(shouting) as well. - [Too Tall] You a hoe [beep] (haunting dubstep music) - It's like high
school all over. - Dashaun, I don't believe
everything he tells me. I see us having a good talk
in the near future about setting that boundary. - I thought I would
have trouble sleeping, but I didn't think it
would be this extreme. The cell, it's gross. It smells gross. It's [beep] up in there. - Rico, he's my cellmate. I respect the heck out of him. He's like yo, I got your back,
you know what I'm saying. Ain't gon' let nothing
happen to you in here. - When you meet someone that
was in the Marine Corps, you're brothers. He has no problem telling
one of these Bloods go [beep] yourself. - [Jessica] Michelle wasn't
rowdy like the other inmates. When I knew she was with us. I wrote on a piece of paper, let me know if you can
identify with this. (suspenseful electronic music) (upbeat hip hop music) (suspenseful electronic music) I pushed the paper to
her, and I said to her, let me know if you can
identify with this. - You know, I was like, yep. (laughing) I felt like I had an ally. I felt like we both
knew why we were there. We weren't criminals. - We share the
same frustrations. The drugs, the people, the corrections officers, (shouting) the living standards,
it's horrible. It will turn your strength
into like weakness instantly. (suspenseful electronic music) I'm glad I have
Michelle to go to because everything is
becoming overwhelming. (downtempo dubstep music) - I'm in hell for 24/7. It was just a big
culture shock really, just going in here. I don't wanna say I'm scared, but I am like,
in defensive mode. - You know who I am? [beep] [beep] - [Calvin] I'm
adjusting well, though. I think everybody in the
dorm kinda like me, too. - [Officer] Y'all done missed
two, Calvin. - Nope. - Inmates here at the Fulton
County Jail have access to tablets. Tablets cost them
about $20 a month. - They sell tablets. Where you can like
make a phone call, listen to music and
stuff like that. (suspenseful electronic music) Too Tall approached me. He asked me what I'd
want for a phone call. I was just like whatever
you can look out for me on. I said, you know if you
can give me some noodles, snacks, chips, whatever,
it's no big deal. - People don't play
games with you. You fall into it. It's going to be
a weekly routine. - People be like,
well, he's weak, and I'm gonna take his [beep]. - I don't really like
letting people use my tablet because I like to
talk on the phone to my wife, but, it could be next that
they want to mess with. - They smell fear on you. (suspenseful electronic music) (coins ringing) (jingling) - You can't avoid Dashaun, but I'm just getting annoyed. I let this place
get to me a lot more than I thought I would. It's been tough. I miss home a lot. - [Automated Operator] You may
start the conversation now. (suspenseful electronic music) (laughing) - You know life on the
outside doesn't stop because you're inside. You know I ask myself every day, why did I choose to hang
out with all of these people when I have the most
amazing people at home. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. - [Automated Operator]
You have one minute left. (suspenseful electronic music) - My strategy was I just
wanted to go in there, get to know everybody
as quickly as possible without putting myself out there to make myself vulnerable, and it's been going
exactly, better than how I would have planned. They call me White Mike. That's pretty cool. I'm the first one
picked on the team. [beep] Some of them guys are ballers. They ball pretty good. They're like, ah,
I got White Mike. Dang, all right. [beep] Too Tall is a pod boss in here, so he carries a lot of weight and playing basketball is
kind of a ritual for him and his crew, so it's a good way for
me to bond even more with these guys and
gain their trust. The games are intense. It's street rules. You don't call your own fouls,
you just gotta hold your own. (dramatic electronic music) (shouting) My own teammate ended up
going up for a rebound, and I was underneath him. He came down with the elbow. I've been hit in the face
a whole bunch of times, and I can tell when
your skin separates. I could feel that it was open. The blood was
pouring down my face. (suspenseful electronic music) - Rico, he definitely
like a father. He definitely was teaching
me the rules of jail because he said he was
in jail 20, 25 years. - Donny is getting
too close to Delrico and that concerns me because Delrico can pose
a threat to his safety. - You can't have the privacy - It's like the camera
catches the whole nine yards, you know what I'm saying, it's crazy. [beep] [beep] (dramatic electronic music) [beep] right here when
I'm sleping. (laid back hip hop music) (buzzing) - [Guard] One, two, three! (buzzing) (suspenseful electronic music) - Inmates, come out and
put your backs on the wall. Everyone put your
backs on the wall. - [Don] We looked at each
other and was like yeah, they definitely
here watching us. - So we're in our
cell during lockdown, and they just took us out, set us out there, and I asked, what was going on, he
said jail business. - We have told them
they cannot tamper with the security devices. It causes a security breach that we cannot tolerate here. - We're basically inmates, so I can't be like nah, nah, we shouldn't do that. - [Officer] Everybody
should be searched coming this way. - [Interviewer] Why are
we all in here today? What's going on right now? - They doing a shakedown. They shaking the dorm down. Looking for knives
and just stuff we wasn't supposed
to have in the dorms. (suspenseful electronic music) - The assumption is
when they tamper with the security device, they're disabling
the security device and that the missing
