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[Footsteps]

[Screams echoing quietly]

Man: you know, winning this case is a...

It's a real victory, Sabrina.

You ain't gotta tell me that, Mr. Reynolds.

[Clicking]

I know.

Man. mmm, mmm, mmm.

There's a lot of young people going to prison these days.

Some of them need to be there.

Some of them don't.

You know, it's the background story that's the real winner.

And--and that's what everybody's gonna want to hear.

[Buzzer sounding in distance]

Prison ain't no joke, though.

Wanna know how I know?

'Cause I been in and out of jail since I was 15 years old.

Heh. but ain't nothin' like the experience i had at whitehead.

I know what you want.

But I'm gonna tell you the story my way.

I lived this.

Being in this motherfucker changed my life.

Woman: damn. Look at my nails.

You know I gets my shit done every week.

Don't play.

Damn. shit, bitch, you need to be looking at that hair.

Hey, bitch, fuck you. Fuck y'all.

First of all, y'all motherfuckers is crazy,

'cause you ain't gonna be gettin' that shit done

no time soon. Nails, hair, toes,

none of that shit.

You gonna be scraping them motherfuckers

up against the wall and shit.

What did y'all-- y'all niggers kill somebody?

Hell, yeah. Yeah.

Aw, hell no.

I ain't kill me nobody.

They got the wrong motherfucker.

They got the wrong Sabrina downs.

It could be, like, 13 of me in the whole fuckin' world.

It's a bunch of motherfuckers in America.

And I know motherfuckers light-skinned and wear braids and shit

like me, you know what I'm saying?

Everybody wanna put me in jail.

Bitch, I will jump over this motherfucker

and choke your ass. Well, what's up?

Bitch! oh, my--wait till we get to the motherfucking prison.

You ain't gonna do shit. You just wait.

She said she ain't kill nobody.

Oh, your wannabe innocent ass!

You ain't done shit either, bitch.

You pickin' some cotton some motherfuckin' where

and got in trouble.

You just here 'cause they want your ass here.

You ain't special.

[Buzzer sounding]

Hey. if you, like, hold your arms back--

god, girl.

Thanks.

It's cool.

And that's how I met Frances Shepard.

Officer: from this moment on,

you're the property of the whitehead correctional institution.

My name is captain Alan dease.

Remember my name.

And I promise you, you will never forget my face.

All right, ladies, listen up.

You will not be able to eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom

without permission.

And I'm gonna say this once...

And only once.

Carry your prison I.D. With you at all times.

Failure to do so...

Will result in disciplinary action.

You shall not engage in gambling,

substance abuse, or illegal sexual acts.

Sabrina: Tom Nelson was the warden, right.

But that asshole dease, he ran the prison.

You shall not engage in business or commerce of any type.

He seen, like, 4 or 5 wardens come and go.

He been there for a long time.

That nigger felt like everything was his,

from the fuckin' roof to the rats.

You will not destroy or misuse state property.

Dease...asshole.

For sho'.

Any acts...

Of insurrection...

Or insubordination...

Will result in disciplinary action.

Do you understand?

Yes, sir.

Do you understand?

All: yes, sir.

Good.

Good, ladies.

We was like... His girls...Heh heh...

Living in his mother fuckin' house.

It was real fucked up.

[Rap music blaring] [Women chattering]

[Tap tap tap]

Officer: all right, turn off the damn music.

[Music stops]

Sabrina: now, Frances was different than the rest of us.

New inmate on the block.

She had never been in jail before.

Neither has lil' mama-- 17, pregnant,

and our resident preacher.

Nikki, this here is Frances Shepard.

Lock her into the day-to-day.

I don't want her in here.

You don't have a choice.

All she gonna learn from me is how to be an insubordinate.

[Laughter] right.

Lil' mama: I--i hope you'll be comfortable.

You can put your stuff up there.

Maybe I'll help you make your bed later,

clear out some space.

[Officer raps bars with night stick]

[Laughter]

Lil' mama: Look, i--i know how you feel.

It just takes time.

Here, let me tell you who everybody is.

That right there, that's Nikki.

Don't nobody mess with her.

She's been in and out of here 2 times.

[Rap music begins] Everybody in here is scared of her

except me.

We get along.

Now, it's a little cold in here.

They don't give us no heat,

so you might wanna dress up a little bit

so you don't get sick, ok?

Hey, Frances, how you doing? I'm wet.

Come on out of that cell, girl.

You're gonna spend enough time up in there.

Enough time to make you go crazy.

Now, this here is kinda like the block.

You gotta be careful who you run with.

See them girls right there?

That's the licky-licky crew.

Now, if that's your thing, it's cool with us.

Uh-uh.

Them girls right there,

that's the o-tep girls.

O-tep! yeah!

That's my clique.

It's our job to wake everybody up.

Woman yelling in distance: Shut the fuck up!

Shut the fuck up, bitch!

See what I'm saying?

Sleepitude.

What you up in here for?

Murder.

Murder?

Don't look like a murderer.

Look like a high yellow sadiddy butch to me.

Now, look, Frances. We get up every morning at 5:30.

Then we got a little-- oh, no, no, no,

lil' mama, fuck that.

What she need to know is how they terrorizing us

up in this motherfucker.

You better protect yourself.

I didn't do anything.

It don't matter.

I got this here petition

I need you to sign.

I'm trying to get everybody to sign it, actually.

[Buzzer]

Man, on P.A.: Lock down, 2 minutes.

2 minutes to lock down.

Good night, y'all.

Come on.

See you later, wet.

All right, Frances.

[Whistle blows]

They can't pay me enough money to work in this raggedy motherfucker.

♪ Goin' to town on a horse named chili ♪

Shit is crazy.

You know yvette got bit by a rat the other night?

For real?

Well, keep down about it.

You don't want to give them no reason to throw us in lock down, please.

Lock down? That shit ain't never gonna happen.

Slow down they productivity.

[Laughs] that's right.

Gotta keep the cash flowin' huh?

Frances, let me, uh, let you in on what's going on.

Saturday. ok.

We're in the sweatshop all day until 12 noon.

Then it's a hour in the yard,

then it's chow. Then it's back to cleaning up,

unloading the truck, helping with dinner.

Then we only got an hour on the phone.

We only get paid $1.50 a day.

I know it don't sound right, but that's the way it is.

No, that can't be right. That's illegal.

Hell, no, that shit ain't illegal.

Slave-driving motherfuckers.

[Bell rings] All right, ladies. Time to earn your keep.

Welcome to the plantation, sister Frances.

♪ Riding, riding red Clay ♪

♪ strange things happen every day ♪

♪ don't ask me who shot John, man ♪

♪ I never saw a gun, man ♪

♪ don't ask me who shot John, man ♪

So, Frances.

What happened with you? How'd you get in here?

I killed my husband.

It was an accident.

Oh, really?

Hmph. I killed my stepfather,

but it wasn't no accident.

You got any kids?

Yeah, I have one.

Look.

[Gasps] oh, you got a locket!

Her name is Maxine. Aww!

She has asthma. I worry about her so much.

She's cute.

Heh heh. Thank you.

You're welcome. Everybody got kids in here.

Nikki got kids.

Twin boys. They with her mama.

Wet got 2 kids, too.

