[music playing]
ALAN: Knowing that Pancho has a shank--
it's a little worrisome.
You know, I hope he doesn't just lose his mind and lose his cool
and just decide that I'm the one he wants to stab.
MARK ADGER: We have learned about shanks inside Zone 500.
I've used the jail's DART team to do a shakedown.
DEXTER JENKINS: We're going to take the DART team,
our Direct Action Response Team, gonna
put all the inmates out of their cells,
try to retrieve that weapon out of there.
Everybody [inaudible] door!
Everybody step out.
Stand by your doors.
[inaudible]
ANDREW: It was quite intimidating and disorienting
to be reminded again that I am at this jail's mercy,
that they can essentially do with me whatever they please.
ALAN: Man, their pat-down method was kind of intrusive.
They checked inside your boxers, checked inside your pants.
It was a pretty thorough pat-down.
It was something that I'm used to doing to other folks
at work.
So it's kind of crazy.
ANDREW: They basically just started frisking people,
searching their crotches, which is always, you know,
unpleasant.
MARK ADGER: The inmates have moved
to rec so that the officers can search the pod undisturbed.
[music playing]
I'm looking everywhere, for the inmates
can stick things in here.
So we make sure we check throughout the mats, look
inside the toilet, under the beds.
Pancho-- he has a shank.
My hope is that they'll find it, and it will get removed.
But at the same time, if it's found in my room,
I'd probably be in jail for real.
I couldn't even fathom that, man.
I'm scared of something going down.
And my worst-case scenario would be sleeping and getting
shanked at night, you know?
Just getting stabbed repeatedly.
And the correctional officers are
in no hurry to get in there.
MARK ADGER: The officers were not
able to find any shanks or weapons in the pod,
but that doesn't mean they weren't there.
Moving forward, we're going to pay close attention to this pod
and shake it down as necessary.
ALAN: After we come back from the rec room,
every dorm looks like, you know, a tornado hit it.
ALAN: Knowing that he has a shank,
I don't want to say anything or do anything
that he might take the wrong way where he
would need to use that on me.
It was stressful, man.
I'm not going to lie.
ALAN: My roommate-- he's younger.
Me and him kind of bonded over this last night--
is, we were both bullied in school.
It was good to talk to somebody about that
that's going through the same thing,
'cause he had no idea that I had been bullied in school.
We've been bonding pretty well just--
you know, just talking about our lives
and what we've experienced.
So, you know, he's cool.
He's funny.
We've gotten along.
ALAN: And we're actually talking about music, girls, you know,
guy conversation.
So it's just kind of nice to have that change.
ALAN (VOICEOVER): That helps pass the time.