First and Last (2018) s01e03 Episode Script
Guns Drawn, Shields Raised
1 [woman moaning in distress.]
[woman screaming.]
Can you not film me right now? [woman.]
Why am I being put in jail? [officer.]
You can look up and around as long as it's a straight-ahead picture.
[woman.]
Take me where I can go to a phone with my Mom, and charge my phone.
[officer.]
"Can you charge my phone? Can I take a shower?" Would you like a coffee and a cheeseburger with that, too? You can't charge your phone in jail, ma'am.
That's not how we do things.
[Brittany.]
I'm honestly scared.
I have never been in jail before.
[officer.]
All right, come over here.
Second, step in here, put your feet in the yellow footprints.
Separate your arms.
- Like this? - There you go.
[Brittany.]
I'm in here right nowàbecause I had an altercation with myàfiancé.
I wanted to leave.
He didn't want me to leave.
So, he started pushing on me.
I'm like, "Hey, don't touch me.
Don't touch me.
" 'Cause he just kept touching me and I had to defend myself as of that point.
Have a seat for a minute.
[Brittany.]
But the officers pulled up, he was acting completely calm, which was so weird.
I overreacted, and I just couldn't control myself.
The cops was like, "Um, calm down, like if you don't shut up, um, I'm taking you to jail.
" ["Evil Ways" byÃÂ Blues Saraceno playing.]
It's been so long Those long, hard days Well, the first time I got arrested, I was drivin' with with no license.
[woman.]
I wasn't out doin' anything, but I made a mistake.
Change my ways Those evil ways [woman.]
Some people make mistake in life and I made those mistakes, and I'm paying the consequences.
I got hit with a felony, doin' stupid stuff.
[man.]
I just made a horrible mistake and I'm tryin' to just get back to contributing to society.
[man.]
I try to exercise some balance and learn from my mistakes and learn from my decisions, learn from the pain, learn from every angle of this experience I can, so that I can keep myself in a situation where I don't have to repeat this.
[man.]
Turn around.
Face the wall.
My evil ways Turn around.
Put your back on the wall.
[sighing.]
[female officer.]
Look at the camera.
[male officer.]
Sixty-five, 67, 68.
Three sixty-eight sound right? [Jarid.]
I guess my other 200, I guess he said they'll take into evidence.
[officer.]
Uh, I don't know about that.
Yeah, it was supposed to be five.
[officer.]
Okay.
[Jarid.]
So, I'm armed robbery, no priors.
[sighing.]
Foolishness.
[Jarid.]
I I feel like a fish out of water.
You know, I ain't never ever in my life been charged with no armed robbery, Nothin' like that.
Don't have any priors.
You know, you feel pretty helpless.
You know, I'm stressed out.
I'm thinkin' now why I'm in here, you know, what am I gonna do? [officer.]
Morris, stand in the yellow area with your hands out of your pockets.
I will verify your information.
- How tall are you? - Six five.
- What do you weigh? - About 185.
And have you been here before? - No, ma'am.
- Okay.
- These are your charges - Okay.
- with your bond amount.
- Okay.
Um, I was gonna ask, with being charged, um, I have an interview tomorrow.
When they do the background check, will that appear? - I don't think it would appear that soon.
- Okay.
[Jarid.]
I'm not from here.
I'm from Florida.
I was up here, you know, um, I have a $45,000-a-year job, you know, uh, interview tomorrow, for a management position at a manufacturing company.
[woman.]
Come on over.
I'm going to need your left wrist.
[Jarid.]
I'm just trying to get myself out, you know, so I can still catch that interview tomorrow, you know, at eight o'clock.
You know? So that that's all that I'm thinking about.
[clock ticking.]
[quiet chatter.]
[woman.]
They're gonna take you at one? - Mm-hmm Yeah, I'm leaving this room tonight at one o'clock.
[Taylor.]
I'm just really excited to get home.
I'm so excited to go home.
I can't believe it, you know? I didn't think the 60 days would ever be, like, over.
I don't know.
I look at this picture on my arm band and I was literally so fucked up and it's like that doesn't even look like me.
I turned into a monster and I didn't even see it.
I didn't start doin' meth till I was 19 years old.
When I should have known better, when I had seen what it had done to people and it's like I still fell into it and it's like it can happen to anybody.
They don't lie about it, man.
The first time you do it, you're hooked.
I haven't stayed with my mom in, like, two years.
You talked to her though, within that time, right, or no? [Taylor.]
No, not really.
I was kind of meth-ed up.
I was homeless, but I was homeless on my own account.
I didn't want to be in my house shootin' up meth, havin' my mom walk in on me.
Like, I always had the chance to go home.
I just chose drugs.
I put myself in a big mess.
Like, I'm disappointed in myself, honestly.
I've accomplished nothing.
Wasn't always going to jail, you know? I mean, I like being outdoors.
I like sports.
I did gymnastics for a while.
- [woman.]
You gonna go back to school? - I might.
I gotta help myself first before I can do anything else.
[Taylor.]
I wanted to go to college.
I wanted to be a criminal investigator.
Now, I'm a third-time felon, 20 years old.
I can't I don't even know what I'm gonna do.
I don't know what job I could get, besides working at McDonald's at this point.
[voice breaking.]
And it sucks.
[sniffing.]
Like, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
[clock ticking.]
I don't know nobody to call.
[Brittany.]
So what happens after this process? You're gonna be in here for a little while.
- I'm gonna be in here for a little while? - [woman.]
Couple of hours at least.
[Brittany.]
What the hell? I'm sorry, y'all, I'm freakin' out.
This is my first time bein' in jail so [Brittany.]
We've had a couple run-ins like this before.
I always had, like, anger issues, but it's just gotten worse.
Like, it's different when you get into a fight with a female.
[woman.]
I know.
You can play it completely calm when you done fightin' her because y'all on the same level.
- I'm a female, you a female.
- Right.
But a dude, you hyperventilate, you goin' crazy.
'Cause he has power over you.
He can kill you.
- I could have died in there.
- Right.
Of course I'm scared.
[woman.]
Aw, don't cry.
It's okay.
That shit is fucked up.
- Don't cry.
- Mm-hmm.
[officer.]
We have a lot of people that come in and are arrested for domestic violence.
When you arrive on a domestic violence scene, it can be tricky because the person that's got the scratch marks on 'em and whatnot, may have been trying to defend themselves, uh, or it was actually the perp.
It's very, very difficult to figure out.
[officer.]
You Robinson? Just stand in the yellow square, please.
All right, can I have your full name and date of birth? Brittany Robinson.
7-13-90.
[officer.]
Okay, you're here on a battery charge.
Your bond amount is $2,400.
- They brought your phone with you? - It was in the police car.
Um.
Right now, you're gonna get your fingerprints taken.
After that, you're good to be bonded at any time.
How's somebody's gonna bond me out, man, when I don't have no number? How I'm gonna call somebody to bond me out? I have a job.
I got two kids.
Like, what am I supposed to do, ma'am? - You have somebody to come? - I don't have any numbers.
- Well, nobody know you came? - He broke my phone, so You think he'll let 'em know? No.
That malicious.
