01x02 - Day 1

[bunniefuu]

[tense percussive music playing]

[Freeman] Hey, yo!

-[banging on doors]

-Unlock the doors!

Listen up! Listen up!

When we walk out of here,

you can come out the doors.

Y'all can go at it.

[inmate] Yeah!

It's time. It's time!

Say it. Feel it.

What the f*ck is that?

[inmate 2] Uh-oh! Uh-oh!

-[beep]

-[computer] ER, are you sure?

This ain't gonna work.

This ain't gonna work.

[beep]

[doors buzz open]

[alarm sounding]

[inmates banging doors, whooping]

Open doors, baby!

[inmate 3] Whoo! Yeah!

["I Feel Good" by SHIPS

and Jade Josephine playing]

Crazy motherfuckin' hell.

I feel good, I feel free ♪

I can do anything

And be who I wanna be ♪

[Higgins] The doors are open.

We're really doing this.

And with the deputy not in there,

we're depending on the detainees

to de-escalate situations,

and so the first 24 hours of this

is the most dangerous.

I feel good, I feel free ♪

I feel good ♪

Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi.

You got me thinking

I need to go and get me a f*cking knife.

This ain't f*cking jail,

this a motherfuckin' mental ward.

[narrator] With the cell doors open

and not a staff member in sight,

what happens over the next 24 hours,

especially as the inmates

are amped up and excitable,

could make or break

the sheriff's experiment.

I feel good, I feel free ♪

Whoo, my cell door is open!

Wide open, wide open y'all!

-[Willie] Freedom!

-Amen.

I'm grateful for the doors to be open.

And the freedom.

It's all-day free range.

But we still

gotta follow the rules in here.

I feel free ♪

And this team that I put together,

we're helping to do that.

Still gotta have an extra shirt on, y'all.

Come on, now.

The rules still apply.

Rules still apply!

Tiny. Firecracker. Pow!

That's the firecracker.

Crooks. Sit back. Smooth. Cool.

Talk to you first.

Finch.

Quiet. Deadly.

Smart.

Squirrel. Loud. Obnoxious.

Goes straight to you. No hesitation.

And they listen when he get to talking.

All attention that way.

That's the reason why I want him

to be in charge if any problems happen.

[indistinct chatter]

The deputy ain't back here no more,

so so you know what I mean.

He took the computer.

Just chilling.

[Squirrel] You can't get behind

the desk, man!

-g*dd*mn, man!

-[inmate] What?

[indistinct chatter]

I like that.

Come on, man. You can't do that.

We don't smoke here.

[inmate 2] I do.

Everyone is smoking.

We smoke with that shirt on. That way.

We was just chopping it up,

and then you have m*therf*ckers like,

"Oh no. Get off the desk."

The old guys take it upon themselves

to run the whole thing,

them telling other inmates what to do.

These m*therf*ckers

some police-a*s m*therf*ckers.

[mock crying] They're like, "You guys

are gonna ruin it for all of us."

[mock crying]

You know what I mean?

[tense music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

Man, she finna bring the remote.

Don't turn on my g*dd*mn TV.

It ain't that important.

[inmate] Some people

like to hear theyself talk.

Man!

[inmate] What's going on?

Why we g*dd*mn have to act

like g*dd*mn fools?

-You know what I'm sayin'?

-[inmate] I do.

Y'all that sh*t.

Why we gotta act a fool, man?

We ain't supposed to act no fool, man.

Know what I'm sayin'?

We trying to better this sh*t.

How you gonna better this sh*t

if everyone acts the fool?

How is you the first and only person

to say something like that.

It's like this. It's done.

-[Squirrel] It's not understood.

-It's done. It's done. It's done.

It's out of the park. It's done.

Leave that alone.

[Squirrel] It's not understood.

I ain't in it.

I'm moving 'cause you ain't

going to tell me how to f*cking act.

You know what I'm sayin'?

'Cause you want something simple and sh*t?

[arguing indistinctly]

I ain't staying, man.

