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Top 5 corrections videos: May 2011

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This month on Corrections1, details were revealed about California officers who appear to be in a gang-like clique, and Mike Wolhfert demonstrates how to protect yourself against inmate-made crude weapons that have the potential to seriously harm you.

Also, one of our top videos this month was footage captured by a surveillance video of an inmate attacking an officer while being booked in jail, and a Texas jail is so crowded it’s letting prisoners free. Watch these videos and more in our monthly roundup.

Video: Details revealed of Calif. officers in gang-like clique

Investigators documented the broken tooth, nose, bruises, contusions and muscle damage that former inmate Evans Tutt says he received at the hands of several Sheriff’s deputies.

Defending a forehand slash

Mike Wolhfert demonstrates how to protect yourself against inmate-made crude instruments, like a razor with tape around it for example. Here’s how to protect your body and block a potentially fatal blow.

Video: Inmate attacks officer during booking

Surveillance video shows an inmate attacking an officer while he was being booked into jail.

Texas jail letting inmates free

For the past 12 weeks the jail has suspended its work release program which allows low-risk inmates to serve their sentences only on the weekends.

Judge finds woman innocent after 17 years in prison

Inmate was able to argue the case using facts presented during the initial trial.