"(dramatic music)" " You guys ready for this?" "I wanna introduce you to Sergeant Furry, she's gonna be helping us, she's gonna be the one taking you into jail today." "I bet you know the Sheriff's office, and we trust her on this project." " In phase one we brought participants in individually." "It's hard to sneak people into jail, so we've learned in Phase Two, we're gonna bring people in in groups." " Remember, after you pull out of this car and go to jail," "I don't know you, you don't know me." " Thank you." " Here's your stuff and yours." " We'll get you guys changes up back here and when you come out you'll be inmates." "Alright you have any jewellery on you or anything?" " No." " Watches or nothing like that?" "Alright, you guys ready?" " We're bringing them in under the assumption that from another county transfer to mix the cover stories up and it just helps us get them in easier." " Alright." "(shouting)" "(buzzing)" " I'm gonna (beep) 'em." "I ain't the one, (beep) him, (beep) trying to talk to me like that, I'm gonna flood this (beep)." " I'm Sheri, I'm 39, I'm from the northwest." "I'm a mom of three, and I was a correction officer in a maximum prison, and I had to step away from it when Dustin got deployed for almost 13 months." "Now my husband's back from Afghanistan, and I'm ready to go back to work, it's time, it's my time now." "But once you've left corrections, and it's been more than a year, you're no longer just allowed to apply and get in, so I'm hoping being in this program, being a part of it will get me back into the field," "it'll show myself that I'm ready to do this again and no one else in America is gonna be able to they're a correction officer and was an inmate." "(shouting, screaming)" " If you could just sign in right here." "Sir would you step right here with me." "Stand right here." "What's your last name?" " Ryan." " My name is Ryan, I'm 27 years old, and I'm from Kentucky." "I joined the US army specifically the army reserves at 19 as a active duty." "Got good training, learned a lot about being a medic." "Overall I'm a very logical, rational, systematic person." "I'm always thinking about things that most people couldn't wrap their minds around even if they tried to, studied for years." " First name." " Kyle." " How tall are you?" " Five seven." "(shouting)" " Alright man, follow me." "This way, right over there." " I'm feeling, there's a little bit of anticipation, mostly for what I don't know yet." "There are people weaker than me, mentally and physically who've made it and I will I will prevail as well." "(shouting)" " I think I'm in shock of how this whole process is, the only way I can describe it is like you watch horror movies where people, they're possessed." "(shouting)" "And I just freaked out." "It became so sad so quick." " Right here." " I feel very weak and like just out of my element." "(screaming)" " Stand right there where it's open okay?" " I'm most concerned about giving up control." "I've never had to do that before." "I'm the officer, I'm the mom, I run the show at home." "There was always that question in my mind as a corrections officer of, what's it like for them?" "I literally have become just an inmate." " They don't know that there's any other participants so, as far as they're concerned, they're the only two people going in, so, we gotta maintain that throughout this process." " Chief Deputy Brad Jones has been here for about 15 years in his role as a number two person here at the Sheriff's office." " Chief Jones' gonna bring in Monalisa and Quintin under the assumption they were stopped on the interstate for out-of-state crimes." " [Jones] Are you guys ready?" " Ready." " My name is Quintin, I'm a retired state policeman, bounty hunter, private investigator." "It's extremely important for me to do this, because I'm curious to learn what it's for all the people that I've brought into the system, I've arrested." "Probably about a thousand people in my career." "It's a long career." " [Jones] How're you feeling?" " I don't have any words right now, I just, whoa." "I'm ready." "I'm Monalisa and I am about to go to jail and quite frankly I'm scared as (beep)." " [Jones] You ever think you'd sign up to go to jail?" " No, not at all." "And when I see those lights and I see you two," "I get creeped out, okay, this doesn't even feel good at all." "I know you got a smile on your face and you're nice, but I kind of feel creepy, you know?" " Why's that?" " I don't know, cops make me creepy." " Some people don't like the police." " They make me feel creeped out." "I used to believe in law enforcement," "I used to really think that they did their jobs, but after my daughter went through her experience" "I don't really have the respect I used to have for them." "She was on the dean's list when she got arrested for God's sake, and now she's a caged animal." "They don't think of her as anything else but a criminal." "It's like it's like your breath has been taken away, it's like you can't breathe anymore, you can't think, you can't focus, you can't you just can't be." "I feel like this is a personal journey that I have to take because my life depends on it, I am so broken emotionally" "from losing my daughter, I just wanna," "I just need to understand, it's too much, that goes on in my head, that I want to bring to closure." " We got two pair of handcuffs for you so" " Oh, (beep) it's time." " Yeah it's time." " Alright put this hand right here." " The thing about what people feel about police is very circumstance-related." "If their house is broken into, they love us." "If their children are arrested, they hate us." "(car starting)" " When I think about her, I got my fingers crossed and I'm praying that nothing happens to her while" "I'm in here, because ultimately this is for her." "And this is for the people who need to see a change in the system." " Trespass, theft, theft, glove six validate your bonds, is not bond, Judge Nuever." " Pregnant?" " No." " Feeling suicidal or thinking of hurting yourself or anyone else?" " No, just