(dramatic music) (upbeat music) - [Woman] I'm nervous
because I have a huge fear about being bullied in
jail, I don't want that young-minded high school
girl to come back out in me where I let people
control my emotions. - I got one coming back! - [Man] I was the only
white person that I seen, I definitely feel out of place. - [Woman] So, you
know why you're here? - Yeah, I'm here
for some bull[beep]. I'm gonna struggle with taking orders from
Corrections Officers. You don't be talking
down to me like I'm one of your
kids, which I ain't. - What the [beep]
is wrong with you? - [Woman] Iesha, she just
kept antagonizing Lyric. (women yelling) (mysterious music) Iesha was just carrying on this conversation about
Lyric sarcastically. [Iesha] (yelling curses) - You guys, take
it in, take it in. It's over with, it's
over with, let's go. Let's go, let's go. Don't make me repeat
myself, let's go. - It's about respect,
she keeps walkin' around [beep]
disrespecting me. (mysterious music) - Fulton County is an
indirect supervision jail. That means staff can't always be there when altercations begin. - [Jessica] No CO's even
came in to de-escalate the situation, they
just locked us all down, which gets everyone
all fired up. - Initially, I just
sat in there and I just observed everything
because I just didn't wanna deal with the ruckus. - Basically I beat the hoe up, the hoe's [beep] mad, the
bitch wanna come up here, everybody wanna be
starting [beep], bitch, but you can't start none, hoe. And this is what I do,
bitch, I wake up, I fight. - Our pod is full of
immature women, it's crazy. Like, I feel like I'm
too old to be fighting. This stuff should've been
left, like, in middle school. - My husband Ruben
spent almost 11 years in prison for a
non-violent crime. I'm taking his advice
about earning the trust of inmates who
seem to run things. They'll provide the most
valuable information, that's why I'm here. - Bitch be like pullin' my hair and punch me in my
[beep] eye and [beep], but when I start
punching on you, bitch, they wanna break it up, no,
it don't work like that. A fight is a fight, bitch. You wanna fight, you gonna fight til me or you tap out,
not when everybody else wanna jump in and tap out. [beep] that, I'm not done,
so we gonna keep fighting. (upbeat music) (men talking) - I really think I am
fitting in the pod. It's just a big culture shock,
really, just going in here. So, but I'm adjusting
well though, I think. (mysterious music) It kinda caught me off
guard a little bit. I think it's really a red flag. I was just looking
around like, dang, like, my heart dropped and I was
just kinda like, oh, shoot. - [Correctional
Officer] Let's go, sir. Sir, come on. Sir, let's go. Sir, come on. Me? Yes, you. Oh [beep]. - He was then pulled
for an interview. They starting to see it now, but a lot of people
didn't know that. Yeah, it was kinda a
scary moment though. I think I did everything
good, you know, I blend in good,
I stay in my lane, and then, I knew I
wasn't gonna have no issues with rumors,
and then when it came, it just kinda hit me, I was
like, dang, and I was like, man, I feel like my time's
gonna start getting rough. (upbeat music) (mysterious music) - [Man] What's up, man? - I'm nervous because
you don't get a choice in who your roommate
is, you don't get a choice in who's in your pod. -[Jon] Oh, [beep]. My first impression of him
is he's a tall white guy with tattoos all over the
place, to include his face. I didn't let that be
the judge of anything. I'm trying to make connections, yet keep my boundaries. You're undercover 24 hours
a day, seven days a week. I need to be careful. So I just stuck to my story, I think I was pretty believable. (upbeat music) - It's not gonna
be over with her. - Bitch, I wasn't
talkin' about you, hoe. - Some people don't care
about going on lockdown. I guess they wanted
to fight again. If we gonna fight,
we gonna fight. (knocking) - I'm about to go
back down there, so, please, there's about
to be another fight. - Putting us on lockdown
only made things worse. You can feel the tension
building with Lyric, and the girl comes
back downstairs. And she's talking [beep] again. When I saw that,
I was like, wow. - Being in my room, I
heard two grown children downstairs arguing and
a whole bunch of chaos. No police involvement. - It's just like a big
dormitory of stupid-ass women that have made
the dumbest mistakes, over and over and over again. (dramatic music) - [Inmate] One on one,
one on one, one on one. Don't nobody touch anyone. (women yelling) - There were two fights
and no officers to, you know, prevent all
that from happening. I was scared, scared
like what's gonna occur when I try to
go to sleep tonight? Where am I gonna be? Who am I gonna be around? Fear of the unknown. - I don't know, they cage
them up like animals so they act like animals, or are you animal
first and then they cage them up because
you are animals? - It is very disturbing
because they're supposed to be here because
they committed a crime and you're supposed