But they got taken away from her.

Girl, just get ready, 'cause mother's day...

It's tough in here.

Mm-mmm. see, I'm getting my appeal.

I'm gonna be out of here.

Oh, really?

I'm getting out of here, too.

Oh, yeah? When?

In about... 5 years.

5 years?

Yeah. 5 years.

[Sighs]

[Women cheering and shouting]

Don't bullshit me, Harvey.

Excuse me, captain dease?

Yeah?

Uh, hi, I'm Michael meadows.

Let me call you back.

That supposed to mean something to me, son?

I'm the new, uh, correction officer.

I'm supposed to be starting, uh, on Wednesday.

And what are you doing here now?

Well, uh, the warden said I should just, you know, come by,

say hello, introduce myself.

Yeah, you the new college boy, huh?

Hi. yeah. hi.

Good to meet you. Good to meet you, too.

Can't you think of something better to do than corrections, son?

Heh.

I mean, well, to be honest with you,

you know, I need the money for tuition--

you need the money.

Everybody needs money. I can understand that.

I'm not mad at you. Ok.

Don't worry about it. We got this. We got this.

[All shouting]

Nikki: don't worry about it. We got this. We got this.

[Shouting and chatter continue]

Pull up a chair. Let's talk.

Ok.

Tell me a little bit about yourself.

You know, I'm a post-grad.

I'm a--I'm a law major.

Uh, criminal law.

I guess help people.

$5.00 say you don't got this.

Sabrina: now, that's Aisha.

That's dease's latest piece of pussy.

Whatever she see, she run and tell his ass.

Nikki: Aisha...

You ain't ass-bettin', are you? Huh?

Let lil' mama hold the money.

Lil' mama. Wait, wait, wait!

Hold, hold, hold up, hold up.

Why lil' mama gotta be holding the money?

Why not?

'Cause she a god-fearing woman, that's why.

♪ Hallelujah ♪ god bless and keep you, wet.

What the fuck? Am i in church? Here.

Whatever.

My--my father and, uh--

your father and, uh, Nelson go way back.

Yeah, they-- from college?

Yeah, they went to school together.

I'm--I'm an only child.

My parents are only children, too,

so it's just pretty much us, you know.

You know, i--i-- I'll trim it down.

Nikki: stop your jackin' and serve!

Come on, now.

Aw...all right. I'm gonna serve it.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[All shouting]

[Whistle blows]

[Beeping]

Go for dease.

Officer, on walkie-talkie: There's a fight in the yard, sir.

Lock 'em down. I'm on my way.

Let's go, son.

Orientation starts now.

[Alarm buzzes]

[All shouting]

Aisha: you ain't bad, bitch! We can go some more!

[All shouting]

Stop it, god damn it, stop it!

Now, who started this?

Aisha: she did! Nikki: You a lying bitch!

She started it. Dease: Shut it up!

Wet: captain, Aisha hit her in the chest with the ball.

Shut the fuck up, wet. I'm not talking to you.

Shepard, who started this?

You better answer me, god damn it.

That one. She did.

All right. Take these women back to their units.

Come on! Move it!

[Women chattering quietly]

Escort miss Nance back to her unit.

Aisha: all right, man, all right!

Damn!

You heard her! I ain't do nothin'!

Shut your ass.

That's for me to decide.

Officer: all right, you heard him! Let's go!

Dease: these inmates are worse than animals.

They need discipline, and they need structure.

Especially that little bitch Barnes.

I'm the only one in here that can discipline her.

Gets on my fuckin' nerves.

Heh. heh heh.

You know, it's kinda funny.

She's got this, uh...

Stupid little crush on me.

You saw the way she was lookin' at me, didn't you?

Yeah. did you see?

Yeah, yeah. Heh heh heh heh.

She gets upset if I don't give her enough attention.

You know how young girls are.

Yeah.

You're gonna do a great job.

I want you to remember this.

The warden may have hired you.

You got a problem,

I'm the first and the last person you talk to.

I run this motherfuckin' prison, not Nelson.

Don't you ever forget that.

[Door opens] You got me?

Yeah.

Speaking of the devil,

here comes the warden now.

Warden! hey!

Michael: hi. Good to see you. Ha ha.

Good to see you.

All right, same here.

How you doing?

All right. You growing up, man.

Yeah. I just want to say thank you once again. I appreciate it.

Nothing to it. Listen, if it gets a little rough out here,

you make sure you let me know.

Ok. you can always work in the office with me.

Ok. you pick up your uniform?

Uh, no, actually, I'm about to go do that right now.

All right, good. Good. Go ahead.

Dease, you take care of him,

'cause his people and my people go way back.

I'm sure he's gonna work out just fine.

Yeah.

All right. All right, Mr. Nelson,

take care. Good to see you. Mr. dease.

Got great news. What's going on?

Walcorp's people are coming.

Get your people up to speed.

They were just here.

I thought everything checked out ok.

Well, we did,

but the edgehill facility didn't.

Walcorp is thinking about pulling their business from them.

And if that happens,

it will keep the state from closing us down.

I see.

I like that. That's cool.

And also, walcorp is thinking about remodeling--

Sabrina: now, most people don't know that prison is big business.

Everybody was trying to make a buck,

legal or otherwise.

Nothing will change but the size of our paychecks, baby.

I like the sound of that.

Hey.

Hey, baby. How's it going?

All right.

I thought I told you not to call me that.

Hmm?

Well, I just wanted to thank you

for checking Nikki at the volleyball game.

You know, letting her know who's important around here.

Come here, let me talk to you.

Ok.

You miss me?

Of course I do.

I miss you, too.

You stupid fucking bitch.

You ain't important.

Don't you ever think that you are.

You understand me?

[Whimpers]

Yes, captain.

I can't hear you.

Yes, captain.

Good, baby.

Now...

You got some information for me?

No, I haven't heard nothin'.

No?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Not until you bring me something.

I'll come back when i have something.

[Door opens] Aren't you forgetting something, baby girl?

I don't know. Am I?

[Door closes]

You forgot to thank me.

Hold on a second.

Now you see me. Heh heh heh. Now you don't.

[Telephone rings]

This is dease.

Man, on phone: Yo, big dog, what's up, man?

Heh heh. What's going on, Fred?

Nothing, man, we got it covered.

Fuck him.

♪ Check it ♪

♪ they call me death 'cause I'm delivering fear ♪

♪ I got the hardest heart ♪

♪ of the hard rock shiverin' ♪

No!

Keep your motherfuckin' mouth shut!

Ho!

Keep fuckin' with me.

Keep fuckin' with me, bitch. Watch you--

unh!

Unh! oh! Unh!

Fuckin' bitch.

♪ I'm gonna see them all ♪

♪ when them give death a call ♪

Give me that.

Game over.

♪ 'Cause you're gonna take a fall ♪

♪ I cut you like a knife ♪

You lose, bitch.

Help! help!

Fuck.

I'm-a get you, Nikki!

I swear!

[Humming]

Oh.

Heh.

I'm sorry. Oh, no, I'm sorry.

It's a co-ed locker room, you know.

Uh, yeah, i--

not much you can do about it.

I forgot about that.

How you doing?

Uh, I'm doing pretty good.

I guess you're doing fine.

