Unlocked: A Jail Experiment (2024) s01e05 Episode Script

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["Geronimo" playing]
-I feel lost at space and it's okay ♪
-Okay ♪
I don't wanna be found anyway ♪
I think I lost my mind a long time ago ♪
Ever since then, I've been on the road ♪
I can't lie ♪
I haven't told anybody.
[indistinct chatter]
I've been on my own since I was 17.
I put myself in here. I ain't gonna ask
my kids to get me out of here.
I'm a grown-ass man.
[narrator] As the sheriff's experiment
reaches its halfway point,
Randy's called it quits as pod leader.
[Randy speaks indistinctly]
No one else in this pod wanna make
this run the proper way up in here.
That's what's the problem here.
I mean, nobody wanna step up.
So we gonna find out
and see what's going to happen now.
They can do it they own self
their damn time.
That's the way I feel.
[music intensifies]
[music fades]
[Higgins] How are things going?
Oh, so far so good.
But where I feel like adults
or the older detainees
that's in that facility
have kind of pulled back
and not say anything to those juveniles.
You know, I think, in my eyes,
those juveniles
in between the ages of 18 and 21,
they feel like this is just a
it's a circus.
It's a playground. They just going to do,
you know, stuff that juveniles do.
So we're about halfway through
this experiment,
and it seems to be going pretty well.
But we have a difference in ages,
and we're really looking at
how the older folks seem to be
buying into this.
They are more serious. They know
the impact that this can have on them.
So it's a little conflict right now
between the older and the younger.
At least we're seeing a difference
in the behavior between the two groups.
In the beginning, the younger guys
were kind of like all over the place,
you know, doing juvenile stuff,
but the adults basically stay on them
to where it's like,
"You guys need to pay attention
before y'all screw up the whole program."
So my anxiety
a little bit is kind of raised
because I'm just not used to
the inmates having as much freedom
as they're having.
You know, I would have
more older adults in that pod,
you know, kind of running everything,
and less juveniles.
Who knows? You know, anything could happen
in this kind of jail.
-I don't want them getting relaxed.
-Yes, sir.
We need to make sure
we're monitoring them.
I want us to be able to make it
all the way to the end of this.
Yes, sir.
So the next step is to add more freedom,
but I need them to prove to me,
uh, that I can trust them
and that they can
manage themselves safely.
So if the older guys step back
and we have that void,
then what's gonna happen?
I'm concerned about, "Is that gonna create
a vacuum of leadership?"
Let's make sure we don't lose
the momentum that we have now.
Yes, sir.
Because if something's going on,
if we need to back up,
uh, we're gonna back up.
[hip-hop music playing]
[narrator] As the unit settles in
to the midpoint of the experiment,
the inmates have realized the value
of being able to use the phones freely.
Regularly connecting
with lawyers, friends, and family
has given them a sense of freedom
and control of their lives
despite being locked up.
[Crooks] I'm not trying
to put a lot on you.
I'm just trying
to get my stuff taken care of.
I don't wanna live like this no more.
I just wanna be a normal fucking person.
I don't wanna fucking be having
to look over my shoulder, dude.
You know how stressful that shit is?
A cop gets behind me,
I'm like, "Oh God, I'm going to jail."
I don't wanna be like that, dude.
-[woman on phone] Yes.
-I'm tired of that shit.
[woman] It is stressful.
[Crooks] I just gotta get in rehab,
dude, and get it taken care of.
[woman] Yeah.
[Crook] Anyways, I'm gonna call every day.
I'm gonna call you every day,
Monday through Friday.
-I love you, Mom. All right.
-[Crook's mom] All right. Love you too.
-All right. Bye-bye.
-[Crook's mom] Bye.
[indistinct chatter]
-This is where I go for motivation ♪
-Motivation ♪
Put on a show
So if you need a demonstration ♪
I apologize if I kept you waiting ♪
My name is Daniel Gatlin, AKA Crooks.
My teeth are kind of crooked a little bit.
My smile's a little crooked.
My eyebrows are a little crooked.
One of my ears is higher
than the other one. Just kind of stuck.
I'm a criminal for real.
