inmates have made from bed springs or melted down plastic. i mean, they re truly ingenious, but they re deadly, as well. at california s san quentin state prison, we saw how sophisticated some inmate weaponry can be. this homemade pistol is known as a zip gun. this portion is filled with groundup matchheads. the two holes here, inmate inserts a wick. inmate takes a plunger, pokes
homemade weapons the inmates have made from bed springs or melted down plastic. i mean, they re truly ingenious. but they re deadly, as well. at california s san quentin state prison, we saw how sophisticated some inmate weaponry can be. this homemade pistol is known as a zip gun. this portion is filled with ground up matchheads. the two holes here, inmates insert a wick. the inmate takes a plunger, pokes shrapnel in the open end, pieces of metal, ground up zippers. when the target walks by the cell, be it an officer or an inmate, the inmate lights this, it goes down, strikes the match heads, basically acts like a firecracker and shoots the shrapnel out. the majority of inmate manufactured weapons or shanks are designed for slashing or stabbing.