[laughs.]
- Fabulicious.
- He won't let 'em know.
So y'all just emotional today? He was cheatin' and I had to leave.
- I don't have time for that.
- Oh yeah, cheating on you? [officer.]
If you feel like you were wrong, I mean, you can come up here to our magistrate court when you get out and speak to the judge that, you know, charges should be pressed against him.
- Mm-hmm.
- They're open 24 hours a day up here.
Okay? Well, we'll see what we can do for you in a little bit.
Try to think real hard about, um, some numbers.
I'll think about some numbers now.
Yeah.
If you can, just do what you can, okay? - Okay.
- All right, you have a good day.
You too.
She said I can get out, but they just need I don't have no numbers.
So I'm up here thinkin' about Six, four, one Six, four, one.
[clock ticking.]
[officer.]
An inmate can be in a holding cell for up to 48 hours.
It can be a grueling process, sitting and just waiting to find out if you will get a bond, if a loved oneÃÂ will come to the jail facility to bond you out, or if you will get dressed in.
[sighing.]
Fuckin' fuck me, man.
[Jarid.]
Last night, um, I went out to a a club.
We met, um, two strippers there.
Um.
I had, uh, a room.
They came back to my room.
I got, uh caught up, you know, in, you know, uh, you know, the sex.
They asked me for $200.
I mean, I told 'em, you know, that I'm not giving them no money.
I need the money for myself.
Next thing I know, North Cross PD kicked open the door.
Guns drawn, uh, shields raised, um Told me to get on the ground, put me in handcuffs instantly.
Uh, didn't question me or anything.
The cops took 200 of my dollars because, allegedly, that's how much I robbed the person for.
So clearly, the girls told the cops, "He robbed us or whatever, for $200.
" They went right to my book bag and grabbed my gun.
You know, so that let me know that, you know, the girls had told them, you know, "He has a gun in his book bag.
" I have a concealed weapons permit.
I was never asked about that.
So I guess them seeing that weapon was all that they needed to see.
They didn't ask any questions.
Came in there, locked me up.
[Jarid.]
Bro, you gotta call my motherfuckin' people, bro.
They motherfuckin' charged me with armed robbery, bro.
- Nigga, what? - Yes! Oh no, dawg.
Hell no.
Uh, this shit wild.
What's your bond? Bro, my bond is, bro, okay, all right, my bond is 7,000.
I gotta come up with 700 of that.
I got 368, you feel me? If y'all boys come up with the rest, I'll make sure y'all have that bread as soon as I get out.
All right.
Yeah, hell yeah, tell me more, but I got to get out today.
Remember I got to go to that interview in the morning.
I can't miss that shit.
I get it.
Yeah, yeah.
[indistinct chatter.]
Huh? Hell, yeah.
Yo, I said I'm outta this bitch.
[Jarid.]
I grew up, you know, rough, uh, south Florida, on West Palm Beach.
The hood has a way of sucking the life out of you.
Basketball, that was really my fuel, you know? It just I had a hunger for that, you know, so much that, you know, it it kept me from a lot of things that my homeboys were doin'.
I just knew that that was gonna be my ticket out.
I got, um, a partial scholarship to Indian River State College, so I like to say, you know, I beat the odds.
But still, you know, like I said, It it it's a hard thing to shake, you know? Like I say, bein' educated, still growing up in the hood and knowing how to do better.
This job is an opportunity, you know, to get out.
But, you know, it seems like even if I get out, you know, the hood, you know, just draws me back in.
[clock ticking.]
Just wastin' my time, man.
[coughs.]
- [man.]
Yo, man, you look nervous.
- Really? I just been wired on coffee all day.
I've been here, uh, about 46 times, uh, in the past 10 years.
All the deputies know me here, pretty much.
When I leave, they say, "See you next week.
" I've had one officer say, "You need to quit doin' this.
It's becoming embarrassing.
" Yeah, I know, it's becoming embarrassing for me too.
Me most of all.
If I come to jail, no matter how many times I've been here, it's simply because I've been drinkin'.
Disorderly conduct or public intoxication, you know? I had the choice to receive probation or do time.
I didn't want probation 'cause when I get out, you pay fines, you gotta do the drug and alcohol evaluation and it's just, money, money, money.
I don't have that kind of money because I'm unemployed, I'm on the street.
So, I had to do 60 days total.
So And I've done my time and tonight's my release night.
And I'm going back to the street.
Then it's just hanging out on the corners and staying out of trouble.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Not drinking.
Don't drink.
[basketballs bouncing.]
They'll They'll clock me out about 12:30 tonight.
Let me get fire, man.
- You'll be all right.
- I'll be all right.
[coughing.]
I'm tired of drinkin'.
My dad was an alcoholic for years.
A lot of my family's been alcoholics all their life, and my family's took a lot of devastation and destruction because of it.
I lived with my mother for 30 years.
I was pampered, I was babied.
But my family was jealous of it.
When she came close to her dyin' time, they took all the possessions, all the money, cast me to the streets, said "you're on your own, buddy.
" Ever since, I've been on the street, uh, total time of about 18 years.
You know, I've just reached a point now where I'm ready to move on.
I'm ready to get things straight and get things right.
If I'm gonna hold a job, I gots to quit drinkin'.
I can't hold a job if I'm going to drink.
I don't crave it in here.
Why should I crave it out there? Simply because I step out the door and think, "I'm free, I can go have it.
" Does that make me want it? Am I shakin' and jonesin' for it? No.
Have I wanted it, craved it, thought about it while I'm in here? No.
And if I don't have to have it in here, why should I have it out there? So [officer.]
There are inmates that constantly keep coming back.
You're seein' their face over and over again.
And it's frustrating at times to see the same person who said they're gonna get it right this time and they keep coming back and they keep coming back.
[clock ticking.]
[indistinct chatter.]
[Taylor laughing.]
Oh, my God, I'm so excited to go home.
This is my fifth time being in Gwinnett County.
I should not have been here one time.
Are you ready? - Yes.
- You are? - [woman.]
Are you happy to see your mom? - Yes.
- Is she gonna have that food for you? - My mom gonna have that food cooked.
My mom makin' some monkey bread.
[making monkey noises.]
[all laughing.]
[Taylor.]
All I have right now is my mom.
All the friends that I have do meth.
It's like I just keep going back to the same people, to the same drugs, to the same thing, thinkin' that it's gonna get better and it's not.
And it I don't know.
It's breakin' everybody's heart that cares about me.
[woman.]
Taylor, the pressure's on now.
I know.
Too many people wanna see me do good, honestly.
- [woman.]
For real.
- [woman 2.]
Mm-hmm.
Keep your head right.
- Stick with positive thoughts.
- Always.
When I get outta here, I'm going to rehab.
I've learned that you can't accomplish anything until you start your recovery.
- I'm gonna get out and do right.
- I wish you luck.
A lot of people sit here and say they wanna get clean, wanna get clean, wanna get clean.
But you know, in the end, it's just jail talk because you know you're gonna get out and do the same shit unless you get help.
I can only try my hardest to stay away from the stuff.
But I mean, it's inevitable that I'm gonna come upon it at some point.
