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_Theres No Way I_m Getting in the Shower_ _ Reggie Yates becomes a Prisoner For One Week _ Insider · History Dark

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: You have the right to remain silent.
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  Speaker 2: You have the right to have a lawyer present to
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: advise you before and during any question.
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  Speaker 3: They say to understand a person, you have to walk
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: a mile in their shoes. That's exactly what I'm gonna do.
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: I'm going to jail to try and understand the American
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: criminal justice system from the inside.
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  Speaker 4: America incarcerates more.
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  Speaker 3: People than any other country in the world. And the
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: largest population of inmates are housed in Texas.
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  Speaker 4: At quite a young.
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  Speaker 3: Age, I promised myself that I'd never find myself in
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: this position, in the back of a police belt. Never
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: thought I'd know what it feels like to be here
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  Speaker 3: right now.
• 1:02
  Speaker 5: I'm experiencing this.
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  Speaker 3: Even though it is under these conditions, I know I've
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: not done anything wrong, I'm not getting a criminal record
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  Speaker 3: for doing this, but there is an element of shame
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  Speaker 3: in front of me, totally. I don't like sort of
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: feeling like this. I don't like being in this position.
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  Speaker 3: For one week, I'll be locked inside Bear County, one
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  Speaker 3: of the biggest jails in the state. I'll be experiencing
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: life as an inmate to try and find out the
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: real impact of being behind bars.
• 1:46
  Speaker 5: So this is actually happening now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm about to head into the shutters, and I guess
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: once that shutter closes, that's it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm in.
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  Speaker 6: He is demanding that you obtain your sword if he
• 2:00
  Speaker 6: will contact you.
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  Speaker 7: One, two, three, go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Any kind of jewelry, any kind of personal items, any effects,
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  Speaker 5: anything like that? Just a ring. Just that right there?
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  Speaker 5: All right, what I'm going to do is I'm going
• 2:17
  Speaker 5: to take this hand out of your handcuffs. You're going
• 2:19
  Speaker 5: to put it on the platform. You have any inside
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  Speaker 5: pockets inside your jacket?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And that ring, is that ring able to come off you? Yes,
• 2:31
  Speaker 5: it is. Ready to fire?
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  Speaker 1: Ready to fire?
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Open your mouth up, tongue up. Lift your tongue up. Yes, sir.
• 2:43
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Go ahead and close your mouth.
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  Speaker 3: Every day, around 100 people enter this jail and 100
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: people leave, with the total population reaching nearly 4,500 inmates.
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  Speaker 5: So what's the reason for removing my jewellery and my shoelaces?
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  Speaker 9: Well, the shoelaces down here, number one, is for your
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  Speaker 9: safety and for the safety of others.
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  Speaker 3: After being arrested, inmates are first placed in jail to
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: await trial or serve short sentences. Stays here usually last
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  Speaker 3: under a year.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have a history of drug or alcohol abuse?
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  Speaker 5: Are you expecting to withdraw from drugs or alcohol today?
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  Speaker 5: Do you currently believe that someone can control your mind?
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  Speaker 9: Prior to arrest, did you feel depressed, down, or take
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  Speaker 9: little interest in things?
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  Speaker 5: Are you thinking of killing yourself or injuring yourself today?
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  Speaker 10: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Come and stand right here.
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel suicidal at all? I feel suicidal, yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Have you been seen by any kind of mental health
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  Speaker 11: or put into a mental institution for any.
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  Speaker 5: Reason? Are you wearing briefs or boxers, sir? Boxes. Pardon me? Boxes.
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  Speaker 5: And what color are they? Black. Careful that it doesn't
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  Speaker 5: spill out.
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  Speaker 4: Got it?
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  Speaker 1: I sort of feel like anything that made me me
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  Speaker 1: is gone. I'm a prisoner now.
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  Speaker 10: I'm wearing a pair.
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: Of socks that have been through the system quite a
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  Speaker 3: few times. Even down to me underweight, it's all county jail.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing about me right now.
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  Speaker 5: Has come from me. There are 75 units in this jail.
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  Speaker 3: Some of which provide additional support for inmates' physical and
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  Speaker 3: mental health needs. I'm relieved to be taken to the
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  Speaker 3: unit known as AA for low-risk inmates.
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  Speaker 5: So that's two tiers, isn't it? Yes, sir. Shower area
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  Speaker 5: and bathroom over there. Your cell is going to be
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  Speaker 5: the first one, AA01, right? This is Officer Torres. He's
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  Speaker 5: going to be a unit officer for this ship. This is, uh,
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  Speaker 5: inmate Yates. This is Officer Torres.
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  Speaker 9: Yates.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 9: And, of course, you have your lights.
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  Speaker 5: You can turn them on and off, but here on
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  Speaker 5: the side. Uh, this is the pressure toilet. All right.
• 6:13
  Speaker 12: Well, I won't be the first person in an orange
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  Speaker 12: jumpsuit who's sat on this. It's got a nice orange
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  Speaker 12: stain on my mattress. I think that's the sound of
• 6:26
  Speaker 12: me getting properly locked in.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's open for a window.
