"(drums beating)" "(yelling)" " [Inmate] Resistance to what (bleep)." "You're a problem here!" "(wailing)" "(indistinct chatter)" "(laughing)" " It's okay, it's okay." " I don't know what to do." "(crying)" " Sorry." "(electronic humming)" "(drums beating)" " [Sheriff] This is the Clark County Jail." " [Officer] On the ground, on the ground!" " The facility houses approximately 500 inmates, with both men and women with crimes ranging from misdemeanor to murder." " [Officer] Slowly, slowly." " Please, please." " [Officer] Bring your hands forward." " Before I took office, I think the inmates for the most part were running the facility." "The drugs were just absolutely rampant in the jail." "Drastic change needed to take place immediately." "Their mission was to be an undercover inmate and help root out crime and corruption." "At the conclusion of the program, we gained a lot of valuable information." " I do know that, almost every cell, they figured out how to get those light fixtures open and they're hiding stuff in the light fixtures." " Your trustees are really destroying your place for you." "Stuff is getting smuggled out under the trays." " Upstairs is the trouble makers." "They cause a raucous, they yell, they scream, they run from cell to cell." " [sheriff] Based on that information, we started re-training corrections officers to check the food trays for contraband." "We increased shake downs and made them more efficient in checking new hiding spots." " We learned a lot in phase one, but I definitely believe there's still more to learn." "Our hope for phase two would be to get more in-depth information." "There are still drugs coming into the facility and we would like to find out how they're gettin' in." " Phase one ended about two weeks ago, and now we're starting phase two." "We have to do it so quickly, 'cause we have to maintain the secrecy of the program." " My motivation for participating in it is to make change." " I think it would be good to know what jail is like." "This may be one of the only opportunities" "I ever get to go to jail." " My daughter went to prison when she was 18 years old." "I would like to do it, because it would make me feel a relief to know what she goes through on a day-to-day basis. (crying)" " I know that it would make me a better attorney." " I have like 35 years of experience in law enforcement." "To look at the other side of that system, it's very educational." " So I started drinking when I was 10." "I was very, very addicted to drugs and alcohol." "If I'm able to help one person while I'm in there, that's everything." " It's not innocent until proven guilty if you're puttin' people in cuffs and throwin' 'em on the ground, beating' 'em around." " I wanna take away the aspect of knowing from the other side, what they see." "(ominous electronic music)" " Pleasure to meet you guys, been Sheriff around a year." "To give you little bit of an idea of where we're at, we're getting better, but we're not quite where I wanna be at yet." "You go into the facility, basically be my eyes and ears." "Just know that with the exception of myself and Captain Scottie Maples, and I think two other people, no one else is gonna know what your true reason for being there is." " I'm Captain Scottie Maples." "Some of the stuff I'm gonna tell ya is just more technical, what you need to do, and how do you stay safe." "When you come in, you're gonna go through the booking process." "Gonna fingerprint ya, take your photo, you'll be sent up to the classification pod." "The classification pod is where all new inmates go, but know these other inmates are seasoned, they've been in there for a while, so when you come in as a new inmate, they'll be watchin' everything that you do," "and probably the less you say, the better." " If you come into a jail, it's best you stick to yourself and be a loner." " Be aware of your surroundings, and sometimes you just can't help but (bleep), it just happens sometimes." "(smacking)" "(groaning) [beep]" "(smacking) (bleeping)" " Safety measures in the prison, like, how is it?" " If you need to defend yourself, you need to defend yourself, you know, you're not gonna be charged criminally for defending yourself." "But on the other aspect, if you do commit a crime unprovoked, you will be charged." " When somebody come at me, you know," "I definitely don't have a problem defending myself." "Oooh oooh, make some of that spaghetti." "You heating' it up for me?" " [Grandmother] Yes." " I'm Dion, 24 years old, I'm a criminologist." "I'm from Detroit, Michigan." "My mom and dad had me when they was 17 years old, and it was kinda rough for 'em, so we actually stayed with my grandma." " You know you love my