What the hell-f*ck

they expect outta this sh*t, man?

The older folks is trying to run the pod.

That's when it's going to lead to a fight.

[rock music playing]

'Cause we young, they don't wanna hear

what we got to say.

We don't want to hear

what you got to say, m*therf*cker.

Damn right, y'all. Damn right.

We don't want to hear what you got to say,

so we let the old n*gg*s do them

and the young n*gg*s do us.

If one of us, if I get out of line,

I want the young n*gg*s to say,

"Hey, bro, you tripping."

Them old n*gg*s trying

to get you in trouble, man. f*ck them.

Them m*therf*ckers

pissing out cobwebs anyways.

The f*ck you talking about.

-This n*gga here, he just disrespect me.

-Yeah, that's just what it is, man.

[laughing]

Man, we already know what the rules is.

Don't come

It's basic rules.

If you wanna keep this freedom,

go by the basic rules and you'll be good.

You in jail just like us

wearing a blue PCRDF, just like us, man.

If anything, bruh

enjoy this sh*t while we can.

[indistinct excited chatter]

[exclaiming]

[hip-hop music playing]

[Mayham rapping]

Got locked up going missing ♪

My b*tch don't want to dive into

She the only one who'll listen ♪

I'mma keep it real standing all ten

For however long I'm living ♪

For however long I'm living ♪

For however long I'm living ♪

If I've been disrespectful, I apologize.

I'm just Mayham.

The name is self-explanatory.

I'm f*cking Mayham.

I get to that point where I'm up there.

I just wanna cause chaos.

Young Vice Lord is our organization.

A lot of bad and a lot of good.

Like, Mayham don't go for

a lot of bullshit.

That why Mayham crazy.

I'm crazy about my family.

I'm crazy about my daughter.

I'm crazy about my mom. I go crazy.

My charge is capital m*rder.

It's a bad charge, so.

It's either life or death

if you fight it,

so it's a real bad charge. You just

gotta take the licks and keep going.

The worst?

Not being able to be around my daughter.

Hoping I get to be

around my daughter again.

But while we're here,

we're trying to make it comfortable.

Make ourselves feel comfortable.

So I mess with the younger cats.

Yeah, come on ♪

Uh-huh, uh-huh ♪

You see me, you see Ten.

Graham crackers dipped in milk.

We not just no ordinary, young juveniles.

Like older guys, they gotta realize

they're in our generation now.

They're living in our world now.

We're not in their world no more.

A real live action figure ♪

[peppy music playing]

[Higgins] Growing up here in Little Rock,

I have a concern for our community.

In the last few years,

we've seen an uptick in violent crime,

specifically homicides.

Last year's numbers,

Little Rock has probably had

their highest number of homicides

they've had, um in over 20 years.

[police sirens wailing]

[Higgins] We're around 50% recidivism.

And what that means is

that when a person gets out of jail,

around 50% within three years,

they're back in jail.

That means a continual flow of people

coming into this facility.

Then you become overcrowded.

And when you're overcrowded,

jail can become more violent.

But when I look at other countries,

their jail system's

a little bit different than ours.

A little bit more freedom, accountability,

responsibility imposed on the detainees.

And I think their recidivism rate

reflects that it works.

So, can I make my jail a safer place?

And can this resonate?

Can this make my community safer?

If all we're doing is locking people up

and just housing them,

um,

that's all we're ever gonna do.

There's not gonna be a change in behavior.

So we need

to try to do something different.

I don't want this place to be

just a place for punishment.

I want this to be a place

where reform happens.

[inmates yelling, whistling]

[narrator] The six-week experiment

has just begun,

but already there's a generational divide

brewing over who should be in charge

and how the inmates

should conduct themselves.

[Tyler] Now that the doors are open,

it kind of felt the same as the saying,

"There's a lot of weight

lifted off your shoulders."

And right now,

we're just making it the best it could be.

[producer] Where do you guys get tobacco?