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  Speaker 12: The only window I've got that looks out onto the
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  Speaker 12: communal area out there.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I won't be seeing sunlight while I'm in here.
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  Speaker 12: Again, something that I didn't really consider.
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  Speaker 3: Within a 24-hour period, inmates in this unit are locked
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  Speaker 3: away for around 12 hours. For the rest of the time,
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  Speaker 3: they're sent to work in other parts of the jail
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  Speaker 3: or allowed a short stint in the communal area.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone's been let out of their cells.
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  Speaker 3: At the moment, but I'm still in here behind my bench.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how.
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  Speaker 5: Good a thing that is.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: What's up? How you doing? What's going on?
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  Speaker 10: What's up?
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  Speaker 5: What's up?
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  Speaker 10: What's up?
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  Speaker 1: My name is Rich.
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  Speaker 5: You all right? What's going on? Reggie, nice to meet you, bro.
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  Speaker 5: Nice to meet you. Reggie, nice to meet you, bro.
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  Speaker 5: Nice to meet you, nice to meet you. So you
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  Speaker 5: lot get a couple hours out here, yeah?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And is this time that you lot treasure, this time
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  Speaker 3: that you all look forward to?
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  Speaker 5: It's the only time we got.
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  Speaker 3: I'm keen to meet as many inmates as possible and
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  Speaker 3: try and get some advice on how to cope while
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  Speaker 3: I'm inside.
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  Speaker 5: What's happening, Reggie? Nice to meet you. Jeffrey.
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  Speaker 8: Mosley.
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  Speaker 5: What's that? Mosley. Reggie.
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  Speaker 13: You just got to keep your mind occupied. You know
• 8:20
  Speaker 13: what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Like, you got to read books.
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  Speaker 13: You know, just take your mind off the things that
• 8:26
  Speaker 13: aren't really happening, you know?
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  Speaker 5: And what happens if you.
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  Speaker 13: Don't do that? Some people, they'll trip out. Like, they snap,
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  Speaker 13: you know? They start to freak out. Because if you
• 8:40
  Speaker 13: start thinking about the worst possible things that could happen
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  Speaker 13: to you, your mind will go crazy.
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  Speaker 5: You know? Yeah. We were so young. I didn't think
• 8:50
  Speaker 5: that you guys would be... How old are you?
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  Speaker 1: 22.
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  Speaker 5: What did you do? Shoplifting. Shoplifting. What were you trying
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  Speaker 5: to do? T-shirts. You ended up in here because of T-shirts?
• 9:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So what was going through your head when they put
• 9:03
  Speaker 5: them handcuffs on? I was like, oh, man. I was
• 9:08
  Speaker 5: so mad. I was like, man, I wish I would
• 9:10
  Speaker 5: have just never did it. Oh, with some teachers.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think your sentence is going to be?
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  Speaker 5: A month or two, but no longer than that. It's
• 9:18
  Speaker 5: a misdemeanor, you know. It was just tagging on a
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  Speaker 5: projector in school. That's all it was. I took a pin,
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  Speaker 5: I edged it in there all bad. Oh, you're kidding me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the students saw me and they snitched me out.
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, you guy, I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: get you later. And who ended up getting hit for that?
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  Speaker 3: It's surprising to hear that crimes we might regard to
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: be minor in the UK are punished by a jail
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  Speaker 3: sentence in Texas. It's dinner time in the unit, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm about to have my first taste of jail food.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you got it figured out? Oh, I see. You
• 10:00
  Speaker 5: made a hamburger. Oh, man. It's just horrible.
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  Speaker 4: It's terrible, bro. After dinner, I notice there's a new
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: arrival in the unit.
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  Speaker 5: That guy's got a bag. That means he's just coming
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  Speaker 5: in for the.
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  Speaker 1: First time, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: This is 19-year-old Alex's first time in jail.
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  Speaker 5: You got a window in here. You got more than
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  Speaker 5: I got. See, I didn't even know it was dark out.
• 10:37
  Speaker 5: Do you know what time it is? No, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: This is my first night in here. It's your first night, right?
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  Speaker 14: It's my first night as well.
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  Speaker 5: How are you? How are you coping?
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  Speaker 14: Like, I'm fucking shaking right now, man.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just keeping myself occupied.
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  Speaker 14: I'm working out. I'm fixing everything I can. What is
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  Speaker 14: this making you shake?
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  Speaker 5: Is it anxiety? Is it fear? Is it what?
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  Speaker 14: It's just anxiety, man. And I have so much in
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  Speaker 14: my head that I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: Supposed to be here.
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  Speaker 14: I'm supposed to be at work right now, you know,
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  Speaker 14: taking care of my sister and my mom and my
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  Speaker 14: stepdad in Mexico. And he's on dialysis right now, you see?