spaghetti." " That's why I stopped by here, I was like, yeah I gotta come see my granny and get me a little plate." "Growing up, Detroit is pretty tough, you have gangs." "If you see a group of guys of more than three to four people, more than likely you're gonna get jumped, period." "I lost a few family members to getting killed." "I had a cousin who was killed, right on the corner of our block." "We just found this new apartment and everything." " [Grandmother]Has it got two bedrooms or one?" " One bedroom." " Whatch ya'll gonna do when you have a fuss?" "You got to have another room, okay?" "You got to have another room." "When you get mad, what you gonna sit there and look at each other?" "(laughing)" " My point of view of the criminal justice system is just, a lot of the laws are biased." "It's not toward the race thing, it's more towards lower income people." "And that's as a whole, like, white, black, purple." "My dad was incarcerated." "He was falsely accused of possession, but come to find out, that he didn't do it and was let free, and that's one of the reasons that I wanted to get my masters in criminology and make my family proud." "Just trying to stay positive and think about everything else that's going on, you know, that it's gonna be good for us and stuff, so..." "I'm doing this program because, I've been studying criminal justice for the last six years, so I can get an unbiased opinion of the corrections system." "I can learn so much more, I'm seeing everything first-hand that I seen in my textbook." " You're gonna be gone for a long time." "What's gonna happen in there?" "Do you even know how it's gonna be?" " Yeah, I hear a lot of bad stuff about jail, about don't drop the soap or anything like that but, nah, I'm not too worried about it." "It's the same people I prayed and grew up with over the years." " I just hope that you safe in there, and temper." " I know." "(laughing)" " When you're in there, don't ask too many questions, don't be a reporter." "Nobody walks into the jail, sits down, and starts asking other inmates questions." "They're gonna say, "Are you a cop?" ""You a snitch?"" " We don't like snitches." " Being a snitch, you'll never be able to live comfortable, no matter where you go." " You're asking us to do a lotta snitching here, which I'm firmly prepared to do, but, what's the repercussions of that?" " I don't want you to go question inmates about anything, to draw any type of attention to yourself." "Basically, you just be a good witness and a good listener, especially with you, with the experience in law enforcement." "Having that police officer mentality, you'll know what to look for." "If you see the staff doing something that doesn't look right, it probably isn't right." " They got dirty cops in this city wide, watch 'em." " They treat us like animals, for real." " I don't have any respect for CO's, and basic law enforcement." "I don't even have any respect for the judicial system, because it's severely broken." "I'm Monalisa, and I live in New York." "I need to know the truth about incarceration, because my daughter is currently incarcerated." "She went in at the age of 18, and has been serving for about, a little over three years." "Sierra was arrested for armed robbery." "She was severely addicted to drugs, and she was doing what she had to do to feed that addiction." "Sierra was given 10 years, a mandatory minimum." "When I heard, my heart fell to the ground." "She's a caged animal now." "I kind of don't even think of her, as still being human." "I'm sorry. (crying)." "You would think after three years, I'd be over this, but it seems like, it doesn't ever go away." " [Husband] You okay?" " Yep." " Alright, hang on for just a second while we finish getting set up, and thanks for calling." " Let's roll." "I started an organization called Parents with Incarcerated Children, that I created strictly out of my pain, because I was too embarrassed to really talk to people about what I was going through." "As you know, it's no secret that I have a daughter that is incarcerated." "I've agreed to go to jail, because I am so broken, emotionally, from losing my daughter." "At first, my husband was completely against this." "We would literally argue about it, but when he started to hear the sheriff's concept, and how it connected to me becoming more of a voice for prison reform, that's when he started to somewhat agree." "A lot of us don't understand or have any idea what it's like to be incarcerated." "I wanna do this because I wanna help her." "I wanna help many people alongside of her." "Since my daughter's been incarcerated, my point of view as far as correctional officers, has changed greatly." "They're abusing their