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- Yeah, I would say he's a do boy.

He pretty much do everything I ask him.

So I say, "hey chad, I need this crossword puzzle book."

he get it boom.

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- chad was definitely being taken advantage of.

- This is jail,

he a grown man, he can make his own decisions.

I don't feel like there's no boundaries.

That's shouldn't be a (gasp) in nothing I do.

- We didn't know about it?

We didn't ask him to do it?

- I gave him the handcuff key.

- [officer] clyde.

- Was it all a bad thing to offend him the first time

I wanted to see if it fixed some of it.

- After sitting in there about an hour,

worrying, not being able to do anything,

they took me on the long walk up to the pod.

- [vanessa] this is a rowdy bunch.

- Let's hurry this (beep) up.

- 110% the inmates run this place.

At the top of the stairs is boonie.

- Stop spraying her.

- I know, why you spraying her?

- This is gonna go bad

and this is gonna go bad fast.

- I'm feeling great about the mission,

I feel that I am going to be able to be successful

but pretty much since I laid on that bed Friday

my back's killing me.

I have a serious problem.

(intense music)

- my body's not used to this (beep).

(intense music)

- what's your name?

- Okay.

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- mark seemed to be nervous.

I don't know what's going on.

- I see mark coming out of the pod

and I don't know what it is but it's not good.

I'm concerned about this dude.

- [officer] here you go.

- I hope he don't end up quitting.

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- already chaos is it just now up about 15 levels.

- [inmate] water makes it worse!.

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- everybody get by your doors.

Everybody let's go.

- This isn't gonna end,

I don't know how this is gonna end.

- [officer] you wanna get it off it.

- It did take an awful long time for back up to there

and help that co.

- Boonie could have done severe damage to her

if he got a hold of her.

- [officer] y'all aint gonna come back out

if y'all don't get by your doors.

- [officer] down on the ground, lay on your stomach,

put your hand behind your back.

- Get by your door, get by your door.

- [inmater] we didn't get our trays.

- I know what the (beep) is this.

- [officer] talk to me in a minute.

- That's right!

- She didn't deserve to be sprayed.

The co probably could have called a supervisor

and they could have handled it without causing a commotion.

(boonie yells)

and I can tell she was overwhelmed

by just the unit because

this is a rowdy bunch and I think, (scoffs)

the only training that a lot of these women have

are just yelling to the top of their lungs,

that's about it.

- We're gonna get up and out of the block.

- You know, it's just very eye opening to see

how south situations can go so quickly

because of the lack of control.

- Come on, I'm already (mumbles) gotta go.

- It's shocking how unsafe it is,

how out of control it is, it's scary.

- I'm glad sheriff horton's wanting to make the changes

because changes need to be done.

Absolutely, there's no doubt the changes need to be done.

- Why you spray me?

You gonna learn,

bitch you gonna learn today.

- It was a major failure

and I'm pretty sure it's gonna happen again.

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- brrra, brrra brra!

(intense music)

- well the sheriff did make make a lot of changes,

he's on the right track, 100%.

With that being said,

I'ma gonna keep collecting shanks,

I'ma keep testing the cos every step of the way.

So now I'm trying to get my hands on some drugs.

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- so o'shea came to my cell,

the first phase I bought a shank from him.

(suspense music)

so I'm like, okay, here's another opportunity.

(chuckles)

- maybe.

I said, "I give you a soup,"

he was like, "a soup for five pills?"

- all right, man a honey bun dawg.

It's too easy, I'm having fun to be honest.

I give him the hundred bucks, he give me the pills.

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- [tony] it's just crazy that I could

just easily get some pills like that.

And I wanna show the sheriff on this second phase

how easy it is to get clone too.

- Honestly, I don't need a plan,

they'll bring me the clone.

(laughs)

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- [producer] settled? - Yup.

- So I guess when I came in I was prepared for everything.

Dealing with the people, my story,

one of the few things I thought

I'd be okay with was my health.

And pretty much since I laid on that bed Friday my neck,

my head's been spinning, my back's killing me,

literally feel like I was just in my car accident all over.

I see freaking like, light dots when I'm looking.

Sit in our cell for 18 hours a day

and my body's just not handling it.

It really sucks.

- [producer] if you're having

to sit in your cell 18 hours a day that is a lot

but that sounds psychological.

- Today right now, I think very, very little.

I haven't felt this head pain like this,

I've never felt this.

Even when I had the concussion, it sucked

but it wasn't as severe as it is now.

