(tense music) (intense music) - [Alex] He's asking me all
these questions, like "What do you mean you don't
have a court date yet?" The people that I'm in with
are just out to get you. - Smoking will definitely
be good for my mission. Plus like, when in Rome, and I, I smoked the joint with him. I'm sorry, Mom. - [Ashley] Am I the first
participant to ever be a trustee? - I was ready to serve trays,
serve ice, sweep, and mop. And, I can observe the
officers a lot better who have become my targets. (eerie whirring) - Shanice needs to be
coddled and pampered. - She only talks about
herself. She's irritating me. - [Tony] From the jump, people
know not to mess with me. I can fit in pretty
good (laughing). - [Dennis] Everybody
fears Tony, but - Like, he is making me think
he's a participant. (dramatic riff) (smooth guitar) (soft techno beat) (soft techno music) (logo whooshes) (indistinct chattering) - So, I know that Alex and
Dennis are participants, but they don't officially
know that I am participating. - Tony is definitely
a participant. I just know that
for sure, c'mon. But, I know how to
keep my mouth shut. The last couple weeks
kinda threw me for a loop, but now I have new
profound understanding of why am I in here. And, yeah, I'm killin' it. I own it now. Quincy! (hands slapping) - [Offscreen Inmate] Yo! - My name is still
ringin' inside the jail because I'm a known guy. I played quarterback
my whole life, and I just feel like I'm a quarterback in here,
too as well. So, people do look up to me and they consider me a pod boss. - Nah. Not at all, no. (intense music) No, Dennis (laughs). Dennis is definitely
not a pod boss, no. Why? 'Cause you work out? I'm curious to know
what he do for a living. I guarantee he probably
sit behind somebody's desk somewhere workin' from
home or something, sellin' insurance or something. He's a interesting character. We talk a lot, but pod boss? (laughs) - [Dennis] Right. - [Tony] You know what I mean? - [Dennis] Yeah, yeah yeah. - [Dennis] Right, right. - [Dennis] Right. - Tony, he was like, "Look, man. "I'm tryin' a get
me a banger," and - A banger is something that
you can stab somebody with it's a shank, basically. That's what they call it
in here, they call it... - They call it everything. - [Dennis] Yeah, yeah. - [Sheriff] I'm gonna show
you some of the contraband that we get out of our jail. - Wow, a actual knife. I came here with a purpose. One of my goals is
to get me a shank, and I don't plan on leaving 'til I reach what I sought out to do. - [Dennis] (chuckles) - If there's a shank in
there, I can get the shank. - [Dennis] I am gonna get a
shank before Tony. I am tryin' I am
gonna get one, so. - It's game time, and
Dennis is too green. - [Dennis] Anything
that Tony can do, I think I can do better. (laughs) (intense music) (drum beats) - Oh (beep) (drum beats) (logo whooshes) - It's a sweet gig
to be a trustee, but all of the trustees
this weekend have been sick. They've had back problems, or
they've got new medication, so I nominated
Jen to be trustee. She really really wanted it, and I wanted to provide
her that opportunity. - [Jennifer] Okay. I became a trustee like Ashley. - [Jennifer] Huh? - I'm absolutely lovin it. As a trustee I don't
feel like I'm imprisoned. Except for the
poop-filled toilets. We need five, five trays. - [Jennifer] Aw! - I love Jen, I love
working with her, - It's made us have
a really really tight bond and tight friendship. - [Ashey] Yes. (Jennifer laughing) - Jennifer and Ashley should
definitely be careful. - Thanks hon.