power." "I don't have any respect for 'em." "I actually wonder whether or not they're even doing their jobs right." "So, may I ask, once you get all of this information, and you compile it, what's the reality of true change coming about?" " We'll take all those suggestions." "Is it something we need to change in our policy and procedures, staffing change, and I plan on implementing changes to make it better and improve upon." " The concerns I have about Monalisa is her dislike for law enforcement." "I really think that could, really affect her participation in this program." " How many fights do you have that are ending up in death?" " I can't ever remember any in death." "Hospital visits, that's just how it is." "(smacking)" " It's the animal kingdom in here." "Almost kill or be killed, for real." "(banging)" "And if you don't know, you better learn real fast, or you ain't gonna survive." "(objects clanging)" "(electronic humming)" "(ominous music)" " You may see some contraband in there, because this is the first point of contact." "The inmates come from the street, to the jail, so if there's any contraband, it usually gets smoked up or used up in the classification." "Any insight on how it gets up, we would greatly appreciate." " There are more drugs in the Clark County jail than there is on the streets." " Everybody's on drugs, everybody's coming off something they might lie and say they're not, but they are." " I feel like, the less drugs or alcohol I see, would be better for me." "My name is Ashleigh, I'm 27 years old, and I live in Tennessee." "Gonna change his diaper." "I have a three month old son named Ryker, and I'm married to Zac, and he has actually been through the Sheriff's program." "Zac is finally home, so now I have to help him get into the swing of things, with the baby, and show him our routine." "You wanna clean out his ears?" " Sure." " I started drinking and doing drugs at a very young age." "I did have multiple run-ins with the law, all alcohol related." "My alcoholism became life or death." "I ended up overdosing on alcohol and cocaine." "There was a doctor who was blunt." "He said, "There's a 50 percent chance" ""they will roll you out of here in a body bag."" "Grab the little hair brush down there." "My biological mother drank herself to death when she was 38 years old." "She was never a mother to me." "She gave me up when I was six months old, and I knew at that point, if I did not change, that was going to be my reality." "I have been sober four years, it feels amazing." " My biggest thing is, something's gonna happen that I haven't planned for, or haven't experienced," "and that's what I'm nervous about." " When I was first approached about being in the program," "I was actually in the jail to visit Zac." " Baby." "Having her come up here and surprise me was absolutely amazing." " And meeting with the sheriff." " I appreciate the sacrifice you're making to make this program work." "So million dollar question, if roles were reversed, could you do it, do you think?" " I think I could probably suck it up and do it." "Very nice to meet you, thank you, bye." "My only hope is that I can have some sort of an impact on the women in the jail with me." " I'm not afraid for your safety or his safety, more than anything I just don't like causing you this stress." "Ashleigh has made a complete 180 from the way her life was going before." "This gives her an opportunity to see, this is probably where I would have ended up if I hadn't turned my life around." " As much as Zac has kind of told me how his experience was, it's completely different." "You put a room full of men together, and a room full of women who are in trouble, you are going to have two totally different situations." "It scares me that I don't know what to expect until I'm there." " When you come in, no makeup, or if you do, mess it up, because you need to look rough," " [Ashleigh] I will." " When you go upstairs." " There are some concerns with Ashleigh making it through the program." "She has a small child at home," "Zac just got out of the program and came home, so there was a very small amount of time between there." "Ashleigh doesn't look like your typical inmate." "She may stick out, it could lead to trouble for her." " There's one main guy in there, the pod boss." "He's established, he's been to prison, he's been around the jail for a while, or she's been around the jail for a while." "He wants to know what you're about." " What's the propensity for gangs and racial segregation and what not here?" "Things I need to be uh" " You gotta crane this language down." ""Propensity for racial segregation"?" " Uh, what's the-  (laughing) You're gonna have a rough time, man, a