The New Stanford Prison Experiment (2026) s01e02 Episode Script
The Rebellion
[dramatic music playing]
[inmate snoring]
[alarm sounds]
[sighs] Oh, boy.
[yawns]
[Lee] It's a new day. Here we go.
[camera whirring]
[Gaona] I'm exhausted, man.
[McDaniel] I can barely think.
[music fades out]
I'm still a little… lost on…
shower times.
Is… There's shower times
with the day shift,
but at the night shift
there's not shower times?
I don't think they even know.
[Zaremba] The guards and the difference
between the day and night shift,
they don't have any unison.
Between shifts, they're almost fighting
amongst each other.
You know, like,
we have more power than them, though.
-[Paramore] Yep.
-[Zaremba] There's more of us.
We could flip it on 'em.
We don't have to do any of this.
[Paramore] If you do
what you think you're gonna do,
they have options.
'Cause you're acting like
they don't have any recourse whatsoever.
But they can put their hands on us.
-I get where your heart is at.
-Yeah.
That's not the answer, though.
[Zaremba] Coming in,
I wanted to test the experiment
and see what happens
if we change this or change this.
So, in my opinion,
we should be pushing back on the guards
to show that they don't have any power.
Uh, however, I tried speaking up,
um, hit with very hard feedback.
375!
Are you still running your gums?
[Zaremba] No, no, officer. I'm not.
Pop 'em one more time and that's it.
He has no respect.
[Zaremba] Respect this.
Hey! Put him in lock… lockdown.
[Zaremba] I realized that,
in order to make a change,
I need people on my side.
If you just band together,
you're much more powerful,
and I'm going to try and make allies.
Let me see if there's any notes.
Okay, guys, night shift notes quick.
"New cell can be found in the black binder
on the bulletin board in the break room."
Used peaceful cell transition
as leverage
for them to get the microwave back.
[dramatic music playing]
[Berens] They gave them the microwave.
What a bunch of pushovers.
[Washington] We need unison
between the guards.
[Miloki] That's what I'm saying.
If we're on a different page,
and they're on a different page,
then it's not going to work.
My thing is, them suckers come in
and mess it all up
and then leave for us
to come back and fix it.
I thought we were all in agreement.
What happened here?
I mean, I specifically said,
"Don't give them the microwave back."
-There was a firm understanding.
-[Berens] I said it twice.
I guess I'm gonna be more…
I'm gonna be more direct. [scoffs]
-[Hudson] Yeah.
-Let's have a conversation about it.
-All right.
-We can duke it out.
We are here to simulate guards
and establish a unified,
structured program for a prison.
And for the night crew,
the fact that
you would go against us as guards
to cater to the prisoners,
they totally undermined everything we had.
That's gonna cause issues.
[Berens] All right, guys, here we go.
I didn't appreciate
the disrespect on our end,
and I'm gonna let them know
that ain't right.
[dramatic music playing]
[tense music playing]
[Berens] I feel like their mindset's
probably in a different, like…
We're like, "This is the structure.
This is how we're going to do things."
[Hudson] 100%. I feel like, when you're
Mr. Cool Guy, Mr. Nice Guy all the time,
then that's whenever they're like,
"These guys are essentially a pushover."
"I can get away with this. I can do that."
That's true.
[Brooks] During this first phase
of the experiment,
this transformation phase,
the most fascinating dynamic
to observe thus far has been
this inconsistency between
the two shifts of the guards,
the two different groups of guards.
We see this here with the microwave.
And it's empowering the inmates
to start testing boundaries.
That's right.
-Is this a one-way phone?
-No, sir. Put the phone down.
-One way?
-[Berens] You cannot touch the podium.
-Oh, man.
-[Berens] Thank you.
[Cantrell] They are definitely becoming
aware of their own power.
I think they're finding that power
from the weakness they're sensing
between the shifts and the guards.
[Lee] Exactly, exactly.
Now, among the inmates,
some of these guys are saying,
"Can we manipulate the situation?
Can we play on that? Let's push back."
-Yeah.
-"Let's take over."
It'll be interesting to see.
