(dramatic music) - Since phase one, we've made
a lot of drastic changes. We're sending in four more
law enforcement professionals for 30 days to
test these changes and see how we can further
improve our facility. We put time and energy in
selecting you individually. God help me make it 30 days or this sheriff's
gonna kick my ass. We learned a lot from
Tony here in phase one; so, I'd like to bring
Tony back and make him a team leader to
help urge the others to be a lot more successful. - I do see someone
picking you out because you sitting back
with your hands crossed, and you looking like
you're an easy target. - Tony definitely
underestimates me. I felt what he did
was disrespectful. You know, I am more than
capable of handling myself. - If he go longer than two
weeks, steak on me, buddy. Steak on me. - [Inmate] I'm gon'
beat yo ass, oh God. - [Heather] As a jail commander, I would be not just
scared for the inmates, petrified for my staff. It's, it's scary. - [Tony] Walking into 400, a
couple people remember me. Everything's coming
back to me, it's like, get on your grind. - [Donovan] As a law
enforcement officer, this is about the worst
feeling I could have right now. They wanted me to try to
sneak something into the jail. - [Donovan] Which was a
four-inch-long handcuff key. - [Donovan] I'm thinking,
what have I done? And now I'm worried about
what's gonna happen next. (blues music) Yo. - [Producer] Wanna go out? - Yeah, yeah. (beep) yeah. - Yes, I do have
something to show you. I get busy real quick so... - We have another shank, um... - Two days after I got here. This is no more than
a piece of a eyeglass. Man, you pretty much, they
made a piece for your thumb up top, lock the thumb
in, and pretty much that's all I would
use to stab somebody. If I get it in your
neck, it'll be deadly. You know, I mean, it's rough. It's pretty rough. - Actually, it was just thrown
in my lap, to be honest. My cellmate, Chad, told me. He was like, "Hey, this
was my old cellmate's." So he bent down into my bunk, and reached up under
there and I was like, I ain't even see it. He gave it to me, so I ain't
have to you know, buy nothing, or trade out nothing for it. It just literally
just fell in my hand. - It tells me that there's
more shanks in the jail, and there's still a lot of work that needs to be done in here. And actually, we don't
need this in the pod. Yeah, so I will
give this to you, just to get it out of the
pod, just be one less shank. I'm sure I'll be able
to get another one. - [Tony] Okay, thank you. - Chad is my cellmate. He's my bookie,
he wash my dishes. - Um... I mean, you know, people
call it different stuff. A hoe, a do-boy. Do-boys get protection
in exchange for services. - A do-boy is an inmate
that will do anything. Wash my clothes, go get my
coffee out the microwave, clean the cell up. You know, just doing anything
that a person tell him to do. - That is common. And most white guys
coming in is targeted. - With my status, yeah. That's how you handle
business, you feel me? Talking all that police (beep). - Yeah. - [Chad] Man, (beep) that. - And I ain't playing, man. Chad is like in phase
one, my old celly Justin. Got him! He don't really have
much going on in jail. You know, he don't have a
support system out there, so I pretty much gave him a
job like I did with Justin. He pretty much do
everything I ask him. And um, while I'm in here now
to test the jail system, imma use that to my advantage. (birds cawing) - I'll chop your ass
(beep), you stupid (beep). You don't give a (beep)
about a charge. You don't give a (beep)
about a people. (beep) as you doing it, and you (beep) got nohing! Be real, girl get real! - [Inmate] Why she do that? Who did that to you? I said that right there,
who did that to you? Punk ass bitch, turn around. - [Inmate 2] Mine! - [Producer] How are you? How's it been going? - I'm good. It's been going. I don't know that
I've slept yet. The unit just screams,
I mean, just screams. (woman screaming) - [Heather] Anything
and everything is happening in the unit. - [Officer] Unit five. - [Inmate] Run baby. - There's drugs
all over the unit. There's contraband being
passed to and from. There's, you know, sexual
relations happening. - [Woman] Pull your
pants up, girl! - I will be honest, I kinda
thought maybe it was blown a little bit out of
proportion with training. - What the (beep) is that. - But this is by far
the worst female unit that you guys have ever been in. - [Inmate] You (beep)
with fake (beep)! - So, I'm ready to
see what I can learn, and what intel I can get. - I'm getting arrested
and going to jail today. My name is Vanessa. I'm 32 years old. I'm a fire-fighter and EMT, and I have eight years'
experience in corrections. Okay, we're ready to run. Work as a firefighter
EMT is crazy 24, seven. It's just, it's go, go, go. You never know what it
is until that tone hits, and you just go. I am an excellent
special ops candidate because I was a CO for eight
years in a county jail, and I got a good feel of
the system inside and out. I'm not confrontational,
but if you're bringing the confrontation
to me, it's go-time. - [Producer] Wow. - I don't have anything.