You better fucking worry about me, buddy.
I'm gangster as fuck.
I'm not going for no silly shit.
I'm gonna do real bad,
but I'm gonna take care of everybody.
I was like this dirty, scandalous-ass dude
who just did do everybody bad.
Didn't love nothing.
Know what I mean?
Whatever. I was a scumbag.
My charge is aggravated robbery
and theft of property.
I'm a methamphetamine addict.
I've been dealing with meth
since I was 13 years old.
[hip-hop music playing]
Basically, everybody that's in here,
it all starts with some type
of traumatic event as a child.
Turns you off course.
I was nine years old when my dad died.
Uh, he died in a car wreck.
I guess he was drinking.
He was racing somebody down the street.
You know how you pull up, hit your engine?
They're racing,
and he was drunk and hit a telephone pole.
He flew out the windshield
and broke his neck.
So I blamed everybody, including God.
Anything, any type of authority, I blamed.
It was their fault.
[dramatic music playing]
I started doing drugs when I was
probably about, like, 13 years old.
I started doing methamphetamine
on a regular basis at, like, 13.
I started, bam! Putting a gram of dope
in my arm every seven times a day.
It was a bunch of negative-ass shit
bringing me down,
fixing to take my life from me.
And then when I got arrested,
I sat down and sobered up and realized
that this is what's done that to me.
Being incarcerated.
The same thing it took from me as a kid,
a traumatic event to change my direction,
it took another traumatic event
to change my direction again.
If you look at me,
you think, "That guy's an asshole.
He's gotta be. Look at him."
"And his name is Crooks?
Oh shit. Fuck that."
"I want nothing to do with him."
I'm probably the nicest guy
in the whole facility.
[funky music playing]
I mean, I'm a pretty good guy, I think.
This is probably the longest time
I've ever been clean in my life, actually.
I've been clean for three months.
And my attitude has changed.
My whole way of thinking
has changed, this time, know what I mean?
Like, now that I'm, like, sober
and haven't been shooting meth in my arm,
I'm not gonna do anything against
the rules 'cause I wanna stay in here.
I think that the sheriff's program
has helped a whole lot.
It made me feel like,
"Man, I can do this for real."
It gave me the confidence.
It gave me more confidence in myself.
And it's funny 'cause we're all
from different affiliations and races.
But it doesn't matter
'cause we're all just inmates,
and it's done something to us, man,
you know what I mean?
I'm not responsible enough.
I'm not strong enough.
I'm not strong enough
to take care of myself.
'Cause of my 'cause of my actions
that that put me here.
And there's a lot of people like that.
That are, like, really smart
and have a lot of talent
that don't know how
to take care of themselves.
Or don't, like, they know what to do.
I know what to do.
I know exactly what to do,
but I just don't do it
and I don't know why.
Now, I'm not blaming nobody,
know what I'm saying?
So I don't want nobody to think
I blame people for that. I blame myself,
but I gotta man up and realize that shit
and, like take care of myself.
That's crazy, dude.
[exhales heavily]
But yeah.
[music builds]
[music fades]
["Mírame! Mírame! Mírame!"
by Apocalipsis playing]
Mírame, mírame, mírame ♪
Mírame, mírame ♪
Me and AJ against the world!
I'm down for this program.
I like it. I love it, actually,
'cause some people
ain't got families out there, bro.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
And those people that ain't got families?
They sit here
and let them rot in here, bro.
But with this program,
we can talk to each other.
We might not change a lot,
but if we could get
certain things like that changed,
then that'll be a good start.
I had to move! I think that was meant
to land on top of my head.
I'm tired. I give up.
[Don Don] I'm on my way
to look out for you all. Especially you.
'Cause I fuck with you tough.
-You're my best friend in this mother.
-[Don Don] Good talk, bro.
I'm gonna keep it real every time we talk.
I don't sugarcoat nothing.
I don't hold nothing back neither.
We connect on family.
He real tight with his family.
We connect on the same kind of movies.
We like the same guards in here.
[laughs]
Female guards.
Yeah, that's my dude right there.
We can relate on a lot of stuff.
