I work with Mrs. Mangin, his mom.
And I knew his dad a little bit.
It's kind of a family business for him.
He's born and bred to do this job.
COHEN MANGIN: I'm anxious to cuff
an inmate for the first time, due to the fact
that I almost failed that part of the Academy.
It almost made me lose my chance of being a CO.
Go ahead and put your hands behind your back.
Bend at the waist.
[inaudible]
Just turn your--
Did I put them on right or no?
Show me again.
[muttering]
What side are you supposed to cuff from?
What?
What side are you supposed to cuff from?
Oh, [bleep].
Even though I just met Cohen, he'll
be my brother to the death.
So I just want you to remember, cuffs [inaudible]..
Oh, all right.
Hey, [inaudible].
This is going to be just a little bit
uncomfortable, OK buddy?
If I mess up, everybody's going to know that I messed up.
Messing up on a cuff can get you or your brother and sisters
killed.
After screwing up the cuffs yesterday,
I want to come in today and perform my job the way
that I was taught and the way I was born to do.
After they served dinner, I guess a couple of inmates
trashed the pod.
What the hell is all this [bleep]??
JASON DECARLO: They passed out Styrofoam trays
last night for dinner and decided they wanted to be
lazy and not come pick them up.
[inaudible].
You leave that food sit overnight, that little box
is our living space for years.
So we crushed them down, threw them under the door.
That's our way of saying [bleep] you back.
Thanks for telling me how to do my job.
I appreciate it.
COHEN MANGIN: If that's what happened,
those officers should have picked those trays up.
Even though I wasn't responsible,
I still cleaned up the mess.
I hope the other officers see that I'm a team player
and that I respect the brotherhood here.
I just got word that an inmate has
flooded his cell on level six.
Ripped his blankets up and stuffed them in his toilet,
to where the whole bottom tier is flooded with water.
[groan]
COHEN MANGIN: He hasn't only upset us.
He's upsetting the other inmates, obviously.
CHRISTOPHER PAGE: We have to suffer
for everything that he's doing.
Bad stuff, smelling this [bleep],, having this [bleep]
come in our house and stuff.
If it's to achieve a goal that's in the best
interest of everybody in the unit, that's one thing.
But he's being a piece of [bleep]..
COHEN MANGIN: I decided to take the inmates out of their cells
so they didn't have to sit in a flooded cell.
Once we get this all cleaned up, we'll get them back in.
JASON DECARLO: He came back like he was supposed to
and got them out of the cells.
Imagine he's a straight up CO.
He's a good CO.
He knows respect.
COHEN MANGIN: Doesn't get any better than this.
This is probably the roughest housing unit.
[yelling]
This pod has people that self-mutilate or use
the restroom in their trays and throw it at you,
and stuff like that.
You kind of have to talk to them like little kids.
Hey, buddy.
One week, he's cut himself on his neck, his arms.
Shanked one of the cert team members in the neck.
I still have that in the back of my mind.
Sometimes we just can't hold it back.
He'll do it.
He's not all there and he's not just pretending to be crazy.
Otero, you all right?
Otero has calmed down now, due to him being on meds.
But I'm sure this isn't the last that we'll hear from him.
Philip Letham joined the notorious SNM gang.
Philip Letham is pretty dangerous.
He's assaulted staff.
He has a history of that.
He's unpredictable.
You've got to not show that you're scared.
You just got to walk in there like it hasn't changed.
When you walk around him, it makes you a little uneasy.
He hasn't been out in a very long time.
Everybody should be more on their toes
because it's getting more dangerous now.
Providing tier time for some of our most dangerous inmates,
that re-socialization places a huge
burden on our corrections officers,
especially our young ones.
How long have you been at the level six?
It went really good for him being
out for the first time ever.
We sat down, talked to him, had a little conversation with him.
We just have to hope that we'll have no issues with him.
OVER RADIO: Advise R 15, it's in his best interest
to go ahead, turn around, and cuff up.
It's a high risk situation.
And a cell extraction can go extremely
wrong real quick depending on how well your staff is trained.
Not having a lot of experience doing that could get someone
hurt.
COHEN MANGIN: During my first cell extraction,
I was the shield guy.
[shouting]
COHEN MANGIN: I hit the inmate with the shield.
The shield shattered and it cut my forearm open.
But the most important thing to me
was making sure that all the officers got out
of that cell extraction safe.
So you took you shields and your [inaudible]..
Everything's sealed.
Turn it this way, bro.
Turn this way.
COHEN MANGIN: Having the extraction team present
for any inmate, I think it makes them want
to comply right away because no matter
what, they're going to lose.
When you get pepper sprayed, in my opinion,
it's one of the worst feelings.
[groaning]
Open it up.
[gasping]
Fight through it.
Come on, [inaudible].
Hey.
Go ahead and stay on your knees until we tell you
you can stand up.
Most of the guys here, they just want to be
able to walk out in handcuffs.
And that's what we want here.
If you have an extraction, you have
the inmate open their mouth, go through the hair.
You've got to look in their ears, every part of their body
to where they could possibly have some type of contraband.
Hey.
COHEN MANGIN: As we went to put him in the strip cage,
he put something in his mouth and tried to swallow it.
Stand up.
COHEN MANGIN: Every inmate that has an incident, you have
to take them to be evaluated to make sure they're cleared
by medical, they don't have to go to the hospital
or something like that.
What did you swallow, man?
What'd you swallow?
COHEN MANGIN: It's very key to find out what he swallowed
because we have to make sure his safety
and his well-being is taking care of.
Inmate Aragones said that he spit out whatever he had.
But we haven't recovered it, so I
can believe him until the investigation is over with.
You don't know what he endured being in that cell.
Yeah, he probably deserved it.
But who knows what experiences he's had with COs.
We ask these young men and women to also invest themselves
into people the rest of the world
has the luxury of throwing away.
COHEN MANGIN: I'm going to remember what he did.
It's not my job to judge him.
And that's how you have to think of it.
Now he complied.
He's in his cell.
My dad, he was STIU captain when he worked here.
And that's what I want to do when the time comes,
climbing up in the ranks.
Just another day at the level six.