Sabrina: now, cervantes, she was a cold-blooded,

rules and regulations type bitch.

And I came out ok.

Tell you the truth, i don't think the whole law enforcement thing

is, you know, for me.

I hope that's not an insult.

Only because my family is rooted in law enforcement.

Oh, I'm sorry.

We would try to, like, talk to her

about our problems sometimes, but, pssht.

She was too busy trying to earn stripes with the warden,

hollerin' at all the new male guards.

What's up with that?

I actually didn't take it as a dis, but...

Ok. cool.

Maybe we can go to lunch or something. You can explain.

Yeah.

Oh, wow, yeah, you know.

That would be-- that would be dope.

I really wish I could, though.

I got, you know, study hall--

it's cool.

Maybe, uh...

Maybe some time in the future we'll have a chance to talk

and I can change your mind

about law enforcement.

Oh. ok.

All right, then.

Good.

All right. Ok. Ok.

You take care.

Oh, you, too, cervantes.

[Laughter and chatter]

Why is she taking so long on the phone?

Leave her alone. She talkin' to her hairdresser.

Bitch ain't got but one friend.

[Laughter]

Hurry the fuck on! I got things to do!

And you got 10 years to do 'em.

Can you say "appeal"?

Can I say "10 years your ass gonna be up in here."

Hmm. naw, you gonna be up in here.

Well, I'm a convict. What you--

Frances Shepard?

Uh, the warden needs to see you.

Oh, come on! I gotta use the phone!

He said that we need to leave right away.

[Muffled laughter]

Dease: you know, Shepard,

you'd get along much better if you'd learn to speak up in here.

Who knows? You might become a trustee one day.

[Door opens]

Captain. hi, sir.

Shepard.

What happened to your face?

Nothing.

Just a few questions.

Did you see who stabbed Aisha Nance?

No, sir, I didn't.

But you were in the area where the stabbing occurred.

Yes, sir. I admit i saw Aisha.

But it was after I came out of the bathroom.

Did you hear anything?

No, sir.

Do you have some place to be?

I don't want to miss my phone time.

All right, you can go.

That's all. Thank you. Thank you.

[Door opens]

[Door closes]

Nobody's talking.

We're wasting time.

But she knows what happened, sir.

Like me to lock the unit down, sir?

Damn it, dease, no, we can't lock the unit down.

We gotta keep everybody working!

Yes, sir.

Miss Shepard, I don't want to rush you,

but try to make this as quick as you can, ok?

Nelson: how's Michael? How's he doing?

He's doing ok, sir.

I mean, I prefer a military-trained person.

More dependable.

College boys are a little too soft for me.

I went to college, dease.

Are you trying to say I'm too soft?

No, sir.

No, sir.

Keep sharp, baby.

[Door opens]

[Door closes]

[Glass breaks]

Frances: hi, mommy's big girl.

Maxine, on phone: Mommy, I wanna see you, mommy.

I want to see you, too.

Are you doing what auntie Kim tells you to?

Yes.

Why can't I see you?

Mommy, I want to see you.

[Dial tone]

Man, on phone: This is the telephone observer.

Your call time has expired.

Mommy.

Baby, it was-- bye.

[Dial tone]

[Crying]

[Sobbing]

You all right, miss Shepard?

No.

But your daughter's all right?

Everything's ok with your daughter?

No.

I hope I didn't get you in trouble.

Oh, no, no.

Thanks.

It's ok.

Uh, we should probably just go.

[Buzzer]

Woman: wow, ok?

Any fade that you have can cut through a suit.

The higher the fade, the better the cut.

[Women chattering]

You think, uh, Frances said something to Nelson?

Mmm.

They ain't hauling me off to solitary,

and we ain't on lock down, are we?

Naw, she ain't say nothing.

She better not.

Frances ain't even that kind of person.

Lil' mama...

Ain't you got some scripture reading or something to do?

[Thunder]

Dease: see, I like Rodney dangerfield, myself.

He's got all those fat jokes. Heh.

How can you tell when your--

when your wife is getting too fat?

I don't know.

When she sits on your face and you can't hear the stereo.

[Laughter]

Hey, Nikki! Wake up, baby.

Look here. I know you stabbed Aisha, Nikki.

But if you be sweet to me--

Nikki: no! No! Leave me alone!

All right, all right, all right.

All right, you little bitch!

Come here, you little bitch!

Now, Nikki's beating wasn't about no Aisha.

It was about dease and Nikki.

They say dease was crazy about her.

But she hated that nigger's guts.

So he would do stuff like single her and her group out

and act like he was making examples out of them.

Yeah, right.

Everybody knew what was up.

Ain't no secrets in jail.

♪ There were no mirrors in my Nana's house ♪

[Buzzer] ♪ no mirrors in my Nana's house ♪

♪ there were no mirrors in my Nana's house ♪

♪ no mirrors in my Nana's house ♪

♪ and the beauty that I saw in everything ♪

♪ the beauty in everything ♪

♪ yeah, was in her eyes ♪

♪ oh ♪

♪ the sun was in her eyes ♪

♪ I'm telling you ♪

♪ there were no mirrors in my Nana's house ♪

[Men laughing]

You see me with a fat lady,

I'm holding her for the police.

[Laughter and chatter]

Hey, I'll see y'all later.

My friend's wife was so fat

you tell her to haul ass,

she gotta make 2 trips.

[Laughter]

What you got, banks?

Got something good for me?

Oh, my goodness, homemade macaroni and cheese.

Let me get a little shot of that, buddy.

Mm-hmm! whoo dog!

Don't you ever get tired of grubbin' off me?

No, sir.

What you bitchin' about, banks?

You got 7 mouths to feed.

One more ain't gonna hurt you none.

No, my wife's pregnant again.

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Get the fuck out of here!

Don't you white boys believe in birth control?

[Laughter]

Obviously, your man's out of here.

College boy, what's going on?

How you doing? I brought some drinks and stuff, so--

good. put them right over there.

Uh...just to give you a head's up...

Uh, the toilets and stuff on block 4,

you know, they still stopped up, and it's--

it's starting to smell pretty bad up there, you know.

Well, that's good.

Might offset the smell of some of them stank-ass bitches.

[Laughter]

Banks: everything's broke.

Won't be long before the state closes us down.

I'm already looking for a job.

Don't be no fool.

You know what I know, you'll keep your ass right here.

If it's about wall corps, I'm still looking for a job.

I'm gonna tell you what the problem is.

It's these soft young boys coming in here,

have personal contacts,

taking everybody's jobs.

Ain't that right, Michael?

You ain't in the union?

I just told you he was a college boy.

Him and Nelson go way back.

Ain't that right, Michael?

Everybody in this shit hole will be untrained.

Don't worry about it.

You know I'm gonna look out for our crew.

You just try to make that meeting next Friday.

I'll be there, 'cause i got mouths to feed.

I need my job.

I feel you. I need the job, too.

That's why I'm here. You know, i--

ain't got no kids or nothin' like that.

You know, I'm in school.

I got tuition to pay. I got loans.

You know?

I ain't trying to take nobody's job, man.

I'm just tryin' to get a dollar like everybody else.

And to tell you the truth,

if I had know it was gonna be like this--

well, what did you expect? Oz?

Heh. naw. naw.