and dangerous items can be distributed
throughout the housing unit. It presents a danger not
only to other inmates, but it presents a
danger to my staff and especially to the
participants in this program. So we have to search
each and every cell. - It's the wrong dorm if
you're looking for something. I told you ain't
nothing in there but a damn toy. (suspenseful electronic music) - Any individual
that's caught tampering with a security device is
in violation of a jail rule, and they have to pay
the consequences. (shouting) [beep] (shouting) (laughing) - I can't even put it
into words right now, just craziness. Loud craziness. (shouting) These people are
[beep] crazy. - I'm gonna say whatever the
[beep] I want today! - [Jessica] I heard what
she was going through. They the rowdiest
room in the pod. They were up all night,
rapping, singing. - Shut the [beep] up, bitch! - [Jessica] We see what
it's like on the other side, and it's horrible. - It's hard to sleep anyway
because of the schedule. They lock in us at nine. You fall asleep, but you
gotta get right back up. Because count is at 11, and then you gotta
come downstairs for breakfast at 2:00 a.m., then you gotta get
back up at 7 for count. Our sleep schedule
was already choppy, and then when we do
have time to sleep, we can't because they
wanna have club all night. - I'm outta my mind. - I don't know. I'm just confused, stressed. I feel tired. I feel sick. I feel weak. I just want to sleep
for two days straight, and honestly, I'll do
anything at this point. I'm really mentally
crazy right now. (suspenseful electronic music) - [Officer] Tower, 506 open 506. - When I got to my room, my cellmate that I had just met. This is a hard guy. He was like, man, I missed you. I was like wow, this kid, I don't even know you. If I'm getting this kind of
respect and love from him, what am I going to get
from everybody else? I had probably 10 guys
come up to my door. You know everybody
was joking about, hey man, look, you know,
you got your jail scar. I feel that I've stuck
to my original plan, build a relationship, build that level of trust with
as many people as possible. Now I can easily find out
what goes on in this place. (downtempo dubstep music) (ominous electronic music) - We didn't find any
evidence of contraband in the pod, but when we
moved the inmates back, we're going to put Delrico on
up to two weeks in lockdown for tampering with
security devices. - I get back to my cell. My bed's flipped. Rico's bed is flipped. (suspenseful electronic music) We probably shouldn't
have done it. You know what I mean. He blocked the cameras. I think that's probably why
they took him out of there. After he left, I was mad because he was kind of
like a father figure to me. I don't know if I can
count on another inmate like I could count
on Delrico, man. I knew Rico had my back. (laid back hip hop music) (shouting) - [Officer] Line up
for trays, ladies. (suspenseful electronic music) - This past week has
been easier because I feel like I can stand
up for myself. - We all are Christians, so when you have
that faith in God, and you know that
everything's working out, you get strength from him. Singing and praising
him gives me strength, so that's what we all do. So I think in that moment, Mauri and I bonded. It was like, okay,
I get you now. (clapping) - In here, you've got
to let people know that it's a respect thing. You respect me, I respect you, and we just keep it moving. (rhythmic stomping and clapping) (rapping and shouting) - I'm just going to keep focus on what I'm in here for because I want to be
able to make a difference to somebody. (shouting loudly) (suspenseful electronic music) - Food in here is money. It's commissary, you
know what I'm saying. So over something so tiny
can really get you hurt. - They create their
own little games, a soup for this, or
packages of this for that. If you don't pay it,
at the end of the day, or month, or week, or
whatever that might be, gentlemen, that's your ass. (shouting) - He was begging me to
make a trade for food, and I didn't really care because I usually don't
eat my sandwiches anyway. So we made the deal. - Food is money. You know what I'm sayin', you gotta charge that
[beep] to the game. It's life. (suspenseful electronic music) - My husband was
a former inmate. Ruben was incarcerated
for almost 11 years. I met him on an
inmate pen-pal site, and I get it now. So I need to talk to
him at least once a day. - [Automated Operator] Hello,
this is a free call from - [Jessica] Jessica. - [Ruben] Hello. - Hello. - [Ruben] Your
daughter is in here driving me crazy about a dress. - [Jessica] Okay. - [Carlie] Hi, Momma. - Hi. [Ruben] No Carlie, listen
to mama. (Carlie sobbing) - I know that Carlie
is in good hands. My mom's there, my
sister's there, my husband, but it was depressing me that she was needing me. I feel Ruben at times
isn't there for me. And it's frustrating. (suspenseful electronic music) (shouting) (shouting) - I let him use
the whole charge. I was a little upset about
him being considerate. - [Officer] Tower, open
all the doors. Too Tall, I told him, you know, I need my tablet. That's what I use over night. I read my Bible. I write a lot, so yeah, I just need my
tablet to survive. (laid back hip hop music) (shouting) - Since I've been in
here, the CO side of me just been screaming
on the inside. There's like so much wrong that could easily be fixed if somebody was honest
and pointed it out. So I decided to start
writing what I was seeing You have officers here, I don't know if
they're overworked or under-motivated ...that's what you
want me to do! Somebody needs to redirect
all these officers here. - [Inmate] She's like