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  Speaker 14: And I'd send him 200 a week and look where
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  Speaker 14: I'm at right now. I lost the job, I lost
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  Speaker 14: my car, I'm homeless, and I don't know what's going
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  Speaker 14: to happen to my stepfather.
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  Speaker 3: Alex has been arrested for possession of a small amount
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  Speaker 3: of marijuana, which I find out he was using to
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  Speaker 3: combat his mental health issues.
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  Speaker 14: I got diagnosed when I was 13 years old.
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  Speaker 4: Diagnosed as what?
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  Speaker 14: Bipolar, ADHD, and I was having very suicidal thoughts at
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  Speaker 14: the time, where I was hearing things, and I couldn't
• 11:51
  Speaker 14: cope with those hearings, and I was very, very out
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  Speaker 14: of there, man. I started taking the pills, and those
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  Speaker 14: pills would calm my hearings down, but my anxiety would
• 12:02
  Speaker 14: just pop up, man, and my depression would just pop up, man,
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  Speaker 14: and I used marijuana, and that's when I got out
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  Speaker 14: of that facility, and then I went back again because
• 12:12
  Speaker 14: I started cutting myself. And then I went back again
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  Speaker 14: because I tried to overdose. And then I went back
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  Speaker 14: again because I tried to hang myself.
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  Speaker 5: Did you mention that on the way into this unit?
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  Speaker 5: Because they asked you all those questions. Of course not.
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  Speaker 14: I'm not going to say yes to those.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 14: Because if I say yes that I have attempted suicide,
• 12:34
  Speaker 14: it would just lead me to somewhere very, not even
• 12:37
  Speaker 14: a very nice place. I'm very lucky to come to
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  Speaker 14: this unit. Because this unit, everybody is doing their, they
• 12:43
  Speaker 14: don't want to fight here. They just want to do
• 12:44
  Speaker 14: their time and go home to their family. If I was,
• 12:47
  Speaker 14: if I told them I attempted suicide, they would have
• 12:49
  Speaker 14: put me on some unit where there's more people would
• 12:52
  Speaker 14: give me more anxiety attacks, more problems, more suicidal thoughts,
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  Speaker 14: you know.
• 13:11
  Speaker 5: First night, you ain't gonna be here that.
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  Speaker 10: Long, bro.
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: I miss my father.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: I miss everybody, man.
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  Speaker 5: Look, this is my first time in here.
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  Speaker 3: And the little experience and little knowledge I have at
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: this place, you can't be like.
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: This on your first night. You need to pull yourself together, man.
• 13:39
  Speaker 8: I don't really want to be here, man.
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  Speaker 1: It's driving me nuts. I hate this place.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: Look at the beds, bro.
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  Speaker 10: I don't deserve this shit.
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: Come on, it's the first night. It's my first night.
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: You've just got to get your head straight, man.
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  Speaker 1: All right?
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: All right. When you're done here talking to me, you've
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  Speaker 5: got to promise me you're not going to talk to
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  Speaker 5: a guy because you need to speak to someone. You
• 14:07
  Speaker 5: need someone to talk to. You need someone to be
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: there for you, man. You got me now. You know
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: that much, right? Right? Okay. I'm good, man. I'm good. Look,
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: before you go out there, just take ten minutes and
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: get your shit together, bro. You need to. Okay? Stay calm.
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: All right? You got this, man. I'm about. If you
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: need me, I'm in number one, all right?
• 14:34
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 14:35
  Speaker 10: Okay?
• 14:37
  Speaker 8: The majority of.
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  Speaker 3: The people that I've spoken to have called this one
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: of the calmest wings that they've ever been in. You know,
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: they call this one of the safest bits of the prison,
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: which is strange to hear because the minute you start
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: to unpick some of their problems, very quickly, you see
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: them teetering on the edge, you know? Already there's been
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: guys in tears, there's been guys shaking in front of me,
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: there's been people telling me their story and not being
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: able to hold eye contact or, you know, or maintain
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  Speaker 3: a level of conversation where it doesn't feel like they're
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: about to.
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  Speaker 5: Spiral down it. And this is the place where the
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: most together guys are. Dollar up, here you get five
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: for a dollar. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: After our conversation, Alex asked to see a counsellor to
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: tell them about his suicidal thoughts.
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  Speaker 5: What's happened with Alex? Is he still here? He said
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: he was having thoughts of suicide or self-harm. So we
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: had him talk to one of our mental health counselors
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: right now. Okay. So where do you think that will lead?
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  Speaker 5: Is he going to come back here or will he
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: go to another car? It's actually up to our mental
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: health counselor. They're going to assess him? They're going to
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: assess him.
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  Speaker 3: If they feel that he is in danger of self-harm,
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  Speaker 3: he will be placed in a suicide protection cell or
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  Speaker 3: a unit.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: I'm impressed with how quickly the jail has dealt with Alex.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: And it's a relief to know he might now get
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  Speaker 3: the support he needs.
