[Jon]
and be confident, but not cocky.
And then kind of see what my environment is like,
and then adapt to the environment.
That's all you really can do.
Respect take you a long way, man.
Respect is a big thing.
Disrespect somebody, something can happen to you fast.
It's about respect.
Like leaving the bathroom and that room dirty.
You'll get beat up out there.
If there's semen in the shower,
you'll get beat up about that.
I don't give a [bleep] you a granddaddy.
Disrespect me, and I'm gonna whip your ass.
[Jon]
don't really have an idea of what the--
What the flow is like, you know, what's expected of me, what's...
What's coming next.
[Jon]
is a difficult task,
but it's pretty hard not to notice there are
several strong personalities.
Delrico is the strongest of the strong personalities.
He is very outspoken, very verbal.
Seems like he's utilized his very strong personality
to foster control and influence in the pod.
Respect in here is something that's earned,
but given at the same time.
You look at certain people and say, "That's a vet.
They've been doing this a long time."
And some people haven't been here and don't understand it.
I got 30 years in here.
So, I demand it.
[loud profane chatter]
-Knock you [bleep] -Go ahead and run your mouth.
Need to change their water.
-...punk ass. -Do it.
Do it, bitch.
[Delrico shouting insults]
-Bitch. -I don't care [bleep].
[bleep]
Say it [bleep]. Bring your ass over here.
I'm sick of you running your mouth.
You already got no teeth, you need to stop.
[Bleep]
-I'm trying to respect. -You don't respect me.
Don't disrespect fire.
[Jon]
that I definitely want to be on good terms with.
For sure.
[Dion]
I think everybody be like, "Okay, you know, he cool.
Let him see the remote."
DL's got a lot of street smarts and confidence.
But it could spell trouble for him
when it comes to veteran inmates.
[dramatic music playing]
[Scottie]
are because you didn't pay your debt.
Inmates don't look at it as the debt not being paid
as much as it's a lack of respect.
I went straight back to bed, bro.
[inmates arguing]
-[punch lands] -[thudding]
[bleep]
-[Bleep] -[thudding]
-[struggling] -Let's do it!
[inmate] Ah! Ah!
[Dion]
and then I hear, "Boom, boom, boom."
[inmate 1] What the [bleep]!
[Dion]
whooping his ass in that shower.
And it wa
I regret taking the remote from Sheckles.
I could actually been the one who got stumped out.
-[inmate moaning in pain] -[thudding]
[inmate grunts]
[inmate 2]
So, this is, umm...
Hard to stay focused and in character.
-[inmate 1 moaning in pain] -[thudding]
[inmate 3] Let him go.
Alright, y'all. Come on, come on.
Let's go. Anybody in here. Let's go.
Come one. Meal time.
[woman 1]
You're not supposed to be openly friendly to people
that you first meet in jail.
That's what my strategy is, to mind my business.
And the ones that I do talk to,
they've given me a lot of information and insight.
Lyric runs that pod.
She has everyone pretty much under her control.
She does.
[Lyric]
From foster care to crazy mom.
In jail you get respect or you get disrespected.
When everybody's gonna lay down to
I'm not doing that.
That's just out the question.
[woman 2]
is she's very violent.
That's kind of scary.
[woman 1]
Like, they did not want to say anything out of the way
and have her hear it.
Because if you piss her off,
it's problems for you.
[Abner]
There's no other way around it.
Whatever race you belong to,
you have to follow the rules
even if you don't want to be in the gang.
So my mission is to find out
the politics within the gangs.
Tyrus, he leads the King folks.
He leads the blacks.
He wants to help his people, but he knows he can't
because they're disorganized. They don't listen.
The whites is the Woods.
Oney runs the whites.
[Oney]
You can't have power with some fear.
You can't have power with some respect.
[Abner]
With the cocky attitude, you know,
"We're white. This is our domain.
We've been here longer.
[Oney]
You're going to conform or you can go to another pod.
[dramatic music playing]
[guard] One hundred!
[dramatic music continues]
[Abner]
and people were saying this guy got rolled out
of another pod for being a snitch.
Getting rolled out means whatever race you belong to,
the head says you're banned from the unit, so you gotta go.
It's amazing that the inmates have so much power
and I've never seen that in any other facility.
But since Francis is a snitch...
He's one of the Woods.
It falls on Oney to take care of that.
And this is my opportunity
to see the way they deal with the politics in their game.
[dramatic music playing]
Hey O, let me holla at you.
We got a rat in the house.
-Anybody who's claiming that-- -You're vouching for him?
[dramatic music playing]
You're vouching for him? Four pod said he's a rat.
I don't even know who you are and you're coming at me.
[Oney]
who you think you are.
When you come in here,
I'm sorry, but this is my [bleep] pod.