to learn your lesson. The only thing that they're
learning is violence. (dramatic music) - I took the cookies
this morning, I crumbled them up
in that oatmeal, man, it was good, dude. My strategy was what
I've done so far, I just wanted to go in there, get to know everybody
as quickly as possible, without putting myself out there to make myself vulnerable. I thought it was just, you know, from the first
season on 60 Days In, everybody seemed like
they kept to themselves, for the most part. This has been way
more interactive. Hey, what happened? You left us, bro. There's a lot of
gang members in here, so it's definitely nice to
know who's the gang members. I respect everybody
else in there, so just kind of keep
with the guys that are not on any side, you know, 'cause I don't wanna
try getting pulled into anything that
they're doing. Man, that water was so hot
this morning in that shower. It was, like,
boiling water, man. I was like, if I had a
Cup of Noodles right now, that thing'd be done. I'm definitely
learning more and more along the lines of just
how these guys work. - [Don] When you're confined
in a little jail cell, even when you get out
into the day room, with all the inmates, it can
still feel claustrophobic. So when the CO's let
us go to the rec room that one hour of rec time, it felt like freedom
a little bit. - I guess we got rec time now, so can we go inside
the gym and play ball? - I like the free time. - We barely get rec. - So I guess two times out of
the week, somethin' like that. It depends on how we act, and it depends on how
the officer feels. - There's minimal standards, they take the minimal
to the minimal. The one hour of rec and the
two meals, that's minimal. (dramatic music) (men yelling) [CO] Gentelmen, I need
everyone to step on in. [CO] Gentelmen, I need
everyone to step on in. -[CO] Let's go. (inmates chattering) - [Man] Man, [beep] power. - When the power went out, the officers weren't letting
the guys get rec time, when I feel like some of
the guys should be getting rec time at least five
times out of the week. Let them go play basketball, let them go do something, man, they're stuck in
here this whole time, they don't do nothing,
all that frustration build up in you and
it's gonna bust out, it's gonna lash out at you. - [Don] I felt neglected by
some of the guards in there. - I've been waiting
for hours, man! Come on, man. - I knew what I got myself into, but I didn't know how the CO's, how they run stuff in the jail. I would just let them
keep rec every day. Now this time they got
a lot of frustration going on inside,
you know what I mean so, let them get their energy out. You want your freedom, you
know what I mean? - Yo, yo, yeah, yeah,
you see us, yeah. - My name is Matt,
I'm forty years old. I'm about to go to
jail for 60 days. I'm trying to improve a
system that any one person in America could find
themselves in at any time. You know, it's gonna be
a stressful situation, but I think I'll be
able to get through it. - Any nerves? - Nah, I'm good. There's been times when
I was involved in risky behavior that could've landed
me easily in county jail. I'm a rebel that has
never been caught. - I wanna just go
over your cover story and your identity,
make sure you are clear on why you are in jail? - I run a stash, like a house
to grow weed, marijuana, and was on the radar of
the federal government. They came in, kicked the
door, took me to jail. -[CO] Mmm kay. So, I feel like inmates
are regular people. Anybody could be incarcerated
at any time, you know? You make a mistake,
a lapse in judgment. The reason I wanna go to jail is to help improve the system. I feel excited, you
know, I'm ready to go. (upbeat music) (mysterious music) -[Matt] In my life, I've
done a lot of stuff. There are times in my
life when going to jail would not be totally out of
the realm of possibility. Head down and see the nurse,
just come to her there. - [Nurse] Turn and face
me, turn your whole body. [CO] You're gonna move when we
tell you to move. - Get your ass back here. - Sit down right here. - Everybody have a seat. Alright, listen
up, listen up, man. You must take a shower
because we have too many outbreaks, don't want
nobody catching nothing. - I'm alright with the shower. There's some guys in
there that probably should shower more
often, I mean, the body odor in the
place is unlike, a level that's beyond
anything I've ever smelled. [CO] Marvin! - You got one! - I'm thinking, this
[beep] is real, for sure. - [CO] 167, gentlemen. - And I'm about to
be here for awhile, so get used to it real quick. I just took a deep
breath, looked around, and I said, I'm here,
let's [beep] do this. (upbeat music) - It's already
hard being in jail. A rumor had come to
me that I was a fed, somebody said that
to me, and so, I was kinda, you know,
on my toes a little bit. But then everybody's
still talking to me. It definitely felt
like a turning point, I was actually
wanting to build some friendship with
some of the inmates. I'm learning about gangs