- Have a good day. - [Shanese] Them being trustees it could bring a lot more
negative attention to them. I'm good, I don't wanna
be trustee I don't wanna be in the limelight, I
don't wanna piss people off. I was just bein' myself. I already deal with a lot and I knew mentally
I would coming here because I knew I had the gluten
intolerance to go against. But my roommate Tiffany,
she is gonna be a bit much. - She's always
takin these drugs. (laughing) - I've never been around
that type of stuff before, so you know marijuana yeah,
but like hard core drugs no. (Loud deep drum beat) (electronic music) - Everybody always follow me I might not I do the
right things all the time but I know what
I'm talkin about. - She don't (beep) with nobody. - Angel is kingpin,
she's sellin drugs. - She the one that has it all. You know the police
don't like her. - I run the unit, I'm
the one that do it. - She's one of the people
we call a pod boss, and she's good friends with
my roommate, which sucks. They might drug test you. (sniffing) - I'm hearing her do that. (sniffing) I was thinking oh my god
are we gonna get caught? (sniffing) - [Shanese] I already
feel sick and I don't need her snorting
cocaine or crack or whatever it is in my room. If she's doin this
now, what's next? (dramatic music)
- Whoo! (dramatic electronic music) (indistinct chatter) - [Tony] Hey! (dramatic music) (logo whooshes) - [Trustee] It's
time to eat boys! - Cutting in line pisses me off it's the same people
who do it every day. I mean it's such a blatant
sign of disrespect. It's like, "Dude the line is
literally around the stairwell, "and like what
gives you the right "to come up and cut in line? "That's why you're in jail,
because you didn't learn "basic respect like
that on the streets." Maybe I should say
something, but is it better to just wait the thirty seconds and let the one person do it? - But then, you know you
let one person do it, and now it's ten people. - Pretty soon the cutting line is longer than the actual line. - It's super (beep) up. And then there's Dennis. - I've been four or five
spots back up in line, I've seen Dennis come right
in front of everybody. - Including me. It's definitely disrespecting
me when he does that. - Once an a-hole,
always an a-hole. (dramatic music) - [Dennis] I definitely
cut in line. Yes, I do. They already know, like,
this is how it runs in here. - Me cuttin' in line that's
how I show like status. (dramatic music) - Alex, you know my approach his approach is
totally different. He doesn't have a lot
of friends in there. (Inmate laughs) - This place is really like,
is getting to me super hard. (laughing) - [Alex] I don't fit in, I
tried getting this haircut. (laughing) - [Alex] I tried smoking clone. - It's just it's not,
it's not working. (laughing) - I said, "Damn." - Yeah. (laughing) (laughing) - He got you police haircut. (laughing) (laughing) (ambient music) - It's just I feel so
far out of my element. - And it seems like every
day it's gettin' worse. (laughing) - I thought I'd be
liked more by the pod, like I thought I would
be pretty in by now. - It's just like
like I just feel like what am I really doing? (dramatic music) I just don't get
respect in the pod, and it's gotten more
and more frustrating to the point where I don't
even know what to do. (dramatic music) (dramatic electronic music) (indistinct yelling) (logo whooshes) - The main things that I'm
struggling with in here I have a breakout from
my gluten sensitivity, my roommate's doin' cocaine,
they're doin' clone, my feet are swollen,
and now they're hurting. So, I got a laundry
list of issues that I'm tryin' to work through. If I if it was just a
couple I could do it, but it's a lot. (dramatic music) - Shanese is not doing well. - She complains continuously. - And I cannot tolerate it. - "My feet are swollen," and,
"They gave me pasta again," or whatever it is,
it's ridiculous to me. (drum beats) - So I just, hm, smile and nod, and oftentimes just
get up and walk away. (dramatic music) But I can't get away from her. - Every day I have
to hear from Shanese. - I don't quite understand how
you can knowingly go to jail with all of these health
problems and allergies thinking that they were
just gonna cater to you. - What more can we do for you? We know that there's
issues in the jail. I'm tired of hearing about it. (indistinct chatter) - Oh my god, I mean
this is nonstop. (intense music and drumbeats) (clanging) - Jennifer is just
being a butt hole. Don't ever belittle
what I have goin' on. - Shanese, she's in
way over her head. She's not built to be here. - Jennifer, (beep) you. You don't know the
(beep) I've been through. You don't know what this
disease has done to me. And say probably (beep) you. (clapping) (intense music) (fast dramatic music) (logo whooshes) - I'm gonna walk
with that radio. (whistling) - [Alex] I went ahead and bought
the seventeen dollar radio and some headphones
on commissary. I like music and I knew it
would be a good distraction. It helps me to kind
of get out of myself to walk around with the radio. (dramatic drum beats) - I was gonna ask you guys
like what's goin on with Alex? You know, you see
him come out his cell and just walk around all
day long, like, all day. (dramatic music) - He just walk around all
day with headphones in. He got the same poker
face all day every day. And I can go in there and
just be a frog on a log and just sit, but that
that's not what I'm here for. Alex, (chuckles) I don't know. - Some guy stopped me that
I never talked to before and he asked if he could
borrow the radio for the night. - [Alex] He just kinda caught
me off guard to the point where I kinda stumbled instead
of just sayin' no right away. (dramatic music) So I was like, I'll
give to you but like you gotta give it back
to me the next like breakfast the next morning. - I have a tendency
if I wanna say no I kinda dance around it, but
you can't give these people an inch or they'll you
know, bug you and bug you. But he caught me in
a weak moment and he he probably got the
best of me on that. Lending out my stuff has
given me problems before. - Like when everybody and
their freakin' brother took hits on my e-cigarette. Everybody's out for
themselves and it sucks. (laughing) - I didn't want to argue
with him about the radio. Which I shouldn't