(laughs) Nothing. Obviously just going to jail,
my anxiety levels are up. Now they're up 10-fold because
they found the key on me, I'm in segregation by myself, and they guys that brung me
to the jail facility are gone. Don't know? I told the officer
that I found the key in the nurse's station,
but he didn't believe it. And I'm thinking, now's the
beatdown, or now's solitary, or you know, some
troubles going on, and either way, I'm
gonna be here a while. - [Producer] You can just
pull over there on the other side of the car. All right, if you wanna
just wait here for a minute. We have a situation
we gotta deal with. Be right back. I just got off the
phone with my producer, and she said that Donovan
was down in intake, he was getting strip-searched, and they found a handcuff
key on him in intake. We didn't know about it. We didn't ask him to do it, so, we don't know
what to do next. matic music) I just got off the
phone with my producer, and she said that Donovan
was down in intake, and they found a handcuff
key on him in intake. - [Producer] That's
never happened before. - [Producer] And they put
him in a seg cell by himself. We didn't know about it. We didn't ask him to do it, so, we don't know
what to do next. - We did it. - [Producer] You did it. - I did it. - [Producer] You put
him in the seg cell? - No, I gave him
the handcuff key. - [Producer] Okay, why? - Well with all the bad things
y'all found the first time, I wanted to see if we
fixed some of them. - [Producer] Will this put
any kind of suspicion on him with the staff? - No, not at all. None, whatsoever. You look at Donovan, he has
nothing on him that says police. He looks like a meth
cooker than he is anything. Long beard, long hair. Look like we got him out of
the back woods of Kentucky and, best one to do it with. - [Producer] So wait, but
what's gonna happen with him? - He goes right back in, regular unit like
nothing ever happened. - I don't know what's going
on, but after sitting in there, worrying to death and not
being able to do anything, they took me out of seg, and they took me on a
long walk up to the pod. - [Officer] One for unit four. - [Officer] Go ahead. - [On radio] 10-4. - [Officer] Outside four. - Entering the pod is way
different than it seems on TV. It's probably 10 times bigger,
and this is much scarier. (inmate yelling) (knocking on door) - Cell 50, go up that set
of stairs, right there. (inmate laughing) - They open the cell door. There's two bunks and a
small space on the floor. There's already two gentlemen
laying in the bunks. My spot was on the
floor to the right. Not a good place to be. But to get through that, you
just you go to some place that you're comfortable
with like you would do on the street
working undercover. So, I kind of settled
in a little bit, - [Inmate] Go get that white. and decided, okay, it's
time to get to work now. - [Producer] Good luck, Vanessa. - Thank you. - [Producer] See you in there. - [Horton] Vanessa, how are you? - I'm fine, how are you? - 30 days, half the time,
looking for twice the job. I've noticed, gonna
just throw it out there you seem to be a bit timid,
a little bit reserved. But we want you to
get your hands dirty. - A lot of people think
I come off too calm, but I protect myself. You know, when it's time to
get down and dirty, I'm ready. Life has gotten me to a point
where it's no turning back, it's no tapping out,
it's no giving up. - I am ready to do this. I'm just gonna hate what's
gonna happen to my hair. No, I'm just (laughs). (dramatic music) - [Officer] Anything
in your pockets? Anything in your bra? Anything other than
that necessary? - No, I haven't been
in many intake areas, but it was different
from what I'm used to. - [Officer] What's your name? - Vanessa. Vanessa, what's your last name? - Knight. - [Officer] If I
find anything on you, I'm gonna criminally
charge you, just know that. - That's fine. Your officer serves