rough time." " Is this a thing I'm gonna have to keep up, basically just talk, uh, monosyllabically?" "'Cause I don't wanna come off as condescending either." " Yeah, and it will come off as condescending." " I have no problem actually pulling through any of this in terms of just being in jail," "I mean, there are people weaker than me, mentally and physically, less intelligent than me, who've made it, and I'll prevail as well." "My name's Ryan, I'm 27, I'm from Kentucky." "A lot of people don't realize that, when you're in jail, it's not just that you can't leave." "It's that they really take away a lot of the rights that you have." "So freedom, it's very important to me." "I like rights, I like freedom." "I joined the US Army Reserves," "I was 19 years old and I worked as code team medic in King's Daughters Intensive Care just shy of three years." "I'm currently applying to be a police officer." "Lotta stuff going on." " [Mother] Yeah, how you doing bud?" " I'm doing good, everything's fine." " Your hair is really long." " I know, I didn't wanna get a hair cut." "My ultimate goal is to become a homicide detective, and I feel that this project definitely gives me the insight that I need to be more comfortable doing what I have to do for those jobs." "Knowledge is important to me." "I wanna bring to light all of the actual problems with the criminal justice system, and actually fix them." " It starts with one person, to make a change, but seriously, in something that is so big and major and, risking your life, seriously." " Potentially I could make those people's lives better or even expedite the process of them getting out sooner or whatever." "A lot of people say, "Ah, they're criminals," ""lock 'em away, throw away the key."" "I can't just sit aside and baselessly judge or assume things about an entire population of people that I've never met." " I just have too many things just bombarding in my mind," "I'm just all over the board, so to speak." " I'm not worried about jail." "Day one, I'm obviously gonna be fresh-faced, but I'm trying to scruff up, and blend in a little bit." "Apparently everybody there's scruffy." "I guess it's a lack of willpower and hygiene." "What makes a person a classic target here?" " Talking too much." " Alright." " Asking too many questions, drawing attention to yourself." "I could see Ryan having problems with the other inmates, by coming off condescending and maybe arrogant." "That won't go well in jail." "He's also small, so he could be a target." "(loud drum beating)" "(electronic humming)" " So while you're in jail, some of just the inmate code." "Gambling, playing cards or betting' on sports, or anything like this, now it's a jail rule violation, but, it still happens, and they're gonna bait ya." "They're gonna ask you, "You wanna get in on this game?"" ""Well I don't got no food."" ""Well I'll front ya two."" " [Inmate] I just wanna get rich." " They have my money!" " Pardon my language here, but you never use the word, bitch." "That is a word you do not say in jail, period." "(smacking)" " The B-word is a big no-no in jail." "You never say bitch, in jail, or you are gonna fight." " If you see inmates puttin' their tennis shoes on, and a bunch of 'em, then somethin's gettin' ready to pop off." " What is the significance of lacing the shoes, what are they preparing to do?" " They have socks on, or the shower shoes, which are sandals, and nobody fights in socks or sandals, because you're gonna trip and fall." "You'll see 10 guys lace up their shoes because two people are gonna fight." " I don't think anyone could possibly look at this and not think that there's some craziness to it." "I have no idea what I'm getting into, in terms of what it's actually like to be an inmate." "Well, will you write me every day?" "(laughing)" "My name is Brian, I'm 39 years old, and I'm an attorney for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation." "Well, when was the last time we spent more than a week apart from each other?" " I don't know, it's gotta be at least a decade." " I'm married to my wife, Janie, and we have two children." "I have a seven year old son named Joseph, and a toddler named Micah." "We're gonna curl some Joe, okay, ready?" "Up, ready, cheese. (laughing)" "I love them all so dearly, I'm so lucky to have them in my life." "Uh, uh." "(giggling)" "As an attorney for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, my job is to go after the corrections officers in my department who commit job-related misconduct." "So, I don't have a good feel for how well corrections officers typically do their job." "Would you like a horsey-back ride?" " Yeah." " Okay, hop on." "Going into this, I wanna test these