have to argue about it it's mine, I
freaking paid for it. (dramatic electronic music) - [Alex] I don't have the
ability to go full inmate and be hard and get
in people's faces. So I just feel like
it's gonna be hard getting the radio back. What if I get hit or what
if somebody does beat me up? This is like a real
fear that I'm having. This place is so far removed
from everything I've known, and it's pushed me way
out of my comfort zone. I'm getting anxious
and like nervous and it's more than I
feel like I can handle. (dramatic music climaxes) (dramatic music) (logo whooshes) - Alex Patterson. - It's just that I just
really thought that I could come in here and
be socially malleable. Like I've been in a lot of
other situations in my life, but coming to this jail
I feel like has like reopened a wound for
me and that wound is one of constantly
worrying what other people think about
me and how I'm perceived. It's regressing me to a point
that I haven't really felt since I was like a fat kid
in like fourth, fifth grade where I did like didn't have
like friends or anything. - It kinda gets me back
to the point where I was and like you know getting
picked on when I was younger. (sniffing) Havin' to like, buy friends
and stuff, you know. It was a very dark
time in my life, I don't really talk about it. That's why I didn't
bring it up before. - Uh, I just don't
like to talk about things that are
hard to talk about. I just like to (chuckles)
pretend they're not there. I don't know who to
be when I'm in here just like I didn't know
who to be back then. And I'm scared that
I'm gonna get beat up or say something stupid to the
wrong person and get jumped. Like I, I just (groans). Yea, it's just... (electronic music) This just this
place is really like it's hell and it's
so much harder than than I thought
it would be and. It's more than I feel
like I can handle. (dramatic music) - Yeah. (electronic music) (loud flatulence) - [Tony] (Beep) bruh. (dramatic music) (logo whooshes) (clicking) - Mmm-hmm. - [Tony] This is not a safe
environment for the inmates. This environment is
extremely dangerous I know that this place
is infested with weapons, so I want to find a shank. I tell one person
and before I know it people are just comin' up
lookin' to help me get whatever. (drum beats) - There has been
no suspicion of me because I'm so aggressive. I tell them I just need
to make a little money while I'm here,
and I want a shank. So they're thinking,
he want a shank, damn. Nah, he not he ain't
the police, he can't be. - O'Shay and I came in
together, we intake together (lots of inmates speak at once) - He come in act crazy,
you know talkin' real loud. - So he can probably
get me what I need. That's what they
call shanks in jail. (dramatic music) - [Tony] We walked
in the bathroom and he showed me this shank. He had it right here
wrapped in here. This is the hidin'
spot for everything. He brushed it up against
me like, "Feel that." He said he can
make me a good one. So we were trying to
figure out a deal. - I agreed to give O'Shay
ten soups for the shank. - So, I see Tony and O'Shay
talkin and stuff like that. Tony's definitely
tryin' to get a shank. So now I gotta step up and
get one as soon as I can. - Not sure yet but it's always
you know you figure it out. I'm gonna get it. (dramatic music) - O'Shay's workin'
on the shank now, so I don't know, we'll see. I don't trust any
inmates in here, and I don't plan on
givin' him commissary 'til he presents the shank. I will show y'all (laughing). (dramatic music) (dramatic music) - [Shanese] I think that
Jennifer is a bit much. I was trying to
tell her the stuff I had been through, and she made her snide remark like well it is jail, and I was like okay. So, yeah. That kind of
that kind of ticked me off. Because I've been through a lot. I think she understands
my condition. I don't know if she thinks that you know, I'm trying to
do it to get attention. Just like some people may think you are a fake Christian. You know? But that's not my place to say. (Banging) - Wow. - Wow. Using prayer for
every situation. That's something that
I don't understand. At all. (Laughter) - [Preacher] God
given the increase, and so Father we thank you. For that increase this morning. I think that always
saying let's pray on it, and talking in tongue. It's too much. It's too much. - [Preacher] Do you
hear what I'm saying? - [Jennifer] Yes. - [Shanese] Jennifer is all
about drama and attention. Like just give me a break. - [Preacher] In Jesus name.
- [Shanese] She's wearing on me. - [Preacher] In Jesus name. (Clapping) - I am really tired of it. (dramatic music) - [Guard] Alex. - [Alex] I definitely felt
like an outsider in there. - [Cell Mate 1] You got the
essentials, and you good. - [Alex] Like even if I
got along with Dennis, that would have been cool
just to have somebody like kinda knew what
I was going through, and I can be myself but, that didn't happen. So. [Music Playing] [Tony] Alex Leaving, Honestly, that, that, that, that really don't surprise me. - [Dennis] When
I saw Alex walking with his bed and everything. I figured he cracked
into pressure. I think he just felt
like out of place. I wish I could have
took him under my wing. Kind of introduce him
to a lot more people, to him feel more at home
because I think he just didn't know too many people. - [Alex] It wasn't easy at all. They all got the best of me. (drum hit) (dramatic music) - [Shanese] My roommate,
Tiffany came in and she said "Angel needs you
to pee for her." and I was like "what?" I was like "I, I what, what?" Like, I just start stuttering. Angel is scary. I don't want to piss her off. Uh, I'm trying to think
what stays in my system? I'm like, I was like thank you
but no thank you. I am not going to do this. Next thing I know Angel's
at the door staring at me. Oh, hell no. (dripping) - [Shanese] Oh (beep). - [Shanese] So, I
did pee for Angel. I never thought I would be
peeing for anyone in jail. I mean I was told
that between me, and the pregnant
girls we were probably some of the cleanest
people in there. So. I wasnt thinking
like I normally do. Because, I just,
I don't feel well. Like, physically
and I don't want to have an altercation with Angel. After I did it. I had all kinds of things
going through my mind. What if she doesn't pass?