me real well, sir. - [Officer] Alright, thank you. - Okay. - [Man] Unit four to unit seven. - [Vanessa] When the lady
approached me, she was like, "Oh I gotta go strip-search
you" or whatever. And I was like,
"Okay, no problem." - I will get you a
blanket in just a second. - But then, going
into the holding cell, it was like, none of people
have been strip-searched. - [Officer] All right, what
was your last name? - [Vanessa] Two of them told me
that they had drugs on them. - [Woman] I smoke weed
every day, all day, 'cause I have chronic pain. - And I knew then, that
the unit was gonna be hell. - You ready, girl? You ready to do this thing? - [Inmate] Where's
everybody at? - [Officer] All in their
cells. - [Officer] You, go down there. - [Inmate] Whoo! - Hey, come here. - When I walked into
the unit with my stuff, I knew I was here for a reason, so it didn't really overwhelm me because I've seen
this set-up before. - This Miss Cheryl. Miss Cheryl gonna
take care of you now. - But at the same time,
I feel like this is real. I couldn't believe
how real it was, but this is a real situation. It's pretty bad. - I'm ready to go
get it started. I'm gonna accomplish this
mission and get home. My name's Mark. I'm from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. I am 44 years old. I am a retired warrant
sergeant out of Philadelphia. I was injured on
a job years back, and I suffered a neck injury
that forced me to retire. But I feel right now,
today, before I go in that I am ready to go
back into law enforcement, and I'm hoping when I come
out, I still feel that way. If the sheriff is looking
for special op participants, I am definitely the guy. I am very confident
I can go in here, adapt to any situation, and execute whatever
mission he sets forth. - [Producer] Give me that. Anything else in your pockets? - [Mark] That's it. I have some cash, but I'm
gonna take that in with me. - Signals, my back
is killing me. Now, that's a little
tricky one for me, 'cause my back and
neck always hurt. If there's anything, this
will be that'll be my-- - Yeah. Right now, I feel a
little more nervous than I thought I would, but-- - [Producer] Good luck. - Thanks, guys. - I think it'll all
kind of go away. The adrenaline will take over. And then you know, I'm hoping
there will be no issues, that I'll just go in and adapt
like I would anywhere else. - [Horton] Good morning,
Mark, how are you? - [Mark] Morning. - Doing good today? - I'm good, I'm ready to get in. - [Horton] Energized
and excited. - As excited as I'll ever be. - Mark, I wanna be straight, I wanna be honest
with you, okay? - Yes sir. This is gonna be tough. It's not gonna be easy. But we have big expectations. - If you want out of
this, now's the time. It makes it a whole lot easier. - No, I'm good. - [Peek] Okay. - I'm always the underdog,
and it's not a problem. I won't let y'alls down. - I look forward to that. Thank you, I believe that. Thank you, Mark. - [Peek] If you would,
just step right back here to our cuff team, and
they'll take it from here. - Anybody that doubts
that I can be successful, I just tell them don't
judge a book by its cover. You obviously don't know me, but when I set out
to do something, I'm gonna do it at all costs. And when it's over, I just hope everyone looks
at me differently and says: "You know what? I shouldn't have thought that. (people yelling) (intense music)usic) - [Mark] When you're in there,
everything's so loud. (inmate yelling and cursing) - [Mark] Everything's
amplified. The slamming of doors. (door slams)
(chains jingle) It is insanely loud. (inmate yelling and cursing) - Do y'all understand me? Do y'all understand me? - Step right around there. Remove everything besides
your socks and your underwear. Take the underwear. - [Mark] Take it off? - [Officer] Yes please. Squat and cough. (coughing) - My uniform's on
now, I got my mat. I'm ready to go to my pod. Holy (beep) I'm
really doing this? - [Inmate] Let me see