CO's, because I wanna see, how well do they actually hold up, when they think nobody's looking?" "I'll be able to see whether or not the inmates that we go to for information are just always liars, or sometimes they're telling the truth." "Here. (growling)" "I'm coming into this new environment." "I have grown this beard out in my pathetic attempt to try to look rough around the edges." "I don't know that I'm gonna be able to pull it off." "(drum beating)" "Are you nervous for us?" " I would never go to jail, I'm a cop." "If I worry about Brian in any aspect, it's maybe how he handles himself in jail." "He doesn't really look like a criminal, and he's highly intelligent, he's an attorney." " As far as anything we do here, are you wanting us to hit you up when we hear it, or..." " You know, in the unlikely event that you overhear a planned shank or some type of uprising, that would be the time when you would let us know as soon as possible." " [Brian] That would be the time." " We don't want somebody gettin' stabbed or hurt." "I don't wanna take any chances." "Towards the end of the program, when you're done, we'll sit down for a good while and debrief." " Okay." "I grew up on a farm." "It's very quiet where I come from, very peaceful." "My name's Chris, and I live in Georgia." "I've never had any trouble with the law, besides like speeding tickets and a parking ticket." "The reason I've never been to jail is 'cause I'm terrified of it." "You hear all these horrible stories growing' up, and then, that's where criminals and low-lifes belong." " How you been, man?" " But, my brother Ryan, ended up spending about four months in jail." "Me and my brother, we've seen a lot together, but after Ryan got outta jail, we didn't communicate like we did before he went in." "He was a complete stranger." " You wanna beer?" " Sure." "Everything fell apart for him." "He went homeless, every bad decision" "I feel like I could sit here and think of, he did." "But I've been like, kinda trying to wrap my head on what's the environment gonna be like." " If they talk to you, talk to them, but other than that, that's what I did," "I didn't really mess with nobody when I was in there." " Probably the biggest thing I wanna get out of this program is seeing things from Ryan's perspective, and kinda understanding why, not only we fell apart, but kinda why he can't seem to move on from it." "I wanna get into his shoes, and figure out a way to be able to talk to him about it." " Basically, the rules that you wanna make sure you don't break, if you know it's illegal out in the real world, then it's gonna be illegal in the Clark County Jail." "Naturally, don't do drugs, don't mess with cameras, that's a big major no-no." "If God forbid somethin' ever happened where you felt like you had to defend yourself, the rule of my opinion is, don't start a fight." " It's dangerous to fight in there." " I got stabbed." " I've had my jaw broke." " I've seen guys, and look down and see blood in their oatmeal 'cause their neck just got cut." " To me, that's life or death." "(smacking) (objects crashing)" "(electronic humming)" " When you go in, there's a day room, there's the stairs that go up, and there's cells and cells." "Try to, at all costs, get a bottom cell." "We've got a lot better coverage on you." " What would be your advice if, I'm in there," "I'm an inmate, I better stand my ground." "What do you want from your side of us, 'cause we'd have to be like, "You want some of this?"" "Because if I don't, I'm gonna get my ass kicked." " If it gets bad and you think, "I've gotta" ""actually fight somebody," I ain't catchin' no new charges for you." " I've seen everything." "I've seen the shanks, I've seen the hooch being made." "I'm a CO, I've been in more fights than I can count." "Yeah, go get sissies." "I'm Sheri, I'm 39, I'm from the northwest." " Hi, mom!" " Hi, buddy." "Whaddya get, any good?" "I'm a mom of three." "You know, daddy's gonna make dinner tonight, taco Tuesday." "And I'm trying to go back into my career." "I was a corrections officer in a maximum prison." "It was the most amazing job I've ever had." "Being a corrections officer was a perfect fit for me, and I had to step away from it when Dustin got deployed, to Afghanistan for almost 13 months." "So I went from working full time, to being a stay-at-home mom." "Now, my husband's back from Afghanistan, and I'm ready to go back to work, it's time." "It's my time now." "I'm gonna come back like 40 pounds heavier with three little honey buns, I'll be like," ""They're my precious."" " You'll know how to make prison birthday cake." " I already know how to make prison cake." " Yeah, I figured you probably did." " Really, no