[dramatic music]
Want to help me get this guy up here?
That way.
I just-- I had to search his cell.
Hey, make sure you guys pat them all down.
Over here at level six, we do have some very high
ranking SNM numbers, actually.
They're the guys running the show.
Killings, drug deals, you name it.
It does not get done without their blessing.
The Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico, the gang's power
is fueled by drugs.
In order to stop that surge of drugs into our prisons,
we need to shake them down to make sure
that that threat's mitigated.
You want us to lift your front row?
You just got to be on your toes and check everything.
All right, Arturo, you're going to go to the right, all right?
Right.
I have came a long way.
I now know that I set my own limits,
and I truly believe that.
One of my most favorite things about this job
is doing the shakedowns and finding stuff.
It lets me let the inmates know like, hey, I'm watching you.
I'm on my toes.
You can hide stuff wherever.
I'm going to find it.
I know there's no such thing as a perfect officer.
You know, I want to be pretty damn close.
OK.
Good.
Clear.
[shouting]
STIU is the investigations unit within the Department
of Corrections.
We investigate gangs inside of prison,
as well as trying to find drugs in the facility.
The SNM is a very dangerous, well, well, well organized,
hard to break gang.
In the state of New Mexico, we have a war on our hands.
Our job's just to stay on them and know exactly what's going
on with not only the group, but the individuals
within that group.
Gabe.
Cordova.
Yeah?
Huh?
Did they?
Lift this one too.
My dad, he was a STIU captain when he worked here,
and that's what I want to do when the time comes.
Climbing up in the ranks.
They said he's probably selling meds,
or trying to get high off meds.
I feel like it made me look like I
didn't know how to do my job.
Here we go check this room, and then
someone goes in there 10 seconds later and finds something.
Mm-hmm.
Got what was in there?
Yeah.
Some of these SNM members put a hit
out on staff members in the Department of Corrections.
And like, today, I would have left that room.
If STIU would've have checked it,
that guy still would've had the nail
clipper and the razor in there.
The razor could be altered as a slashing device.
Nail clippers can actually cut steel.
You can cut out a piece of metal out of one
of the rec cages outside, and he could
have brought it in to make a shank,
or a sharpened instrument.
Yeah.
I didn't seen none of that [bleep],, dog.
SNM members, they're very dangerous.
If I make mistakes like this, it could ultimately get myself
or someone else killed.
OK.