[whistles]
If anybody's not wanting to go outside,
you're more than welcome to stay in here,
but stay in your cell with the door shut.
If not, we're all about to
go out there for rec.
-[man] Nice.
-[Hudson] Let's go do it.
[tense, dramatic music playing]
[buzzer sounds]
Ah! Now, that's nice.
-[inmate] Oh, this is nice.
-[Hardey] That's nice, bro.
[Zaremba] How you feeling?
My head's kinda hurting a little bit,
probably 'cause yesterday,
after that, like, gravy.
-Yeah.
-[Hardey] Bro.
[Zaremba] I'm starting to feel, like, sick
thinking about the food. Are you too?
[Hardey] Dude, what if we all stood up,
we're like, "We're all leaving
unless you bring us pizza once a day."
What I'm realizing is
I'm not the type of person that…
is gonna let some shit happen to me
if I can change it.
Yeah, I respect authority,
but if something's not making sense,
then I might have something to say
or I might, you know, disobey.
[R&B music playing]
My name is Brendan. I'm 26,
and I'm from Sylvan Lake, Michigan.
I went to community college,
but I didn't even finish a semester.
I would pull up to the college,
park there, and sleep.
[laughing] I swear to God.
So, now I'm a bartender/server,
and the customer is, like,
damn near never right.
[chuckles]
My house got raided, and they found, like,
one Adderall pill and, like, one Xanax,
and then two guns that I had.
And just because of the vicinity
of the guns to the drugs,
ended up being
some pretty serious charges, actually.
So, I was, like, facing,
like, eight years in prison,
but I ended up getting, like,
two of the charges dropped.
My mom is just, like,
still so confused with me.
She just has no clue what I'm doing.
I don't know what I'm doing.
So I have fears of
never making my mom proud, bro.
My participation in this experiment is
to learn more about myself,
and I want to make my mom proud.
She could, like, honestly tell me, like,
"I see what you're doing.
I believe in you."
That's really how I would know that
I was, like, doing something right.
You can't bend your head.
Yeah, your head gotta be straight down.
Jeff and I were already talking.
We see it, bro.
These guards, they're a little, like,
power-trippy sometimes.
You know what I'm saying?
[Zaremba] They looked weak
when they changed their mind
on the microwave.
Bro, I don't understand why
we don't all just come together right now.
"We're gonna do this when we want.
We're gonna shower when we want."
-Right.
-"You're not putting us in no cell."
"You guys are just gonna chill
in that bird's nest
and then just bring us our food,
and that's it."
[Zaremba] I like Brendan a lot.
Me and him were the first two to be like,
"Why don't we look at this
a different way?"
"Why don't we ask
to just keep our doors open?"
"Why don't we ask for more shower time?"
"Why are we so okay
with how restricted we are?"
If they say anything to me
that's, like, out of line,
I'm just gonna tell them no.
And I hope everyone has my back.
-You know what I'm saying?
-You know I do.
[Hardey] Majority always wins.
Know what I mean?
-You gotta just start talking to people.
-[Zaremba] Yeah.
-I'm on board.
-[Hardey] Yeah.
[dramatic musical sting]
[dramatic music playing]
-[Hudson] I'm still aggravated.
-I knew they'd give the microwave back.
-[Miloki] You did?
-Yeah.
I'd have taken that bitch back
to the hotel if I'd have known that shit.
-[Miloki laughs]
-[Berens laughs]
-Take this…
-[Miloki] Stuff it in your backpack.
[Hudson] I would have.
[Chris Lee] What up, team?
Hard dicks and airplanes.
-What's happening? Y'all all right?
-How are we? Good to see you guys.
-How was the day?
-Man, it was a day.
-[Jefferson] Hello, hello.
-[Chris Lee] Hello, hello.
-[Washington] Carrying a latte.
-Double fisting. [giggles]
One thing that I do wanna talk
to everybody about, um…
At the end of the day,
we're all here to achieve one goal.
We're all here to work together, okay?
And it is to unify and run this prison
with structure, okay?
But what we all did not appreciate
was that we were so specific
with that microwave.
[tense music playing]
That was something
that happened on our shift,
and that was part of our punishment.