corrections officer is ever gonna get to do this." "Of course, no one's ever really ready." "Nobody wants to go to jail. (laughs)" "But at the same aspect, this opportunity is so amazing." "To learn something, and hopefully to make some great changes." "(suspenseful music)" " If you feel for your safety, you know, it's jail, you're gonna have a decision every second of every day, of whether you wanna stay there or not." "That's up to you, that's not up to me." " Well you could take my three kids." "We'll see how you feel at the end, you might want to." " I can understand that too." "Sheri's a former officer, so that helps her, she knows the lingo, she knows how inmates act, she knows about inmate behavior." "That'll definitely be a benefit to her." " How many staff have you got?" " Oh you're lookin' about eight, eight, nine per shift." " Yeah, that sounds very scary." " But, in my experience in the jail, when there's a fight, as soon as the officer makes it into the section, it's over." " It's over, right." " I've arrested probably about 1,000 people in my career." "It's a long career." "(gun clicking)" "My name is Quintin, I'm a retired state policeman, private investigator, and bounty hunter." "(keyboard music)" "I just like the way it sounds." "I have three daughters, and I'm in the process of a divorce." "It's extremely important for me to do this, because I am curious to learn what it's like for all the people that I brought into the system." "What they don't agree with is, the how, the who, and are we doing it fairly." "I have no idea what it's gonna be like for me, coming in as someone formerly in law enforcement." "We'll find out over the next two months." "I'm not scared, nervous, or worried at all." "(dramatic music)" " I wanna go over your cover stories." "Your cover story, what is it?" " We got pulled over and a cop ran our license, and, they found some stuff in the car." " The cop wouldn't of found anything in the car, only thing they found was that you had a warrant." "Now, your crime happened in New York." "It's imperative for participants to know their cover stories, not only for the inmates, for the staff." "Our staff's been around a long time." "If a story doesn't make sense to them, they're gonna start asking questions too." "What was the original crime that got you the warrant?" " Drugs, and a gun." " I have been arrested for my third DUI, second in the state of Indiana." "Woke up in the drunk tank." " It was a burglary charge, failure to check in with my PO, resulting in a warrant." " I was pulled over by officer so-and-so." " So-and-so ain't pulling' nobody over, man." "This is serious." "What was your scam, how were you doing it?" " Well, I can wash checks, so basically I was just gonna, forge some signatures, and cash some checks, and I thought it was gonna be an innocent thing." " You seem pretty intelligent, most inmates aren't." "You've gotta tone it down." " I got pulled over for speeding on I-65." "It popped up a warrant that I had back in Michigan for my armed robbery that I did." " Don't give 'em the whole run down." "If they need more information, they're gonna ask ya." "If they start asking you too much, be like," ""Man, I'm just here to do my time."" " Got arrested with 200 Lortabs." " Let's add to the fact that you had some Lortabs, and when they searched your car, you had a syringe." " I'm an insurance agent, and I was stealing small amounts of money." "If someone looks up, Brian Miller Insurance Agent in the state of Indiana, nothing's gonna come up." "I'm concerned about that." " Um, we'll switch it then." "You're not an insurance agent, you work at an insurance company." " Okay." " My husband, military, came back from Afghanistan, he got injured, and we needed money." "I take Adderall, I sold my pills, and I ran out and I needed some and" " We're gonna scratch that." "Let's flip it that you were gettin' prescriptions for your husband, 'cause he's on pain meds," "VA's not helpin' him." " Gotchya." " Each cover story has to fit the participant, has to make sense for Clark County, and you have to keep to it." "That's why in training, we're still tweaking the cover story, so it seems believable." "If you say somethin', your story can never change." "Any other questions?" " I'm sure I have a ton of questions and things to think about and say." " I appreciate what you're doing, on behalf of the county, and Clark County Jail." "Thank you, thank you." " Now that I know what you are and what you do," "I kinda feel different about you." " Just hold on the hate, just hold on." " The minute I met him, I knew," "I felt law enforcement." "I hope he can hold his cover, because" "I smelled him a mile away." "They're gonna smell him