I didn't expect oz, no. But, you know, i mean, it...

You know, it's rough sometimes, man.

You know, it get rough, you know.

The way these women get treated sometimes--

the way these women get treated?

What the fuck are you talking about?

No, I'm just--

what the fuck are you talking about?

These women are thieves, murderers, drug addicts.

They don't have respect for a goddamn thing!

The only remedy is locking them up and throwing away the key!

And if by chance they do get out of here,

they gonna pray on their fuckin' knees

never to get back in here again!

Jesus Christ.

What fuckin' boat did you jump off of?

I gotta get back to work.

I'll see you later, banks.

Let me tell you something else.

You're working a double shift next week.

You got me?

Might help you earn some of the extra money you need.

College boy.

I didn't know I was in the goddamn army.

17 years in this place.

Yeah?

Well, if it's doing that to him,

he needs to think about a career change.

[Humming]

Sabrina: now, Michael may have been in college,

but his real education came when he started working in the prison.

He thought it was all about rehabilitation.

When Michael got going with his research,

he uncovered a lot of shit.

Found out that we were high-priced stock down on wall street.

Everybody was makin' money off our asses.

We was sewing ski coats for $1.50 a day

that some woman in France would be paying, like, $1,000 for next month.

[Dease talking]

[Talking continues]

[Lil' mama coughing]

Frances: lil' mama, what's wrong?

Oh! the baby.

I'm right here. The baby!

Oh, shit.

[Coughing]

No, no. Don't try to get up.

It's ok.

[Crying] no!

Lil' mama's sick.

Somebody get a doctor.

What's going on?

Guard!

We have a right to see a doctor!

Guard, emergency!

We need help!

Where's a guard? My god.

Don't let nothing happen to her.

Lil' mama, just breathe. Relax, it's gonna be ok.

Thank god. Lil' mama, you have to rest.

Frances, is she bleedin'?

No blood. Thank god.

Hey, sadiddy...

Lil' mama says you killed your old man.

I didn't mean to.

I just wanted to get him off me.

Stop all the hitting and the beating.

So, you're innocent?

I think so.

That shit is crazy.

He's beating your ass,

and you're supposed to just lay there and take it,

and not defend yourself?

Sounds like you should've been my lawyer.

No. I should've been your lawyer.

Matter of fact, I'd have been a great lawyer.

What you in here for, wet?

Something stupid.

Shot a track star in the calf.

With a .38, no less, and a dozen people watching.

Bet she won't be fucking with nobody else's man, right, wet?

Nah. she won't. But she won't be running any more races, either.

Feel bad about that.

Stupid shit, you know?

Yeah. I know.

♪ Sunshine ♪

♪ sunshine ♪

[Mumbling]

I'm tired.

[P.A. announcement]

How come you ain't telling nobody you were a nurse?

Cause didn't nobody ask me.

Thanks for helping with lil' mama last night.

That was nice of you.

You didn't have to do nothing, and you did.

You're all right with me, sadiddy.

Nikki...

What?

My name is Frances.

Call me that.

All right, Frances.

Might make you my little sister or something

up in here.

Sabrina: all we had was each other,

and sometimes a little support from the outside.

Like one visiting day, when Nikki's mama

was coming to bring the babies that she had in jail.

You know, that motherfucker dease wouldn't even let Nikki hold them

before he gave her to her mother.

And Frances was excited because she was expecting good news from her lawyer

about the appeal.

Everybody was feeling good that day.

You look so pretty.

Thanks. where you going?

Her mama is coming to bring her babies.

No. you can't hold piss.

I'm sorry.

I didn't want nobody to know until now.

You better take pictures. You look beautiful.

I'm happy for you.

P.A.: Gordon wants to see you in his office.

Hey, I did a good job.

Yeah. you did.

Oh, miss Barnes.

Well, well, well.

Miss Barnes, miss Barnes.

Don't she look pretty?

Like going to the prom or something.

Very nice.

Uh, miss Shepard, you have a visitor.

See you later, Frances.

See ya!

I will be back for you, miss Barnes.

Ok.

Ok. so, in the meantime, i got some more...

Sabrina: but like they say, shit happens.

Nikki's mama never came, and Frances' appeal

was denied.

Miss Shepard...

Your transfer was denied.

Guess you're going to be with us a little longer.

Come on, ladies, eat up!

Eat up! Come on! Eat up!

Sabrina: man, they started working us longer and longer.

Sometimes, we went to bed without dinner.

After all that, and Nikki's beating, too,

man, wet said she had enough.

She said we had to do something else,

instead of going out to work like some docile field niggers.

It was time for her to give our petitions to the warden.

Frances...

I got this petition that I'm trying to get people to sign.

Then things got even worse.

The warden laughed in wet's face,

and he threw the petitions in the garbage.

Plus, he wrote her up and added time to her sentence.

And then, that fucking trouble-making bitch Aisha,

she came back from the hospital,

and everybody was in a funk again.

How was it in the big federal hospital?

Did they sew up your hole, too?

Yeah, but your mama stretched it back out with her tongue.

On the yard, bitch! On the yard!

Inmates, inmates, you just lost chow time.

I ain't no inmate, bitch. I'm a convict.

Wet took the warden's rejection pretty bad.

So, you know us girls decided to hook her up with a little contraband.

We had a nice little party.

Ha ha ha.

You know what i want to do when I get out?

I want to get some sleep.

Ooh! word up.

I am so tired of lights out.

Chow down...

I-I'm tired of being programmed.

I want me some keys.

Open up the doors and come and go as I please.

I know what you mean, girl.

Here's to it.

Ok.

Here's to our babies.

And survival.

Survival. survival.

I heard that.

[Door opens]

[Whispering] shit. oh, shit.

It's dease.

In the bathroom, quick.

Quiet, quiet.

Go, go.

I'm going as fast as I can.

...busted by him. Hurry, hurry.

Ok. shh, shh.

What's dease doing back here?

Something he ain't got no business doing.

[Dease humming]

What is he doing behind the stove?

Like I said...

Something he ain't got no business doing.

[Bump]

Cervantes: long night, huh, meadows?

Um, yeah. I was, uh, mmm.

I was studying last night.

College boy's got a hard life.

I didn't know you cared, banks.

I don't.

What was that?

[Alarm buzzing]

Center, this is cervantes.

What the hell was that?

Man: I don't know. Something blew up in the kitchen.

Ok. Roger that. Come on.

Dease's friend got the contract to rebuild the kitchen.

But he blamed the inmates, as usual.

He tried to say somebody was negligent,

and he wanted to find out who it was to make them pay,

like, he wasn't the one fucking up all the time.

And Nelson--Nelson shut the whole prison down.

No visits, no phone calls, no nothing after that.

Shut down.

Hey! hey, my man.

Good to see you. All right.

Hey, listen, I'm playing golf

with the walcorp people on Saturday,

and we would include you, but, uh,

we've already got a foursome.

Maybe next time, ok?

Well, thanks for thinking about me.

No problem.

You know, I'm not that big on golf, anyway.

Yeah, but you do play some games, now, don't you, dease?

Sir?

I'm talking about that little explosion

in the kitchen. Uh, any truth to that?

No, sir.

I mean, who said that?

It doesn't matter who said it.