This ain't tobacco. It's coffee stick.

[Ty] A coffee stick.

It's like a paper towel dipped in coffee

that you dry and roll it, smoke it.

Some people are addicted to 'em.

I don't know what type of sh*t they're on.

But I feel like the older cats,

they see smoking, they'll be like,

"What the f*ck is wrong with you?"

Because we're given

the privilege to be trusted

to do the right thing,

do what we need to do.

And now

somebody gonna f*ck this sh*t up for us?

This right here

is the link between us and the free world.

You know what I'm saying?

Only way in and only way out.

Only way in and only way out.

sh*t. For real.

Yeah, that m*therf*cker

right there you see.

It is f*cking hard being locked up.

It makes me think about my life.

My son is 14 years old. A good kid.

I miss being there like a father should.

Know what I'm sayin'? At his games.

sh*t like that, know what I'm sayin'?

Talk to him about his first girlfriend.

All that sh*t.

The last time I actually seen him, he was

My mom brought him to come and see me.

He was, like, three.

Pretty much almost nothing

up in this m*therf*cker, man.

This just Right now this just

a way of living. You know what I'm sayin'?

This is all we got.

Uh, I really just feel like

less than a man.

I can't really do what the f*ck I need to

do as a father. You know what I'm sayin'?

This is usually where I sit right here,

where I be chilling and sh*t.

That's how I occupy some time.

I can hear better up here.

[producer] It's like your front porch.

Basically, yeah.

Without selling crack, though.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

That's what it's basically like, man.

Feel kinda good.

But then there's unit.

You got Bloods.

You got Crips. You got gangsters.

You know, you got Fangs.

We call 'em Vice Lords.

But in order for us to make this work,

they got to realize

that this sh*t is a privilege.

Because us as a community

gotta keep the bullshit down.

Door's open.

It's a big opportunity for me.

I can reconnect with my kid and sh*t.

Because nothing's more important

to me than my boy,

you know what I'm saying?

[narrator] Mealtimes in the unit are one

of the most charged moments of the day,

with fights over food and trays.

With no deputies present,

what happens next could mean

control in the unit or chaos.

They have to have some type of structure

where everyone gets fed.

They make sure they can do it

so everyone is not all over the place

at the same time.

[inmate] Trays!

Lockdown!

-Trays!

-[inmate] Trays.

[Randy speaks indistinctly]

We're at this point during this process.

The first meal of the first day.

Everyone has to be fed.

That's our first test,

to see how this is gonna go.

Let's go, people! Let's go!

Let's move them trays!

Everybody, we gonna lockdown!

-You gotta be inside your door frame.

-[inmate 2] Inside the door frame.

We gotta be inside the frame.

We gotta be inside the door frame.

Man, it's the people

taking this program too serious.

You're trying to figure some sh*t out.

Come on, man.

We ain't gotta vote for no sh*t like that.

Kick the m*therf*cker out

'cause they can't sit

Pop the door, so we can get out.

What else is going on?

These people get a little power,

it goes to their head.

I got power,

and I'm going to somebody head.

[narrator] In order to prevent chaos,

Randy wants the pod to follow

the normal jail rules at mealtime

with each tier waiting

behind the doors for their turn to eat.

Simple little rules.

Make your bed.

Lockdown for pill call.

Lockdown for trays.

Stay in your room after lockdown.

Behind this frame.

Not in between.

Not straddled.

Not on this side, but behind.

If you don't listen to Randy,

he gon' get irritated.

Like, what, you the deputy or something?

You now finna stop me from eating?

You policing.

[indistinct chatter]

You hear me? Hey.

Y'all got about four more minutes.

Four more minutes.

[Ty] I have at least, like, five minutes.

I said y'all have about four more minutes,

but don't do that, homeboy.

You got 15 minutes to eat,

so, yeah, I'm gonna tell you to go.

Now if your 15 is still there,

I'll lean back. But your 15 is gone.

Pick that sh*t up!

Straighten them trays up!