And we amplified that multiple times
and wrote it down in notes that even said,
"Do not give back microwave."
-Okay, y'all did that.
-Hold on just a second. I'm gonna listen--
[Jefferson] Ain't no hold on. No!
[Hudson] Let's have respect
when we talk to each other.
-No!
-He can't talk?
No. We don't have to do what y'all say do.
Do we have to--
-[Washington] But we… Listen.
-Wait, are you in charge here?
It's not about who's in charge.
-Wow, y'all unify really well.
-[Washington] We are all equal.
No one person is
more superior than the next.
Y'all don't tell us what to do
is what I'm saying.
-We're not telling y'all what to do.
-[Jefferson] You are!
If you allow him to explain,
then you would understand.
You guys, "We clearly said we…
with the microwave." So what? So?
-It's just called respect.
-[Washington] If we're a team--
I don't care.
Officer Hudson, you know, he just
take over shit. Like, it's too much.
You have to speak up,
because if you do not,
people will run you over.
[Hudson] The whole point is
we're here to work together.
-And acting childish is not the way.
-Okay, 'cause you're in charge. [scoffs]
But you're not.
I said it, and that's it.
That's the way I work in the world.
That's the way I'm gonna work here.
[Washington] All right.
-[Jefferson] Bye.
-[Hudson] Bye.
[Jefferson giggles] He's so mad.
He didn't wanna give me no hug. Aww.
Sometimes I do feel like
I'm misunderstood.
Growing up in Chicago,
I grew up in the hood.
I didn't have much.
My upbringing shaped me.
It made me be guarded everywhere I go.
And when I approach confrontation,
I approach it with, like,
"What's up? What you wanna do?"
That's how I am.
That's how I was brought up.
I think that power is different
for men and women.
Women, we have to, like, kind of fight
for power and take our power.
Women have to fight for what we want.
Woo! Miss Jefferson coming in. Woo!
[Jefferson] I don't like that.
Don't tell us what to do. What the hell?
You know what? I do appreciate the fact
that you stand your ground.
Like, it's crazy.
I wouldn't necessarily do it the same way,
but I appreciate the fact that you do it.
Thank you.
[dramatic music playing]
[Chris Lee] The morning shift
definitely leads different
than the way I prefer to do things.
[enthusiastically] Good evening!
Welcome. Welcome, welcome.
It seems like they like
to maybe use their badge or power
a little bit more, like, demanding.
It's more like, "I'm in power,
and so, therefore, you listen to me."
Just happy to see our favorites.
That's it.
Good to see you all, too.
Make them beds! Make them beds!
I'm a big believer
in being loved creates respect.
And when they love you,
they'll get on the ship,
and they'll row in the same direction.
Welcome back, 875.
Good to see you.
-[Zaremba] Got some energy.
-[Chris Lee] Always got energy, brother.
We wanna make a great culture,
have a great experience in here.
With that,
we're gonna have a little fun. Okay?
What we're gonna do
we're gonna take a few minutes.
We got sheets of paper for
every single person to create an airplane.
Okay? We're going to be doing
a paper airplane contest.
[Lee] Is this a line too far?
Unexpected. At least, in my world,
very unexpected.
-Let's go! [laughs]
-[scattered applause]
[Cook] Whether it be games
or things to do,
Officer Lee is very good
at this kind of church camp mentality.
[Correra] To be honest, I don't think
I've made a paper airplane in my life.
But I've been to those camps.
You kinda look back at that scenario,
and you're like,
"Eh, I was a little institutionalized."
I'm ready to take flight.
[Cook] Because of this culture
that Officer Lee has instilled,
I think there's some people there
that are starting to get a little bit
of a Stockholm syndrome.
Are you starting to conform that much
to where you're excited to be in jail?
[Chris Lee] Aim over the wall.
[all laughing]
That blows my mind.
And nada! Failure to launch. All right.
[McDaniel sighs] I like these games,
but they're getting fucking old.
They're taking too long.
[Gaona] It's 7:30. They need to eat.
[McDaniel] Officer Lee.