and things of that nature. Everywhere I go, people
always talking about gangs. They wanna know who
you with, who you rep. It's just the lifestyle here. - We do have gang
involvement here inside the Fulton County Jail. - It's gang land. - You got, like, your
neighborhood gangs, like little cliques. They might consist
of GD Crypts and Bloods. Too Tall, he's kinda
like the boss, you know? Everybody pretty
much respects him, he just kinda runs things. This is not the gang
to be played with, you don't mess with him. Too Tall rolls pretty deep, so, you know, if
he don't like me, I know there's gonna
be four or five other guys that don't
like me, as well. So, yeah, I need him to like me. - [Man] I think Calvin
should avoid using gang involvement as some sort
of protection mechanism. Just don't get involved
with the gangs. [Too Tall] I got cake
to trade. (mysterious music) (laughing) - They didn't know me
and they felt comfortable enough to just talk
bad about me or try to tease and taunt me, they
did it behind a door, but they yelled it loud
enough for me to hear. - Good morning, ladies. [Women] Good morning. - [Mauri] My strategy
was just to get along with everybody, so that's
what I had been doing. But you have people
in there that try to turn everybody against you. -[Mauri] I was a correctional
officer for three years in a maximum security
prison, I've seen a lot. If these girls turn against me, I know how bad that could be. I'm, like, really scared. (upbeat music) - Can't see without my glasses. What's up, fool? - My roommate has a
very strong personality. He doesn't take the
cues that I wanna be left alone very well. - [O'Neil] Look, I'm blowin'
bubbles out of my peter! (laughing) Look camera, look! Damn, my meatballs didn't have
no sauce on it or nothin'. Got these old plain old balls. - [Jon] If O'Neil and
I were not roommates, things would be a lot easier. But since we're in
such close quarters and there are such differences, I think everything's magnified. (flatulence) -[O'Neil] It's gonna be a
long night for you. In the outside world, if
somebody was irritating me or annoying me I would just
go somewhere else and leave. In here I can't do that. Sometimes I just need quiet,
that's important to me. And I don't have that here. (flatulence) (flatulence)
(O'Neil laughs) [Jon] Mother [beep]. I'm starting to feel
my patience slipping. (O'Neil laughs) (upbeat music) - [CO] Let's go gentelmen,
let's go, let's go, let's go. -Gentelmen, if your pants
are falling down, if your whites longer
than your blues, well than tuck them in. We'll go back to one door and
get that. Let's get in the gates, five,
six, seven... one two... - It's a stuffy, a
10 by 10 room, with two people in here all day. You keep trying to
make it go by fast, you know, you sleep, you
eat, you do things like that. Being in a room 15, 16 hours
a day is wearing me down. I'm hoping I can really
use my social work skills to build this
rapport with inmates so the inmates can trust me, so that I can try to help
one person at a time. So, my goal coming in was to
help people like Dasanique, because he reminds
me of my students. So, for him to point out
that I need to smile more, which I'm actually
known to do too much of, it just showed me
that jail can change you in such a short time. (upbeat music) - [Operator] Hello, this
is a free call from. - [Jessica] Jessica. My husband is what
keeps me strong. If I can't talk to my husband, it's probably
gonna be a problem. - [Ruben] Hello? - [Jessica] Hey. - [Ruben] She's right here. - Oh, okay. - [Jessica] Well, I'll call
you later, babe, I love you. - [Ruben] I love you, too. - [Jessica] Okay, bye. - [Ruben] Bye. - [Jessica] My husband was
incarcerated for over 10 years. I need to do this so that
I can fully understand what my husband went through
while he was locked up. And just strengthen our
communication and our marriage. (upbeat music) - Matt Kramer! Grab your stuff. (dramatic music) 515 and 508. 508, 515, and 508. - Who's in here, you guys know? I think I'm gonna
keep to myself, learn the lay of the
land, and then see who it's safe to interact with. - You ready to get in here yet? - You wanna switch to spades? - I think I'm a pretty
good judge of character, so before I try to
get some information that could possibly
help some people out, whether it's the
staff of the facility or it's the inmates,
I'll just lay back and watch what's going on. (upbeat music) I'm a people person. It's gonna help me
because I'm gonna be able to interact with people,
but you never know. You never know who
you're gonna meet, so it could also be a hindrance. [Matt] Yea, wasn't a
thousand plants. [Inmate] A whole basement, we're talking about pretty
close to a thousand. -[Matt] Really? Professional weed
grower you put me in here with, so
that was awesome. I'm not looking to
get into an in-depth conversation about
my pot business. I'm just gonna try
to maintain my cover. -[Inmate] Right on. - It's just like,
it's not people here that wanna do better,
there's just people here trying to wiggle