Even if I don't mean to.
And it's like I can't mess up anymore.
[woman.]
You better be good.
I'm tellin' you.
- [sighing.]
- [women talking indistinctly.]
Broke my phone.
Oh God, I don't know what to do now.
[Brittany.]
My phone is crushed.
I'm not good with numbers.
What am I gonna do? I think I know somebody to ring.
So, I called every bonding company that came up on that screen.
Like, kind of trying to catch the [laughs.]
catch it.
[woman.]
Eight one one.
- Four four six what? - Nine seven four five.
Hi, uh, my name is, uh, Brittany Robinson, um.
I've never been to jail before.
I'm trying to get in touch with my mother, and I'm horrible at phone numbers.
She, and she just recently changed her phone number.
Is it any way that you could use my email address or anything? I called everyone.
They said the same thing.
"Hey, if you can get in touch with your mom, have her give us a call.
" I need somebody to get in touch with my mom.
[woman.]
Mom, I know you won't ask her.
Tell her, I'm asking her.
Do you happen to haveÃÂ access to, like, an internet? [woman.]
Uh-huh.
- Could you ask her to look up something? - Hey Mom, will you do something for me? Please.
Okay, this girl here can't don't have no contact with her family.
You know? Can you look up something for her? [Brittany.]
Actually, one of my cellmates, she called her mom, and she called a lady that knew my mom and she gave me my mom's number.
And I carved it in with my nails on a piece of paper.
And I called my mom.
Hello? Hello? Hey, Mom.
I'm in jail.
[voice breaking.]
You know, I'm sad.
[sniffing.]
[clock ticking.]
[indistinct chatter.]
[Jarid.]
I have 13 hours left, uh, until my, uh, job interview.
I really need a break, you know, in my life, so in the next 13 hours, I'm just praying that, you know, that my family, you know, my friends, you know, are able, you know, to get those $300.
You know, so I can start, you know, puttin' the pieces of my life, you know, back together again.
Going through this right now, I can't, you know, stop thinkin' about my, my ex-girlfriend.
She She's been my number one supporter, and I can't stop thinkin' about what what she thinks about all this right now, because I I I feel like I need her.
She's gonna trip, man.
But I'm gonna call.
I'm gonna call her.
[phone key tones.]
- [Jarid.]
Hey.
- [female voice.]
You okay? I am, you know, but I'm not, you know? I don't want you to feel like I'm always messin' up 'cause you know, like, you know, I'm trying to What's wrong with your phone? I'm gonna get to that.
See, this is not my fault, but I'm in jail.
I got charged with armed robbery.
- Are you serious? - Yeah, and I didn't even do anything.
- I was in the hotel asleep.
- You didn't have no gun on you? Huh? Did you have a gun on you in the room? Uh-uh.
Marsha, they kicked open the door.
I'm talkin' about shields, guns drawn.
Okay, but you know that this country is not for us, so just fuck all that.
Just fuck what you did.
It's about what they say you did.
Fuck all that.
Yeah.
You think about me bein' a college educated person, you know? Why would I even wantÃÂ to mess with strippers? Doing right all of the time, um, it, it's a tough thing.
[timer ticking.]
I been through this process so many times I could tell them the whole routine, man, beginning to end.
Been on the street here in Lawrenceville about ten years.
And it's just been survival on the street.
- [officer.]
Who gave you all this? - Other people just left 'em.
Lot of people going home this past month, so I just kept it.
And I didn't throw it away, I just kept it.
I need it for showers.
- Day shift said I could take it with me.
- They didn't tell me about it.
Oh.
Oh, I don't know.
Shit.
[officer.]
Make a right.
I got to There's a few things I gotta do when I get out of here.
But you gotta stay straight, you gotta stay sober, you gotta work.
When you're done,ÃÂ put the bags and flip flops in the garbage.
- Toss the dirty clothes in the bag.
- All right.
What can I do this time when I get out in order to not come back again? The main thing's just not drink when I get out.
It's good to be back out,ÃÂ you know? It's just I don't want to come back again.
I feel better.
I've been in there 45 days taking hot showers, and my body's clean.
I got to get some clean clothes on, but I feel I feel a lot better.
[McKenzie.]
As far as releasing of an inmate, for some, it can be tough.
The inmate is probably thinking, I've become so familiar with the setting here, getting my meals and laundry.
You know, I get a clean uniform twice a week.
All of that's being taken care of by the jail facility.
You're getting out in the world and you don't know how you'll survive.
What do What do I do? Oh, a cigarette.
[William.]
What can a homeless person have coming out of jail? I'm holding on to what I got left, which ain't much, but I'm holding on to it.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
I'm dry as a bone.
It's not too late to make a better life 'cause I can do it.
I know I can.
[timer ticking.]
[sighing heavily.]
Mother.
Please come get me, mother.
You need somebody to call the bondsman company.
ÃÂ I don't know.
Nah, they're not letting me sign myself out of here.
All right.
Okay.
My mom said she's calling some bail bondsmen and she's about to get me out.
I'm just playing the waiting game as of this point.
All right, ladies, listen up.
- Robinson, Brittany? - Yeah.
You gotta get dressed in.
You're approaching your time.
- We can only keep you down here for 48.
- Okay.
Hang down your head now What have you done? Hang down your head and cry Hang down your head now What have you done? It's time to say goodbye [officer.]
Everything that you are wearing is gonna go inside a clear plastic bag to be stored.
So by the time you're done, you're completely naked.
Go for it.
Hang down your head now What have you done? Hang down your head and cry [Brittany.]
Me being here? It's not worth it.
It is not worth your time and your money and your energy to be locked up in a place because you can't get your life together.
Like, if there's something in your life that's gonna provoke you or put you in a toxic situation, you just have to remove yourself completely and just stay away from that.
Right now, I'm so tired.
[grunts.]
Ow, shit.
It's time To say Goodbye [timer ticking.]
[Taylor.]
What's my fear? That I'm not gonna recover.
I'm super excited to go to this rehab and everything, but I'm fearful of the unknown, of what's gonna happen.
I'm just scared thatÃÂ I'm not going to have the courage to say no.
[officer.]
Give that to me.
All right.
And you're good to go.
Okay, thanks.
- Hey, Mom.
- Hey, honey.
- Oh.
- Oh.
[mother laughs.]
- I love you.
- I love you too.
- [Taylor sighs.]
Come on.
- Where'd you get that ugly jacket? [both laughing.]
[Taylor.]
That's so rude.
[laughing.]
- [Taylor.]
You smell good.
- Thank you.
I smell like crap.
You smell like jail.
I know, right? You got a lighter? - Not on me.
In the truck.
- Oh, okay.
- [Taylor.]
And off to my new life I go.
- Okay.
- I hope you mean it, girl.
- For real.
[clock ticking.]
Man, I just need a fucking bond, man, to get my ass out of this shit, man.
My goal is eight o'clock to be dressed, mind clear, um, and ready, you know, to tackle my interview.
But that's how you feel, like you ain'tÃÂ gonna never make it out of this shit, so just try to make it through.
- Yo, yo.
- What's good? What it look like my boy, my, my, my people sent that yet? We gotta go link up with Brody's sister.