that booty, baby! - [Mark] As soon as the door
opened up to unit four, it's hectic. People kinda just
mulling around. All eyes are on me now. A million things are
running through my mind. I'm gonna get bumrushed
with this story. Is it gonna hold up, are
they gonna believe me? Is this just not gonna work? I have to wait at the counter
to find what cell I'll go to. Before I can even turn to look
at the guard at the counter, I have people coming up to me. - Where you from? - Where you from? (unintelligible) Are you holding? What did you get in? Are you holding? (unintelligible) And I know he means narcotics. That's what they're
hoping anyone from the outside can bring in. - What cell he in? - [Officer] 423. - Come on. - Seems like everybody, their
focus is trying to get high. (inmate laughing) - I feel like you know
where the dope is, period. - Damn! - And as soon as I told
him no, I didn't bring any, I didn't get anything in, it was it. I was forgotten. But this must mean there's
drugs literally everywhere, and I'm going to find
them, and report them. (dramatic music) - At this point, Chad,
he's definitely a do-boy. He do everything but make
my bed and wash my drawers, and I can handle them too. - [Inmate] Hey, don't do that
little brother like that. That's crazy. - I've only been in the
pod for a couple days, but it's very clear to me
that Chad is Tony's bitch. Anything Tony tells
Chad to do, Chad does. - [Inmate] Damn Tony, you got
him trained, don't you? You got him trained, right? - You would do what
I tell you, too! - Tony's familiar
with the jail system. Tony knows how the inside
of the jail systems work. I think it was smart for him
to take somebody like Chad and put him to work for
him because that put Tony in a position of kind of,
like, a power within the pod. But, just taking advantage
of an individual like that, I wouldn't feel okay having
somebody do that for me. Because being a law
enforcement officer, standing up for the underdog, or standing up for the low
man is what my job is to do. - [Inmate] Yo, yo, yo, yo. - [Imnate 2] Come on, man! - You want a
crossword puzzle book? You want a crossword
puzzle book? - Yeah, yeah. I see a crossword puzzle
book on the CO's desk. I'm like, "I want that." I know I'm not gonna get it. - So I said, "Hey, Chad, I need
this crossword puzzle book." Oh, you want that, cuz? Yeah I want that, man. - Coming in here,
playing an inmate. You know, one of
my main things was I wanted to test the
jail in every opportunity that was presented,
and I'm like, okay, here's another opportunity. (dramatic music) Chad is definitely
an expert thief. He know how to, he can get what he want. He real smooth with
what he do, too. Like, he official, official. He done that a time
or two. (laughs) So, we get it, boom. We take it in the room. We good, good. (dramatic music) (dramatic music)tic mus) - I already knew what it was. They looking at the cameras. - In the facility, there
are several cameras mounted within every pod. And while Tony has Chad go
back there getting the items, I believe there other COs,
from another other area, are watching the cameras. - I'm like, damn man, I
know he gone, he gone. - If you get caught stealing
something from the CO desk, there's no outside charges. You do a week to two
weeks in the hole. - Yeah, I do. I feel bad for
Chad because, yeah, I don't think it was fair. Chad was definitely
being taken advantage of. He was definitely the
pawn in that game, and he got caught doing
what Tony asked him to do. - [Woman] Come
and go around him. Come on, I need
everybody in a circle. - He in the hole, yeah,
'cause of something that I asked him to do. But, I mean, this is jail. He a grown man. He can make his own decisions. Did I take it a step too far? No, no, I don't feel like
there's no boundaries. There's no (gasps) there
shouldn't be a (gasps) in nothing I do. So, X all that out. If you feel that way,