The problem is it got back to me.

Guess what?

I'm hip to that scam about your boys

rebuilding the damage in the kitchen.

Now, listen...

Your job is to take care of everything on the plan,

but when people come to my office

and tell me about a whole bunch of stuff

that I don't give a damn about,

then that means you're not doing your job.

I'm doing my job.

You're not doing your job!

Shante Wright came to me circulating a petition

that you didn't even know about.

Those petitions are bullshit.

What's that, dease?

Are the inmates in control now?

No, sir.

Let me get something straight, my man.

I run this fucking prison, not you!

Yes, sir.

I want all your sideline operations to stop!

If I get wind that you're still doing your dirty business,

I'm going to put you right back where I found you.

In the Florida swamps, walking a guard tower.

With the mosquitoes buzzing all around your ass.

Comprende?

Yes, sir.

"The beauty of life is knowing you are loved.

"As time passes, knowledge and understanding of who you are

causes seeds of doubt to disappear."

Pss, pss, pss.

Shut up. Move out of the way.

[Whispering] shake down.

Shake down. Shake down.

What you rootin' for? What you doing?

Aha! this is what i was looking for.

Take your hands off my shit!

Where you going?

Aah!

You're going to pay for that, bitch.

[Women yelling]

What did you do to her?

See how much writing you do

up in the hole for a couple of days.

Fuck you!

[All yelling]

Take her to the hole now!

Fuck you! Go! Now!

[All yelling]

Hold it down, wet.

God's going to keep you.

Be strong. Please don't let it hurt.

Please... back in your cells.

Please don't let her get hurt.

Please don't let her get hurt.

[Sobs] god, please help her.

Dease: hartman, i don't give a goddamn about that.

Just get it done.

Jesus Christ!

Son of a bitch.

Well, well, well.

You must be my new girl.

Yes, sir. I'm replacing Sabrina.

Oh. and what's your name, young lady?

Rose.

Rose?

Well, that's a very pretty name.

Thanks.

You know, my grandmama's name was Rose.

I sure do like the way you clean, Rose.

Now, you missed a spot right up there, Rose.

A piece of cobweb is hanging down right there.

You see that?

I like everything in here to be real spotless.

Why don't you take that chair,

and get that piece of cobweb up there, Rose?

Yeah. I sure do like the way you clean, Rose.

Yeah. you and I going to work out just fine.

Can I go now, sir?

I'm not stopping you.

Sabrina: when lil' mama told us what dease tried to do,

and wet came back from the hole

with that nasty scar on her face,

aw, man, we didn't care what was going to happen to us.

We just knew we had to fight back.

All we needed was an opportunity.

Mike told us walcorp was coming.

So we started getting our shit tight.

This ought to motivate you.

Mm-mmm.

Mm-mmm.

♪ Put your money ♪

♪ money where the funk is ♪

Here, come on, y'all.

♪ Put your money ♪

♪ money where the funk is ♪

Sabrina: in a few days, they got the petition signed,

and people organized it right under dease's nose, man.

♪ Talkin' 'bout the things you do ♪

♪ see the tiny crystal cloud ♪

♪ girl, all you're doing is talking loud ♪

So, what'd they say?

Walcorp changed the date on us.

To when?

Next Thursday.

Sabrina: everything was going fine

until lil' mama came to work one day,

and found out that Walker had changed the date.

They flipped the script on us, so we had to flip it back on them.

♪ Money where the funk is ♪

♪ yeah ♪

♪ put your money ♪

♪ money where the funk is ♪

Well, we used kites to pass the word.

But we couldn't make no fuck ups,

because we would've blew it before we even got started.

♪ Money ♪

♪ put your money ♪

♪ money where the funk is ♪

[Buzzer]

Lil' mama: I've been praying on this all night.

It's going to be all right.

Did you talk to dease?

Yeah. I ain't got nothing to do with it.

Don't depend on me. Don't ask me shit.

Hey, look.

You read the demands, I'll hand it to him.

Why? you the leader.

As soon as I stand, they're going to suspect some shit's about to go down.

Then I'll do it.

Ok. I'll stand right behind you, ok?

♪ Money ♪

[Ringing]

Captain dease. Miller.

Glad to meet you. Been waiting for you.

Glad to meet you guys. Nelson: Miller!

Nelson! you made it.

My man, what's going on?

All right. Everything's going fine.

That hole-in-one on the 17th,

doggone impressive on Saturday.

Dease, you should've been there!

Sorry. i couldn't make it.

In all seriousness, our inmates love the work they do.

They leave here with valuable skills,

and you have a product

you can market around the world.

Labor pool here's more cost effective.

I'll let you in on a little secret.

The workers can't quit here.

[Laughter]

It's just that Mr. dease and i are looking forward

to working with you more closely.

Really are. Really are.

Mr. dease is quite the bulldog, isn't he?

Well, every shop needs one.

Now, you're going to be very impressed

with what we set up here.

We've got management work. Double...

Miller: well, I'm very impressed.

Last 3 quarters have been outstanding.

I wish we had this kind of spirit at all our facilities.

Nelson: aw, yes, and the next 2 quarters are going to be even better.

But let me show you around.

These women are making the linings on ski jackets.

Very well trained, and we see to that.

We work with the team system.

And that group over there attaches the linings

to the shell of the jacket, and then the zippers are sewed in.

Definitely, and we also have a--what the...

This is a peaceful work stoppage.

We stand in solidarity... Shut up. Sit down!

With all reform movements.

Demanding fair treatment for inmates...

Dease, what the hell is going on?

Better work conditions.

Better heat. Shepard, sit down!

An end to the vicious beatings.

And the sexual abuse we face every day.

Get back to work! Get back to work!

Take our petitions, and let everybody know what goes on

behind these walls.

Uh...

Dease, what's going on?

All these women stand behind these demands.

We have a little problem with these 2 women.

Uh, as you can see, nobody else is standing.

I stand behind her, too.

Nelson: Sabrina!

I hope you bitches know what you're doing.

I stand behind her. Get back to work!

I stand behind her.

Women: I stand behind her.

I stand. I stand.

I stand. I stand.

I stand behind her.

Yeah. right.

Nelson: your black asses are going to pay for this.

Get back to work, I say! God damn it!

Please...take this.

Look, go back to work, all right?

[Yelling]

Fuck you!

You crazy bitch!

[Yelling]

What you doing?

It's our right!

Take her to the hole, you fucking bitch.

Get back to work! Get back to work!

Get back to work!

[Moaning]

3...4 days.

Oh.

Well, you better get used to it,

because we're going to be in here for a while.

One...

2...

31...

3...

4...

8...

9...

35. come on!

Come on, Nikki, you can do this!

Come on!

[Screams]

We've been in here 5 fuckin' days!

Ain't nobody been in here for 6 days!

[Yells]

Fucking shit, man.

Fucking shit!

Come on, Nikki, you can do this!

Stay focused! Come on, let's do it!

What makes you so sure we going to make it?

Because I got a little girl!

And she's waiting on me to come home.

What's her name?

Maxine.

Girl's voice: Hi, mom.

Oh, Maxine.

Mom!

Oh! Maxine. Baby, where are you at?

Oh, my god. No!

Ooh.

Frances?

Oh.

Frances!