You being on different charges,
man, that don't make me no better
or make you no better,
know what I'm saying?
Or worse. Shit,
I'd say 80% of this whole facility
is juveniles for capital murders.
At least half of
the motherfuckers are here for caps.
-[Don Don] Yeah. The majority.
-I'm in here for caps.
Mm-hmm.
With the gun, you don't die by the bullet.
You die by the person holding the gun.
But it ain't me to judge 'em.
You what, 24?
I mean, shit, you made your decision.
I made my decision to be here.
[AJ] Only God can judge me.
[Don Don] Yeah, real talk.
For real.
Can't nobody say nothing about you, bro.
But us being in here,
according to the sheriff,
this is how
we supposed to make that change.
So I ain't trying to crash out,
not only 'cause of me,
but just for, you know,
for everybody else in the facility.
[Higgins] This is a detention center.
Each of these individuals
are gonna leave one day,
whether they go to federal prison,
whether they go to state prison,
or where they're released
to the community.
But for everyone,
I think this program
creates relationship-building.
They can see how
they can have an impact on each other.
I'm just trying
to keep my head above water
till they call my name to leave.
-Can't let 'em crash you out.
-[Don Don] Yeah. That's the only thing.
-I fuck with the real, like you.
-[AJ] Can't let that shit get to you.
[Don Don] Yeah, real talk, bro.
[crickets chirping]
["Cocky" by ADGRMS
and Dexx! Turner playing]
[narrator] After his conversation with AJ,
Don Don is feeling inspired
and decides to reach out
to his loved ones.
At least we get the chance to talk
to our families on the regular now.
That's cool.
I'm very excited to call my family.
I have $1,000 cash bond,
and if my family did help me out,
I know I'll go home then.
But I hate asking folks for stuff.
Hi, Melissa, how you doing?
-[Melissa on phone] I'm straight.
-[Don Don] Everybody okay?
[Melissa] Yeah.
[Don Don] You know, I'm sitting in jail
till June. Know what I'm saying?
I was just calling to see,
if you can, sissy,
can you do me a favor, though?
I'm in jail on a $1,000 bond,
and it's like
[Melissa] Yeah, I feel you.
I mean, but, you know.
Right now I need
to get some tires on my car.
[Don Don] Shit.
[ambient music playing]
I just need some support though.
[Melissa] I ain't never not supported you,
but I ain't all in no more, Ladon,
because you disappointed me big time.
I been disappointed too,
but, you know what I'm saying,
like, it goes both ways, though, sissy.
I ain't did nothing to y'all.
[Melissa] I want you to get off of ice
and whatever else you're doing
and get clean.
That's all I want you to do.
I don't see why
you so angry with me anyway.
[Melissa] I just want you to go being
my brother, my old brother.
I want that back.
[Don Don] All right, but I need
your support too and help though, shoot.
I can't do it by myself.
-You ain't trying hard enough, sissy.
-[Melissa indistinct]
I need your help.
[Melissa] I'm gonna support you,
but I ain't all in no more, Ladon,
'cause you disappointed me big time.
Only thing I did
was try to care for your ass.
[Melissa] Last time you was locked up,
you didn't come back and thank me.
I sent you money every week
while you was in jail.
And then when you got out of jail,
you never came by here to see me,
not one motherfucking time.
I just want you to know,
your mama watching.
-[dramatic music playing]
-Your mama watching.
She be trying to prove a point
or make some type of
I don't know what she trying to do now.
Get me out of jail, dude.
Kick my ass when I get out.
This right here, this ain't you.
'Cause you know I try my best
to be there for all y'all.
[Melissa] It doesn't matter.
I have always protected you.
Exactly, so why are you stopping now?
Why you stopping now though?
[Melissa] Because I'm mad at you,
and you need to get right.
I'm in jail on a $1,000 bond though.
[Melissa] When you get ready
to be real with yourself,
I'm gonna be real with you too.
Hello?
[pensive music playing]
[music fades]
If she was in jail,
I know I would have bust my ass
'cause I wouldn't want her in here.
I ain't got time for none of this shit.
I don't wanna hear this
from my blood, nigga.
[poignant music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Chauncey] We going through it right now.
