"The Fulton County Jail is dealing with drugs," "gangs..." "Hey, all the way up." "And violence." "I've instituted this program with the participants, because I need eyes on the inside to help me gain an understanding on how to deal with these problems." "You can smuggle pretty much anything you wanted." "My cellmate, he gonna buck, you know." "I mean, you step to him, there's gonna be problems." "No, my turn?" "It's up in there." "Don't get down like this!" "He's in here like an OG, you know what I'm saying." "He's like 10 years older than me." "And he's kind of smart, you know." "He's street smart, and he's book smart." "Nah." "It's basically.." "You know what I'm sayin' like..." "I'm like "c'mon man."" "Rico, he a different animal." "You know what I'm saying?" "He's like, "Nah, I've been in this criminal justice"" ""for a long time."" ""I know about the lawyers and courts and everything."" "He definitely suspicious, and I'm like." "Man, you know, I'm just like." "Well, the first 24 hours I was here, the girls gone wild." "They have, like, a water fight." "They're running around naked." "You can't sleep." "You just can't, and then if you do fall asleep, they're gonna wake you up anyways." "Hey, Jane!" "My whole body hurts." "I just want a new mat." "I'm gonna throw a fit, is what the I'm about to do." "That's ridiculous." "Exactly, I'm getting a real pissed." "You know, if it happens, it happens." "Okay." "Blue shirt, blue shirt." "My cellmate, Dasanique, he telling me that I need to make up my bed to do a head count, that's when they let everybody out in the dayroom, and that was another challenge, 'cause it was like," "I'm sure everybody gonna see that there's a new face." "That's my room." "Switch the top all around." "Down to front line zero-seven." "Wow." "This officer, he got loud and started, you know, he yelled at me in front of everybody." "And I was just like, "Shoot."" "You know what I'm saying?" "Man, usually, they'd be like, "You new now, but"." "There you go..." "Like, everybody pretty much just kind of looking at me, you know, so I was just like man, it was kind of embarrassing." "I was just looking around like man," "I hope nobody mess with me." "I feel like my time's gonna start getting rough." "Hey, what ya'll got?" "All y'all, line up at your doors." "Come on, come on, processing time." "Let's go, it's like 8 a.m., let's go!" "Come on, y'all had enough time." "Initially, I just sat in there, and I just observed." "You're not supposed to be openly friendly to people that you first meet in jail." "That's what my strategy is, to mind my business, and the ones that I do talk to, they've given me a lot of information and insight." "Lyric runs that pod." "She has everyone pretty much under her control." "She does." "I have to find my own way in life, from foster care to crazy mom." "In jail, you get respect, or you get disrespected." "When everybody's gonna lay down." "I'm not doing that." "That's just out of the question." "Only think I know about her is that she's very violent." "That's kind of scary." "She had a lot of those females shook." "Like, they did not want to say anything out of the way and have her hear it, because if you piss her off, it's problems for you." "My name is Nate." "I'm 28 years old." "I have always dreamed about working in law enforcement." "This is a unique opportunity for me to learn new things that will better me and my future as a law enforcement officer." "I did two combat tours to Iraq." "As a Marine, you become formed around the idea that you are not safe, because as soon as you start to let your guard down, you will be taken advantage of." "And I feel that it's gonna be the same way in jail." "It'll be all right." "I know." "You're gonna be careful." "You gotta come back the way you left." "The normal intake process," "I actually felt like I was going back through boot camp." "You get everything issued to you." "You turn over all your civilian clothing." "Jail absolutely is gonna be a rude awakening for me." "Gang members, drug dealers," "I was the only white person that I've seen." "I definitely feel out of place." "I ain't worried, boss." "I ain't worried about it." "Let go of my neck!" "Let go of my neck!" "For real, yo!" "What?" "Get up!" "This is it." "I'm in here, an inmate in Fulton County Jail." "()" "Zone 600 is the scary place." "There are so many things that can affect that dynamic based upon a certain person leaving or a new person coming in." "I'm trying to make connections." "Dashaun, I actually met him, and