I believe the terminology they use is kangaroo court.
Anyone higher up can accuse someone.
To put it simply, it's a tribunal of criminals.
There's a guy named Mingus in the pod.
He's quiet.
He seems like a good guy, but he bummed way too much
of an e-cig, thinking that he was
just going to get away with it.
[punching sounds]
All right, all right.
For what?
Kangaroo court is extremely serious.
They turn out pretty bad, so, you know,
it could happen to anybody, even to me.
Take him to court.
He's a rat?
Brian's being accused of snitching.
He was in the hole for a while and came back,
and they think that he may have gotten a better
deal for himself somehow.
He wasn't going to go in there and talk his way out of it.
He was a doomed man walking up the stairs.
[thumping sounds]
It's five or six people jumping in and stomping a dude
until he couldn't move anymore, and you
just hear non-stop thumping.
[thumping sounds]
[bleep]
OFFICER: Lockdown.
INMATES: Lockdown.
He was stumbling, and the stumble that he had was
not like his legs were hurting.
It was a head injury style stumble.
All right.
I thought it was going to be innocent.
It was an assault. It was atrocious.
That was vicious.
It shouldn't have happened.
Everybody go to your assigned cell now, to your bunk.
Be in your bunk.
When you see stuff like that, you're
like, what if someone calls kangaroo court on me
for being a plant?
The kangaroo court thing was eye-opening in a lot of ways,
because it reinforced the fact that
the inmates run this [bleep].