She got the pay stubs.
We ain't got no pay stubs or nothing like that.
Golly, they makin' a nigga do all that? We can't bond you out unless we have a job.
Oh, damn.
Hey, what time your interview at in the morning? Nine, but I need you to be here like eight because I might have to run and get some shoes, like, I ain't Like, I might have to run and get some shoes.
I can lend you some shoes.
Yeah.
Well, good luck.
- You gonna be out soon, dawg.
- All right.
- All right, cool.
- Yeah.
[Taylor.]
I had to explain to people what monkey bread was.
Oh, really? - Is it good? - Yeah.
- It's really good.
- Yeah? So, what's your plan, when you get out of rehab? At least have a good job that, say, I'd have for at least two months and be out of there by Christmas.
'Cause I can't move too fast or I'll fall.
- Yeah.
- I can't.
- Yes.
- If I started moving too fast Yeah, look how many times you fell in the past two years.
Oh, I know.
[mother.]
It's kind of surreal.
I mean, she's got 60 days clean.
This is the most time she's had clean in two years.
So, I'm really fearful.
I can't wait for Monday to get here, so that she can be in rehab.
It's been rough.
I mean, I've spent the past two years chasing her all over Metro Atlanta.
[Taylor.]
You said you had pictures of the place? - What place? - Rehab.
I mean, I love my daughter dearly, but this drug has ravaged her brain.
She is not the same person I raised.
I mean, I'm just hopeful.
That's all I can be.
[Taylor.]
Oh, that's cute.
[Tamila.]
So, what do you think? - Doesn't seem like a horrible place.
- Yeah, right? Could be worse.
You got really lucky, girl.
- Yeah.
I know.
- Take full advantage of it.
I actually will.
I mean, it looks like it's a pretty big house, so I mean, there has to be at least ten to fifteen girls.
Probably.
Hopefully they're nice.
- Hopefully I'm nice.
- [both laughing.]
Yeah, that's I was I was thinking the same thing.
I hope you're going to be nice too.
Ah, one can only hope.
Jeez.
[William.]
Any spare change for a homeless man? - Do you want a cigarette? - Yeah, actually, I'm flat I got out of jail about an hour ago and I'm flat damn broke out here trying to panhandle.
Appreciate it, man.
I got a light.
I don't mean to be a bum.
I'm sorry, man.
[William.]
I need money.
I don't have a penny to my name.
I gotta replace my clothes, on my hygiene.
I gotta be able to buy food.
And I gotta be able to wash my clothes when I have clothes.
Everything takes money.
[woman.]
You don't have no job to go to? Well, I gotta talk to some people first about getting into a place.
I got a boarding house I might try to get into.
I can get work,ÃÂ it's just I gotta get off the street for when I'm on the street right now.
- Good luck.
I gotta go.
Good luck.
- All right.
My name's William Fouts, locally well known.
Everybody in this town knows me, everybody does.
[man.]
You drinkin' some goddamned water.
Let me get a beer.
- Yeah, I'm I'm homeless on the street.
- Damn, son.
- I've been on the - Get a beer.
I've been on the street a long [man.]
Man, this Shorty man, everybody buy Shorty a brew.
I've been on the street a long time.
I ain't changed my clothes in a month.
- [man.]
You got some money.
- He ain't changed his clothes in a month.
- [William.]
Yeah, no shit.
- You buy him a goddamn beer, ya hear me? Hey, man, I appreciate it.
God bless you.
- Appreciate it.
Thank you.
- All right, bro.
All I want is a beer and a cigarette.
I've been I did 45 days in there.
[William.]
Hello, how are you doin'? [bottles clinking.]
- That will be all for today, I guess.
- [man.]
Three sixty-nine.
[William.]
Three sixty-nine, sir.
[William.]
Little isolated spot back here.
This will do just fine.
I've come here many times.
It's a place to chill and drink a beer.
That's about it.
It's been a long 45 days.
I want a cold beer.
I live on the street.
I drink beer.
I'm free.
No probation, no charges, no nothin'.
Free to do anything I want as long as I stay out of trouble.
We all got choices to make.
I need to quit smokin' and drinkin'.
It's been a problem.
But, hey, uh, one problem at a time.
You could not even imagine what I've been through.
My father was an alcoholic all his life.
He'd come home in a roarin' drunk, roarin' like a roarin' tiger.
You know? One of those types of drunks.
And then my mom shot him in the stomach with a 22-caliber rifle when he come home too drunk one night.
He will leave you nor dew nor rain.
You would not even see a piece of dew on a flower in the morning.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Just smell the coffee, United States, that's all.
You're not blind, not deaf, then wake up and smell the goddamn fuckin' coffee then! It's that simple! No pissing me off either 'cause I ain't in the mood.
I gotta quit drinkin' and smokin' and get my shit straight.
Who am I to preach? The Bible says in the last days, everybody's gonna say, "Oh, that's not going to come for a thousand years from now.
" Uh, wrong.
Can you count the sands of grain of sand in an hourglass? No, you cannot.
Any more than you can count the number of sands on a beach.
[man.]
Nobody think aboutÃÂ you because if you're afraid to talk about - [officer.]
Morris.
- [Jarid.]
Woo-hoo.
- Hey, man, y'all boys keep yours heads on.
- You do the same.
Up to the door that says, "Dress Out Release.
" And these are your copies.
They said that you would be going to superior court.
You'll be notified by mail in that address that you gave me earlier.
What time is it? - It's 1:12.
- 1:12.
Seven hours.
[Jarid.]
If I can get this opportunity, it can greatly change my life to where I won't be in situations like this anymore.
But the main thing I worry about What if when they run that background check, this charge appears and I don't get the job and I haven't even been convicted? I refuse to just let my smarts and everything I've fought for in my life, to let this be it for me.
- I'm outta this! - [woman laughing.]
Fuck that - Fuck that shit! - All right! Took a nigga's shoes.
Feel me? I'm out here with no shoes.
- Feel me? - Yeah, I got it.
Finally, boy.
Argh.
Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God's gonna trouble the water See that host all dressed in white God's gonna trouble the water [Brittany.]
I have never been to jail, but I don't want to feel like no failure.
Like, I have goals.
I do work, you know? I'm a good mother.
See that band all dressed in red God's gonna trouble the water Looks like the band that Moses led God's gonna trouble the water So, wade in the water [woman.]
Good, good.
Good to see you.
[Taylor.]
I'm really excited about starting this new chapter in my life.
Don't ever think that just because you've hit rock bottom, that you can't climb back up.
Change is possible.
- [Tamila.]
Oh.
I love you so much.
- I love you, too.
God's gonna trouble the water So, wade in the water God's gonna trouble the water [thunder rumbling.]
[water dripping.]
I've been counting down for days now.
[crash of thunder.]
Had this day planned out to the tee.
[water dripping.]
Turn the fuckin' wheel to the right! My girlfriend.
Be happy to see her.
Julia, turn the goddamn wheel! You're sitting here cussing at me for nothing.
Because you're not doing shit! I'm gonna be in heaven for a little bit.