[Abner]
If something happens, I am going to protect myself,
but when this is said and done,
I am a man of God. I'm not a criminal.
I didn't come here to commit a crime.
Hey, O.
My name is Abner, man, I didn't mean...
-I'm just, you know... -I've been here a long time
and it's not necessarily a pecking order with me,
it's out of respect.
It's like me coming to you guys and saying, "Hey,
this dude is a rat."
-True that. -But,
wherever this dude is, I'm going to go talk to him
and I'm going to ask him.
If I see anything funny, then I can take the judgment.
-Alright. -Alright.
[Abner]
have to enforce your politics,
you're a Wood and one of your Woods are no good,
and he has to go.
[dramatic music playing]
[dramatic music continues]
[indistinct chatter]
♪♪
[inmate laughing]
♪♪
What's going on, bro?
I went and talked to the dude, and his story didn't match
from when he first came in.
I couldn't find out if he was a snitch, if he was rat.
But he let another race push him, and he didn't fight back.
-Oh. -He still had to go.
[Abner] Alright.
[dramatic music playing]
[Abner]
and pretty much could smell the fear in him
and he knew.
And at the end of the day the politics played out,
and you had to follow the order I gave.
You can't touch me.
I am royalty in here.
-What's going on? -I need to roll out.
I need to roll out.
Between Oney and me, this is not done yet.
At the end of the day you're gonna find out
I wasn't a part of your world. You were a part of my world.
You're nobody.
[Lashley] You're rude [bleep].
Don't touch me, bro.
Oh, [bleep].
Don't touch me, bro.
A lot of people here don't care about us 'cause we're inmates.
You know what I'm saying?
And they look at us, and they treat us like we're nobody.
[inmate 1]
but some of these officers
want to make themselves...
assert power, feel assertive, and that
because at the end of the day, we're living here.
You a visitor, you come and you go home.
Don't come in here and stress nobody out.
You got some officers that work here
that think they got a point to prove.
So they feel like, "Yeah, I'm coming here today
and whatever I tell him to do, he's gonna do
because I have the authority to tell him he's gonna do it."
But me, I tell them that I don't give a
I feel like the inmates run the jail.
A CO's only gonna go as far as you allow 'em to go.
They know the limit on how far they can go
when they disrespecting somebody.
-
[Lashley] Hey, yo. What's up?
[Bleep] You saying what?
[Lashley]
and they really step out of bounds,
we're getting their ass too.
Police can get stabbed. They can get [bleep] in here quick.
This [bleep] is nutty.
We turn this jail all the way up if we want to.
Alright, back up, back up.
This officer is [bleep] prejudiced.
This is [bleep]
So we let these officers really go home at the end of the day.
It's just somebody--
There's people here looking at life
and they know it's a chance they might not be home
for the next 15 to 20 years.
So you ain't got nothing to lose
by getting on an officer at, you know,
doing something to them right then.
It's like, "What's going to change my situation?"
I'm already going to do 20 years.
What's an extra two, three years?
Three years running consecutive with my time.
We calm and cool right now,
'Cause really it ain't really a purpose to get ugly.
[Jason]
and a lot of people fall short in that.
And that's what ultimately lead a lot of people to get hurt
or get [bleep] up really bad in here.
It can get wicked.
-They tried to kill me. -They come from an inmate.
They tried to kill him.
[overlapping chatter]
All the way from...
all the way right here.
I got stabbed right here.
I got stabbed right here, cut right here,
I got hit on my chest.
You know what I'm saying? Get into an argument.
It could go down at any time.
It only takes a moment
for you to be a perfect bill of health,
and for you to be a corpse,
or for you to be bleeding out on the floor,
trying to get rushed to the hospital.
Sometimes people just wake up on the wrong side of the bed.
Somebody say the wrong thing to them, they ready to--
I done seen it.
They best of buddies today.
And tomorrow, you wake up, he mad at you for no reason.
So I feel like anything can happen for real, for real.
You see how big he is, he could take me right now
and choke me out, if he really wanted to do that.
So you really can't stop that, no matter where you at.
When I put my shoes on and lace 'em up, outside the ten,
there's something going on.
I'm on alert.
You ain't gonna fight in them flip-flops.
You gonna get whooped.
I wish sometimes a camera could be here when [bleep] gets real.
Let me borrow it tonight and I'll show you.
Let me borrow the camera tonight.
And I'll show you how real life is when it really get wicked.
I ain't gonna let you treat me in a tight way. I'm human, man.
I'm from the world, like y'all.
I used to wear clothes. I used to wear clothes.
You gonna be pushed around?
I got principles and morals.
You know what I'm saying?
I'ma live by somethin'.
Or I'm gonna die by it. You feel me?