He just all too much bullshit. Every day.

Don't get me wrong, I f*ck with him,

but it's like, half the sh*t he's saying

is just like straight dumb sh*t.

Okay, man. Over there.

[indistinct conversation]

He try to get you

to, like, put into his bullshit.

Don't talk to me!

I just feel like he just be trying

to run this m*therf*cker.

And he don't go about it the right way.

He just need to chill

and do his own thing.

But he's not gonna do that.

True Story.

I said you have four minutes.

He said, "I was about to go,

now you only gonna give me two minutes?"

I said, "Okay."

Randall, True Story,

all right, you can give it.

True Story got the voice.

True Story a little extra with it.

He just be a little extra with it.

He gotta calm down, man. Calm down, man.

We not gonna just listen to you.

Just be yourself.

You be too characteristic a lot.

You're talking crazy to him.

Yeah. I got to talk crazy to him.

He ain't like that. He ain't like that.

Yes, he is.

This is where we lay our head.

This is our bunk.

This is our home right now.

He need to be realistic

and not characteristic.

I'm not gonna let you just push

and try to run over me too.

'Cause I smoothes out everything.

I make this run

the proper way up in here,

so everybody can come together.

[bluesy guitar music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

Communicating and understanding

is the best thing in a relationship.

Couple of people need direction.

So if you communicate and understand,

there won't be no problem, no chaos.

Everybody here is

basically one person now.

-So whatever you do, it affects everybody.

-[Randy] It affects everybody.

If you do something wrong,

g*dd*mn, that disrespected me.

You disrespect everybody.

If you follow my simple rule,

you ain't gotta worry about

never coming back to this m*therf*cker.

-[Randy] This is simple.

-We don't.

I've been here 20,000 days,

and I ain't never failed by their rules.

You know what I'm saying?

[Randy] That's what

we gonna talk about tonight.

We gonna nominate folks

who are gonna be responsible

in the community

whatever we wanna call it,

but we have to do this ourselves.

-[Squirrel] Them is our rules.

-[Willie] Right.

We gonna have a meeting today.

We definitely Oh yes, we are.

'Cause I got some sh*t to say

about everything.

You just gotta wait and see.

About six o'clock,

we're gonna get this crunk,

and we're gonna sit everybody out here.

We gonna get out here.

We'll have this table pushed back,

and we gonna get to the rules.

[bluesy guitar music playing]

-[Higgins] LT.

-How's it going, Sheriff?

-[Higgins] All right. You?

-I'm doing all right.

-Thing's going well?

-[Freeman] Yes, sir.

Uh, so far so good.

Uh, there's nothing alarming

that I see, uh,

since the last time we went in.

[Higgins] Let's make sure

that the deputies are paying attention.

-Don't get relaxed.

-Will do.

-We wanna make sure everybody's safe.

-Yes, sir.

[Higgins] We need to be prepared

if things get out of hand.

Whatever we got coming, we will adjust.

All right. Thank you.

The first few hours is,

"Is it gonna get worse? Or get better?"

With this freedom

is coming a lot of tension

and could anyone in the group

be a potential target for others

who want to release their frustration?

We're still watching

and hoping for the best.

Um, but realize that

we could have some problems.

[ambient music playing]

My name is David Miller.

Before I came here, working full-time,

actually as a night shift manager

at Wingstop.

I have a culinary degree

and a business management degree.

My charge is Domestic Battery 1.

In my life,

I've never spent time in jail like this.

Never done anything

to be in jail like this.

This place has

a lot of nonsense that goes on.

I'm not really supposed to be here,

but, honestly, for me,

it doesn't really bother me.

I know how to make a football, though.

[inmate] I'll bet you do.

Socks and toilet paper.

I came up with it up here.

Guess what? Ain't sh*t wrapped

around a roll of toilet paper.

Two of them makes a football.

-Makes sense.

-Yep. [laughs]

sh*t.

That old guy, he gets on my f*ck'

What's his name?