Oh. her name is Maxine.

[Child's laughter]

Her name is Maxine.

Her name is Maxine.

My baby's name is Maxine.

So, uh, what you in for?

Armed robbery.

For the reason women are always doing some old dumb shit.

For a nigger.

Mmm.

But what a nigger he was.

Ha ha ha ha!

His name was smalls.

He swore he was a barber.

He wasn't nothing but a 7-gram nigger.

Then he gets this idea

to Rob this old bullshit dealer.

Now, I know he was too stupid

to pull it off without me.

We were going to be Bonnie and Clyde.

Get some of that ice, some of that flash

that we see up in the videos.

Only smalls wasn't no Clyde.

Fool went and got his self killed,

and I ended up back in here...

Again.

I had to make it on my own.

I never wanted to hurt nobody.

I've always tried to follow the rules.

I never followed no rules.

We end up in the same place.

Ain't that some shit?

Then I met Craig.

I loved him so much.

Wonder what they doing back home.

I ain't never been high.

How does it feel?

Hope that motherfucker dease gets what he has coming to him.

I'm gonna be there to see it.

[Keys jingling]

Oh, don't run from me, Nikki.

It's time to get high.

Got something for you.

You think about it, Nikki.

You going to be in here a long, long time.

And this is going to help the time pass faster.

Come on. Take a little trip.

Frances: what's going on in there?

I'm going to leave this right here for you.

Come on, Nikki.

Take a little hit.

Nikki...

You'll get bent.

You know you not that strong.

No, Nikki, listen to me!

Listen to me. Stay focused.

Repeat after me.

5 times 2. 5 times 2.

Say it, it's 10.

5 times 3 is 15.

Come on. Repeat after me. Stay focused.

5 times 4...

♪ Angel dust angel dust ♪

Is 20.

[Mumbling]

I can't hear you!

5 times 7...

Is 35. Yeah.

[Breathing heavy]

5 times 8...

Yeah...

Is 40.

Yes.

[Groans]

You're stronger than that.

Yes! yes!

[Keys jingling]

All right, Barnes, it's time.

Don't just sit there.

Come on.

Come on, Shepard.

[Grunts]

Come on, get up.

Stand your ass over there.

Nikki and Frances didn't think the strike meant anything,

but they were wrong.

It meant something to me.

Before that day, i had never stood up for nothing in my life.

But I stood up that day, and I been standing up ever since.

Captain's got a little surprise for you.

You're going to be peeling this wall.

By myself?

That's what I said.

Ha ha ha.

What's a blind man say when he passes a disco?

Good morning, ladies.

Ha ha ha ha.

This one.

Banks just told me he told you to peel this wall.

No, no. He said to peel--

I did not.

Are you telling me you don't know

what areas are authorized?

No. I'm not saying that.

Then, what're you saying?

What exactly are you saying, Nikki?

He said to peel this wall.

And I said to peel this wall.

Did you say peel this wall, banks?

No. you're lying. He said to peel this wall.

No. banks said to peel this wall.

Banks said peel this wall!

I fucking heard what banks said!

Take her back to the hole.

Take her back to the hole!

Please, please, no.

Take her black ass to the hole!

No, no, no. Please.

Take her to the hole.

I'll do anything you say. Don't, please!

Please. whatever you say, captain.

Just--no, no, no.

Tell me you going to be a good bitch.

I'll be good.

I PR--i promise.

Tell me...

You going to be a good bitch.

Tell me you going to be a good bitch.

Say it!

Say it! I'm going to be a good bitch, captain dease.

Say it!

I'll be a good bitch, captain dease.

Leave her ass.

I ain't through with you.

Dease: bitch.

Thank you, rico.

Shepard, you got 15.

Hey.

You don't look so good, sis.

It's called a prison tan. There ain't no beaches.

Where's the baby?

I tried to come see you, but--

but they said everybody was on lockdown.

And I was in solitaire.

Oh, come on. Hey, hey.

Stop crying.

Don't cry. Come on, it's been rough,

but I'm out now.

I'm here.

Is the baby in the car?

Don't tell me they wouldn't let you bring her in.

No.

I swear I told Walter.

I told Walter to stay away from those gangs.

Kim, where's the baby? There was a fight.

You're talking in circles.

Walter didn't tell me nothing.

The bullet-- what bullet?

It got Maxine!

She died 2 weeks ago!

No! no! No! I tried to --

[screaming]

No! don't tell me! You liar!

No! no!

No!

No!

You liar! Don't touch me!

♪ Strange things happen everyday ♪

♪ ahh, strange things happen everyday, y'all ♪

♪ rode into town on a horse named Jimmy ♪

What'd you hear?

They got her on suicide watch.

Motherfuckers.

You speak to your old man?

Yeah. the lawyer said

all we need to do is get hard proof.

And we're gonna find a way to get it, too.

♪ Skinny b locked in a gibber jail home ♪

♪ d-train left the other gasoline train ♪

♪ ahh ha ♪

♪ 3 girls begging for a date with iron Mike ♪

♪ iron Mike, yeah ♪

♪ 3 girls begging for a date with iron Mike ♪

♪ lord, hmm ♪

♪ Alabama cornbread dipped in Georgia buttermilk ♪

♪ bought my woman a hat made from tapeworm silk ♪

♪ tapeworm ♪ ♪ ahh ha ♪

♪ tapeworm silk ♪

♪ frame my soul with fire and fired red Clay ♪

♪ frame my soul ♪

♪ strange things happen everyday ♪

You know, Frances,

despite what you might think, I am really sorry

about what happened to your daughter.

[Whispering] come on.

Girls: ♪ cinderella dressed in yella ♪

♪ went upstairs to kiss a fella ♪

♪ made a mistake and kissed a snake ♪

♪ how many doctors did it take? ♪

[Clears throat]

What this bitch want?

[Murmuring] i don't know.

It's cool, Nik.

So, how you all gonna get him?

What are you talking about, Aisha?

Nikki, you know what I'm talking about.

Dease.

I know you all over here planning something.

Aisha: huh?

We thought dease was your lover-man.

Oh, my god. Damn! What happened?

Something that ain't never gonna happen again.

I want that motherfucker so bad

I can taste that shit.

Even if we was thinking about doing something,

which we wasn't,

what makes you think we will trust your rat hole ass?

That's a fair question.

I swear on the life of my little shorty,

if I don't get revenge on that black motherfucker,

you all could--

you all could do me.

And we will do you, Aisha.

I know you all are not through with dease.

All you all got a plan or something.

But I want revenge on that black motherfucker.

I don't know. Maybe we could do a little business.

Yeah, we'll call you on that. We'll call you.

He fucked her up.

They finally came up with a plan.

But they needed somebody's help from the inside.

So they asked Michael.

Excuse me. Could I talk to you for a minute?

Dease's days were numbered

Sabrina: because they went to work on his ass.

[Clears throat]

Captain?

Come here.

What are you doing here?

I thought you were mad at me.

[Whispering] no.

I missed you, lover.

Rose.

That's enough cleaning for today.

You can go.

I'll be right back.

Don't you go anywhere.

You look good.

So, you're not mad at me, huh?

[Knocking] um, captain, sir, I forgot my Bible.

Well, just get it and go, Rose.

You look good today.