he's about 18 years old, I think." "And he's been in the system for quite a while." "So what I've done is try to bring him in closer where I can control him a little bit better." "My job as the investigator, yes, he is valuable." "He has no qualm about sharing information." "He talks about actually smuggling drugs into the facility." "Dashaun likes to tell everybody about his gang affiliation and how bad and tough he is." "If he is actually doing everything that he says that he's doing, then he's not very bright for letting everyone know about those things." "On the flip side, if he's not actually doing those things, and he's saying that he's doing those things, he's got a couple of screws loose, because that could get him killed." "The gang members here inside the Fulton County Jail will definitely try to test you, to see whether or not you're weak and can stand up to their pressure." "Don't get involved in the gang lifestyle." "Don't try to out-gang someone that's actually in a gang." "And don't try to kiss up to a gang member, because that can be just as dangerous as identifying allegiance with that gang." "Morning, ladies." "Good morning." "Everyone move out, or what?" "Everyone's asleep." "Yeah, I know, but she was..." "There's the guy." "I know buying." "Mexican gonna pay." "Mexican gonna pay." "You better shut up, before I beat your ass." "What ya all doing?" "Tell me about that, Iesha." "What is that?" "What are you saying?" "I say shut the up, before I beat your ass." "Nah hoe." "Well, the girl just kept talking." "I don't know lesha, but just she talks too much." "She talks too much." "She's too loud." "I'm not afraid of Lyric, but if you bring problems to her, she's gonna come back with a vengeance." "Show them, show them." "I want to look." "This is how we live." "And kids, don't come here, 'cause this is horrible." "You know what I'm saying?" "You take a doo-doo right next, to where somebody laying." "They're two feet away." "I stay away from this wall, 'cause I really think that's piss." "You know what I'm saying?" "These are thin mats, no pillows." "This is how we live." "You know what I'm saying, wake up at 2 o'clock for some dirty breakfast and wake us up again at seven to do, like, a head count." "They keep on..." "Think they got sandwichl with bologna?" "It's that ham." "It get depressing, honestly." "You know, you really do get depressed, so." "Thank you." "Yeah, no problem." "It's gonna be some long weeks." "Watch your step, Mauri." "My name is Mauri." "I'm 24." "I was a corrections officer in a male prison for three years." "I quit working as a CO about six months ago." "I felt I was just there as a body to make sure nobody killed each other." "Working in the prison, I've seen the ups and the downs and the corruption, so I want to shed light and help the Colonel make a difference within his jail." "The only thing that keep going through my mind right now," "I'll miss my family." "Your hair's pretty." "Thank you." "I have to change it." "You know, I got to go incognito." "I am concerned about your safety." "Hopefully, you know, I can keep my eye on what I'm in there for and come out the same way I'm going in." "Did you sign, or did you want to sign?" "I'm hungry, I'm really hungry." "Wait, hey, man, what's up with that?" "You know what?" "Nah, he needs to get searched down." "You want me to strip?" "Not over here." "Come on, ask." "When you go through intake, they start taking things from you." "I really want to be able to keep my weave." "And in intake, they might make me take a weave out, and it's gonna make me feel like less of a woman." "It's not gonna make me feel like me." "All right, come on, ladies." "Here at the Fulton County Jail, we have four facilities." "Female inmates are housed in Union City, Georgia at our South Annex." "Signal 82 times, seven females from 901 Rice Street to 6500 Watson Street." "As a black person, the prison system is nothing but a caste system" "that systematically keeps African-Americans from getting to their fullest potential." "(Ic)" "No, I didn't want for none of that." "You chose the one right here." "No, it's not their job." "Working as a CO, I saw a lot of crazy things." "The fact that I'm gonna be locked up with women kind of scares me." "I know how men are." "Women, I feel, is gonna be a whole different ball game." "Those inmates, they will find all of your flaws, 'cause they have nothing else to do." "I got it on for you already." "Thank you for that." "Rignt." "Yeah, yeah, I don't know." "You know what I'm