• 16:22
  Speaker 12: I guess that's all the darkness I'm gonna get. One
• 16:38
  Speaker 12: of the strangest days ever. And lying here in this
• 16:42
  Speaker 12: bunk under possibly the scratchiest sheet that's ever been produced.
• 16:49
  Speaker 12: I'm not feeling sorry for myself. The thing that I
• 16:53
  Speaker 12: can't stop thinking about is Alex. He's a good guy
• 16:56
  Speaker 12: and he isn't here this evening. He's been moved to
• 17:01
  Speaker 12: a different ward because of his suicidal thoughts.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know where he's going to end up eventually.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: I just hope he's alright.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: They've given me my, um, my toothbrush and toothpaste in
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: a glove.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Even on a plane, you get more of a toothbrush
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: than that. This is great. This is shit, how are
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: you supposed to get to anything with this? I ain't
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: getting in the fucking shower. No way am I getting
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: in the shower.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: No way.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, this is supposed to be pretty cool, calm, hot.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: But even with that being the case, I'm going to
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: be the smelly inmate. Minty fresh breath.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: After meeting Alex, I'm keen to hear if there are
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: inmates in the other units suffering from mental health issues.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Once I'm let out of my cell, I'm escorted to
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: the wing for more serious crimes, including murder.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Where we're headed to now, what is it? What's it
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: going to actually be like?
• 19:05
  Speaker 12: It's going to be set up sort of like where
• 19:06
  Speaker 12: we just were, but it's high risk.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: What sort of crimes would they have committed?
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Like big possession felonies, big drug cases, murders.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: So in terms of atmosphere, is it going to be
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: similar to where I've been?
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: It's probably going to be a little louder.
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: Hey!
• 19:28
  Speaker 14: You sure I'm gonna be all right?
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: You're gonna be good.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: We're not gonna go in there. The mood is real
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: different in here, right? Yes.
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: What's up? What's up?
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: What's good? What's good? What's good? You all right? How
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: you doing?
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: What up?
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: What up?
• 20:03
  Speaker 13: What up?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: What up? Talk to me.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: You're going to talk to me. You know what it is?
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: You know what it is?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: We out here.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: It's another live.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Hey. Hold on.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: Hold on.
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: Time out. Come on.
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: What's going on?
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: What's going on?
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: What's going on?
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: What's going on?
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Without saying who, What sort of cases are the majority
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: of the people in here caught?
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: In here, two of us. Oh, murder. Oh, yeah, right here.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Murder case, but I ain't do it. Second family violence,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: they enhanced it to a family. Drinking and drugging, being stupid.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: I've been in and out of this jail probably over
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: 30 times. Since I was 16 years old. This particular jail.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: And I've seen, say, people over and over. Sometimes I
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: think that... They come in because of issues that they
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: don't know how to deal with out there.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: They come in, they're not really bad people, but they
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: just fall in the same order every time. I want
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: to know what help is given to the inmates on
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: this wing who are dealing with mental health issues.
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: I command you, I appreciate what you're doing.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: I'm also schizophrenic, I'm a mental health patient. So, you
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: receive a medication for that?
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: Absolutely, yes, sir.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: And are you getting counselling as well? Absolutely. And out there,
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: I self-medicate. What do you use to self-medicate? What do
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: you self-medicate with? Everything.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Everything from pharmaceuticals to methamphetamine, heroin, depending on trying everything,
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: you know.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: What I mean?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: It's reassuring to hear that some of the inmates suffering
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: from mental illness are receiving support within the jail.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: All right, thank you very much, guys. Appreciate it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Hey, shout-out time!
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Shout-out time!
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: I want to get out!
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I want to get out!
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: I want to get out! I want to get out!
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I want to get out! I want to get out!
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: I want to get.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Out!
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: I want to get out!
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: I want to get out!
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Returning to the AA unit for lunch, I'm surprised to
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: see Alex emerge from his cell.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: So where did you go? Because I know you went
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: and Spoke to the guards about looking at maybe.
• 22:18
  Speaker 14: After we talked, I went and I asked the guard
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: if I can see a therapist or counselor, psychiatrist. The
• 22:24
  Speaker 14: guard told me, if I send you there, most likely
• 22:29
  Speaker 14: you're having suicidal thoughts. And when you have suicidal thoughts here,
• 22:33
  Speaker 14: I didn't know that they strip you naked and put
• 22:35
  Speaker 14: you in a cell by yourself.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: I was like, that's worse.
• 22:38
  Speaker 14: So I told them, I told them, no, I'm fine.
• 22:41
  Speaker 14: But that lady, I was telling her my problems, what
• 22:44
  Speaker 14: I told you. And then she told me just to
• 22:46
  Speaker 14: man up, buck up, and just do your time. And
• 22:51
  Speaker 14: there's not much we can do because you're already here.
• 22:54
  Speaker 14: I know it's tough, and I know you miss your mom.
• 22:55
  Speaker 14: And I was crying, man.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: I was crying. I miss my mom, you know?
• 22:59
  Speaker 14: But the fact is is that there's no help here,
• 23:03
  Speaker 14: you know? There's no help here.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: I couldn't sleep. I had the lights.
