correctional officers showed our cameras how they quell the violence with an arsenal of their own. one that includes nonlethal and lethal weaponry. first rounds we fire are wood blocks. hopefully it will make them stop. we really have to escalate with our nonlethal options. we use what we call a scat round, which is really irritating. those are louder. the smoke you see there, that s cn gas. it s no fun. it messes up your sight. makes you, you know, makes your snot roll. and of course we have a lethal option. we have a mini-14 here the 223 round. we only use that as a last resort. today, california state prison corcoran no longer has to resort to such drastic measures to control violence in the shu yard. they close the yards down, and now inmates exercise in walk-alone areas called the cages. but even when officers are able
and i believe that everybody should know the lord. if you don t know the lord, i encourage you to know the lord. i d just gotten done putting the camera down. my cameraman was walking around. and then i started hearing a bing, like bing, bing, bing. literally five feet away i see this man probably in his late 50s, early 60s, and i look down and i saw these two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like, repeatedly, and his head was bouncing off this pole. what you saw here today was actually a battery. they were stomping his head. you can see he s pretty pretty messed up. the inmate who was attacked survived because of a quick response by staff on the yard. his assailants were sentenced to six months in folsom s administration segregation unit. some of the most violent gang attacks have taken place here at california state prison corcoran s security housing unit, or shu.
use what we call a scat round. which is really irritating. see, those ar little bit louder. the smoke you see there, that s cn gas. it s no fun. it messes up your sight, makes you, you know, makes your snot roll. and of course, we have a lethal option. we have a mini-14 here, .223 round. we use that as a last resort. today, california state prison corcoran no longer has to resort to drastic measures to control violence in the shu yard. they closed the yards down and now inmates exercise in walk-alone areas called the cages. but even when officers are able to quell violence, sorting out its cause can be just as difficult. as our crews found out at the spring creek correctional center in seward, alaska. slow down. slow down, mr. seiko, slow down. blood on the floor over there. blood pathogens need to be cleaned up. mr. seiko, you need to
up, facedown. whole yard of kind of like 600 inmates were completely down on the ground. okay, get up. so officer mitchell, what just happened just now? basically, what we had, two guys, they wanted to horseplay, get a little bit heavy. if we allowed things like that to continue, what s going to happen is they re going to start fighting, the possibility of other people getting involved. though the alarm call at corcoran ended peacefully, our cameras encountered a different situation at northern california s pelican bay state prison. one, two, three. just having a routine guard release. our producer was conducting an interview with lieutenant ben grundy while a second camera was shooting routine footage on the yard below. then suddenly there s an alarm in that building right there, a-3. our cameras search for any
other. this surveillance footage reveals a group of southern mexican gang members unleashing a vicious coordinated attack against a group of black inmates. the beginning of california s worst prison riot. i looked around and all over the yard there was fighting and stabbings going on. doug burrell and dozens of his fellow officers tried to subdue inmates with pepper spray and teargas, but every time it seemed the staff had the situation under control, another fight broke out. it looked like the movie braveheart, the fight scene in braveheart but it was the real deal. they started firing shots. so everybody that wasn t involved in the riot laid on the ground. even the gunfire raining down from pelican bay security towers did not quell the riot until one of the inmates was killed. 15 others were wounded. after we were done, i was