So, 428's winning so far. And then
who was sec… Who else hit it?
[McDaniel] Officer Lee.
These guys don't have
their fucking radios on.
-[Gaona] That's bad.
-[McDaniel] That is bad.
-I thought we'd discussed that.
-[Gaona] Yeah.
Clearly, Officer Lee wants
to be the leader,
but I still don't believe
that there's a set leader.
Officer Lee is our voice,
but I think that we need
to all make decisions together.
Okay! [laughs]
-He's working the crowd.
-Yeah, exactly.
He needs some timeout time.
I feel like everyone's got an ego,
but being the loudest doesn't always bring
the best influence, you know?
-[Chris Lee] Whoo!
-[Padilla] Yo, how it--
He doesn't throw that like a football,
I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what.
I try to stay away from people like that
'cause I'm not too keen on authority.
I usually like to push back
when it comes to being told what to do.
[chuckles]
[upbeat guitar music playing]
I'm Hadley McDaniel. I'm 28 years old.
I'm from South Omaha, Nebraska,
and I'm not a pussy.
Young Hadley grew up
on a ranch in central Nebraska,
riding horses and branding calves,
moving cows, building fence.
My dad and I butted heads, but you know,
he was just trying to take care of me.
I liked to pick fights
with the biggest people,
and I got beat up a lot as a kid.
[chuckles wryly]
I'm not too keen on authority.
People get in power, and they immediately
think they can do whatever they want.
So I like to stir things up, I suppose,
cause little issues, you know,
get people riled up.
I wanted to be an inmate.
I just think it'd be more fun.
So, as a guard,
I'm still trying to figure out
how to like, you know,
stir things up in there.
'Cause I don't know, something about
pushing people who've got a sense of power
gets me off in a way.
[laughing] I don't know.
[Chris Lee] We got 30 minutes for chow.
[Ellenburg] Which one's our sweet cake?
I'm feeling like this one's cornbread
and this one's cake. This is giving--
-That one's cornbread, but it's sweet.
-[Ellenburg] Okay. Okay.
Bon appétit, either way.
But this is what you gotta remember.
We're eating this.
This is part of the game.
We don't have to be eating this.
We don't have to wait
for them to tell us to shower,
for them to close our doors.
-We don't have to da-da-da.
-[Ellenburg] It's all part of it.
It's a game. No, no,
but I'm actually being literal, too.
[Ellenburg] No, I know.
We're allowing that to happen.
You realize that, right?
That's the game. It's just a game.
So, why are we just letting them
tell us what to do?
Dude, it's all because of this simple fact
of this versus that uniform.
[Drew Lee] That's a good point.
Bro, think about how crazy it is that
we're not… we didn't do anything wrong.
We're not in jail, actually.
They put him in a cell for six hours
'cause he changed the time on a microwave.
I think that's
an interesting way of thinking about it.
But then I also think about,
like, how far can you really push that?
You know? If I tell 'em no--
Push it to where I'm comfortable
where I can shower when I want,
when I can… we can close our doors,
sleep when I want.
[Ellenburg] Maybe.
Or all of us could get punished
by having to do 23 hours in a cell.
[Hardey] When you're trying
to change things,
you gotta kinda win majority.
So I wanted to try
turning these guys on our side.
All it is is that
it's just they're afraid of punishment.
878, he's been losing it all day.
Oh, my gosh, bro.
He's literally plotting a rebellion.
-[laughs]
-Like, he's literally recruiting.
We watching human beings unravel
in front of us, bro.
878, he's 100% lost it.
You literally have a guy planning a coup
from the inside,
and he thinks that we're the problem,
like we need to wake up.
They were given rules, and they're
enforcing rules that aren't on the rules.
And then, Pete, he's a good dude.
He's actually from my hometown.
Me and him both are from Cleveland.
But he's very much lost in that delusion
that he can somehow control the situation.
It's another search for control.
They will say that, "It's 20 of us.
Why are we listening to them?"
But how does that end?
Bro, nobody… Like,
literally nobody sees it like us.
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
[camera whirring]
[indistinct chatter over radio]
-Oh, jeez. What?
-What?
-Yeah.