Wade in the water God's gonna trouble the water See that host all dressed in white God's gonna trouble the water
[woman screaming.]
Can you not film me right now? [woman.]
Why am I being put in jail? [officer.]
You can look up and around as long as it's a straight-ahead picture.
[woman.]
Take me where I can go to a phone with my Mom, and charge my phone.
[officer.]
"Can you charge my phone? Can I take a shower?" Would you like a coffee and a cheeseburger with that, too? You can't charge your phone in jail, ma'am.
That's not how we do things.
[Brittany.]
I'm honestly scared.
I have never been in jail before.
[officer.]
All right, come over here.
Second, step in here, put your feet in the yellow footprints.
Separate your arms.
- Like this? - There you go.
[Brittany.]
I'm in here right nowàbecause I had an altercation with myàfiancé.
I wanted to leave.
He didn't want me to leave.
So, he started pushing on me.
I'm like, "Hey, don't touch me.
Don't touch me.
" 'Cause he just kept touching me and I had to defend myself as of that point.
Have a seat for a minute.
[Brittany.]
But the officers pulled up, he was acting completely calm, which was so weird.
I overreacted, and I just couldn't control myself.
The cops was like, "Um, calm down, like if you don't shut up, um, I'm taking you to jail.
" ["Evil Ways" byÃÂ Blues Saraceno playing.]
It's been so long Those long, hard days Well, the first time I got arrested, I was drivin' with with no license.
[woman.]
I wasn't out doin' anything, but I made a mistake.
Change my ways Those evil ways [woman.]
Some people make mistake in life and I made those mistakes, and I'm paying the consequences.
I got hit with a felony, doin' stupid stuff.
[man.]
I just made a horrible mistake and I'm tryin' to just get back to contributing to society.
[man.]
I try to exercise some balance and learn from my mistakes and learn from my decisions, learn from the pain, learn from every angle of this experience I can, so that I can keep myself in a situation where I don't have to repeat this.
[man.]
Turn around.
Face the wall.
My evil ways Turn around.
Put your back on the wall.
[sighing.]
[female officer.]
Look at the camera.
[male officer.]
Sixty-five, 67, 68.
Three sixty-eight sound right? [Jarid.]
I guess my other 200, I guess he said they'll take into evidence.
[officer.]
Uh, I don't know about that.
Yeah, it was supposed to be five.
[officer.]
Okay.
[Jarid.]
So, I'm armed robbery, no priors.
[sighing.]
Foolishness.
[Jarid.]
I I feel like a fish out of water.
You know, I ain't never ever in my life been charged with no armed robbery, Nothin' like that.
Don't have any priors.
You know, you feel pretty helpless.
You know, I'm stressed out.
I'm thinkin' now why I'm in here, you know, what am I gonna do? [officer.]
Morris, stand in the yellow area with your hands out of your pockets.
I will verify your information.
- How tall are you? - Six five.
- What do you weigh? - About 185.
And have you been here before? - No, ma'am.
- Okay.
- These are your charges - Okay.
- with your bond amount.
- Okay.
Um, I was gonna ask, with being charged, um, I have an interview tomorrow.
When they do the background check, will that appear? - I don't think it would appear that soon.
- Okay.
[Jarid.]
I'm not from here.
I'm from Florida.
I was up here, you know, um, I have a $45,000-a-year job, you know, uh, interview tomorrow, for a management position at a manufacturing company.
[woman.]
Come on over.
I'm going to need your left wrist.
[Jarid.]
I'm just trying to get myself out, you know, so I can still catch that interview tomorrow, you know, at eight o'clock.
You know? So that that's all that I'm thinking about.
[clock ticking.]
[quiet chatter.]
[woman.]
They're gonna take you at one? - Mm-hmm Yeah, I'm leaving this room tonight at one o'clock.
[Taylor.]
I'm just really excited to get home.
I'm so excited to go home.
I can't believe it, you know? I didn't think the 60 days would ever be, like, over.
I don't know.
I look at this picture on my arm band and I was literally so fucked up and it's like that doesn't even look like me.
I turned into a monster and I didn't even see it.
I didn't start doin' meth till I was 19 years old.
When I should have known better, when I had seen what it had done to people and it's like I still fell into it and it's like it can happen to anybody.
They don't lie about it, man.
The first time you do it, you're hooked.
I haven't stayed with my mom in, like, two years.
You talked to her though, within that time, right, or no? [Taylor.]
No, not really.
I was kind of meth-ed up.
I was homeless, but I was homeless on my own account.
I didn't want to be in my house shootin' up meth, havin' my mom walk in on me.
Like, I always had the chance to go home.
I just chose drugs.
I put myself in a big mess.
Like, I'm disappointed in myself, honestly.
I've accomplished nothing.
Wasn't always going to jail, you know? I mean, I like being outdoors.
I like sports.
I did gymnastics for a while.
- [woman.]
You gonna go back to school? - I might.
I gotta help myself first before I can do anything else.
[Taylor.]
I wanted to go to college.
I wanted to be a criminal investigator.
Now, I'm a third-time felon, 20 years old.
I can't I don't even know what I'm gonna do.
I don't know what job I could get, besides working at McDonald's at this point.
[voice breaking.]
And it sucks.
[sniffing.]
Like, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
[clock ticking.]
I don't know nobody to call.
[Brittany.]
So what happens after this process? You're gonna be in here for a little while.
- I'm gonna be in here for a little while? - [woman.]
Couple of hours at least.
[Brittany.]
What the hell? I'm sorry, y'all, I'm freakin' out.
This is my first time bein' in jail so [Brittany.]
We've had a couple run-ins like this before.
I always had, like, anger issues, but it's just gotten worse.
Like, it's different when you get into a fight with a female.
[woman.]
I know.
You can play it completely calm when you done fightin' her because y'all on the same level.
- I'm a female, you a female.
- Right.
But a dude, you hyperventilate, you goin' crazy.
'Cause he has power over you.
He can kill you.
- I could have died in there.
- Right.
Of course I'm scared.
[woman.]
Aw, don't cry.
It's okay.
That shit is fucked up.
- Don't cry.
- Mm-hmm.
[officer.]
We have a lot of people that come in and are arrested for domestic violence.
When you arrive on a domestic violence scene, it can be tricky because the person that's got the scratch marks on 'em and whatnot, may have been trying to defend themselves, uh, or it was actually the perp.
It's very, very difficult to figure out.
[officer.]
You Robinson? Just stand in the yellow square, please.
All right, can I have your full name and date of birth? Brittany Robinson.
7-13-90.
[officer.]
Okay, you're here on a battery charge.
Your bond amount is $2,400.
- They brought your phone with you? - It was in the police car.
Um.
Right now, you're gonna get your fingerprints taken.
After that, you're good to be bonded at any time.
How's somebody's gonna bond me out, man, when I don't have no number? How I'm gonna call somebody to bond me out? I have a job.
I got two kids.
Like, what am I supposed to do, ma'am? - You have somebody to come? - I don't have any numbers.
- Well, nobody know you came? - He broke my phone, so You think he'll let 'em know? No.
That malicious.
[laughs.]
- Fabulicious.
- He won't let 'em know.