nervous." " Okay, it's okay, you have any scars, marks or tattoos?" " No." " That's it." " When inmates first come in, after the booking process, the first place they go is the classification." "After meeting Ryan, I'm a little worried for him." "He's obviously highly intelligent, but he's gonna come off as kind of condescending to other inmates, maybe a little arrogant." "I hope Ryan listens to the training that we provided for him goes in, does what he's told and comes back out and gives us valuable information." "(chuckling)" " I thought it would be good to have my last name be Ryan so I would answer to it, so then Kyle Ryan sounded very simple and I'll just tell people that my friends call me Ryan." "It will be interesting to see how much of myself truly changes rather than the image that I'm putting on." "(slow music)" "(chatting)" " When I went up there to the classification pod," "I sit underneath the stairs because you see people coming from in front of you and to the left of you and you're less likely to get ambushed." "The real strategy is to become one of the crowd." "The strange thing about jail is that it is stranger than I though it was gonna be." "It's like an odd summer camp for people who don't fit into society, they are somebody here." "(chatting)" "And out there they are not." "(shouting)" "(beeping)" "(shouting, chatting)" " As we're walking towards classification, like it hits me that I'm really in here." "I didn't realize how real it was gonna be." "My mind was racing, I felt like I was gonna throw up." " Name?" "Go ahead, what's your name?" " When we get in there and they close the door and we look around, there's no guard and you're all by yourself with all these people." "Every training I've ever had in my life went out the door." "Excuse me." " Need help hon?" " Yeah, this is my bed, it's all jacked up girl." " This is not my sleep number, grab your (beep)" " It is the most wretched, foul, dirty, disease-infested and it was not what I think I expected it to be like." "And it like hit me, you know I don't think I can handle this." " Staples, I see you moving." "(chatting)" " I'm not scared, nervous or worried at all." " Step up here please." " I understand where I'm putting the people I incarcerate." "What the lack of understanding is is more how they feel about things, is that I'm lacking." " Go have a seat, DT1 over there." " It's a rare opportunity to spend time in jail without being charged." "Basically I'm a student of corrections and I hope to learn the inner workings of the facility from the inside." "(shouting)" " Have you ever been in jail before mam?" " No." " No so you've never been patted down or anything like that?" " No." " This is the worst part, okay?" " This is a place where I have no control." "I can't understand anything." " Were gonna put you in here, and what they'll do they're gonna call you out fingerprint you, book you in." " CO's, they've been given dominion over human life, and they do things to these inmates that you know are just absolutely inhumane." " Mam, we don't do anything in a hurry here, okay?" " I'm very concerned about what my experience is gonna be like with the CO's." "I don't have any respect for CO's." " I don't give a (beep) about nothing of this (beep), you (beep) nothing to me." "You ain't nothing to me." "I don't give a (beep) about none of it." " I don't even have no respect for the system." "(shouting)" "But I do know that's my enemy." " As a corrections officer, I've had training on how to keep people in, and now" "I'm on the other side and I don't know how you prepare for something like that." "I feel very weak and like just exhausted and out of my element." " In Phase One F-Pod was made up mostly of older inmates." "This time around, F-Pod is completely different." "They're a younger, volatile and a more unpredictable group." "(laughing)" " This is my home-away-from-home I guess you can say now." " We got all these new girls and they're all young and loud and rude. (laughing)" " Right here." " I don't know." " Sarah, hurry up." " Raymond, Sheri, Raymond." " Sharia Raymond." " Walking into F-Pod and all you can see is just girls, and it seems like there's a hundred of them, and they're just staring at you." "You can tell that they're watching every move you make." " When you go in, try to at all cost, get a bottom cell." "We've got a lot better coverage on you." "Do whatever you can without drawing too much attention on you, to get in a bottom tier." " In the back of my head I can remember getting my training and the Captain's like, "You need to be on the bottom floor"" "Okay, well you're not in there and I've got women that are twice my size telling me you are going upstairs." " We've never had a participant take a cell on the top tier." "The inmates on the top tier are more veteran, and seem to be the troublemakers." "They know how the system works, and they can be a real threat to first-timers." "Having a participant go to the top tier is really dangerous." "(shouting)" "(arguing)" " I went upstairs and there was only one area for me to go and it was with a girl named Mackenzie." " And now I'm up here and I'm just saying." " She's pretty outgoing, kind of a little spacey." "(aggressive music)" "I was glad to have a bunkie after being in classification, not having anybody talk to me, however I could tell she's all just a ball of just craziness." "It's clear that this girl has a drug problem." "I knew right away that I didn't trust this girl." "I'm keeping my guard completely up with her." "(laughing)" " When I first came in it was the most eerie feeling that I've ever had." "It was awful over there." "That was so bad, and I just kinda felt disgusted, you know because it was so nasty." "This is so disgusting, I have never seen anything like that, that was like some stuff that you would see in a foreign country, I would have never expected" "American jails to look like that on the inside." "Say it again?" "Oh my first few moments in jail have been a stone-cold gas honey, if that's what they say