Everybody going through
some similar stuff in here.
[Don Don sobbing]
[Chauncey] He's crying, ain't he?
[Don Don] My blood don't support me
for shit in here.
Like, I don't get it.
She's gonna sit there and just drown me.
I'm sitting here
talking like a human being.
You're drowning me out of shit.
Don't you even know I get that enough
in here from a motherfucker?
Every time you try to talk to somebody.
Man, this shit's stupid as fuck.
That shit hurt for real
'cause she acted like she ain't wanna hear
shit I had to say.
[music fades]
What, what they talkin' 'bout
Clean, when I'm walking out ♪
Mean, when I'm hopping out
Scene, when I knock 'em out ♪
Ball, yeah, homie, I make big shots ♪
That's 'cause I'm a big shot
You can check the wristwatch ♪
Yeah, and I got time like a big clock ♪
Trying to get the big knots famous
Like Tik Tok, yeah ♪
[narrator] With Randy stepping down
as the unit's leader,
no one has made any effort
to take charge of the meals,
leaving tray distribution unorganized.
I'm starving!
[indistinct chatter]
[inmate] With this, we gonna be different.
If they wouldn't have put me over
the trays, it would have been chaos.
Folks wouldn't have gotten to eat.
Them trays.
I don't touch 'em.
I look the other way.
Not my problem anymore.
But they do not see it.
-These folks.
-These folks, yeah.
I don't understand these guys in here
with this tray situation.
You know, I stepped back,
and now we have a problem.
You have to fend for yourself.
But I just give it to them,
knowing they'll just deal with it
instead of me
trying to deal with it myself.
So whatever the consequence
that's gonna happen up in here,
it is what it is.
[Don Don] Look at this shit.
When Randy stepped back,
now that surprised me.
-Come on, we finna go eat.
-[Randy] I did my job!
[Mayham] When Randy's not in charge,
it's been more fun.
Just because Randy
trying to be somebody's dad, man.
You not nobody's dad, man. You
I give you your props
when you right, man. Yeah.
Trays? Randall, I can give it to him.
Randall kept them trays in order
to make sure everybody get their tray.
That's what I will say
was good about Randall.
'Cause he gonna make sure
everybody get their trays.
But now, it's all unorganized.
[Don Don] Upper level folks.
Upper level, come on!
[narrator] With the leadership void,
Don Don takes it upon himself
to assist with mealtime.
[Don Don] I talked to my sister
earlier today.
Kinda pissed me off. Really uncool.
But then it just started draining me, so
I don't know if it was like something
just to keep me moving, motivated,
or what it was.
Piece of bread?
I believe in this program, you know.
So in the end,
if I have to pass some trays out,
then yeah, I'm down for it.
I'm up for it. I'll help.
[narrator] Without Randy
to organize the trays,
the younger inmates
have been hoarding food in their rooms
and collecting ingredients.
You want these extra trays?
[indistinct chatter]
All right.
[Eastside] Let me get the crust
so I can put it in the thing.
-[inmate] You going to put this in there?
-The crust.
Yeah, that works. For yeast!
I got one up there cooking right now.
[Ty] We finna make hooch.
The basics is, like, you get some fruit.
You get some crust off the bread,
off the edges of the bread.
You keep putting sugar,
like Kool-Aid, a lot of Kool-Aid,
'cause it got sugar in it
and "de-fermin-tates" it.
I guess that's the word.
I'm working on a whole bag up there
right now.
I need, like, four more bags.
Yeah. We're gonna make,
like, three gallons of that shit.
[Eastside] This is good.
For all the ones, the youngsters,
I had to step back
because they was hearing me,
but they weren't listening to me.
I get caught up in the mix
of doing wrong myself,
so who gonna listen
to a person that's doing wrong?
-You feel what I'm saying?
-There was a lot of youngsters come to me.
They was telling me, "You can't be talking
to people like that."
Instead of me
asking folks to do something,
I was trying to tell them to do something.
They don't care nothing.
They still living in the selfish game.
They still selfish as hell.
I agree 100% with you on that.
And that's why I just have to sit back
because I was so angry.