The guy that looks like a

Miller? Miller? Oh my God.

He's like a f*cking alien

from a different planet.

It's so hard not to make fun of that guy.

Know what I'm saying?

It's really hard. I mean, I'm sorry.

I'm kind of immature

a little bit. Whatever.

I'm sorry. Forgive me for that.

I wanna make fun of him all the time.

Miller, just don't say nothing, bro.

[laughs] Don't say nothing.

He puts a target on himself.

Yeah, he deserve to get his a*s beat.

You know what I mean?

I was gonna come beat his a*s.

[indistinct chatter]

[Finch] I didn't even turn

that deuce that way.

-Yes, you did.

-No, I didn't.

He just called it. He might have seen it.

I saw you do it. Finch,

put them back please. Don't cheat.

Yeah.

I'm just talking

about cheating's your way.

You didn't see nothin', man. You lying.

I ain't lying, you lying.

Stop lying. Who you calling a liar?

I'll beat your motherfuckin' a*s there.

[angry chatter]

[Finch] Who you talking about lying, boy?

Who you talking about lying, boy?

Finch.

[Finch] Just runnin'

your motherfuckin' mouth, boy.

[Randy] Dave Miller.

His mouth is foul.

But he was in L Unit.

They ran his a*s out of L.

He was in K unit with me.

Everyone else that didn't come,

they finna whoop his a*s in there.

He asked for it over there.

He got his a*s kicked there.

Okay, where he go?

You go, today.

-I don't wanna hear it. You done!

-[Miller] I didn't do nothing.

You causing too many problems.

No, you causing too many problems.

You causing too many problems.

-[Miller] I called the bonds board

-I'm done talking!

You don't gotta deal

with seven people's breath in one second.

You ready, Chief?

He wrong, though. He wrong.

-Finch don't mess with nobody.

-[inmate] No, he don't.

It's like he'll just

it's just he'll forget

about what he did yesterday.

And come with something else new

and start another argument

about something else.

Don't worry about nobody else.

Work on you.

You got some issues built up inside.

Every day you get into it with somebody.

Every day.

Your tongue is like a little firecracker.

You don't know

what's coming out of their mouth

See? There you go, worrying about them.

This ain't about them. It's about you.

It's about both ways.

Here we go again.

I'm not finna do this arguing.

I'm not finna do this arguing.

[Miller] Here's the thing.

It's a problem with people

who want to think

they can just talk to anybody however

and push people around

however they want to.

And that's Randall.

He constantly stirring up sh*t.

He constantly is trying

to create a divide between people.

Dave, stop!

[narrator] With Miller continuing

to antagonize,

Randy enlists some of the older inmates

to see if they can

talk some sense into him.

One thing about this f*cking sh*t,

I ain't tough.

Ain't trying to be tough.

That's not the principle behind it.

But you run your f*cking mouth,

and you try snitching, m*therf*cker,

you'll get your a*s handed to you,

that's all there is to it.

[inmate 2] Rocky Balboa's

f*cking a*s here.

Get out of here.

[inmate 3] What if I elbow him

in the face?

[chuckles]

Here he comes.

Bring a chair with you.

Gonna sit down

with the f*cking wise men over here.

-What's going on?

-What's up?

What's up, Dave?

What's the situation at hand over here?

The situation this morning?

Do you know what's going on

in the barracks right now?

Off the top of my head, no.

Everybody say you got a foul mouth on you.

What people say is hearsay to go around.

The water's good. It's good fishing.

And you're f*cking throwing dynamite

out the boat.

I'm not causing trouble.

We all gotta

We all gotta try to get along.

[laughs]

Y'all, that's called drama.

You the drama queen!

[Miller] No, not at all.

[inmate 4] Bye-bye!

Get along, catch a door,

and get your a*s whooped.

That's three.

[upbeat music playing]

[narrator] Determined to maintain order,

Randy and his team call a meeting.