• 23:09
  Speaker 14: On for a while. And then I saw you turn
• 23:12
  Speaker 14: off your lights, and I was like, If he can sleep,
• 23:15
  Speaker 14: I'm going.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: To go to sleep. You could see myself. You could
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: see my cell window. We both had our first night
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: last night.
• 23:21
  Speaker 14: I saw you turn off your lights and I'm like,
• 23:23
  Speaker 14: I'm going to turn off my lights then. So I
• 23:25
  Speaker 14: turned off my lights and I counted 100 backwards and
• 23:28
  Speaker 14: I fell asleep.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Truth be told, I always promised myself that I would
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: never be in prison ever.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: And to be here and to.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: be complicit in the fact that I am still here
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: it's something that doesn't really rub for me you know
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: it's weird I am the reason that I'm here and
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I can change it at any moment nobody is keeping
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: me here but I want to be here now I
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: think I need to be here out of respect to
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: the fact that these guys are telling me their deepest
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: and darkest so night two I'm about to get my
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: head down again after having some noodles for din din
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: And then it's another night in here. I think I
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: might skip that two-a-hand breakfast a bit.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: I think I might do that.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Today, I'm joining Michael, one of the inmates from my
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: unit who has been given a job on.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: The psychiatric wing.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: One, one and four.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: This is one of the only jails in America with
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: a facility dedicated to mental health.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: This is what you got to wear. This is uniform.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: In there? I have no idea what I'm walking.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Into right now.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: There's boots in here. Why would you need boots?
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: A lot of times, guys will flutter floors. You know,
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: we've got to clean them all up and stuff like
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: that a lot of times. And we have to do that.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: And so we put boots on. You don't get all the,
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: you know.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Stuff all over you. The feces and, you know, urine.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: You know, and stuff like that. Sometimes it's nasty. It
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: really is.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: So how often and how regular is it that there's
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: going to be feces and urine?
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: It's on a daily basis sometimes. This is my house.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: This guy's made a bit of a mess in here.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: He does this a lot, stuff like that. Yeah.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: There are 52 beds for mentally ill inmates, all in
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: constant use. And in this unit, they're confined for 23
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: hours a day. The first time you came down here,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: what was you thinking? Because this couldn't be more different
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: to the pub that we stay in.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's totally different, yeah. When I first came down here,
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I didn't know what to think about all this. And
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: it took.
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: A little bit of getting used to it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Jail staff supervise the cells, and a separate medical team
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: handle the inmates' mental health treatments.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: Apparently, these inmates are all incredibly unpredictable.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: So, during clean-up, they get taken out of their cells
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: and we're sort of left to work the mess, as
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: it were.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: So, let's see what happens.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: It sounds like this guy over here isn't the biggest
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: fan of me chatting away on camera.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he thinks I'm talking about him. And he's giving
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: me a name, which....
• 27:18
  Speaker 12: I've got a feeling this is going to be this
• 27:22
  Speaker 12: is going to be repeated the entire.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Time that I'm in here so I'm going to try
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: and get used.
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: To that oh man.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Wow I.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Think if Alex were to come in here it wouldn't
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: take long for him to to feel incredibly intimidated and
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: not really be able to handle it. I mean, the
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: state that he was in on that first night, if
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: he did come in here, I mean, this is far worse.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: This is infinitely worse.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: It's not long before the inmate escalates his behaviour from
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: shouting to a dirty protest.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: I've not been told what sort of a mess he's made,
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: but I can smell it. What is that? I'm sick.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: I want my cookies. I don't want to give.
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: Me cookies if I behave. I don't want to give
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: me cookies. Start moving everything on the other side so
• 28:56
  Speaker 10: we can do the other one.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I want to know if what Alex heard about the
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: suicide unit is true. So I'm going to see for myself. Normally,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: individuals with more serious mental illnesses are placed in hospitals
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: rather than a jail. But with psychiatric beds in short supply,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: that's not possible for every case.
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: Hey officer, how you.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: Doing? I'm doing alright. So this is the suicide watch unit, right?
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: This is the suicide unit. So what's different about this
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: unit to their usual place?
• 30:22
  Speaker 16: Basically here, they give them what they call smocks. They're
• 30:28
  Speaker 16: not allowed to have towels with them, any kind of uniforms, socks,
• 30:32
  Speaker 16: because they.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: Can use it.
• 30:35
  Speaker 16: To commit suicide, to hang themselves or something. So all
• 30:38
  Speaker 16: we give them is just a smock, and that's it.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: And the smock is the green sort of sheet, right?
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: The smock is the green, and that's about it. They
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: don't wear nothing underneath other.
• 30:47
  Speaker 16: Than their sandals.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: They're naked under the smock.
• 30:53
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: It's distressing to see how ill some of the inmates
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: are in this unit. But what's more worrying is the
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: responsibility for providing care for them is in the hands
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: of a local jail. I want to speak to one
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: of the senior officers about how Bexar County balances its
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: role between being an ordinary jail and a psychiatric facility.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: Hey, officer. How you doing? Hey, all right. How you doing?