Hurry up, Rose!

Jesus. thank you, sir.

Come here.

Show me you missed me. Stop, sir.

What are you talking about?

Stop, sir. Don't tell me stop.

Don't play with me. What did I do?

I didn't do anything!

Changing up on me, girl? I didn't do anything.

What'd I do?

I didn't do anything. Shut up. Shut up.

Why you doing this?

Uhh. shit.

Ohh.

Oh, god.

Oh, god.

Ohh, shit.

May I have a towel?

Sir?

Course, baby.

Ohh, shit.

[Whispering] bastard.

Get the fuck up out of here.

Plan was...

Lil' mama was gonna get the tape to Michael,

Michael was gonna get the tape to wet's boyfriend,

wet's boyfriend was gonna get the tape to somebody

who had a hook-up with the governor,

so we was trying to be straight.

Lil' mama came back to work

to get the tape with her Bible case empty.

But the damn door was locked, and dease took off early.

Now, she gotta come back tomorrow and try this shit again.

Damn broom. Dirty-ass prison.

Dease: ain't you done enough cleaning for today, Rose?

You a hard-working lady.

You been cleaning all morning.

You ought to be tired by now.

Well, I know how you like it, sir.

That's a real sweet thing to say, Rose.

Real sweet.

You know, I been noticing how pretty you are, Rose.

Where the fuck is dease?

I love your hair.

Thank you. [Rings]

Yeah? this is dease. Cervantes: Captain dease,

we're waiting for you to start the meeting.

Cervantes, can't you handle the meeting?

Yeah, but we can't vote until you--

I can't be there right now. Rose!

This nigger wants to be the last one up in here.

Where the fuck is he at? [Clears throat]

You're not trying to leave me, are you, Rose?

Stop it, sir. Please.

Come on, Rose. I know you like the way it feels.

No, I don't! It's a sin!

I know what you did to your father, Rose.

He wasn't my father.

Stepfather.

Lover.

Father of your unborn child.

It don't make no fucking difference.

You're no fucking virgin, Rose.

Are you? Are you? Are you, Rose? Stop it!

You ain't no fucking virgin, are you? Stop it!

You don't give your shit to me, I'm gonna take it, Rose.

No! I'm gonna take it, Rose!

Shut the fuck up.

Bring your ass in here.

Please don't do this.

[Shouting]

[Whistles blowing]

The lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear?

The lord is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid...

Damn. where are you, lil' mama?

[Coughing]

What happened?

He never showed up.

Damn, I gotta go look for her.

Dease was supposed to be at that meeting.

Something's up.

What happened to you?

[Crying] I'm afraid I'm gonna lose the baby.

Oh, shit. Help me get her up. Help me get her up.

Oh, my god, she's bleeding.

Oh, my god!

Get her to the infirmary now!

All right, back it up. Swing it around.

What's wrong with her?

She's having a miscarriage.

No! the baby?

I can't do anything for the child.

I gotta try to save her if I can.

Lil' mama, hold on.

It's ok. No!

Yes, it's ok. What happened?

We're here for you. Hold on.

I was raped.

By the captain.

I was raped! You were raped?

Oh, my god.

Hold her down!

I need to do something.

Take her pulse.

What can I do? I'm a nurse.

She's having cardiac arrest.

We've got to defibrillate her.

Hold on, lil' mama.

Hold on. Lil' mama, hold on!

Let her go. Let her go.

Let her go, Nikki!

Let her go!

Clear!

Again. hold on.

Breathe. breathe, baby.

Breathe, baby.

Turn the machine off. What?!

She's gone. No!

No, mama!

I think you girls should go now!

Get them out of here!

She's dead!

This is not helping us!

Oh, fuck!

Guard, get them out of here!

I'm gonna call captain dease.

Back up off the phone! Let go of me!

God damn it! Stop it!

[Telephone rings]

[Shouting]

[Alarm sounding]

I gotta cuff you, come on.

We ain't going no-fucking-where!

We ain't going no-fucking-where!

Dease, on radio: Cervantes, listen carefully.

Isolate the infirmary from the cellblock.

Copy that. Come on, guys.

Frances, what are you all doing?

What we gotta do.

[Footsteps]

Your black ass is going back to the hole.

If you knew what I knew,

you'd lay down and die right now.

You first, motherfucker!

[Gunshots]

Guard: down here.

[Yelling]

Guard: hey, doc! Are you ok?

Whoever you are, stop right there.

We got hostages.

You come around that corner,

we shoot the hostages.

P.A.: emergency lockdown!

Are they contained in the infirmary?

Cervantes: yes, sir.

They're armed.

I couldn't even get my men up the main stairway.

Isn't there another way in?

Up the fire escape and through the main courtyard.

But they'll see us coming.

Look, sir--

we can go in hard and fast,

but I really think we need to let the governor know.

Nobody's gonna call the governor!

We'll handle this ourselves.

We can handle this in-house.

Deal with the fallout afterwards.

I don't think that's such a good idea--

shut up!

All right.

All right, they only have in-house phones, right?

Yes, sir.

All right, we'll wait for their call.

I want your men ready, locked, and cocked, ok?

[Dease screaming]

They got dease tied up real good.

Damn motherfucker!

But they let Michael go,

'cause, you know, they ain't had no beef with him.

Guess he was just a good guy caught up in a bad situation.

Sabrina: who ever heard of women taking over a prison?

What we gonna do?

We gotta make our demands.

We gotta do what real revolutionaries do to get attention.

Dease: you fucking bitches.

Do what I'd do.

Give yourselves up--

and let me go--

before you get your fucking heads blown off.

If you call us bitches again-- Nikki!

You're the one gonna get his fucking head

blown off! Nikki!

No! fuck me! Nikki!

I got a bitch for you, motherfucker!

Stop! we gotta think!

You bitches can't think. You're already 3 brains too short,

you motherfuckers.

Look! they gotta know that dease

killed lil' mama and doc!

They ain't gonna believe that shit!

You know what? Don't tell Nelson nothing.

Go over his head and talk to the governor.

Nikki,

you are on to some shit.

Know what? I know exactly what you should say, sister Frances.

[Telephone rings]

Warden Nelson.

This is Frances Shepard.

From the women's reform committee.

Cut the bullshit, Shepard.

Why don't you give yourself up?

What do you think this is, some kind of political action?

Everything is political.

You got one hour to get the governor on the line.

I have no power to do that.

Let me speak to captain dease.

One hour.

Damn it!

You look stressed, my nigger.

Yeah. you got a light?

Damn. you gonna help? I'm gonna help.

All right, then, I got a motherfucking light.

[Rings]

Is this the governor?

I gotta know if the hostages are all right.

Put somebody on the phone. Anybody!

Well, you just gotta take my word for it.

You gotta be out of your damn mind.

Why should i believe you?

'Cause we got guns, and we got hostages!

And she who got the gun, makes the motherfucking rules!

Fucking around with dease.

Waking up-- fuck dease.

Don't be so quick to say that. The motherfucker--

man, fuck dease.

Let me speak to captain dease.

No deal unless I speak to captain dease,

and that's final, so put him on the phone!

Go get his ass.

Bring that motherfucker here!

Showtime, bitch. [Dease groaning]

Bring that motherfucker here!