- My head's like a 15.

- Yeah, I don't want to say that here.

- That's how bad my head's hurting right now.

My head is spinning, I'm not used to this.

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- my head is spinning, I'm not used to this.

(intense music)

- (sighs) yes.

I gotta go.

- 100%.

- Awful, I feel like a piece of (beep).

- Yeah, if I didn't have this injuries, yes I would stay.

- I knew I could do it and I know I could,

I just physically can't.

That might sound like the excuse I'm sure people think it is

but then the last thing I thought

would get in my way again in my life was my health.

- I'll let you know.

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I made a trade with o'shea for five pills

and now I wanna show the sheriff again on this second phase

how easy it is to get clone now.

- Honestly, I don't need a plan people come to me

they know I got the store, they know I got the money.

I don't even need to put it out there

and advertise like I'm looking for it,

they'll bring me the clone.

(door knock)

- [inmate] hey bruh, what's good?

Yeah,yeah.

- Yup.

(laughter)

the drugs are rampant in there.

So I figured I'll buy as much as I can ultimately,

I know that if I bought all the drugs by

the time everybody else run out of drugs

I know I'ma have them all.

I had one guy say, "you don't even smoke drugs."

I said, "no, I don't smoke drugs but I'm a hustler."

that's what I do, I'm a hustler, I make things happen.

I can't even (beep) with these.

- Let me see it.

I got two right there.

- I ain't giving y'all my soup.

Got two, three, four, five.

- It was a nice amount.

I gave four or five items for the clone.

- [inmate] fronting on you like the crisps.

- You official.

You official.

At this point I got prescription pills, I got clone,

also known as k2.

- At this point no, because people

they offer stuff like that to me.

- So it's like I can report back to the sheriff

and let him know it's way better than it was however,

it still a lot of work that needs to be done in here.

(intense music)

- let's go.

- (laughs)

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(inmate screaming)

there no reason for women

to just be out when you got men inside the unit.

(laughter)

- the women should be locked down

due to safety and security,

any sexual favors that could happen.

- Women could be raped.

Nobody would even know what's going on

because the cos are so occupied

with roaming around the unit.

- I don't wanna fight you.

- We can do it now.

- Let's go.

The inmates,

they're loud up until about two three in the morning.

I could tell there was probably gonna be a fight.

(whistle) - now.

- The inmates have no consequences for their action,

so their first response

for many of them is a violent and aggressive response.

- I came on leon.

- They don't hide it, it's not a shock.

They were yelling, screaming constantly all day long,

who they're mad at and who they're gonna fight.

And if I'm hearing it, I know the cos are hearing it.

(inmates yelling)

- yeah.

- The cos kinda confused,

you didn't really do anything for this situation.

She was just so confused.

- They gave every indication that they were going to fight

and that is what they did.

- [heather] it got pretty, pretty intense.

- This place is ran by the inmates,

you can't put it any other way.

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- [inmate] beat her ass!

- [inmate] beat her ass!

- There's no control over the unit.

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- sod dropped the ball on that fight.

They could have prevented the fight,

they could have prevented the whole situation.

- Watching this happen,

I immediately click into

the seal role myself into a jail commander.

I'm ashamed, I'm embarrassed.

- These are two females full blown fighting

for the better of five minutes

while correctional professionals stood by

and could not take control of the situation at all.

- [officer] well I suppose you shouldn't have been fighting.

- This is the second major fight

that I've seen since I've been here

and both times the first reaction was quick

to the pepper spray

but neither time did it have any effect.

Just sitting there

and watching that happen was very difficult

but it motivated me even more

because it just showed how much helps sheriff horton needs

to get this place under control.

- [inmate] no!

- You don't rush nobody.

- In being a special ops participant

and with eight years experience in corrections,

I didn't think any facility

could have as many problems as this place.

I've never,

this is unreal.

- I did not like how they responded to the code,

it was pretty slow.

It's just so outta control in here.

- People could actually be dying behind these doors.

- All right, all right.

- There's so much going on here that's just not safe.

- I'm just trying to make it.

I didn't expect it will be this bad

but it's way worse than I ever could imagine

anything could be.

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- [officer] I'm coming over here so your roommate

can use this right here.

- [officer] guess where you going?

You going on a grand prize to go home.

(intense music)

let's go.

Get your stuff and climb on out of bed.

- Here you go.

- Thank you.

- [inmate] go home bruh, go home.