Oh my God. I mean,
you try to help them,
and they don't want to listen.
I'll go back over there
and just sit in my cell.
These guys don't appreciate nothing.
So guess what I do? I disappear.
I mean, I shut down. Fuck.
I'm still shocked about this.
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Ty] We got the yeast in there.
Got the fruit in there.
Got it in the hot water,
sitting in there so it can blow up.
You know, science.
Then we get some Kool-Aid,
and it's mixed in motherfucking good.
There's a lot of older people in here.
I think they just tried a little too hard.
They want this to work out so bad,
and they just need to leave it alone.
It'll make like three gallons.
Hopefully. I just keep doing what I do.
I've done too much time
to listen to another inmate, you know?
He's the scientist. Me, I'm the learner.
Yeah, he's definitely the learner.
We'll get there, though.
[Ty] But if we get caught,
he's taking the blame.
[laughs]
Jail is not somewhere to worry about if
you're gonna be locked down all the time.
I mean, I knew like the basics,
but other than that, hell nah.
This is definitely shit you learn
from other people in jail.
Like, the longer you do time,
the more tough shit you learn how to do.
This is gonna make
three gallons right here.
I feel like the whole pod's like,
"I'm finna just do me.
Make sure I'm straight."
"I'm not finna worry about nobody.
If this shit go to 23 and 1,
it just go to 23 and 1. Fuck it."
[both laugh]
We got a lot of people putting in on this.
We're gonna be drunk, bro.
Gonna get drunk as hell.
So now that no one's in charge,
we're all just gonna get wild.
[Ty] I'm putting it back right here.
We're gonna have fun,
and we're just gonna party.
[Ty] Fuck 'em.
Because the hooch
makes everything just feel nice.
[narrator] The youngsters hoarding food
from the trays
has created another problem in the unit.
[Sprinkle] Hey, Miss Dennis!
I didn't eat no food.
I ain't get no tray
because I was sleeping.
I guess I overslept, man.
I told Miss Dennis I ain't get my tray.
She like, "You didn't get no tray?"
I'm like, "Nah."
[narrator] Jail rules require juveniles
to receive three meals per day.
If not,
there could be legal repercussions.
[Dennis] It's kind of difficult
for us because
we make sure that everyone
gets a tray and everyone is fed.
But since we're not in there,
we don't know
what is actually going on with the trays.
So now we have a juvenile that hasn't ate.
So now I have to go in the unit.
I don't know about what's going on,
but, um, this is unacceptable.
Who was on clean-up? Who was on trays?
Uh, 301.
[Dennis] 301. Striblet and Scott.
One juvenile did not get a tray.
The deputy, she start yelling
about a juvenile tray.
I'm like, "Where did this come from?"
-[Don Don] It ain't our
-[inmate] Ain't our fault.
Yes, that is y'all responsibility
if y'all doing trays.
[Don Don] Didn't nobody get
no extra tray off the cart.
Yeah, they did 'cause he ain't got one.
One juvenile tray.
[chuckles] Passing out trays
can be a problem every day.
I already knew this was gonna be
a hard, hard, hard responsibility.
Every morning, somebody wake up
for breakfast, every lunch, every supper.
You have to eat.
Don't get on clean-up no mo'.
[Don Don] I don't even wanna be
on that bullshit no more.
-Fuck you!
-Okay. What you Hey!
[Don Don] Go find that shit, bro!
But we ain't do shit!
Everything we had out there
was on that damn cart!
[Dennis] Don't talk to me like that.
That's how you gonna get your ass sprayed.
-[Don Don] Gon' crack you up.
-[Dennis] Yeah?
Like I said, you better watch yourself.
You gonna watch how you talk to me.
[Don Don] You gonna do nothing to me.
[tense music playing]
Fuck you talking about?
This some stupid-ass shit.
Y'all don't put them on clean-up no more!
Good!
I woke up to some bullshit.
That's what I did.
So two hours later, three hours later,
this bitch come out
talking about a motherfucking tray.
Fuck that tray, man.
Fuck her and that tray.
Step the fuck off, I'm telling you.
Real shit, step the fuck off.