she gonna try to fight me. If I am going to have
to fight her back? But I felt like
I just had do it, and whatever happens happens. This is serious. I definitely can get in trouble. (Intense music) - [Tiffany] Mmm-hmm. - [Alex] This is weird.
(chuckles) I would pin my
leaving much more on internal struggles
then on anything, anything specific. It may not seem like
that much was going on, but there was stuff going
on to me in my own head. (Ringing) - [Alex's Mom] Hello? - Hey - [Alex's Mom] What's
going on? - Uh, I. I pulled myself. I started going crazy like the last three days. That's why I didn't call you. - [Alex's Mom] Oh. Really? - Yeah. - It's, it's miserable in there. - [Alex's Mom] Imagine the
poor people who are stuck there forever. - I know. I mean
hindsight I probably should have talked
to somebody earlier, but I just I just let it build, and kept everything in. They got to me. - [Alex's Mom] You have to do
what's best for you. I love you. - Alright, I love you too. Bye. - [Alex's Mom] Bye. - She's probably
disappointed but, She was probably thinking
of me as more of a more of a quitter than anything. (guitar strumming) I kind of wanted the total, break and disconnect from
my family for a little bit just to totally live on my own, and do whatever I wanted to do. But maybe I'm not quite
ready to fully, you know be on my own and be totally
away from my parents. I still need them. I probably was making it worse, in my head then it actually was. I might have been
giving up a little bit. So, I don't think it
is totally fair to say I did the right thing. (drum music) - [Tony] Close it, close it! - [Guard] What? (dramatic music) (laughter) (chattering) - [Shanese] So, I
did pee for Angel, and now she is getting released. (laughter) But I don't think one has
anything to do with the other. (cheering)
(beep) - Good riddance ECDC! (yelling) - [Ashley] Shanice comes
over to me and says I gave Angel some of my urine. What, what do I say to that? I had to just walk away. I am not on board with that. Shanese doesn't know I'm a cop. I don't like that behavior. Obviously, she doesn't
care about these women, and she's not really
seeing the big picture. So I'm extremely furious. Shanice needs to go home. I want you gone. (dramatic music) - [Willie] Phone call man! (yelling) - All right, lemme go babe. - [Tony] Versace and
Willie walking around arguing, fussing, cussing. Acting a fool type deal. - [Dennis] Willie man
cool with everybody. So, I'm just
thinking they joking I'm thinking Willie man
like just joking around. - What? - [Dennis] They be going back
and forth, back and forth, back and forth. - You can't deal with me (beep)!
(shouting over one another) - You ain't gonna ask (beep)! - [Tony] I'm trying to jump in, and say listen you need to stop. We are going to get locked
down man lets (beep) go! I don't want (beep) to do with
nothing y'all got going on. I hid the shank in my room So if this (beep)
leads to shakedown that's a major problem. (shouting) - You for real, you for real? - Shut the (beep) up
bitch ass (beep)! - [Tony] They're not stopping, and the CO's not doing
anything about it - [Dennis] Willie man like went
to go pick up the garbage can getting ready to
go like hit him. but he put it back. So, I'm thinking it's it's over. - You a pussy ass boy, that's
all you gonna do is talk. - [Dennis] I look over and
I seen it in his hand. - [Tony] It's a shank. (screaming) (dramatic music) - [Shanese] I don't
want to get to a point where Jennifer pisses me off, and I reveal She is
part of 60 days in. - [Ashley] I want Shanice to
go home as soon as possible. So, I said maybe you should
give the signal again. - [Tony] I got big,
big, bag of commissary That's how I'm going to get
another shank and drugs. - [Ashley] Sierra comes running
out. Gets on her belly, and dives. So I grabbed her legs Rail was like I
know what you are people are assuming
that I'm a cop that puts me in a very,
very, dangerous situation. - [Dennis] I got a
new cell mate. Zook. When he come back
he got two gloves on pulling drugs out. Out his ass. If they come check the room.
They come find my shank. Yeah. (dramatic music)