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Good to see you again.
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: I'm OK.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Good to see you.
• 31:19
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: I'm still unsure where I'm allowed to stand. You're good.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Over here is good. You're all right. Black and yellow lines.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Black and yellow. Yes, sir. You're good. I've been on
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: cleanup duty today. How'd you like that?
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Not massively. There was a dirty protest earlier. We had
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: to clean that up. That wasn't fun.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: No.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: But the psych ward, I mean, it's packed. Every cell
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: is full. There weren't just doctors there. There were also
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: officers as well. I mean, who takes control of that unit?
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Is there more doctors than officers there?
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: And what's the balance?
• 31:52
  Speaker 9: Security and safety is always number one. Doctors, of course,
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: doctors and nurses, we don't overrule their medical advice.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: If somebody needs.
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: Help, of course, we'll try to make sure that they
• 32:01
  Speaker 9: get the help that the doctors and nurses can step
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: in and help them. But first and foremost, it's always security.
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: If there's something that's going to put them in an
• 32:07
  Speaker 9: unsafe situation, we will step in for that to make
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: sure that that doesn't happen. Some of those guys over
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: there really do need help. You actually get some of
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: the guys over there that won't eat. They'll stare at you.
• 32:16
  Speaker 9: They won't blink. They'll just start talking to themselves. They'll
• 32:20
  Speaker 9: start talking to other people. They'll start yelling. I mean,
• 32:22
  Speaker 9: anything and everything that you can think of, I mean,
• 32:24
  Speaker 9: it's not a movie.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: It's real life. It actually happens.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: So for some of these more extreme cases, you know,
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: the guys who are doing dirty protests, the guys who are,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: you know, in a cell with nothing in it and
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: wrapped in a green sheet, what kind of treatment are
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: they getting beyond.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: .
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: .
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: them serving
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: time for their crime or the mental health professional saying, OK,
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: you are now stable?
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: What's the decision? Their crime. Their crime.
• 33:11
  Speaker 9: When their time is up for their crime, that's when
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: it's up.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: So in your personal opinion, do you think that they
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: should be getting their treatment here or in a medical facility?
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: Medical facility. I think they do need to get their
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: treatment in a medical facility. This environment is not going
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: to get them the help that they need. I think
• 33:26
  Speaker 9: it's a quick fix. We keep getting the same people
• 33:29
  Speaker 9: back here over and over and over again. I mean,
• 33:31
  Speaker 9: there's people who get in here, they come in here,
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: you know, at least once a month for criminal trespassing.
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: People that shouldn't be here, you know they're crazy. They
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: can't even tell you what their name is. But yet
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: we find them over here because they were somewhere drinking
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: or they didn't get their medication and we find them
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: right back and everyone can tell you their names. I mean,
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: we know some of the same people over and over
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: and over again.
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Bear County are doing their best.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: But with inmates often finishing sentences regardless of their psychiatric progress,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: and many not getting the necessary help on the outside,
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: it's no wonder so many come back again and again.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: When I get back to the AA unit, Alex is
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: struggling to cope.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: What's on your mind now? Yeah? You're Alex. Hold it together, man.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: Hold it together, brother, all right? So what is it
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: that's making you so worried? What's on your mind?
• 34:35
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Is it just not having enough to pass the time?
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Is that what's getting to you?
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: You thought about trying to get a job? They were
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: supposed to.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Give me one.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: I was working at medical with Michael, you know, one
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: of the older guys. So we were cleaning medical, but
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: there was a dirty protest. You know what one of
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: those things are? You know what a dirty protest is?
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: It's when someone makes a protest using their own feces
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: in their cells.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: And we had to go and clean it up. Yeah, register.
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: I thought I.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: Had it tough.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: You're sitting here in your cell, chilling, reading your Bible,
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: and you're like, I got it tough.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: I was cleaning shit today. So while you think that
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: you're having a tough time reading your Bible, sitting on
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: your phone, I'm.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: There trying my hardest not to get doo-doo under my fingernails, bro.
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: Someone else is doing it. Oh, you don't get gloves? Yeah,
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: I got grabbed. I'm just trying to make it sound
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: worse than it was.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: The longer I spend in this jail, the clearer it
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: becomes how challenging this environment can be, especially if you're
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: mentally vulnerable.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: So you not only have diabetes, but you suffer with depression.
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: You suffer with depression. Have you ever had any issues?
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: What have you had to deal with? Depression as well.
• 35:52
  Speaker 9: Depression.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: So do you think then if people were genuinely honest
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: when it came to being booked in and ticked the
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: right boxes, there would be a much higher number of people...
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: that the institution we're aware of that need help and
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: have psychological issues or mental health problems.