They wanna fully establish

themselves as leaders,

and let everyone know, Miller

and the younger generation included,

that bad behavior will not be tolerated.

Hey, business time, gentlemen!

Hey, can we all get together

and come talk about this here.

Hey, business time, gentlemen!

This is our first time

being here with our freedom.

You know these older guys

giving a meeting,

it don't mean nothing.

Any inmates telling us, man,

they repeating the same sh*t

these folks saying, man.

Stop it. That's policing.

We don't need to hear it.

Yeah, it's useless as hell.

-[Squirrel] Love to hear it.

-Listen.

[Squirrel] Y'all wanna come down here

tell us what it is.

[inmate] Ain't no pod boss in here.

[Squirrel] Come on in, man.

[Randy] Nobody's my pod boss.

I don't have a pod boss.

The more freedom that we have up in here,

the less cause,

the less fights, the less attitudes,

the less anything up in here.

That's what we need. That mean having

everybody come together. That's one.

Hey, this concerns everybody, though!

Hey, we gonna need everybody, y'all!

Hold up on the kiosks and all that.

Sit down, my man.

But we gonna need everybody.

Hey, look, for those who don't know,

whatever one person do,

it could fix everybody, man.

If we do something bad,

know what I'm saying

It falls back on all of us.

It ain't about you.

It's about us too,

you know what I'm saying?

The less problem they have at us,

the less problem they got

to come down here and see us,

the more we can get out of the situation.

I just don't want the 23 and 1,

know what I'm saying?

Now, anything but that.

Try to fix that problem.

That's basically what I be wanting.

We gonna try to do it a little better.

That's the only thing I want

out of this situation.

Just a little better

than what the deputies will get.

You feel what I'm saying?

I consider myself

as being one of the elders

with some of the other guys.

All the younger guys that's younger,

man, know what I'm saying,

y'all got kids, man.

Y'all grown, just like we grown men.

Ain't no one man

should have to tell another man,

"Put your shirt on.

Don't sit on the table. Don't do this."

Come on, man.

With the young folks, we not in bullshit

like the old folks is getting into.

Ain't nobody in charge.

It's not what you say,

it's how you say it.

And our generation of us being young,

we don't like being talked to crazy.

We're not gonna wanna listen.

We wanna be the opposite

and rebellious when it comes to that.

[Big Country] I ain't shut my door

no more.

That door right there. It's open 24.

When I go to sleep, it gonna be wide open.

I ain't shutting it no more.

I don't want y'all to take that privilege.

And I'll do my best

not to take that privilege from y'all.

All this sh*t is new to everybody, though.

You feel what I'm saying?

This sh*t brand-new to most of us.

That's why it's gonna be a minute

to get this sh*t under control, man.

It's some structure that needs to happen.

We need structure somewhere, evidently,

'cause we're here. So somewhere

in our life we didn't have structure.

Just 'cause you're used to talking

some way to this dude,

you can't talk like that to every dude.

Yeah, but everybody knows

Squirrel talking about

Listen, I'm not

necessarily talking about

-Nah, he said

-Hold on.

I'm not necessarily

talking about just Squirrel.

I'm talking about each one to each one.

Us to each one.

We gonna respect everyone

up in here, no matter who you are,

what you are, or how you are.

We got to respect one another.

Yes, I don't care how old you is,

you get your a*s beat.

I don't give a f*ck.

You old, I don't give a f*ck how old.

You disrespect me, I'll disrespect back.

But I'm gonna disrespect back worse.

There's gonna be some bullshit

and probably some fights,

but if it come to that bullshit there,

we ain't gonna do this

out here in the open.

If you have to

Handle it in the quarters.

Handle it in the quarters.

[Finch] Handle it in the quarters.

We ain't gonna do this in the spotlight

and bring all that drama.

Then once it's over with, it's over with.

We gonna do the jailhouse rules,

know what I'm saying?

The ones they say they want,

'cause they don't feel like it.

We gonna stay behind the door.

They watching.