saying?" "Damn." "He still can't understand the charges that I have." ""And something ain't right here."" ""They ain't supposed to transfer you down here."" ""And you're supposed to have a court date."" ""And you supposed to get bond."" "So he pretty much knows what's going on." "I'm from here, that's what I'm saying." "It don't add up, don't." "Now I know I'm undercover, so I'm just giving him," "I mean, whatever I need to give him." "And I'm thinking that's enough." "I'm cool with him." "You should be good now." "You know what I'm saying." "In here?" "Downstairs?" "You know, I was talking to him." "I could feel him, you know, his pain." "You know what I'm saying?" "I'm just like, "Hey, man, that ain't right, man."" "It's serious in here, you know what I'm saying." "If you ain't strong, man, this jail will break you, man." "This will break you, for real." "Morris!" "One more time for me, brother." "My bad, my bad!" "Gentlemen, that door opens, step in, close it behind you." "This is it." "I'm in here." "There's no turning back right now." "Come on out and stand by your door." "Stand by your door." "I definitely feel out of place." "I was the only white person that I seen for, you know, aisles." "We got to catch 'em." "It definitely makes me feel uncomfortable." "I couldn't defend myself if I had to." "I'm just kind of shark bait." "Don't tell me what to do." "Don't talk to me like that." "I'm your mother, child or anything else." "Watch how you talk to me." "All right." "Close this behind me." "I went in there." "I kind of sat back a little bit, and then people started coming up to me." "I am definitely nervous." "If I mess up on my cover story, my safety's at stake." "A lot of pressure, a lot of anxiety, you know, backtracking, trying to remember exactly what I said, exactly how I said it, because he was asking so many times." "What worries me the most is the fact that everybody else is in here for a couple days, a week, two weeks, and they're charges are worse than mine, so I'm definitely a little worried about" "when a couple days come and go, and they're like, "What are you still doing in here?"" ""You should be gone by now."" "Hey!" "Dashaun, he was very loud, boisterous." "He doesn't take to cues that I want to be left alone very well." "And he had a piece of string." "It was some type of, like a..." "A piece of string." "Chris, stop." "A piece of string, no, listen." "Calm down." " Just listen." " Chris." "He just doesn't get it, but I have to keep playing the game and put that frustration and irritation to the side." "Dre, Dre!" "I thought I would get some really good information, but I don't believe everything he tells me." "His actions and his mouth are really starting to unnerve a lot of people in the unit." "Iesha kept antagonizing Lyric." "There's when I beat your ass, hoe." "Iesha was just carrying on this conversation about Lyric, sarcastically." "I would describe I-Pod as a zone filled with daytime drama," "24 hours a day." "The only thing that we can count on is that the situation will change at any moment and can be just as dangerous as any housing unit here with the men at the main jail." "Lyric is cool, but if you cross her, she will get in your." "How you doing?" "It's about respect." "She keep walking around disrespecting me." "This is sodom and gomorrah man and I'm not with this." "I didn't get it." "Come on!" "Come on." "Man whooo." "Then let her ass come down, dumb ass." "Bitch, I bet you can't even read, hoe." "Come on down these steps, though." "She know I whoop that ass." "I'm about to come down there." "I'm telling you, it gets real ugly." "Yeah, she don't want it." "I could see just from living with Lyric that she could really hurt someone, because she has so much built-up frustration." "That how your lip got busted, I will you up." "Come down here!" "Come up here, come up here!" "Come up here." "Come the down here, bitch." "()" "She don't want it." "I don't give no." "Iesha kept antagonizing Lyric." "All this is nonsense!" "Break it up, lets go now!" "Let go, let go!" "Hair, let go of her hair." "You have to be fair." "Let go of her hair." "Bitch, let her hair go, bitch." "Here, when you're in a fight, you're not in a fight alone." "Your whole room is in the fight." "I was just watching." "And I understand why my husband is so aggressive." "I get everything that he was going through." "The environment makes you aggressive." "This is what y'all wanted." "Seeing this go down, it takes me back to when I was a CO." "My whole approach was to diffuse