• 36:10
  Speaker 14: Right, right.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: Good night, brother.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Just based on my own personal experiences and based on
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: some of the things that I've been through in my
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: own life, it's very easy for me to spiral downwards
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: when things get difficult, you know, and to go into
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: myself and to not want to really communicate or not
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: really want to express myself. And I think that that's
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: what's happened with Alex. He's definitely spiralled downwards at several points.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: I thought that this place would be about the physical.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: I thought that it would be about aggression. I thought
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: it would be about throwing your weight around and making
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: sure that people wouldn't mess with you. And in reality, really,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: it's about what's happening in your own mind. And it's
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: about the battle that you are fighting with yourself and
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: letting anxiety and depression beat you. They're the two things
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: that everybody I speak to seems to suffer with. They're
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: the two things that everybody I speak to says this
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: place magnifies. Which you can understand because if you're sleeping
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: in here every night, of course you're going to get depressed.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Of course you're going to feel anxious.
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: Yo.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Just feeling that little bit of sun on your face.
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: Real nice, man.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: It's pathetic. I feel ridiculous.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: But just not seeing the sunlight is enough to make
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: you get excited about this.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: I can honestly say that I've never been in a
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: situation this impressive before. I've never... I've never sort of had.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: I've had these feelings.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Of frustration, of being out of control, and I'm not
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: a control freak, but for my entire adult life, I've
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: been in charge of where I go, what I do,
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: when I eat, what I eat, and having that taken away,
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a small thing, but you're under a
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: microscope here, and everything feels magnified, everything feels bigger, everything
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: feels exaggerated. I don't like what this is doing to
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: my mind, and I don't like how strong I'm needing
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: to be to silence certain anxieties or some feelings of
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: depression even. Now that room is depressive. The fact you
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: can't turn the light out is oppressive. If I was
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: in a lesser state of mind, I'd be really worried
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: for myself, me and him. Because I'm starting to see
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: how this place messes with me. This morning, I'm going
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: to speak to the man in charge of the day-to-day
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: running of this jail, Deputy Chief Reyes. What does that mean?
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: As soon as I meet him, there's an incident that
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: needs his attention.
• 39:24
  Speaker 14: Hello.
• 39:30
  Speaker 11: Got to stay with you, I forget that.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: You look like an inmate running around. Inmate running probably
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: doesn't go down very well, I'm sure. Oh, this is
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: pretty fitting.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Music on the way out to Code 2, as you do.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: Just hold on.
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: Hold on.
• 39:52
  Speaker 15: Watch out.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: Watch out. Move it. Move out of the way. Yeah,
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: stay to the side. Stay to the side. Stay to
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: the side. Move to the side.
• 40:02
  Speaker 10: Move, move, move, move, move, move. Let's go. Return back
• 40:09
  Speaker 10: to your cell.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: So what happens is you have what we call a
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: disruptive inmate.
• 40:24
  Speaker 11: So the officer initiated code 2 so the response team
• 40:28
  Speaker 11: can come to the unit and prevent the.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Incident from escalating into a use of force or to
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: a fight. So who exactly are the team? I saw
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: them in the mental.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Health unit, but these guys moved a lot quicker today.
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 40:40
  Speaker 11: So the individuals dressing green are what we call our
• 40:42
  Speaker 11: special emergency response team. It's a really neat feature to
• 40:46
  Speaker 11: have in our facility. but they've received special training in
• 40:49
  Speaker 11: not only weapons and tactics, but in crisis negotiation, hostage negotiation, firefighting.
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: Have you ever had anything like that happen to you? No,
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: luckily we've never had to deal with the hostage issue here.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: Once the situation is settled down, Chief Reyes explains the
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: pressures the system faces in handling mental health.
• 41:10
  Speaker 11: We're seeing this all across America, that the jails are
• 41:12
  Speaker 11: becoming the de facto mental health facilities with the defunding,
• 41:18
  Speaker 11: of mental health hospitals. The mental health inmates end up
• 41:21
  Speaker 11: making their way into jails and our primary purpose is security.
• 41:25
  Speaker 11: We end up having to serve as a treatment facility.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: So if the jail is acting as a treatment facility
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: and you're treating people, how responsible for these inmates once
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: they've been treated and their time.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: Served are you guys?
• 41:37
  Speaker 11: While they're in our custody, we're completely responsible for them,
• 41:39
  Speaker 11: whether their mental health or not. Once they get released,
• 41:42
  Speaker 11: then the responsibility falls on them to do follow-up care.
• 41:45
  Speaker 11: And we try to connect them with the services out
• 41:46
  Speaker 11: in the community so they can continue those.
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: Care, those medications. They're not going to do that, are they?
• 41:50
  Speaker 11: But we can't force them to do it. They're all adults.
• 41:53
  Speaker 11: We'll reach out to their families sometimes. We have certain
• 41:56
  Speaker 11: restrictions on release. So if we know that there's a
• 41:58
  Speaker 11: mental health individual who doesn't do very well at night,
• 42:00
  Speaker 11: we have what we call a daylight release.
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: You can't do that for everyone, though. If I were
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: a citizen....