on soul train but, it's disgusting, that if nothing else, I'll say disgusting." "You know, I started to think about my daughter, and what it felt like when she walked in and how was she acting." "I feel like, you know, I can sense her pain a little bit," "I can sense her fear, I can sense the feelings that she had." "And it's overwhelming me a little bit." "(shouting)" " In classification pod, when I watch people then the more I thought that they were just people trying to fit into a demographic." "(beeping)" "And they want to be big, badass, the alpha male and the silverback gorilla." "And it's a lot of this puffery, this chest chest-pounding peacocking stuff." " This is a different world in here, it's not like out there this is a different world." " [Captain] D-Pod's one of the most active sections." "Usually if we have a problem in the jail, it's gonna come from D-Pod." " Animal came to the herd, it's almost kill or be killed for real." " [Captain] We had a lot of issues in there during Phase One, that's why we need Ryan in there, but he needs to be careful 'cause a lot of guys in D-Pod are dangerous." "(chatting, laughing)" " It takes a lot to survive in a place where you have to always be on watch, be paranoid." "Any of the typical rules of society, none of those exist in there, they're all gone, and you live by the new rules." "And those are the rules that I have no idea about and that I'm gonna have to learn." "(laughing)" "At the point where I was underneath the stairs," "I was literally just listening and watching everybody." "If you look around, there is an archetype in there." "Everybody has tattoos, everybody has a look and a feel to them when they walk around and I don't fit that at all." "The average IQ in there is lower that I'm used to in say college." "They questioned me rapidly, like" ""Who's this?" ""Where's that?" ""Where's this other thing?" ""I've kind of been there, so prove to me."" "I was just having to fire off a bunch of stuff." "(shouting, beeping)" " So how does it feel for your first time in Clark County Jail?" "No comment?" " You've got all your stuff and you go in and it's like a zoo." "(laughing)" "You see like the cages and the animals." "And you say where is my place here?" "And you try to adjust to how this works." "Who goes where and what is what." "(chatting)" "It's just a learning process, I'm gonna sit back and I'm gonna see how this works." " Coming from being a correction officer," "I have to let go of my pride." "On top of being lost in environment," "I'm lost of who I am right now." "It's hard, I'm used to being the one calling the shots and now I'm being told what to do." "Right now I'm kind of just holding back, trying to figure out what's my next step, because my whole goal is just to be able to blend in and be able to walk freely through this place" "so I've gotta figure this out and quick." "I've been given my pin number and inside jail it's how we call home, you know, most people memorize it," "I'm old, I'm not memorizing this number right now, so I'm keeping it right down here in my bra." " Zubit." " The phone does not work and I have not made a call since I got in, can you let me know what they can do about that?" "Thank you." "The answer is real simple." "We get to it when we get to it." "I mean like, you want us to respect you, but you don't respect us, I just don't get that." "That's for medical emergencies?" "How was I supposed to know that?" "Why don't they have a sign that says" ""For medical emergencies"?" "I mean, I don't have a (beep)." "I've never been in jail." " Monalisa has to be careful how she acts around other inmates." "She's already talking too much and bringing a lot of attention to herself." "She needs to keep a lower profile or she could blow her cover." " Keeping things in my bra clearly causes some controversy 'cause people were portraying that maybe I had contraband down there." "They make a little short talk and then it comes right out." ""What do you have in there?" ""I know you got something, we know you're in here for drugs," ""what do you got?"" "They've convinced themselves that I've got heroin of all things on me, I am just so in shock." "My mind's like going over and I can hear them walking around and I'm like oh my gosh, they wanna fight me, this is it." " I have very little emotional intelligence, and so" "I can't tell you know when people are you know standoffish about things" "I don't look like or seem like I fit in there, and I'm also new so I'm very visible and it's understandable they pretty much think I'm a plant at this point." "So I've got an uphill battle to convince them otherwise." " I'm worried about Ryan blowing his cover." "Once inmates suspect you as a plant, it's almost impossible to check that suspicion." "They're gonna be watching you all the time." "(shouting, laughing)" " I'm being threatened, I can hear them saying what they're gonna do, they're taunting me and I'm scared." " If it came down to a fighting, you though you got them in a fight, if I were you I'd much rather fight in the day room 'cause we have cameras all over that place." "Whereas in a cell, I can't tell you're fighting or not." "You know if I got eyes on you or not." " What is going on?" " Ashley, Ashley, in the merge." "I'm about to squash you, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley," "April, let's go." " The really big girl Brenda and then like five of the girls that stay in her pod were all out there," "They were literally there was no escaping." "I don't know what's coming, I don't know what to do." "I'm panicked because you've got a bunch of girls who are addicted to drugs, and think I have drugs on me and they want them and I don't know how to defend myself from the situation, I don't know what to do." "(laughing)" " One of the most dangerous places in the jail is behind the curtain, it blocks the limited visibility that we have in the cells and usually that's where inmates go to fight." " I'm now an inmate, a number and there's no outside world." " What the hell is going on here?"