out." " If somebody says somethin', instead of just going on a tangent like I typically do, just stonewall." " Aw, I'm nervous about your stonewall thing. (laughing)" " You're excited?" "I'm anxious about being able to get through this in a way that I come out better on the other side." " If you slip on one thing, then it's just like, it could be very bad." "(electronic humming)" " I haven't played in so long." " Aw, you talkin' about you ain't played in forever, come on, you already had a shoot." " What, I haven't." "(suspenseful music)" " You out to make it on the first one," "I still can't shoot free throws." " Woo, I'm getting good now." " So I wanted to talk to you about the program and stuff, that we doin'." "I kinda didn't go into details, 'cause I wanted to talk to you by ourselves and stuff, but basically, I'll be going into a prison." " Doing research?" " I gonna be in there, like livin', like" " Huh?" "As a prisoner?" "No, no, no, no, no, no, no." " Can you pour me a glass of water please?" " Yeah." " This is the last night before I leave." "I'm taking a deep breath in." " So what are you in for?" " A warrant for crack and gun." "I'm trying to rehearse my cover story, and just tryin' to get ready." " If you just stick with it, you should be okay." "You don't owe anybody any explanation." " What's happenin', good to see ya brother." " I still gotta little bit of time for me to relax before I need to kinda get my head in the game." "Thank ya'll for all this, the food, thanks for watchin' after my lady while I'm gone." " Is this the longest time you two are gonna be apart in your relationship?" " Mhmm, yeah, so it's gonna suck being Chris-less." "(laughing)" "I'm very nervous about his safety." " [Ryan] Do you uh, still need this?" " Yeah, I will here in a second." " I have to actually tell ya somethin'." "I enrolled in a program, and I am going to jail." " To jail?" " Yeah, in a program for a sheriff, it's for a sheriff, he'll know about it." " You're not in trouble?" " [Ryan] No, I'm not in trouble." " You're gonna voluntarily go to jail, to do research?" " My stepdad does disapprove of my plan." "He doesn't understand, I guess um, that someone just kind of wants to be in jail." "It's not that I wanna be in jail, really though, it's that I wanna learn somethin' about myself." " [Kendra] So you go in there as a prisoner?" " Yes." " So you could get hurt?" " It's gonna be some negative but," "I feel like it'll be so much better as a criminologist." " It could, of course, help his career." "I just can't get over the fact that it's jail." " [Dustin] Hey ladies." " Yes." " We wanted to talk to you guys for a minute." " I've been asked to go to another prison." "I'm not gonna be gone very long, okay?" "There's a lot at stake, for me, doing this program, because what if I decide, "Hey you know what?" ""This isn't for me."" "Then I'm looking at all of this like," ""I don't wanna do this, I miss my kids," ""I just wanna go home."" " [Ashleigh] Everybody uses the same toilet?" " Uh huh, it's a metal toilet, there's no lid, so you're sitting straight on the metal." " Seriously?" " Yeah." " Here you go." " Thank you." "The ability to choose to have good food on demand is something I'll probably miss." " Oh, that smells good, is that garlic?" " [Janie] Garlic green beans." " Green beans, mmm, I'm sure they'll have lots of this for me." "(laughing)" "In jail." " Oh wow." " Oh man, that was fast." "I wanna smell the aroma of the fresh salmon." "They said the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are to die for." " To die of, or die for?" "(laughing)" " Bzzzz." " He loves that." "I am feeling all kinds of emotions." "I will miss my family like crazy." "They are the highlight of my life." "Hi baby." " Micah." " [Brian] The kids are gonna miss you." " I could not do this without you, so thank you for letting me do this for us." " [Janie] You're welcome." " Shocking news, I have to say the least." " I'm gonna miss my family, I'm gonna miss everything." "There's much to consider." "It's not gonna be a walk in the park to be in jail." " [Dustin] Honey, we're a family, we can get through this." " When it's all over with, we can go anywhere you wanna go." " Even Disney World?" "(laughing)" " I'll see what I can do, maybe Disney Land, okay?" " The hell wrong witchu?" "Don't no black people volunteer to go to jail." "I been there, just want you to be safe, dude." " [Dion] Right." "(dramatic music)" " It's very unsettling." "It makes me very anxious." "I am breaking completely out of my comfort zone." " How are you feeling?" " Not ready to leave yet." " I know." " That's a good girl." "The dogs, they're more family than anything." "They do give a certain