the situation." "If the officers really cared, this wouldn't be able to continue on." "You don't see no cop here." "They supposed to been here." "That was not supposed" " to go down." " The reason why they call me Grandma is because I have my ethics that I was raised on." "And I've been trying to bring peace between all these people." "And I know I'm in jail, but let me tell you something." "I'm gonna stand my ground and say, until I walk out this door, all this is unnecessary." "It's wasted lives going down the drain, and that's why they keep doing what they doing, and they gonna keep gettin' what they get." "You don't know why, bitch!" "Everybody, take it in, take it in." "What the." "It's over with!" "Let's go, let's go." "Let's go, take it in." "Take it in, let's go." "Bitch, !" "Let's go, let's go!" "Don't make me repeat myself, let's go!" "Let's go!" "The CO side of me just been screaming on the inside." "Better get in the right room!" "I don't know if they're overworked or under-motivated, but somebody needs to redirect all these officers here." "Should have been locked in the door." "Once you done got your ass beat, you just done got your ass beat." "Don't keep fightin' to prove nothin', 'cause you gonna keep pissing me off, pissing me off, pissing me off." "The whole the bitch wanna come up here." "Everybody want to be starting, bitch, but you can't start nothin', hoe." "And this is what I do, bitch." "I wake up, I fight, bitch." "This is what I do." "I'm so how." "Bitch, I here." "Bitch, you didn't do nothin', hoe." "I'm still gonna hit." ", this shit don't stop." "It's not over with." "I hope she don't think it's over with, 'cause it's not." "If something was to happen in the pod, the kind of COs that they have here," "I won't have no help." "I'd just be in a situation by myself." "I just don't feel safe, I don't." "My roommate, Dasanique, he reminds me of students that I work with." "Last time I was locked up, I was locked up for 18 months." "That's a year-and-a-half." "I turn 19 this month." "So I think I learned my lesson this time." "The hardest thing so far is hoping I keep my cover story straight." "I try to make it sound as real as possible, but at the same time, it's still a fake cover story." "Pretty confident about keeping my cover story." "I do feel that it's starting to get tough." "I feel that I can defend myself if it comes down to it." "(Usic)" "Take it in gentelmen, take it in." "Inside the back end to your doors." "Man, me and Rico are alike, man." "You know, we kick it, we're laughing." "Everything he's saying, I'm feeling." "You know what I'm saying?" "Everything I be saying, he be feeling me." "Right." "You know, I got much respect for him." "You know what I'm saying?" "He a real dude." "But it ain't but a couple of weeks anyway so," "He basically takes me under his wing." "But my dad always told me, he said, "Yo, one thing about jail"," ""ain't nobody your friend."" ""You don't trust nobody."" "She's doing all right." "Yes, sir!" "It feels good that I, that, you know," "I'm sitting, laying in bed." "It's actually gonna make my time go by faster as well." "Yeah." "What's going on?" "Big guy, I don't even know." "It's the first time we're seeing you." "Yeah." "I was, man, I was wondering when you guys were gonna come get me, man." "I think I'm doing a good job keeping my cover." "I think I'm really doing an excellent job." "If they come and get you out of the room and interview you individually, how does one know if you snitched?" "If they find out that you're a snitch, you pretty much get ran out of the unit." "If I snitch on them, that might can be my life." "I ain't know if he gonna snitch on me." "But if he did snitch on me," "I know we all gonna see him again." "And if you're a snitch, you're a rat, you gonna die." "I feel like I did everything perfect." "You know, I put the dreadlocks in my hair." "I'm blending in well." "I think my story is good." "The girl comes back downstairs." "You a bitch." "You gonna be like hell no!" "She's coming back down to see if she can win round two." "My name is Matt." "I'm 40 years old." "I'm about to go to jail for 60 days." "By the way, a professional weed grower you put me in here with." "So that was awesome." "I knew it was gonna be bad, but I didn't know it was gonna be this bad this fast." "Everybody that I don't know grabbing me." "On the street, holmes, on the street!" "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 some kind of, say, a gang that you're really not, then that's when it starts."