["Feel My Soul by Dept. X playing]
[narrator] Eager to push the limits
of their freedom,
the youth are taking advantage
of the elders' new hands-off approach.
We need to start a fire, right?
Listen, so I got an idea.
How about we take glasses,
and we start a fire like that?
Bro, how?
I've seen it on TV before.
I don't think it's gonna work, bro.
I think it'll work.
Yeah?
You never paid attention in science class.
-No. Never.
-No.
-You are a failure at life, sir.
-[Ty] Damn.
[laughing]
He want his name in the stars
Boy, you ride in your balls ♪
[Ty] What you gonna set on fire?
[Eastside] A wick.
A wick is a piece of toilet paper rolled.
When you light the end,
then it just slowly burns.
It could last forever.
Just keep making it longer and longer.
You take bifocals, so it's a ray of light
onto the wick with crunched up leaves,
and you focus it in one place.
Hold it there for, like,
five to seven minutes
until it smokes,
and then it'll light on fire.
The priest saved my soul ♪
They got it! We got it.
[narrator] Once the inmates
start the wick,
they can use it to make tattoo ink,
as well as have an on-call lighter
for their homemade cigarettes.
However, this wick doesn't last long,
and it's extinguished by the wind.
That's out.
-[inmate] It'll take a while.
-Just see if we get the batteries.
Just Ooh.
[indistinct chatter]
[Crooks] These guys are so stupid,
you know what I mean?
These kids are selfish
and don't give a fuck about nobody.
So when other people do things
and I have to pay for it,
It bothers me. But at the same time,
I'm not gonna do anything
'cause I wanna stay.
I wanna be able to use the phone
and watch TV and play cards
and just pass my time. Come on, man.
I ain't gonna take
what you put in front of me.
Can't take no stupid shit out here.
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
What do you think?
-Hey.
-Somebody gotta do it.
Tell these motherfuckers here.
[inmate] We trying to get batteries, man.
Smoke that dope.
Know what I'm saying? That good herb.
All we need's a AA or a AAA,
and we good with a light.
[indistinct chatter]
[CJ] We need a light.
So, we trying to find a battery.
So I was just like, "Man. Fuck,
I know there's a battery in that clock."
You think that's gonna work?
What's that?
[inmate] They stand up on that thing,
get the clock down.
Somebody standing on the kiosk thing?
-Damn! That's tall as fuck.
-[both chuckle]
I don't think the biggest person
in here could do that.
I don't think that would work.
That's too high.
Shit. They was acting all scared.
I'm like, "Shit."
"I'm finna to get up here
and get this clock, you know."
[inmate] He's trying to stand on top here.
Get up there. Get the battery down.
But Dennis up in here.
I know.
[inmate] You know
she be watching the cameras.
She be watching them cameras real tough.
[dramatic music playing]
There's definitely going to be
more things happening
because I'm not directly in there
watching every move they make.
So sometimes you're not gonna catch
everything because there's blind spots.
[indistinct chatter]
We're about to see how this goes.
[inmate 2] Look at that! They trippin'!
[inmates screeching]
CJ, he like stacked chairs up.
[inmates screeching]
And then Oh my God, and then
[music increases, fades]
[Eastside] Fucking Miss Dennis.
[CJ] Right there.
Look between the floor and his foot.
[Eastside] Should've said something.
[CJ] She came here
right at the nick of time.
She watching hard, though.
I know she watching hard.
Yeah, she do.
Now I'm like, "Fuck!"
I was kind of nervous.
Was someone looking at the cameras?
"What the fuck is he doing up there?"
And I wasn't trying to get wrote up.
So I'm like, "Shit."
[indistinct chatter]
I don't know.
I ain't trying to get caught.
[CJ] You step on there,
you might break that motherfucker.
This is the dumbest shit
I've ever seen in my life.
[indistinct chatter]
[dramatic music playing]
[inmate] Take it to him
so he can handle business.
[Eastside] They just brought me
the battery. [laughs]
It was like, "Here.
We need this. We got you something."
[indistinct chatter]
[dramatic music continues]
[narrator] As the inmates attempt
to ignite their wick,
Deputy Dennis enters the unit
for her routine head count.