So y'all just emotional today? He was cheatin' and I had to leave.
- I don't have time for that.
- Oh yeah, cheating on you? [officer.]
If you feel like you were wrong, I mean, you can come up here to our magistrate court when you get out and speak to the judge that, you know, charges should be pressed against him.
- Mm-hmm.
- They're open 24 hours a day up here.
Okay? Well, we'll see what we can do for you in a little bit.
Try to think real hard about, um, some numbers.
I'll think about some numbers now.
Yeah.
If you can, just do what you can, okay? - Okay.
- All right, you have a good day.
You too.
She said I can get out, but they just need I don't have no numbers.
So I'm up here thinkin' about Six, four, one Six, four, one.
[clock ticking.]
[officer.]
An inmate can be in a holding cell for up to 48 hours.
It can be a grueling process, sitting and just waiting to find out if you will get a bond, if a loved oneÃÂ will come to the jail facility to bond you out, or if you will get dressed in.
[sighing.]
Fuckin' fuck me, man.
[Jarid.]
Last night, um, I went out to a a club.
We met, um, two strippers there.
Um.
I had, uh, a room.
They came back to my room.
I got, uh caught up, you know, in, you know, uh, you know, the sex.
They asked me for $200.
I mean, I told 'em, you know, that I'm not giving them no money.
I need the money for myself.
Next thing I know, North Cross PD kicked open the door.
Guns drawn, uh, shields raised, um Told me to get on the ground, put me in handcuffs instantly.
Uh, didn't question me or anything.
The cops took 200 of my dollars because, allegedly, that's how much I robbed the person for.
So clearly, the girls told the cops, "He robbed us or whatever, for $200.
" They went right to my book bag and grabbed my gun.
You know, so that let me know that, you know, the girls had told them, you know, "He has a gun in his book bag.
" I have a concealed weapons permit.
I was never asked about that.
So I guess them seeing that weapon was all that they needed to see.
They didn't ask any questions.
Came in there, locked me up.
[Jarid.]
Bro, you gotta call my motherfuckin' people, bro.
They motherfuckin' charged me with armed robbery, bro.
- Nigga, what? - Yes! Oh no, dawg.
Hell no.
Uh, this shit wild.
What's your bond? Bro, my bond is, bro, okay, all right, my bond is 7,000.
I gotta come up with 700 of that.
I got 368, you feel me? If y'all boys come up with the rest, I'll make sure y'all have that bread as soon as I get out.
All right.
Yeah, hell yeah, tell me more, but I got to get out today.
Remember I got to go to that interview in the morning.
I can't miss that shit.
I get it.
Yeah, yeah.
[indistinct chatter.]
Huh? Hell, yeah.
Yo, I said I'm outta this bitch.
[Jarid.]
I grew up, you know, rough, uh, south Florida, on West Palm Beach.
The hood has a way of sucking the life out of you.
Basketball, that was really my fuel, you know? It just I had a hunger for that, you know, so much that, you know, it it kept me from a lot of things that my homeboys were doin'.
I just knew that that was gonna be my ticket out.
I got, um, a partial scholarship to Indian River State College, so I like to say, you know, I beat the odds.
But still, you know, like I said, It it it's a hard thing to shake, you know? Like I say, bein' educated, still growing up in the hood and knowing how to do better.
This job is an opportunity, you know, to get out.
But, you know, it seems like even if I get out, you know, the hood, you know, just draws me back in.
[clock ticking.]
Just wastin' my time, man.
[coughs.]
- [man.]
Yo, man, you look nervous.
- Really? I just been wired on coffee all day.
I've been here, uh, about 46 times, uh, in the past 10 years.
All the deputies know me here, pretty much.
When I leave, they say, "See you next week.
" I've had one officer say, "You need to quit doin' this.
It's becoming embarrassing.
" Yeah, I know, it's becoming embarrassing for me too.
Me most of all.
If I come to jail, no matter how many times I've been here, it's simply because I've been drinkin'.
Disorderly conduct or public intoxication, you know? I had the choice to receive probation or do time.
I didn't want probation 'cause when I get out, you pay fines, you gotta do the drug and alcohol evaluation and it's just, money, money, money.
I don't have that kind of money because I'm unemployed, I'm on the street.
So, I had to do 60 days total.
So And I've done my time and tonight's my release night.
And I'm going back to the street.
Then it's just hanging out on the corners and staying out of trouble.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Not drinking.
Don't drink.
[basketballs bouncing.]
They'll They'll clock me out about 12:30 tonight.
Let me get fire, man.
- You'll be all right.
- I'll be all right.
[coughing.]
I'm tired of drinkin'.
My dad was an alcoholic for years.
A lot of my family's been alcoholics all their life, and my family's took a lot of devastation and destruction because of it.
I lived with my mother for 30 years.
I was pampered, I was babied.
But my family was jealous of it.
When she came close to her dyin' time, they took all the possessions, all the money, cast me to the streets, said "you're on your own, buddy.
" Ever since, I've been on the street, uh, total time of about 18 years.
You know, I've just reached a point now where I'm ready to move on.
I'm ready to get things straight and get things right.
If I'm gonna hold a job, I gots to quit drinkin'.
I can't hold a job if I'm going to drink.
I don't crave it in here.
Why should I crave it out there? Simply because I step out the door and think, "I'm free, I can go have it.
" Does that make me want it? Am I shakin' and jonesin' for it? No.
Have I wanted it, craved it, thought about it while I'm in here? No.
And if I don't have to have it in here, why should I have it out there? So [officer.]
There are inmates that constantly keep coming back.
You're seein' their face over and over again.
And it's frustrating at times to see the same person who said they're gonna get it right this time and they keep coming back and they keep coming back.
[clock ticking.]
[indistinct chatter.]
[Taylor laughing.]
Oh, my God, I'm so excited to go home.
This is my fifth time being in Gwinnett County.
I should not have been here one time.
Are you ready? - Yes.
- You are? - [woman.]
Are you happy to see your mom? - Yes.
- Is she gonna have that food for you? - My mom gonna have that food cooked.
My mom makin' some monkey bread.
[making monkey noises.]
[all laughing.]
[Taylor.]
All I have right now is my mom.
All the friends that I have do meth.
It's like I just keep going back to the same people, to the same drugs, to the same thing, thinkin' that it's gonna get better and it's not.
And it I don't know.
It's breakin' everybody's heart that cares about me.
[woman.]
Taylor, the pressure's on now.
I know.
Too many people wanna see me do good, honestly.
- [woman.]
For real.
- [woman 2.]
Mm-hmm.
Keep your head right.
- Stick with positive thoughts.
- Always.
When I get outta here, I'm going to rehab.
I've learned that you can't accomplish anything until you start your recovery.
- I'm gonna get out and do right.
- I wish you luck.
A lot of people sit here and say they wanna get clean, wanna get clean, wanna get clean.
But you know, in the end, it's just jail talk because you know you're gonna get out and do the same shit unless you get help.
I can only try my hardest to stay away from the stuff.
But I mean, it's inevitable that I'm gonna come upon it at some point.
Even if I don't mean to.
And it's like I can't mess up anymore.