First m*therf*cker

they catch out of bounds,

that's a good enough reason

to say, "Hey, 23 and 1."

But we out, you know what I'm saying?

We trying to stay that way.

The young n*gg*s,

we not going to be the ones to f*ck it up.

[Mayham] Yeah.

No, man. We kicking back smooth,

like Michael Jackson shoes.

We ain't gonna do nothing to them b*tch.

They can't think to blame sh*t on us.

We not gonna be one of 'em.

Oldheads. They feel like

they can do whatever they wanna do

to control the sh*t that other people do.

But that's what's gonna start problems.

I'm saying about the unit, though.

f*ck the fighting sh*t.

About the unit,

we fighting for each other.

[clock ticking]

[narrator] After the deputies finish

their daily head count

to make sure no one is missing or injured,

H Unit begins its first night

with unlocked doors.

[Eastside] Aight. Get up out of here.

[indistinct chatter]

[laughing]

There's some mindsets that say, "Well,

the older guys, they're experienced,

and you get them on board,

and that runs the whole unit."

"And the younger folks

will do what they say."

That's a nice idea, you know.

The younger guys have a different opinion.

The younger folks don't want

the older folks telling 'em what to do.

[indistinct chatter and laughing]

There was some tension in the air.

It was rowdy with them doors.

Everybody was acting crazy.

m*therf*ckers acting wild.

I'm like, "Man, what the f*ck?"

This sh*t ain't gonna last.

I can't wait till they lock the door.

-Damn.

-All right, I can't.

They want to act like an animal,

you know what animals do.

Animals get locked up.

[yelling]

[Big Country] I ain't shut my door

tonight. My door will be wide open.

I'll be on the floor

with my socks and shoes on.

Yeah.

[narrator] As the inmates get ready

for their first night of the experiment,

some worry that the open doors

could mean a violent settling of scores.

Especially for those

who have ongoing disputes.

[suspenseful music playing]

God don't tell us

to run away when it's hard.

But he does tell us stay on that course.

But at the same time, keep your composure.

Ain't nobody gonna sleep tonight.

I don't trust nobody. Ain't gonna lie.

I'm in that unit.

I'm not gonna sleep with the door open.

Like, I'm not worrying

about nobody coming to fight me,

'cause I can get up in a fight.

But I'm worrying

about somebody coming to stab me.

Move forward, you gotta think two ahead

two steps forward, you know?

All right, then. Y'all be safe, bro.

Be careful, aight. See y'all tomorrow.

[tense music playing]

Anything could go on in here, though,

so you gotta be ten toes down

and on your pivot all the time.

In here with straight,

I ain't gonna say criminals but

So anything could happen.

There's definitely some worry.

[inmates] Oh!

Bad things happen in here.

Places like this, you never know.

Never know what can happen.

Zero to sixty at any minute.

[tense music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

[music builds, then fades out]

[mellow music playing]

Randall!

[knocking]

[Dennis] I said, Randall.

What you out for?

[Randall speaks indistinctly]

I was up all night. [laughs]

Upper level, upper level, come on.

Come on and get chow.

Wake your celly up.

[inmate] Hey, wake up.

[Mayham] Wake your celly up.

Wake your celly up.

I went to sleep about 10:30.

I kinda just pay attention to me, man.

It's too much. You know what I'm saying?

I don't really focus on anybody else,

just go up there and go to sleep.

[bluesy music playing]

This gonna be a routine

in this m*therf*cker.

m*therf*cker gonna This sh*t gonna work

once we get used to this sh*t.

There's gonna be

a couple kinks the first few days.

I slept with both eyes open.

Not really, just, you know,

I slept with both eyes open, though.

I can hear everything.

If you scared that a m*therf*cker's

gonna run in your sh*t,

and take your sh*t, you's a h*.

That's just it.

[laughs]

[Eastside] County man

was definitely on the prowl.

County man was a real f*cking thing.

He was attacking at nighttime.

Dre came in here

and f*cking beat me up in my sleep.