I'm sorry for you. Turn the channel. I can get it in. - My plan with Chad getting the crossword puzzle
book, it failed. But better him than me, because
I'm in here for a reason. The first time I was
here, the first phase, like I was concerned
about mainly just myself. You know, what I could
do, what I'm gonna do. But this time, I got
the added responsibility of being the team leader, and
I don't take that lightly. So, it's important for
me to check on people, make sure they're good. And if I can be any help to
anyone to succeed, you know, I want to do that, and more. - Donovan, for him to
be an older white guy, he's playing it really good. You see, you can't expect
Donovan to come in like me. I'm younger and I'm
black, so I can fit in, and you know, I can move better. Him, he's more sit-back,
reserved, sit with the older folks. I mean, just, with him,
his straight forwardness. You know, how he handle
himself around you know, this chaotic situation
and this environment. - Some (beep) they
got me wrapped up in, straight (beep), I know it. - I like the way he,
how he do, how he move. I like that. But Mark, let's talk about Mark. Mark seemed extremely nervous. Like he's sitting. I see him when he
come down, he just like, he's a recovering
addict or something. Yeah, you're nervous as crap. Yeah, it's literally
all over your face. I pushed up on him like,
"Hey, you straight?" - He was like, "Oh
yeah, yeah, I'm good." I was like, "You need anything? "You know, I got it. "I can move a little something,
some food or whatever." He was like, "Oh nah,
I'm good" this and that. I was like, "Alright, cool." And I just kept going. - My first
interaction with Tony, he came and sat next to me. His first impression towards
me, is an overconfident, cocky person, and
that's a bully usually. I mean if that's
something he does, then whoever chose him as a
leader made a poor decision. But, I'm gonna push through. I know I'm gonna do a
good job for Sheriff. I know I'm gonna find things, and Tony or nobody
else is gonna stop me. (dramatic music) - [Inmate] I don't even know
what the (beep) is going on. - [Inmate 2] A'ight - My first night, I'm
in the cell by myself. So at first, I'm thinking,
okay, this is good. This is a chance
for me to calm down, finetune my story if I need to. And just try to get
a good night's sleep, but because of my injury, I
have some back and neck pain. And there was no
comfortable position. Everything started hurting. So, I figured, okay, this is
gonna be an adjustment period. My body will adjust overnight,
the next day it'll be fine. - [Inmate] Back up bro. - He said-- - Back up, back up bro,
don't talk to me bro. Back up before I pound your ass. - You know, it
wasn't 'til about, I think it was about
five in the morning, I got a new cellmate. - Mark. - [Inmate] Huh? - [Mark] Mark. - [Tony] Mark-- - [Mark] What's up, Tony,
how are you? - [Tony] Nice to met you. - [Mark] My new cellmate
Tony, is a white guy, probably dealing with drugs
and arrests his whole life. - You know, jailhouse tattoos, kinda just doesn't care anymore. How long you here for? - Oh okay. - Getting pulled over by
a cop and you're here. That's par for the course
for someone like him. - And as soon as I
met Tony, I realized, this is the perfect
cellmate to have. - [Tony] What? - [Mark] I mean within hours, we were talking about finding
something to get high. - It popped real quick. I said, this is perfect. I am going to use Tony
to help my agenda. I'm gonna have him
find the drugs. I'm gonna have him buy 'em. I'll pay him to go around and
try to find something illegal, some narcotics for
us, and then find out, hey, how'd you do it? - [Tony] Yeah man. - At this point, I
know we're connected. I know we're good. - I'm feeling great
about the mission. I feel that I am going to
be able to be successful, and you know, prove Tony wrong. (inmates laughing loudly) - [Tony] Shut the (beep) up! - [Officer] Close your door! - Let's go! - [Inmate] Uh-uh.