[woman.]
You better be good.
I'm tellin' you.
- [sighing.]
- [women talking indistinctly.]
Broke my phone.
Oh God, I don't know what to do now.
[Brittany.]
My phone is crushed.
I'm not good with numbers.
What am I gonna do? I think I know somebody to ring.
So, I called every bonding company that came up on that screen.
Like, kind of trying to catch the [laughs.]
catch it.
[woman.]
Eight one one.
- Four four six what? - Nine seven four five.
Hi, uh, my name is, uh, Brittany Robinson, um.
I've never been to jail before.
I'm trying to get in touch with my mother, and I'm horrible at phone numbers.
She, and she just recently changed her phone number.
Is it any way that you could use my email address or anything? I called everyone.
They said the same thing.
"Hey, if you can get in touch with your mom, have her give us a call.
" I need somebody to get in touch with my mom.
[woman.]
Mom, I know you won't ask her.
Tell her, I'm asking her.
Do you happen to haveÃÂ access to, like, an internet? [woman.]
Uh-huh.
- Could you ask her to look up something? - Hey Mom, will you do something for me? Please.
Okay, this girl here can't don't have no contact with her family.
You know? Can you look up something for her? [Brittany.]
Actually, one of my cellmates, she called her mom, and she called a lady that knew my mom and she gave me my mom's number.
And I carved it in with my nails on a piece of paper.
And I called my mom.
Hello? Hello? Hey, Mom.
I'm in jail.
[voice breaking.]
You know, I'm sad.
[sniffing.]
[clock ticking.]
[indistinct chatter.]
[Jarid.]
I have 13 hours left, uh, until my, uh, job interview.
I really need a break, you know, in my life, so in the next 13 hours, I'm just praying that, you know, that my family, you know, my friends, you know, are able, you know, to get those $300.
You know, so I can start, you know, puttin' the pieces of my life, you know, back together again.
Going through this right now, I can't, you know, stop thinkin' about my, my ex-girlfriend.
She She's been my number one supporter, and I can't stop thinkin' about what what she thinks about all this right now, because I I I feel like I need her.
She's gonna trip, man.
But I'm gonna call.
I'm gonna call her.
[phone key tones.]
- [Jarid.]
Hey.
- [female voice.]
You okay? I am, you know, but I'm not, you know? I don't want you to feel like I'm always messin' up 'cause you know, like, you know, I'm trying to What's wrong with your phone? I'm gonna get to that.
See, this is not my fault, but I'm in jail.
I got charged with armed robbery.
- Are you serious? - Yeah, and I didn't even do anything.
- I was in the hotel asleep.
- You didn't have no gun on you? Huh? Did you have a gun on you in the room? Uh-uh.
Marsha, they kicked open the door.
I'm talkin' about shields, guns drawn.
Okay, but you know that this country is not for us, so just fuck all that.
Just fuck what you did.
It's about what they say you did.
Fuck all that.
Yeah.
You think about me bein' a college educated person, you know? Why would I even wantÃÂ to mess with strippers? Doing right all of the time, um, it, it's a tough thing.
[timer ticking.]
I been through this process so many times I could tell them the whole routine, man, beginning to end.
Been on the street here in Lawrenceville about ten years.
And it's just been survival on the street.
- [officer.]
Who gave you all this? - Other people just left 'em.
Lot of people going home this past month, so I just kept it.
And I didn't throw it away, I just kept it.
I need it for showers.
- Day shift said I could take it with me.
- They didn't tell me about it.
Oh.
Oh, I don't know.
Shit.
[officer.]
Make a right.
I got to There's a few things I gotta do when I get out of here.
But you gotta stay straight, you gotta stay sober, you gotta work.
When you're done,ÃÂ put the bags and flip flops in the garbage.
- Toss the dirty clothes in the bag.
- All right.
What can I do this time when I get out in order to not come back again? The main thing's just not drink when I get out.
It's good to be back out,ÃÂ you know? It's just I don't want to come back again.
I feel better.
I've been in there 45 days taking hot showers, and my body's clean.
I got to get some clean clothes on, but I feel I feel a lot better.
[McKenzie.]
As far as releasing of an inmate, for some, it can be tough.
The inmate is probably thinking, I've become so familiar with the setting here, getting my meals and laundry.
You know, I get a clean uniform twice a week.
All of that's being taken care of by the jail facility.
You're getting out in the world and you don't know how you'll survive.
What do What do I do? Oh, a cigarette.
[William.]
What can a homeless person have coming out of jail? I'm holding on to what I got left, which ain't much, but I'm holding on to it.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
I'm dry as a bone.
It's not too late to make a better life 'cause I can do it.
I know I can.
[timer ticking.]
[sighing heavily.]
Mother.
Please come get me, mother.
You need somebody to call the bondsman company.
ÃÂ I don't know.
Nah, they're not letting me sign myself out of here.
All right.
Okay.
My mom said she's calling some bail bondsmen and she's about to get me out.
I'm just playing the waiting game as of this point.
All right, ladies, listen up.
- Robinson, Brittany? - Yeah.
You gotta get dressed in.
You're approaching your time.
- We can only keep you down here for 48.
- Okay.
Hang down your head now What have you done? Hang down your head and cry Hang down your head now What have you done? It's time to say goodbye [officer.]
Everything that you are wearing is gonna go inside a clear plastic bag to be stored.
So by the time you're done, you're completely naked.
Go for it.
Hang down your head now What have you done? Hang down your head and cry [Brittany.]
Me being here? It's not worth it.
It is not worth your time and your money and your energy to be locked up in a place because you can't get your life together.
Like, if there's something in your life that's gonna provoke you or put you in a toxic situation, you just have to remove yourself completely and just stay away from that.
Right now, I'm so tired.
[grunts.]
Ow, shit.
It's time To say Goodbye [timer ticking.]
[Taylor.]
What's my fear? That I'm not gonna recover.
I'm super excited to go to this rehab and everything, but I'm fearful of the unknown, of what's gonna happen.
I'm just scared thatÃÂ I'm not going to have the courage to say no.
[officer.]
Give that to me.
All right.
And you're good to go.
Okay, thanks.
- Hey, Mom.
- Hey, honey.
- Oh.
- Oh.
[mother laughs.]
- I love you.
- I love you too.
- [Taylor sighs.]
Come on.
- Where'd you get that ugly jacket? [both laughing.]
[Taylor.]
That's so rude.
[laughing.]
- [Taylor.]
You smell good.
- Thank you.
I smell like crap.
You smell like jail.
I know, right? You got a lighter? - Not on me.
In the truck.
- Oh, okay.
- [Taylor.]
And off to my new life I go.
- Okay.
- I hope you mean it, girl.
- For real.
[clock ticking.]
Man, I just need a fucking bond, man, to get my ass out of this shit, man.
My goal is eight o'clock to be dressed, mind clear, um, and ready, you know, to tackle my interview.
But that's how you feel, like you ain'tÃÂ gonna never make it out of this shit, so just try to make it through.
- Yo, yo.
- What's good? What it look like my boy, my, my, my people sent that yet? We gotta go link up with Brody's sister.