- I would say to tony

and everybody that is gonna prejudge me,

you don't know what I went through physically.

- I don't think mark could handle stress

of being inside a jail facility.

- As the team leader I could have done a little better

as far as coaching them and help him along

but he ain't built for this, he aint built for this.

- At the end of the night god's the one that judges me.

- For mark to drop out, it is very disappointing.

I think mark was just scared

and he was using his back pain as an excuse to leave.

- (sighs)

- actually worse.

- It hurts.

Oh, yeah it hurts.

- No, no, no, not yet.

My body is done,

and there's just nothing I can do about it.

- I was shocked that he left as early as he did.

We didn't expect any of the special ops participants

to drop out.

So it's very scary because

we do not wanna have a repeat of phase one.

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(indistinct chatter)

- I'm feeling kinda down because I feel like,

okay mark, done lost mark.

I'm thinking we just lost one,

we aint about to lose nobody else.

So now I'm thinking I need to reach out to the girl,

I need to reach out to them and see how they're holding up.

(intense music)

that's when I started actually seeing guys

passing letters back and forth,

back and forth through a little crack in the door.

- There might as well not be a door there

because there's letters

that get sent through that door, constantly.

- We're next door to unit four

and there's a door that as the direct link

between the two units.

- [inmate] here's my card.

- I have a girlfriend on the other side.

- The girls talk to the men, past their love letters.

- They call me the mailman.

I collect the letters from people

that got boyfriends over here

and I'll pass them through the door for them.

- It's just kind of a game,

you get it through so score

and then you get a letter back

and it's a bigger success (laughs).

- I don't do it

because I could give two (beep) less about

any man in this facility.

Ain't none of them can offer me anything.

You locked up just like me, what can you do for me?

Absolutely nothing.

- So I see the guys running back and forth

to the mail door all day.

It's extremely dangerous.

The females are right there,

a lot of these guys know a lot of females from the street.

They're co-defendants, they got locked up together.

They'll just write a note saying,

"hey, we gonna tell the judge.

"I'm gonna take the drug charge,

"you take the pistol charge."

it shouldn't be like that.

So I'm like, "oh, snap, with this mail system

"I can send a note to check on the women."

this is the perfect opportunity to test the note system.

So I wrote a letter to vanessa.

During training in my opinion,

vanessa was a little more reserved,

she wasn't as talkative as heather.

I felt like vanessa

would have a harder time than heather.

I've lived in there, so I know this is not easy at all.

- Whaddup?

- In fact if she's got it she hasn't said anything to me.

- Why's vanessa on the spot?

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ntense music)

- (beep)

(laughter)

- no, I think what would jeopardize her cover

was what was in the notes.

I had to present it in such a way where they would think

we knew each other from the street.

- Angel do you know vanessa?

- She's a tall black girl on the bottom level.

- Vanessa, right there.

- When she said it's a tony and I was like,

it kind of shocked me a little bit because I was like,

is he supposed to do tat?

I didn't know how to really react to it,

so I was just like okay, I just took it.

- I open the note

and first he did write in there some stuff

to make me realize it was him.

A coded message about training,

describing our first meeting, what we all wore.

Then I was like,

okay, this really is him

because nobody else would know this.

He was putting like little messages in there saying,

"hey, you got this."

he'll be encouraging me just to keep going.

It meant a lot because

just getting the note from him just saying like,

"hey, we gonna get through this."

I was like okay.

Because I was ready to go.

Mentally, I was done.

Tony's note made me wanna stay

and say, "okay, well I can do this,

"I can figure out something to do."

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so I do decide to write him back,

just so he knew that I actually did get the note.

And for me as a participant,

it's a great opportunity to see

that anything can be passed through that door,

if it can fit.

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the way that they house people is just stupid,

the men should not be on the same level as women.

- That you could actually talk

to the men like hear their voice,

you can talk to them and tell them what you needed.

Just having that much close contact with the men,

it's a bad situation for the jail and for the sheriff.

- [inmate] oh my god.

(indistinct conversation from behind the door)

- you don't know that though.

- [inmate] oh yeah.

- No.

- There are hundreds of notes passed through

the door every day.

Anything that'll fit under that door they can pass it.

- Obviously they're passing drugs through there as well.

(intense music)

- bye.

- Yeah, probably.

- So the morning after the big fight one

of the trustees came up to me,

she kinda looks like a sorority girl.

- That's the thing I didn't think I'd have

to be here very long but talking last night.