Cruella de Ville. ♪ Cruella - [Mauri] I know I'm
taking a huge risk writing down what I observe. That's why I'm writing
in when nobody's awake. - I would not write things down because if my staff come
in and search your cell, they don't know
anything about you, and they find, whoa,
she's just writing down everything we did today, or if another inmate see you, they're gonna equate
that with snitching. - [Mauri] I'm making sure
to hid it in a good place. (suspenseful electronic music) - I was kinda relieved - Too Tall, he's
got this mentality like he's trying to play you, like he's trying to
get one over on you. The word in here is finesse. And he definitely, he
finesses a lot of people. Again you know, like I said (shouting) - I'm starting to feel
my patience slipping. I wasn't going to be
tunked out by Daushaun in front of everybody. If I didn't react a certain way, I was setting myself
up to look weak in front of the whole pod. - If you don't have a backbone, your [beep] is probably
going to be taken from you. It's hell on earth here. (suspenseful electronic music) (dripping) - It was really nasty because I knew it
came from a toilet. - Ewww. When I saw people walking
through the toilet water, I was like, oh, bacteria
is real, e. Coli is real. - We was hitting
the buzzer like, yo, it's flooding in here, and they was like okay, we
can't help you right now. - They treat us like animals. - The officers have no presence. They don't know what's going on, and if they do know
what's going on, they don't care. (suspenseful electronic music) - I'm so angry right now. It was just water everywhere like we were in a sewer. (laid back glitch hop music) (making horn noises) (giggling) - Everybody that is locked up is dealing with a
certain amount of stress, so everybody has
something that they do, maybe to relieve stress. - People do whatever they
can just to pass the time. Some people read. I'm lucky that I read. (shouting) (making trombone noises) - So my cellmate James'
thing was to play mock trombone with his lips. (imitating trombone cheerfully) (imitating trombone
playing "charge") (laughing) (imitating trombone festively) (laughing) The guard immediately walks up and scoots me and
him into the cell. - [Officer] Whenever
y'all ready, gentlemen, whenever y'all ready. - I did nothing. To punish somebody that
is completely innocent of whatever issue they have, it doesn't make a
lot of sense to me. (suspenseful electronic music) - The whole thing is
just nerve wracking. I'm just ready to go. - The inmates have
to clean it up. These officers here
don't look like they get their hands dirty at all. (dripping) - Initially I was thinking
it came from I-pod, but then a trustee said it came from another pod. There was inmate
that stuck a blanket in the toilet and
just kept flushing it, flushing it, and flushing it. It smells like sewage. It's disgusting. I'm just right here. (suspenseful electronic music) (laid back hip hop music) - After everybody's in the pod and we're locked in there, somebody else yells something. The second officer
says what did you say? I'm like you know
that wasn't me. And she just looked
at me and walked away, like she wanted it
to be me almost. (playing mock
trombone cheerfully) Fulton County Jail,
80% African American. With the guard
population, more like 98%, so I may be feeling a
little bit of racism, which I didn't count on. It's very possible
I was targeted because I was white because I'll tell you this, I've seen other
guys, gang members, walk right up to the
guards and say "f" you right to their face. I've seen them tap their belts where their friggin' tasers are, and not one has
been locked down. It's their culture, you
know what I'm saying. I feel like I'm just
visiting their world. (playing mock
trombone mournfully) (giggling) - [beep] happens. Literally (laughs). - This is a raggedy
ass, jail, America. Do you see this [beep]? [beep] water. - They keep pushing the
water into the drains and putting down blankets. This is sewer water, and then they'll
take the blankets and wash them and give
them to us to lay on under. Yeah. (laughing) - [Inmate] This [beep] is
ridiculous. - [Jessica] The blankets
are still on the floor. - That's just soaking until I
come back with a mop. - [Inmate] Thank you. - Behind our door is a
toilet water blanket. Upstairs is toilet
water blankets, and it's okay. (suspenseful electronic music) - These are flip flops. There's no traction here. People were slipping everywhere. That's a major hazard. So we were told
hold on to the wall or hold each other. (laughing) How about get another
trustee in here to clean this up so that we don't fall
or hurt ourselves? How about some
bleach on this stuff, so that nothing is airborne. It could potentially be
some harm to someone. How about they get the
COs to come and help us because they've been nowhere
during this whole nightmare. It's like they
don't care at all. (suspenseful electronic music) (suspenseful electronic music) It's the living standards,
and then the flood. - I believe that Calvin
might be in the program. - He was like I'm
on a Federal ho, when he said that I was like, I was scared to ask him because I knew if I asked him, and it was wrong,
it could be trouble. - [Matt] Even if
I knew for sure, I wasn't going to
say anything out loud and just silently acknowledge
that we're possibly in the same situation. - He didn't say nothing. One guy was like, you
better keep your eye open, look out for him
because he's crazy. He looked like the Unabomber. - [Inmate] You'll just make
yourself an easy target now. - What happen was Too Tall, everybody sits up, everybody's waiting for
the situation to explode. (suspenseful electronic music) (inspiring orchestral music)
