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I'm on my way to general population.
[ Chatter ]
This the morgue.
It's the morgue.
[Indistinct], man.
When I first walked into B1, it was all eyes on me.
It was like a record scratch, and everybody just stopped.
[Indistinct].
One more attempt, one more attempt.
It's the morgue. [ Chatter ]
First thing I noticed when I stepped in
was the freedom they had. I couldn't believe it.
So where you from, Greenville? Jersey.
Jersey? Yeah, what part?
North Jersey, like north, East Orange area.
Fed? Nah.
State? No.
Got hemmed up? I just got hemmed up,
driving, got caught, concealed weapons charge.
Word up. Damn. They set your bond on.
Ten thousand. Ten thousand.
Yeah, I tried to get a bail bondsman, but they ...
Nobody would take me because they said I was a flight risk.
That don't make no sense, man.
That magistrate didn't give him no bond.
They just locked him up, brought him straight here
and booked him and all that.
That was just like ... threw me for a loop.
You got pulled over in Greenville?
[Indistinct].
You was going back home? I was trying.
I was actually traveling through Wilmington.
Nah, he was coming from Wilmington.
Because you didn't have no business ...
You didn't have no business on this end
if you were going to Wilmington.
On the GPS ... Yeah, GPS took you
about an hour and some change out the way into trouble.
Yeah. That's ridiculous.
There's one thing about jail and prison,
everybody got a story to tell, but his story wasn't adding up.
I drilled him.
Talk, build a conversation, keep going.
[Indistinct] [BLEEP] [BLEEP] [BLEEP]
[BLEEP] you! [BLEEP] you!
[BLEEP] come up in here [BLEEP] [BLEEP]
[BLEEP].
I just have to remain calm.
I'm ready to go.
I cannot stay here no more. It's so [BLEEP]
cold, I can't even get out my bed.
My feet is wet from even being at night sleeping,
sweating, sleeping, and there's [BLEEP]
sandwiches every [BLEEP] day for dinner.
You made it through your quarantine phase.
Yeah.
You ... The hardest part of this, you made it through.
No, that's ... I can't ...
You're going to gen pop right now.
It doesn't matter because I'm still going to starve from today
until Wednesday. I'm very ... It's not even that.
The quarantine is tough.
It's all of that, but I'm going to just be honest 100 percent,
I'm feeling like that I can't do this anymore,
and it's been too much for me, and my journey has to end today.
Do you want your mission to end here?
I really don't, but I do.
I don't want you to have any regrets.
I am done. I'm ready to go home.
[ Chatter ]
They said to pack your stuff. They coming to get you.
Who, me? You going home, girl.
What? You leaving?
Ow!
Man, who was the shot caller in the pod, man.
I know somebody think they the shot caller.
The big dummy, the one that been talking to you.
Which one, bald-headed with the LA tat?
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm his bunkee.
[Indistinct] I ain't wearing no shirt,
[BLEEP], in 2024 [Indistinct].
Okay. That [BLEEP] good.
Tats out for real, bro. [BLEEP] drop top real quick.
You done? [Indistinct].
Sup, [BLEEP]?
[Indistinct] push 30, boy. I already got that 20, boy.
Now you know you can't be doing that, right?
You know you can get [BLEEP] out my face, [BLEEP].
[Indistinct]. You're done.
What's up, brother? You're all done.
But if everyone don't care, bro, you the only one to say that.
Sarge just came in here, and we were doing the same thing.
Yeah, we chilling, bro. No, I don't care.
I'm chilling doing time, bro.
I'm doing what I feel like will make my stress
go away. Give me that Taser. How about you hit the clock ...
button and get lost?
Do what? Yeah, bro, for real.
We understand you're a big fella,
but there's some bigger fellas in here.
Yeah, and we hit hard. Oh, word?
As a former CO, man, I definitely can't believe
the [BLEEP] I'm seeing because the COs don't run nothing.
These inmates is just doing whatever the [BLEEP]
doing they want. They just everywhere.
Where's the presence?
Yeah, you the CO, but you not even ...
What are you doing? You a hall monitor.
Hit the clock. Hit the clock and hit the [BLEEP] road,
[BLEEP].
You got some officers,
they think just because they work here,
they supposed to come in and oppress us because we're nobody.
That ain't nothing to get hurt off of doing push ups.