amount of routine, I'll miss that." "(child crying)" " Oooh, baby." "Gettin' ready to walk away from my family for, I don't even know how long." "I'm gonna miss you too." " (sighing) It's gonna suck being away from everything for so long." "Feeew, it's gettin' a little bit harder to breathe a little bit now." " You about ready?" " Almost." "I'm feelin' uneasy about not having my man in my space, and not being able to talk to my daughter or have any interactions with her." "I'm gonna have to dig real deep to find my strength." " How do you feel?" " It's a bandaid that I wanna pull off." "I'm not gonna be at home with my family, to protect them, and, I'm feeling a little bit of, perhaps, regret." " I'm sure you've thought it through." "I will be worried." " I really don't know how it's gonna end up." "I guess I'm just gonna have to pull the trigger and go." " Man, it's freakin' me out a little bit." "I feel like when the doors shut," "I'm gonna be like, "Oh, (bleep)."" "(trunk slamming)" " Ready to get it over with." " [Kendra] The taxi is here." " Give me one." " Take care of my babies, honey." "Bye, guys." " [Janie] I'll be praying for you." " Thank you." " I just hope that, he'll know what he's doing." " Bye, bye." " [Dion] See ya'll later." " You be safe." " [Chris] Yes, ma'am." " Going to jail." " Love you, baby." " Bye babe, love you." "(crying)" "(electronic humming)" "(suspenseful music)" "(garage door humming)" " [Scottie] Here they are." "How ya feelin'?" " Don't have any words right now, I just, woah." " This is chief Brad Jones, he's gonna be bringing you in." " Hey, nice to meet ya." " [Quintin] Pleased to meet you." " He's got two pair of handcuffs for you." " Oh (bleep), it's time." " Yeah, it's time." "Alright, put this hand right here." " Quite frankly, I'm scared as (bleep)." "I have to find out for myself, because I wanna know, what my daughter's going through first and foremost, and I'm prayin', that nothin' happens to her while I'm in here." " Sergeant Ferree is gonna be the one that's taking you into the Clark County Jail." "Here is your Crawford County jumpsuit." "We're bringing 'em in under the assumption, from another county transfer, to mix the cover stories up." "Remember the cover stories, that's very, very important." " [Sheri] I think I'm in shock." "The one thing I'm most concerned about is giving up control." "I've never had to do that before." "I'm the officer, I'm the mom." " He's gonna place ya under arrest, take ya to jail." " Okay." "I'm ready to do this." "(handcuffs clicking)" "I think I definitely would be able to blend in, like, it's the same people I grew up with up in Detroit." "(car door slamming)" " You're gonna put Crawford County jumpsuits on." " I'm gettin' sweaty and anxious." "The closer it's getting to that cell shutting, my stomach's startin to turn." "(drum beating)" " I've never been to jail before," "I've never been arrested, I have never been handcuffed." "(banging)" " My heart just kind of sank." " [Officer] I'll take your belongings." " [Ashleigh] It's kind of like a, hopeless feeling." "You're not free anymore." "(car door slamming)" "(drum beating)" " [Monalisa] It's kind of a rude awakening." "I don't want to feel anxious." " [Ryan] People do think I'm insane for doing this." "I already know enough out there, this is somethin'" "I can only learn about now, and I'm ready." " Okay, okay, game face, game face." "(sighing)" "(suspenseful music)" "(yelling)" "(buzzing)" "(laughing)" " [Inmate] Oh my God, my shoulder!" "I ain't do nothin' wrong." "(buzzing)" " Walk on around that way, please." " I gonna explode." " [Officer] Have you ever been in jail before, ma'am?" " No." "(yelling)" " [Prisoner] Get outta my face." " [Prisoner] Can somebody else please help me!" "Please, please!" "(clanging)" "(yelling)" "(door banging)" "(chatter)" " Uh, the uh, whaddya call it, you mean the pod?" " The pod?" "Are you a white-collar criminal?" "(laughing)" " (mumbles) [beep]" "(heavy drum beating)" " As soon as I sat down, it was like, a fly swarm." ""What are you in for, where you from, what's your name?"" " They've decided, "Okay, the game is gonna be," ""we're gonna make homosexual advances toward Brian."" "(laughing)" " [Inmate] Yeah." " I'm in a pod, with so many (bleep) drugs, and they are so high." " My stomach's turnin', can't keep food down." "(vomiting)" " As far as what's going on with my husband and I at home." "Are you (bleep) kidding me right now?" "I (bleep) hate you." "(banging)" " If you were minding too much in other people's business, like, "What are you, you want some too?"" "(smacking)" " I'm stuck in here." " [Inmate] That is (bleep) water and piss." " You had raw sewage." "(groaning)"