[Eastside] With a flip-flop.

With a flip-flop.

[rhythmic music playing]

[Dre] Dat way.

[Eastside] Dat way.

[Dre] Pound your a*s.

Didn't I say I'd get you?

I can't get you no more?

[Eastside] Love that.

[Dre] All right. Good night, sweets.

[Ty] He also told me

that he was watching us sleep.

-[Eastside] What the f*ck?

-Yeah, I don't know how I feel about that.

Oh sh*t.

I never seen no sh*t like that

before in my life. I haven't.

[laughs]

[hip-hop music playing]

The first night went well, but we still

hadn't completed the whole 24 hours.

In the beginning,

everybody being an alpha male,

wasn't so receptive of certain individuals

telling them what to do,

but everything kind of panned out,

and it worked itself out.

[indistinct chatter]

[music stops]

[Miller] I beat the a*s of

all you cheaters!

You better watch how you talk to me,

or I'm gonna beat your a*s.

[indistinct]

I can't lie about the truth.

[Willie] Hey, Scott, we don't want

to get this program shut down.

[indistinct]

[dramatic music playing]

I said, "Oh, here we go again."

I'm not the only one

having a problem with this.

I don't know what you call him,

a kid, a grown man.

I don't want to listen

to no bullshit every day.

A lot of folks in here,

you're nerve-racking to them.

'Cause you just don't know how to stop.

Ecclesiastes, chapter 3.

Number 6.

Time to speak and time to keep silent.

That's why I get upset.

You come at me out of nowhere

with an attitude, though.

I have to come at you

'cause you don't want to listen to nobody.

You want to outtalk them.

That's exactly what you're doing to me

when I try and tell

Y'all bumping heads 'cause y'all

both are outgoing and talk a lot.

Boy, you talk reckless to people.

Sometimes you gotta speak up

for yourself too.

You can't control other people.

But you can control yourself.

[Randy] You gotta think about

the things that come out your mouth.

When you do try to have a conversation,

you're not going nowhere.

You're just going around in circles, bro.

That's irritating to folks.

You is like a woman.

[Randy] Outta here.

I'm going.

Man.

Won't stop.

Now do you see?

I'm just so tired of him.

I just be trying my best to help him.

The more I help, the more they turn on me.

So, I wash my hands.

You only can do so much for folks.

It's open now.

Open season.

Open season.

You know what open season mean?

It's free. Free.

[Randy] Every day free.

-On sight.

-That a way.

Bald head mother

[indistinct chatter]

When an inmate comes in,

and disrupts the situation

that we have good harmony coming in,

you know,

we feel some type of way,

and we gotta react on it.

[inmate] They're just there.

Come and talk.

[narrator] The sheriff's program

comes to the end of its first 24 hours.

The deputies are

about to enter the unit for a head count

and distribution of medicine.

[Wutzke] It's happening.

Upstairs?

In my cell.

Violence is never the key. I don't ever

We don't want to hurt or touch nobody.

That's not really what this is about.

But sometimes that's what somebody needs.

[inmate] I tell you what,

I'm just gonna go like this Boom.

And watch how

his f*cking eye hangs out his mouth.

[Wutzke] Let's stop at that, though.

You and me, we gotta stop with that.

[indistinct]

-You hear me?

-[inmate] I hear ya on this.

-Just chitchat, that's all this is.

-[inmate] What if he doesn't fall down?

[Wutzke] Might catch one more.

He know it coming too.

Why do I feel hot right now

'cause of this sh*t?

[Wutzke] I feel like don't get hyped.

Keeping that cool mellow head on yourself.

There's repercussions

to the sh*t you do in life.

You're gonna have to pay the piper,

and it might not be in a good way.

You know, you made the bed. Lay in it.

-[Wutzke] Pill call?

-Pill call is coming.

[tense music playing]

No. No. No. No.

Why you making me look like a dumbass?

What's your punk-a*s tryin' to do, b*tch.

[poignant strings music playing]