Nikki: who's the bitch now, motherfucker?

Tell him. You heard her.

Tell him. Tell him now!

I killed lil' mama.

And I killed the doctor.

Call your men off. Call 'em off.

That's enough. You got one hour.

Dease: fuck you, you fucking bitch!

Fuck you! Shoot the motherfucker!

[Gunshot] [dease screams]

Shoot him!

Shoot him!

[Screams]

That's for lil' mama!

That's for Frances!

That's for my baby!

And your babies, motherfucker!

[Dease screaming] [Gunshot]

[Groaning]

Cervantes, on bullhorn: Come around the corner with your hands up!

Come around the corner with your hands up!

W-w-wait. where you going?

[Gunshots]

You motherfucker.

[Gunshot]

Guard: I got movement over here at the door!

[Screams]

No!

Move away! Pull back now!

Oh, god. Oh, god.

You're ok, baby. You gonna be ok.

You ok, baby.

We're right here with you.

Am I gonna die, sister Frances?

I don't want to die.

Oh, god. Oh, god.

God, don't let me die for nothing.

[Coughing]

Hold on. We right here, girl.

No. no. Please, no!

Both: no! No!

We got that motherfucker good.

We got him good.

Now he know what it feels like to have something taken from him.

His motherfucking life.

I don't know.

The way I see it,

we got 2 choices.

We could either wait here,

have them come in here and get us,

or take our chances.

Go out there

and see what they got coming for us.

Guard, on radio: In position on the roof. Clear shot at the door.

No. we got one more option.

We could end it all ourselves. Shit.

What's going on up there?

Cervantes? cervantes?

I ain't putting no fucking gun to my head.

Fuck that.

Cervantes, on radio: Warden, this is cervantes.

I'd like to try to talk them out one last time.

Nikki?

Nikki?

Isn't that cervantes?

Mm-hmm.

Just like a man to get a woman to do his dirty work.

Don't you get tired of ass-kissing, cervantes?

You have your kids to think about.

I can help you make a deal with the warden.

Nikki, maybe she's right.

My kids don't even know me.

I've been gone so long.

Shut the fuck up, cervantes!

Stop trying to play us! It's too fucking late for that!

It's gonna be bad.

Cervantes? cervantes, take it now!

Sadiddy.

You do the talking, right?

Yeah, 'cause if they hear your mouth,

they gonna know something's up.

Goddamn right they gonna know something's up.

Let's do it.

Cervantes! end it now!

Do I have to spell it out for you?

End it now!

End it now!

Come on, come on, come on.

Got it.

[Reggae music playing]

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ yeah, mon ♪

♪ serious business here ♪

Now, surprisingly, the one that got the tape out

was Aisha's ass, and because of that shit,

we won the lawsuit.

♪ Listen, yeah ♪

♪ it's revolution ♪

Ho ho. Nelson got what was coming to his ass.

But our inmates love the work they do.

They leave here with valuable skills,

and you have a product you can market around the world.

Sabrina: by the time the governor went through walcorp,

they were totally bankrupt.

And I mean they found so much shit on Nelson

that they shut the whole prison down.

And his ass is under indictment.

Dease, you should have been there.

Sorry I missed it.

My girl Aisha--

she got killed in a fight not long after the takeover.

I guess she never shook that prison mentality, you know.

Damn.

That's why we dedicating our victory

to the memory of my girls.

Wet.

Lil' mama.

Frances.

And Nikki.

We did the crime,

and we had to do the time,

but ain't nobody say nothing about abuse and exploitation

being part of the sentence.

I'm going back to Chicago to finish writing my book

and do everything I can to stay out of jail.

Ain't nothing good happening up in there.

And now that you know what I know,

pass the word along. Please.

We got work to do,

and we can't do it up in no jail.

Oh, yeah. Don't forget me.

I'm Sabrina, and that's my motherfucking life.

♪ Diggity bop bop bop diggity bop bop bop ♪

♪ bobba dop blip blip ♪

♪ you can't do ♪

♪ no, you just can't do... ♪

[New song begins]

♪ In jail you subjected to be neglected ♪

♪ subjected to right in order to speak to your family ♪

♪ on the other side ♪

♪ locked up here, and your baby die ♪

♪ no soul, so we hear your cries ♪

♪ forever dwell in this cell, they jabs and the truth ♪

♪ and they still able to keep slavery alive and well ♪

♪ everything that used to happen still happen, can't you tell? ♪

♪ Heaven from hell, whom did I fail? ♪

♪ God didn't make no jails, he created life ♪

♪ what part of the game is this? ♪

♪ The system's set up to have our dead ancestors ♪

♪ flip out their graves, turn invisible ♪

♪ our babies having their soul and their way ♪

♪ the pain never goes away ♪

♪ but it's happening now, we're back in the day ♪

♪ the shackles still remain ♪

♪ and money's the root of all evil ♪

♪ with dope, you can bleed, too ♪

♪ got moolah, people need you, depress and feed you ♪

♪ seem like with cash, everybody want to be you ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out, you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ first time I was losing my mind ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out, you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ second time every inch wasn't mine ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out, you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ third time confined to doing hard time ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out, you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ you're back to busting rocks with a mallet ♪

♪ with 'em up at the joint ♪

♪ 'cause they failed to realize I'm not on point ♪

♪ I just might flip, fade away to... ♪

[New song begins]

♪ The judge said 7 years time to pay for the crime ♪

♪ did dirt on the street, had to take the heat ♪

♪ but this incarceration ♪

♪ is exploitation ♪

♪ brutality is the sentence ♪

♪ working under the whip ♪

♪ raped on a whim ♪

♪ no reason for open season on women behind bars ♪

♪ critical resistance ♪

♪ petitions for respect denied ♪

♪ forced a violent decision ♪

♪ who ever heard of women taking over a prison? ♪

♪ Critical resistance, no justice, no peace ♪

♪ no human rights, 3 strikes on your damn life ♪

♪ no surrender for the so-called weaker gender ♪

♪ who ever heard of women taking over a prison? ♪

♪ Forced to be free by any means necessary ♪

♪ uhuru ♪

♪ sassa ♪

♪ uhuru ♪

♪ we do or die, many nights we cry ♪

♪ and this night we try to prevail the truth and the lie ♪

♪ revolution that involves fire ♪

♪ better call someone higher, turn the tables on you liars ♪

♪ will you live or be expired? ♪

♪ Fell the bullets taking your entire state of being ♪

♪ no more choices with me seeing demons ♪

♪ back up against the wall like we dreaming, see your scheming ♪

♪ there's gonna be some screaming and the choir singing ♪

♪ body bags and toe tags means we're leaving ♪

♪ at least we got that bastard that was deceiving ♪

♪ and receiving loot from our labor and abuse ♪

♪ 25 when the winds check the news ♪

♪ check the news ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out, you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ first time I was losing my mind ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out, you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ second time every inch wasn't mine ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out, you're in... ♪

♪ Your love, your love, your love, your love ♪

♪ your love, your love, your love, your love ♪

♪ your love, your love, your love, your love ♪

♪ your love, your love, your love, your love ♪

♪ black woman ♪ ♪ black woman ♪

♪ natural ♪ ♪ natural ♪

♪ love your mind ♪ ♪ your mind ♪