[Dennis] Come out! Stand by your doors!
[Ty] There go Dennis. There go Dennis!
[Eastside] Aw, man.
What is she doing?
I'm like, "That's my motherfucking luck."
She'll be like,
"Where's the fucking battery?"
And I'm gonna be like
[indistinct]
Where's she at? In here?
Down there.
[Ty] She's coming up.
[Dennis] Every time you pull this.
So Miss Dennis comes up,
walks right by the door.
I'm like, "Oh my God."
[music builds, fades]
I was scared as fuck.
Definitely.
[CJ] I ain't holding it together.
[inmate] I'm after you, bro.
[Mayham] I got you together.
That'll be enough.
[inmate] It's your turn.
[peppy music playing]
[Eastside] Mayham.
I need Vaseline to fuel this up
so I can make a candle
with a wick for a light.
It's in my room on my side
of the black bowl side.
-I got that Vaseline there. At the bottom.
-[Eastside] On the table?
[dramatic music playing]
It's gonna be a jailhouse candle.
[indistinct chatter]
[Eastside] I'm just making, like, a wick
just so it'll catch on fire
whenever I light it.
I ran away when I was 14
and kind of just hotel hopped
until I went to prison.
I didn't have anything to do except drugs.
So when I see those guys
try to make fucking wicks
and doing whatever, I get it.
They're kids! It's what they're gonna do.
Yeah. That's just gonna happen.
I get high. That's what I used to do.
It's hard.
I used to get high all the time.
I'd get high for everything.
"Look at that," I'd get high.
I'd get mad, I'd get high.
Now I get tattoos. Is that weird?
No, 'cause I do it too, man.
So I go get tattoos.
It helps. You know? It helps.
Yeah, now I don't even think
about getting high, man.
I don't either.
I think about how dumb it was.
[inmate] Yeah.
What's crazy is it didn't relieve stress.
It actually made me more stressful.
-Now, it's like, I just work out.
-[inmate] Yeah.
[Crooks] If I wanted to get high,
I can get high.
If I want to partake in other stuff
I can smell people.
I can smell the wicks.
Does that trigger me? No.
I shoot meth. Know what I'm saying?
I'll be honest with you.
That's like the big deal for me.
But it's hard to shake that stuff.
You know what I'm saying?
[funky music playing]
I had a little piece of lemonade sliver,
like a little lemonade packet.
I put it negative to negative.
You can only get, like, a certain amount
of lights out of one battery
using the little wick.
I was about to give up.
[Ty] Abracadabra!
And then boom!
Last try, it fucking went up.
I was like, "Oh, thank God."
[Eastside] Abracadabra, B!
[inmates laughing]
[Eastside] So after that,
hand on the battery,
I'm like,
"Shit, I'm not taking this down to 'em."
They'll see me handing them the battery,
you know what I mean?
I'm like, "Shit."
[Squirrel] Let him have it.
Let him have it.
[CJ] So now, I'm like, "Fuck."
How am I finna put the clock back up
without getting caught?
[indistinct chatter]
[dramatic music playing]
[CJ] I was kind of nervous.
I'm like, "Shit."
"Fuck. If they do say some shit, I was
trying to change the time on the clock."
[indistinct chatter]
[Randy] Set it down.
[Squirrel] Set it down,
man, or set it right!
But it wasn't a problem. I put it back up
like nothing ever happened.
[music fades]
[ambient music playing]
There ain't no telling
with these fools up in here.
They ran wild.
There's gonna be a lot of chaos. Drama.
All type of bullshit.
Yeah, homie, I'm just big bad
A rock star ♪
Pull up with a big bag
And pop off ♪
Yeah ♪
[Big Mel] Yeah, this is jailhouse tobaccy.
That's a Newport right there.
-It just take the edge off. That's all.
-Yeah, yeah.
Call it a coffee stick.
Y'all know the ingredients to making this?
Coffee sticks? First of all,
you get you a napkin, brown paper towel.
[rock music playing]
Then you soak it in coffee.
Make it darker to get the better.
Let it air dry. Once it airs out,
roll it like it's a blunt.