their way through the system just to get out. They don't have a
desire to change. If they don't like
me because of me trying to have a
clean lifestyle, I'm not gonna pop no
pill to satisfy them. I'm not gonna drink no
hooch to satisfy them. It's horrible, it's like
peer pressure in here. - The inmates here at
this jail will definitely try to test you to see
whether or not you're weak and can stand up
to their pressure. I know my roommates
don't like me. I knew it was gonna be
bad, but I didn't know it was gonna be
this bad, this fast. (men talking) -What you want to do? Trump, spades? - Now that I'm cool with
people here, I feel safe. But you just never know,
and there are definitely other people here that
are attracting attention. -[Too Tall] You don't even
tight no belt. - You can't be Blood. [Marcus] I'm not blood bro, I
not... - From my understanding
there's different gangs in here, you got the
Bloods, you got the Crips. There's somebody claiming
that they're a Blood, that nobody
recognizes as a Blood. Yo, I'm mad too. [Marcus] I aint' gonna
keep talking aight. I aint' gonna
keep talking. Steppin' over that
line that even I can relate with as a
Marine, you know, if somebody's claiming
the title of a Marine, and I'm there, and I check you, and you don't bounce
back, you know, saying, you know,
look I'm not a Marine, I apologize, whatever, I'm
gonna check you as well. And, you know, just
what's happened here. [Too Tall] Everybody's
dogging you rather than me cause you ain't nothing on
the street. [Marcus] [beep] you. [Too Tall] Get out on the
street. [Marcus] [beep] you. - On the street holmes,
on the street. [Marcus] [beep] you. - Too Tall, he cool, he
not gonna mess with you if you don't mess with
him, but, you know, if you cross that line,
or if you try to claim you're some kind of a
gang that you're not, then that's when it start. That's you man, that's you. (men yelling) I think to survive
here, you have to fight. You have to fight and
let them know, like, I will fight you, and
I will get out there with you whether
you win or lose, it's just a respect thing. Why don't you follow up on
your stuff? -[Too Tall] Follow up on
your stuff. That's what I'm talking about. -[Marcus] Who the [beep]
are you? (dramatic music) [CO] Alright, open up on 690. (buzzing) - I didn't know how long
I was gonna be there in that place, it's like a
dungeon up there, you know? - [Man] Ah, man, being
locked into that cell man, I've been going crazy man. [CO] Eight in tower six. - It's my go, it
ain't right how they treat us in here, you
know what I'm saying? - That [beep]s with
your head, man, you know what I'm saying? You're in there for 20 hours, you can't come outside,
you know what I'm saying? Like, no human should be
locked down for 20 hours. - [Man] Mentally, man,
I feel drained, man. I can't wait to get
the heck out of here. I wanna get back out to society, I wanna get back out
to the free world. Can't do nothing, man,
you know what I'm saying? Like all they do is play
cards, play spades, play chess. -[Inmate] Oh, oh, oh, okay The [beep] is the matter? So, hey... You a tough man? -[Dashaun] C'mon bro. You a tough man? -[Dashaun] C'mon bro. - I was winnin',
I had more pieces. - I don't give a [beep]. - Alright, [beep] stop
talking about it then. Okay, shut your [beep]
mouth [beep]. - Alright, [beep] stop
talking about it then, [beep]. - I'm talkin' about a game! When you're locked
up for so long, little things make you snap. I got into it with Dashaun
and he tried to play me, yeah, that was enough
to make me go off. - You make me mad, I'm
gonna make you angry and make one of y'all
try to fight me, so I can fight
back, you feel me? You turn my face red, I'm
gonna turn your face purple. -[Dashaun] The [beep] is
wrong with you [beep]? - Gotta tough you up, guess I
gotta stop playing with you. - If you've got concerns
about your safety or anything, just put your hands
behind your neck, and lock your fingers,
stand in front of a camera. - [Don] Jail's getting to me
more than I thought it would. Stressed out,
thinking about home, the other inmates talking crazy, being in this jail, man,
it can make you snap. Yeah, I'm not gonna catch no charges in here
'cause of some kid. - When I see a fight, you know, I just think, oh, I'm up next. - In here, I'm by myself. If it's a problem, let's
just solve it and move on. It's gonna be a long 60 days. - Man, I'm ready to go home. Yo, I was just
standing there right in front of the camera
like this, yo, wish they had more channels
up in here, man, for real! - When you meet somebody
that was in the Marine Corp, you're brothers,
that's the way the Marine Corp is, always faithful. In Rob's mind, he did combat, he was in the Marine Corp,
these guards are nobody. - [Man] I suggest you
shut the [beep] up, man. - [Man] Or what? - Michele is stand
offish like me, and she wasn't rowdy
like the other inmates. - Jessica, I noticed her
because she was low key, she wasn't messing
with a lot of people, and there's nobody
like that in there.