- I was telling her my cover story,

everything was going fine.

- Yeah, yeah.

I wasn't sure if betsy was gonna believe me

but she wasn't questioning anything.

She kinda went away pretty quickly.

I was like, "oh, that was kinda easy, that wasn't too bad."

- when a new person walks in you immediately can tell

if they're from here or if they've done time here before,

how familiar they are with the way things work.

(door knock)

- huh?

Anytime something unexpected like that happens I'm on edge,

so I was really nervous.

- You know what I'm talking about, heather?

- She told me about it.

- Me?

Are you are you kidding me?

No.

- If I'm here 60 days I'm gonna lose my mind.

- I realized oh no, we have a problem.

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- I look up to tony, he's being a good team leader

and I got a lot of respect for him.

(laughter)

- I don't wanna let tony down

so I'm trying to come up

with the way to test the jail system.

So I thought it'd be a little different to try

to get some actual tobacco, chewing tobacco.

Getting anything into a jail facility

is testing the system.

Be able to spit.

So I'm determined to get some type of chew into the jail.

- I started that process of talking

to a lot of different guys

and trying to get something going.

I'm coming up with nothing.

It was harder than it would be to get dope in.

Finally, I talked to this guy, andre.

- People know me

and sometimes people need help to get something.

It's just like the streets.

- We talked for a bit

and he's like, I'll find it for you.

I'm like how soon can this happen

and he said, "who knows?"

something like that's not really an answer.

- I see donovan and he looks like he's having a hard time.

I hope he can get his bearings together

and he succeed at what he's doing.

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- so when betsy came to the window and said,

"you're 60 days in, I'm on to you,"

honestly I was like,

"okay, I gotta step it up.

"gotta be more aggressive."

so I wanted to make sure that

if she did think I was part of the program

that she wasn't spreading it.

What kinda cards?

- Spades. - Spades.

- You get a lot of vibes from me.

- That's a good vibe.

It just occurred to me out of nowhere she's 60 days in,

so I ran over to her (laughs).

- So she pounds on my door, I'm reading my book.

I didn't know who the (beep) that was out there.

- Listen you're 60 days in, aren't you? (laughs)

- I was just so nervous about just having her believe me

because I knew that this was kind of a make or break point

that she believes me now or she's not going to.

- Betsy mentioned that the reason she was in alabama

was because of her girlfriend.

So I knew at that time that she was gay.

- How old are y'all?

- Hell no.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- I realized that I could use my sexuality

to help get her on my side and to reduce suspicions

that I'm part of a show.

- That's crazy.

- I am a lesbian, I am single.

So I could use betsy to gain some information

for the sheriff,

then I have no problem with that.

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- so I was out for my free time.

Then another inmate comes up to me and he's like,

you got mail, boom.

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I'm just like,

"what it worked!"

yes, yes, yes.

So when I realized the note was from vanessa,

I was excited about it.

But this mail system is so serious.

Every time a note is passed

that's a chance something bad can happen.

Passing drugs, you can crush up pills,

slide pills through there.

It's all bad.

They're gonna be so pissed with me

when the sheriff block that little hole off (laughs).

They're gonna be livid.

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I'm developing a connection with betsy.

I just know having her on my side is a good thing.

- Heather's one of the rare ones.

We have a lot in common

and she was very polite and very humble.

Just kinda low key and I feel like I'm kinda like that too.

I can relate to that.

I can empathize with her and

just kind of try to make it a little better

for her, whatever I can do to help.

- I already know..

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- I do feel like she trusts me.

So that in and of itself just kinda lets me

have a little bit more control over what's going on.

- Goodbye. - You're so sweet.

Because of how friendly she is and how great she is to me,

there is the possibility that she sexually attracted to me.

It's not something I'd reciprocate

and that concerns me.

If it comes to the point of do or die,

I don't wanna blow my cover.

I don't wanna have her be suspicious of me again.

- Yes.

I was just telling tasha like, " I love, betsy" thank you.

If betsy has feelings that I can't reciprocate

she could very well and probably will turn on me.

I am playing a dangerous game.

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- champagne, he definitely think he's big stuff.

I don't trust chanpagne at all.

- Champagne is a ticking time bomb.

If I gotta fight somebody I hope it aint this guy.

- Go on.

Fight yo.

Fight yo, come on

- I started getting close with betsy,

things will probably progress.

- They took me into a cell with two people,

angel and angelic.

- If angel suspects me I'm in danger.