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't expect you guys to be running checkups on everyone.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: I'd expect you to be focused on the people coming
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: through the door. So you can't be responsible for the
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: people once they leave.
• 42:14
  Speaker 11: The jail doesn't have the resources to do that aftercare follow-up,
• 42:18
  Speaker 11: if you will. But there are programs out in the
• 42:20
  Speaker 11: community that specialize in that. And it's a matter of
• 42:22
  Speaker 11: connecting those individuals with those resources.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: But like with anything, we can't force them to do it.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Returning to the AA unit, I hear Alex has had
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: some good news. He's been given a job while he's
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: in jail and could, in the next month, be moved
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: to a rehab facility to complete his sentence.
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: How much longer does that mean you'll be in here?
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: A week or two, maybe three tops. How do you
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: think you're coping here for another week? Because you've been
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: kind of up and down.
• 43:04
  Speaker 14: I got people here, good people here.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: And you've got a job now too, so you've got
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: something to keep you up. Yeah, I got a job.
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: I'm feeding people now.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: So you're feeling comfortable and you're feeling.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: Confident in being here for more time. I got a
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: boy right here.
• 43:18
  Speaker 14: I got D, my boy right here.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: There are good people. Yeah, they're all good people.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: One of the things that did worry me about you
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: on the first night was that you were having suicidal
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: feelings and suicidal thoughts.
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: Is that the case now? Do you think that that
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: might happen again?
• 43:36
  Speaker 14: It makes me think it, but knowing that I have
• 43:39
  Speaker 14: so much that if I did, I'd have so much.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: To lose, you know, so it's not worth it. I'm
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: not going to be here for long. But I don't
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: want to get too comfortable either. I don't want to
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: be there at all. It's not a good place to live. So, yeah,
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: I'm going to keep my head up strong.
• 43:56
  Speaker 14: Even if I have bad thoughts, I'm going to just
• 43:59
  Speaker 14: pray to God.
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: That's what I do all the time when I have
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: bad thoughts. Just pray to God. That's what my mom says.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: She says it can rain for a long time, but
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: it can't rain forever.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: I'm not sad to leave at all. I'm not sad
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: to see the back of this place. But I feel...
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Really shit for these guys because they've got to stay here.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: A lot of people have got to stay here for
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: a hell of a long time as well. And you
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: know they're good kids most of them. They've just done
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: some stupid things to get here.
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: I don't know man I mean.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Nobody's here by accident. Everybody's done something. But in my
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: humble opinion should they all be here? Should they all
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: be in jail for what they've done?
• 44:37
  Speaker 13: No.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Come on man if you're 19 and you steal a
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: t-shirt should you go to jail for a month?
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: I just breathe resentment. I don't think that that rehabilitates.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: So I am looking forward to getting my ass out
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: of here because this isn't a place for me by
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: any means. But, you know, I've met some good people
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: who've done some stupid things and hopefully won't be seeing this.
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: Place again, but who knows?
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: I'll be leaving tomorrow morning and as Alex is due
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: to start a night shift in his new job, I
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: say my goodbyes now.
• 45:18
  Speaker 13: Oh. Hey, Reggie.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: By the time you wake up in the morning, I'll
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: probably be out of here.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Because I want to go first thing pretty much about 10,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: 11 o'clock, I reckon.
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: I'll be out of here. So you'll still be working,
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: if not fast asleep, right? Yeah.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: Pleasure meeting you, man.
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: You too, Reggie. Come here, bro. Hey, I never got
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: your last name. Yates. Yates?
• 45:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 45:45
  Speaker 8: Hey.
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: Not Gates, Yates. All right, all right, all right, all right.
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: Keep your head up, man. Reggie Yates. I'm going to
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: look you up, man. Please do.
• 45:54
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: All right, there's no direct windows to the sunlight, so
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: you have to sort of judge by it. Little bits
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: of light that come through and it looks like there
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: might just be a nice bit of sun out there.
• 46:25
  Speaker 14: Today.
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: Day for release, I think. Hey, be careful, bro. I'm out.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Nice to meet you, man.
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: Nice to meet you. That's so crazy, just being this
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: close to the exit, the way you can really feel.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: You can feel how different the air feels in your face,
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: and it just smells different in there as well.
• 47:34
  Speaker 10: All right, sir, give me a period.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: If you have a seat on that metal bench, we'll
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: be right with you.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Yates, Reginald. Good luck. One of each, one at a time.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: As my time here comes to an end, I can't
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: help but question whether jail is the right environment for
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: some of the inmates I've met. Every item of clothing
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: I put on, I'm starting to feel more and more
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: like me again.
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: It's the strangest feeling in the world. Yes.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: This is me.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: Incarcerating such large numbers of people for such low-level crimes
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: seems to create more problems than it solves. Bear County
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: are doing more for the mentally ill than most jobs.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: But the system as a whole has some way to
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: go before it's really working for those who need it.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: My eyes are killing me.
• 49:07
  Speaker 10: Whoa.
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: The flies are killing me. Never again.