You not going to come in here
and just give me some miscellaneous [BLEEP]
to do just because you feel like you have the authority,
so if you feel like that,
I'm going to punch you in your mouth,
and we going to rock from there.
No [BLEEP] way. [BLEEP] his fat ass.
At any given time, a power boss could call a shot.
Who going to save the victim?
Many pig feet can you eat? Get real.
About eight? How many pork chops?
And that's frustrating, man.
You got these people in control of your life
that don't know what the [BLEEP] they're doing.
You think they care about somebody getting stabbed
or something in the pod ?
Hell nah, but I don't want to be that person.
They like, "Boy, you a fool." Ah!
Wish I could grab you by the neck
and show you how it feels!
[ Chatter ]
You got a problem, man?
I'm asking you, do you got a problem?
Yeah, I got a problem. I asked you to use
that intercom phone to load up, and you clicked again.
Yes! So I couldn't use the [BLEEP].
Man, hold on. I told you the other time ...
[ Chatter ] [BLEEP]
Say what?
There's always something going on in general population.
I don't care who was using it. I been using it, man.
So what you want to do, man?
[ Chatter ] We ain't got [Indistinct].
I slept better in quarantine than I did in gen pop.
That's a lot of [BLEEP] that's going on,
and it's going to piss you off mentally.
I don't give a [BLEEP], I don't.
All right. But ...
I don't give a [BLEEP].
Ball, he wanted to fight this guy, John.
I don't even know why.
Oh, me neither.
I'm telling you, man, I'll break your [BLEEP].
Come on, homie. You already a dope fiend, man.
That's what I want. I'm going to get you anyway.
"You a fiend anyway! You a fiend anyway!"
All right. Come on. I'm going to get you anyway.
Come on, shower with me. Come on.
Bring your [BLEEP] sloppy ass to the shower, period.
All right. All right. All right. All right.
I ain't going to lie. The guy John looks like a fiend
because he's over there leaning like ...
All right. All right. All right. All right. All right.
He over there like, "I'm just looking like
he cannot really be about to fight this guy right now."
He really looks like a fiend, like,
"Damn, he looks like a dope fiend, for real."
You can't sleep comfortable in these situations.
You're not scared, but it's still your safety as a man.
I got a wife and kids to go home to.
[ Chatter ]
[BLEEP].
It didn't seem like it was going to happen.
I was wrong. Nothing is predictable here.
I can't predict what's next,
so I don't know who's going to fight
or what's going to happen or what's going to happen to me.
I don't know.
That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all.
That's all. You got to break it up.
Who won? He got his ass beat.
He got beat the [BLEEP] up!
[ Chatter ]
In a real jail environment,
you will have officers telling inmates,
"Hey, tone it down."
Nobody watching, immediately I knew the inmates ran the jail.
That's dangerous.
Man, you know I'll break his [BLEEP] if I got to.
[ Chatter ]
Hey, Block! Hey, Block!
Could I get some of that oatmeal from you?
Huh?
Could I get some of that oatmeal from you?
What? That soup.
It's two for a soup. [BLEEP]. What?
Hey, [Indistinct], what the hell kind of [BLEEP]
going on?
What happened? [ Chatter ]
[BLEEP], Who's in there?
New dude.
I'm in the shower.
I hear all these dudes yelling, like, "Man, what's the problem?"
He on this side.
He on the right side of the shower.
Oh, he on this side? Hey, bro.
Hey, bro, you got to get behind the wall, bro.
Somebody yelled at me, "Get behind the wall,"
so I guess that's one of the rules in here.
When I first saw him, I was like, "What the [BLEEP]?"
I don't get it. What's the problem?
They acting like they ain't never seen a naked guy before.
Nasty as hell. I'm brushing my teeth,
and he start telling me, "Turn around." "Turn around?"
Bro right here naked as hell, visible as [BLEEP].
Ain't no COs around. The last thing I need right now
is to get shanked up or killed in the shower.
[ Chatter ]
Took 5 minutes in the pop
for everybody to start looking at me.
All the time, you see him look. All right, bro.
They looking at me like,
"Who is this guy? He already causing problems?"
[BLEEP] [BLEEP] out of here, brother.
On my mama, that's some [BLEEP]. Damn.
Now I feel like I got a target on my back.