Put some light on that motherfucker,
you're good.
Somebody gonna have to step up.
Really, it's gonna work itself out.
People. They gonna come
and find their position
'cause those are the people
that wanna stay and make this work
'cause I like it here.
It make my time go smooth,
and I'm trying to be smooth when I move.
-[all chuckle]
-I know I could take care of myself.
I'm gonna do what the rules say.
They don't have to worry about me.
It's just those few that don't care.
So we can't keep making mistakes.
If we do, it ain't gonna work.
It ain't gonna work.
We just gonna be stuck.
[Big Mel] A little coffee stick,
man, just to take the edge off.
[laughing]
We gotta get
another wick going on, though.
-We need some more tissue.
-[inmate] Yeah, bring some more tissue.
[Big Mel] Look at that motherfucker.
We all in here together, so we all chill.
But some people be trying to numb
their pain. They got murder charges,
facing life in the pen.
They want to forget about it.
So they act out in a certain way.
What's he trying to do?
I'm burning the house down.
I'm gonna be on that.
To be clear, before I got in jail,
I did not do drugs.
But when I got in here,
I was bored, so I started doing drugs.
[Mayham] There was stuff in our room
other than hooch,
like we have some drugs in our room.
[indistinct]
[Mayham] Dude, you are the biggest pothead
I've ever seen in my life. I swear to God.
I've never met somebody
that whines and cries.
[producer] How do people get drugs
in here?
People get drugs in here
through, like, cigarettes.
I've seen a carton
come through this fucker.
[Wutzke] Give me the big one.
Like, everything in that motherfucker.
Crack, cocaine, weed,
deuce, cigarettes,
everything you can imagine is in there.
Hopefully gonna finish all that.
[inmate] You can swallow dope. I mean,
depending on how much you got.
You might have to keister egg it.
[Ty] You go to court,
you got the opportunity
to, you know, bring that pack in.
Getting drugs going out the unit.
Boom. Bringing that shit back in.
["Wild" by Home of Happy, Max Bronco
& Adam Connor plays]
Mayham got the good shit.
["Wild" continues playing]
Oh my God,
there was like five smoke rooms.
[song continues]
[song ends]
It was fucking great.
I'm going real high after this shit.
[Eastside] Tell 'em to fuck off,
you hear me?
Told you how folks was gonna act.
'Cause the young kids don't get it,
and it's starting to get out of control.
[laughter]
[tense music playing]
Right now people are lighting wicks
and doing whatever.
Not me 'cause I don't partake
in none of that.
I don't wanna get high,
but I don't wanna look
at everybody getting high either.
I just work out and do my thing
and stay in my lane.
Just greet them.
"Yeah. All right, get out of my face."
[gargling]
Because I think
there's consequences and repercussions
for these actions you take.
The trash will take itself out.
All you gotta do is sit back and watch.
But it's still gonna ruin it
for a lot of people.
This is straight fucking madness, dude.
[mellow music playing]
It was like a fucking war zone,
like World War III in this bitch.
It was smoke everywhere.
It smelled like straight smoke.
There were weird smells
floating through the door.
So I'm like, "Oh my God."
"Miss Dennis is finna come fuck me up."
I was scared as fuck.
You keep rubbing it.
What are you rubbing it for?
There's nothing there. [laughs]
-[Wutzke] Ah, you fire, bro! Look at
-[alarm trilling]
[exclaiming]
-[inmate] Oh my God.
-[Wutzke] That's 'cause it's spilling out.
Now it's OV.
[Mayham] Hey, come here, bro!
Oh my God. We're finna get mobbed.
-[inmate] You need to put it out.
-[Wutzke] For real?
[alarm continues trilling]
[Ty] It's definitely gonna be over with.
All the freedom is gonna be over with.
Back on 23 and 1.
Oh man.
Started getting worse and worse,
and then full chaos in there.
-[alarm trilling]
-[dramatic music builds]
Oh my goodness. Ugh.
Now this program's turned over.
[music builds, fades]
[alarm trilling]
["Dub of Silver (feat. Seb J.)"
by Bass Over Babylon playing]
[music fades]