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Even with all the security here at the level six,
weapons and drugs still get in here.
One of the main ways inmates get contraband in here
is using the phone.
We got our little hustles.
Everybody's doing their thing.
Just because we come to prison don't mean things stop.
We're doing stuff on the phone, we're
doing stuff through our people.
We're doing stuff, you know?
Using the phone at PNM is a privilege.
A level six facility's maximum security.
You have 12 inmates and only one heavily-monitored phone.
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We have a sign on his door saying,
"Do not give this inmate the phone."
OK.
He just got written up for that.
Someone's still giving him the phone.
OFFICER: I just want to know how he got it yesterday.
He's always asking all the COs to give him
the phone all the time, even though knowing we're
not supposed to.
Every time he asks me for the phone, I report it right away.
He thinks because I'm a rookie, he can get over on me.
INSTRUCTOR: Mental games, con games.
Can anybody tell me what that is?
It starts as something so little as having
an inmate ask you to pass something to another cell.
Hi, Mr. Hawkins.
You've been trying to make deals with officers to get the phone.
How the hell is that, man?
It says Inmate Hawkins tried to make
a deal with officers on 5/16 to get the phone to use.
I don't know if you're trying to make deals,
or if you're just trying to get the phone
from somebody that doesn't know that you're
not allowed to have it.
That's not true.
You can't have no officer coming here saying that I've
asked them to use the phone.
You asked me for the phone.
What day was that?
Last week, or two weeks ago.
OK, I did ask that day.
OK.
They're very articulate with what they do
and how they do it.
They're cons on the streets, they're cons inside.
They're career criminals.
Go deeper into it.
Peel back the layers of that onion.
See?
He try to say just the other day.
Monday, I didn't ask nobody.
I didn't say Monday.
OK, I asked him.
OK.
You know you're not supposed to use the phone
at all till July right now?
Yeah, right now.
So my question is how are you still using it?
Who's giving you the phone?
You have nothing to say on that?
As a result of the UMT, which we are conducting today,
we're going to take two days of yard from you.
OK?
All right.
MARK MARTINEZ: Since Inmate Hawkins won't tell us
how he's using it, we're going to put him in a holding cell
and then go ahead and go through his room.
An inmate from 102 throws out their laundry bag.
Mangin comes, picks it up, goes back, and hands it over to 101.
The phone's in there wrapped up.
I want to see it.
This is exactly what happened, OK?
We're picking up trays.
102 tells me, "I've had this laundry bag for two days
and I don't know whose it is."
And I grab the laundry bag, I look at it,
and it says Charlie 101 on the laundry bag in sharpie.
I said, "Hawkins what's up with your laundry bag, dude?"
He goes, "I haven't had it two days."
And that's when I gave him the laundry bag.
But there was no phone it it, I promise.
MARK MARTINEZ: The way the bag falls out
right here, it like bounces.
Watch.
It's like there's something heavy or hard
in there, other than laundry.
The phone's in there, wrapped up.
Well, he could have--
he could have had a pen or a sharpie in his cell,
wrote cell C101 on the bag.
This just shows right now, that just--
whatever you get and you're giving to another inmate,
just look through it and see what's in there, because they
could easily hide drugs in there, weapons, anything,
and pass them over to their neighbors.
These guys know how to play con games
and they know how to get stuff, you know?