(negative response) - [Vanessa] It was probably
about six o'clock, seven o'clock shift change. - Give me your paper. - And the CO on shift that
night was a little older. - And I could tell
she was overwhelmed by just the unit because
this is a rowdy bunch. - [Inmate] What
are you gonna do? - I feel like they don't
have much training here. - 110%, the inmates run
this place, without a doubt. That's not a question. - [Officer] All right, top
level, get ready to eat! Let's get some spoons! Let's hurry this
(beep) up, thank y'all. - Even the quote on
quote good guards - [Inmate] Thank god. they are still not in any way in control of the
unit, absolutely not. Eventually, we started
coming out to eat dinner. - [Officer] Hi Miss Patience. - [Patience] Hi honey. - And I saw Vanessa immediately. I kinda didn't know what to do, like, I'm not supposed
to sit by her. - At first, I was kinda
like, is that you know, it took me a minute to,
like, recognize her, and I didn't wanna say anything. So, after she started
talking, I was like, okay, that is Heather. And I didn't really show,
like, excitement or you know, do too much. It was just kinda
like, okay she's here. We're both here now. So, we should be okay. (inmates chatting indistinctly) - [Inmate] Hey Boonie! - [Heather] Then all of a
sudden, I hear some shouting. - But there's always
shouting, so at first, I wasn't really alarmed
because I'm like, my ears are already worn
out from all the shouting that I'm hearing. (inmates yelling and banging) Then I kind of glance up
and at the top of the stairs is Boonie, who I know
is a lockdown inmate. So, she's not supposed to be out with everybody else
when we're eating. I think the CO made a mistake. - [Woman] Boonie don't do it. - Hey yo, why'd you spray her? Why'd you spray her? - This is gonna go bad, and
this is gonna go bad fast. (dramatic music) nus) (knocking) - [Inmate] Billy! - My cellmate Tony, his mission is to get
high at this point. And I told him that
I wanted to help. But now he said he knows
a guy in there, you know, his buddy Billy, that
can get this done today. - [Tony] How long we gonna
be locked down this time? - I thought it was gonna take
a few weeks, but this is it. (door lock beeps) - [Tony] Hell yeah.
- All right. - [Billy] He'll give you the
money now and I'll give you 3, I'll hook you up. - I'm feeling great
about the mission. I feel that I am going to
be able to be successful. - [Inmate] I'll see what I can
do, all right? - But I have a serious
problem. Pretty much since I
laid on that bed Friday, my back's killing me. (beep) my head's like a constant migraine since,
that hasn't subsided. I figured it'd be
some adjustments, but my body's just
not handling it. It really sucks. (ominus music) (inmates yelling) - [Inmate] Why'd you spray her? - The CO sprayed Boonie,
and I was just like. - She really wasn't doing
anything at that point. Yeah, she wasn't
supposed to be out, but she wasn't a threat
to that guard. - [Inmate] What did she do? - [Inmate] What did she
do (beep)! - As a jail commander, with
my experience in corrections, the second the CO
sprayed Boonie, your first instinct is to
get control of the area. So, when that was going on, almost instinctually I
went to yell, lockdown. What was frightening is
nobody was doing that. - [Inmate] What did she do? - [Inmate 2] She didn't do
nothing. - [Inmate] Why'd she get
(beep) sprayed! - Immediately, I
knew this was bad, purely because of the numbers. And the lack of control
that the COs have in there. I knew this was gonna be bad. - Get this (beep) off my face. Why you (beep) with me! (inmates yelling) - [Inmate] Hold it up! Hold it up! - Even as I'm still
processing what's happening, the unit goes tilt. (inmates yelling) - [Inmate] Water makes it
worse! - [Officer] Go to your
cell and close your door. - I didn't know if these
inmates would turn on her and attack her. She's outnumbered
100 to one here. - (beep) wrong with you, girl? Walk and (beep) up off of me. - You know, riot mentality. - [Inmate] Why did you do that? - And the exchange
between the CO and Boonie is still happening. (indiscriminate yelling) (dramatic music) - [Tony] I see Mark coming
out of the pod, and I don't know what it is, but it's not good. I'm concerned about this dude. This place is ran
by the inmates, like, you can't put
it any other way. - The inmates have no
consequence for their action, so their first response for
many of them is a violent and aggressive response, (inmates yelling) because they're
gonna be right back to their same routine
the very next day. - [Heather] One of the
trustees came up to me. She kind of looks almost
like a sorority girl. I was telling her
my cover story; everything was going fine. Betsy came to the
cell door window. (dramatic music)
