I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts

Images from the maximumsecurity prison in Corcoran California A surveillance camera shows a pieshaped segment of the concrete yard where the prisoners dressed in shorts and mostly shirtless are allowed to spend half an hour a day When one convict attacks another those not involved lay flat on the ground arms over their heads They know that when a fight breaks out the guard calls out a warning and then fires rubber bullets If the fight continues the guard shoots real bullets The pictures are silent the trail of gun smoke drifts across the picture The camera and the gun are right next to each other