She got the pay stubs.
We ain't got no pay stubs or nothing like that.
Golly, they makin' a nigga do all that? We can't bond you out unless we have a job.
Oh, damn.
Hey, what time your interview at in the morning? Nine, but I need you to be here like eight because I might have to run and get some shoes, like, I ain't Like, I might have to run and get some shoes.
I can lend you some shoes.
Yeah.
Well, good luck.
- You gonna be out soon, dawg.
- All right.
- All right, cool.
- Yeah.
[Taylor.]
I had to explain to people what monkey bread was.
Oh, really? - Is it good? - Yeah.
- It's really good.
- Yeah? So, what's your plan, when you get out of rehab? At least have a good job that, say, I'd have for at least two months and be out of there by Christmas.
'Cause I can't move too fast or I'll fall.
- Yeah.
- I can't.
- Yes.
- If I started moving too fast Yeah, look how many times you fell in the past two years.
Oh, I know.
[mother.]
It's kind of surreal.
I mean, she's got 60 days clean.
This is the most time she's had clean in two years.
So, I'm really fearful.
I can't wait for Monday to get here, so that she can be in rehab.
It's been rough.
I mean, I've spent the past two years chasing her all over Metro Atlanta.
[Taylor.]
You said you had pictures of the place? - What place? - Rehab.
I mean, I love my daughter dearly, but this drug has ravaged her brain.
She is not the same person I raised.
I mean, I'm just hopeful.
That's all I can be.
[Taylor.]
Oh, that's cute.
[Tamila.]
So, what do you think? - Doesn't seem like a horrible place.
- Yeah, right? Could be worse.
You got really lucky, girl.
- Yeah.
I know.
- Take full advantage of it.
I actually will.
I mean, it looks like it's a pretty big house, so I mean, there has to be at least ten to fifteen girls.
Probably.
Hopefully they're nice.
- Hopefully I'm nice.
- [both laughing.]
Yeah, that's I was I was thinking the same thing.
I hope you're going to be nice too.
Ah, one can only hope.
Jeez.
[William.]
Any spare change for a homeless man? - Do you want a cigarette? - Yeah, actually, I'm flat I got out of jail about an hour ago and I'm flat damn broke out here trying to panhandle.
Appreciate it, man.
I got a light.
I don't mean to be a bum.
I'm sorry, man.
[William.]
I need money.
I don't have a penny to my name.
I gotta replace my clothes, on my hygiene.
I gotta be able to buy food.
And I gotta be able to wash my clothes when I have clothes.
Everything takes money.
[woman.]
You don't have no job to go to? Well, I gotta talk to some people first about getting into a place.
I got a boarding house I might try to get into.
I can get work,ÃÂ it's just I gotta get off the street for when I'm on the street right now.
- Good luck.
I gotta go.
Good luck.
- All right.
My name's William Fouts, locally well known.
Everybody in this town knows me, everybody does.
[man.]
You drinkin' some goddamned water.
Let me get a beer.
- Yeah, I'm I'm homeless on the street.
- Damn, son.
- I've been on the - Get a beer.
I've been on the street a long [man.]
Man, this Shorty man, everybody buy Shorty a brew.
I've been on the street a long time.
I ain't changed my clothes in a month.
- [man.]
You got some money.
- He ain't changed his clothes in a month.
- [William.]
Yeah, no shit.
- You buy him a goddamn beer, ya hear me? Hey, man, I appreciate it.
God bless you.
- Appreciate it.
Thank you.
- All right, bro.
All I want is a beer and a cigarette.
I've been I did 45 days in there.
[William.]
Hello, how are you doin'? [bottles clinking.]
- That will be all for today, I guess.
- [man.]
Three sixty-nine.
[William.]
Three sixty-nine, sir.
[William.]
Little isolated spot back here.
This will do just fine.
I've come here many times.
It's a place to chill and drink a beer.
That's about it.
It's been a long 45 days.
I want a cold beer.
I live on the street.
I drink beer.
I'm free.
No probation, no charges, no nothin'.
Free to do anything I want as long as I stay out of trouble.
We all got choices to make.
I need to quit smokin' and drinkin'.
It's been a problem.
But, hey, uh, one problem at a time.
You could not even imagine what I've been through.
My father was an alcoholic all his life.
He'd come home in a roarin' drunk, roarin' like a roarin' tiger.
You know? One of those types of drunks.
And then my mom shot him in the stomach with a 22-caliber rifle when he come home too drunk one night.
He will leave you nor dew nor rain.
You would not even see a piece of dew on a flower in the morning.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Just smell the coffee, United States, that's all.
You're not blind, not deaf, then wake up and smell the goddamn fuckin' coffee then! It's that simple! No pissing me off either 'cause I ain't in the mood.
I gotta quit drinkin' and smokin' and get my shit straight.
Who am I to preach? The Bible says in the last days, everybody's gonna say, "Oh, that's not going to come for a thousand years from now.
" Uh, wrong.
Can you count the sands of grain of sand in an hourglass? No, you cannot.
Any more than you can count the number of sands on a beach.
[man.]
Nobody think aboutÃÂ you because if you're afraid to talk about - [officer.]
Morris.
- [Jarid.]
Woo-hoo.
- Hey, man, y'all boys keep yours heads on.
- You do the same.
Up to the door that says, "Dress Out Release.
" And these are your copies.
They said that you would be going to superior court.
You'll be notified by mail in that address that you gave me earlier.
What time is it? - It's 1:12.
- 1:12.
Seven hours.
[Jarid.]
If I can get this opportunity, it can greatly change my life to where I won't be in situations like this anymore.
But the main thing I worry about What if when they run that background check, this charge appears and I don't get the job and I haven't even been convicted? I refuse to just let my smarts and everything I've fought for in my life, to let this be it for me.
- I'm outta this! - [woman laughing.]
Fuck that - Fuck that shit! - All right! Took a nigga's shoes.
Feel me? I'm out here with no shoes.
- Feel me? - Yeah, I got it.
Finally, boy.
Argh.
Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God's gonna trouble the water See that host all dressed in white God's gonna trouble the water [Brittany.]
I have never been to jail, but I don't want to feel like no failure.
Like, I have goals.
I do work, you know? I'm a good mother.
See that band all dressed in red God's gonna trouble the water Looks like the band that Moses led God's gonna trouble the water So, wade in the water [woman.]
Good, good.
Good to see you.
[Taylor.]
I'm really excited about starting this new chapter in my life.
Don't ever think that just because you've hit rock bottom, that you can't climb back up.
Change is possible.
- [Tamila.]
Oh.
I love you so much.
- I love you, too.
God's gonna trouble the water So, wade in the water God's gonna trouble the water [thunder rumbling.]
[water dripping.]
I've been counting down for days now.
[crash of thunder.]
Had this day planned out to the tee.
[water dripping.]
Turn the fuckin' wheel to the right! My girlfriend.
Be happy to see her.
Julia, turn the goddamn wheel! You're sitting here cussing at me for nothing.
Because you're not doing shit! I'm gonna be in heaven for a little bit.
Wade in the water God's gonna trouble the water See that host all dressed in white God's gonna trouble the water