-Oh, yeah.
[McDaniel] What the fuck is this?
[Chris Lee] Well, always wanted
to be on a SWAT team.
[Gaona] Oh, what did we sign up for?
Throughout this whole experiment,
we're gonna have a series of interventions
that test different things
to see how people react
under these different circumstances.
And as the final step
in our transformation phase,
we have a challenging one
coming up tonight,
and that is riot training.
This is part of legitimate training
that many officers will go through, right?
Riot control drills have been
a big part of my career.
Even though it's only a drill,
it's a physical way
for the guards to show that
they have control over the inmates.
[Chris Lee] Of course they gave it to us.
'Cause we're treating them too good.
-[Jefferson] Y'all remember that.
-Yeah. Yeah, being too nice.
[Brooks] It's going to require that
the night guards actually transform
and assume that authoritative role.
Because it's such a departure
from their approach so far.
I'm wondering if
these games turn into something like,
"You've been using me,
and now you're gonna come in here
with a show of force?"
-[Brooks] Yeah.
-There's something else brewing here.
Some of the guys
have been plotting all day…
-They have.
-…about the opportunity to push back.
So, have they sensed a weakness,
a chink in the armor, an opportunity
to flex their collective power,
which they've been talking about all day?
This is the test. Let's find out.
[McDaniel] So, what does it say?
"You'll carry out a riot training drill."
[Gaona] No.
"You'll need to get dressed out
in your riot gear."
"Next, go down to the pod
and take control of the inmates."
Oh, my God.
-"Order the inmates to get on the ground."
-I don't wanna…
"If anyone's in their cells, they'll need
to get out and into the day room."
"Once on the ground,
they should be handcuffed."
"Once you feel the inmates are secure,
put the inmates back in their cells."
-They ain't gonna like this.
-Yeah.
I've been doing everything
to establish relationships with these guys
and build trust.
So, like, getting this assignment
to go and do this hard thing,
like, as a leader, that sucks.
And it also says "drill". So…
Can we say that?
We should carry it out like a real thing,
not say it's a drill,
just to take control of the room
so they take it serious.
Yeah. I am so intimidated.
-Really?
-[Gaona] Yes.
I don't know how
to work these things. [giggles]
Slap it on your…
You slap it on their wrist.
-[Jefferson] I am nervous as hell.
-[Chris Lee] You're nervous?
-[Jefferson] Yes.
-[Gaona] Yes.
I'll tell you what,
I'm about to look goofy.
[McDaniel] We all are.
Oh, jeez Louise.
[Jefferson] How about
I'll just take notes, and y'all do this?
[laughing]
[Gaona] As somebody that is compassionate
and quick to love people,
it is the last thing I want to do.
And as I'm putting on this gear,
it's like,
"What the heck am I doing
with this on right now?"
Night team, let's go.
-[Gaona] Ready?
-[Chris Lee] Mm-hmm.
[Gaona] The sooner we do it,
the sooner it's over.
[buzzer sounding]
-[Chris Lee] On the ground!
-[Jefferson] Get your ass on the ground.
[Chris Lee] Get down here now!
Down on the floor!
Everyone on the ground! On the ground!
On the ground double time!
Get out of your cells now!
Wow, there's a different tone.
[Hardey] Bro.
-[Chris Lee] Out of your cells!
-[scoffs]
-[Chris Lee] On the ground!
-[Hardey] They're in riot gear.
[Chris Lee] On the ground! Down here!
Out of your cells! Now!
[Jefferson] Come out of your cell now!
-[Chris Lee] 878, come on.
-[Jefferson] Hey!
[Chris Lee] On the ground!
[Hardey] Why? Why are we doing
all this dumbass shit? I don't understand.
[Zaremba] Whatever's going on,
we need a little explanation.
[Chris Lee] Do not disrespect!
[Hardey] Why are we listening to these
little shits they're telling us to do?
-[Chris Lee] I repeat, on the ground!
-[Zaremba] You guys are fucking tripping.
-[Hardey] This is dumb as fuck.
-[Chris Lee] Now!
[handcuffs clattering]
[Chris Lee] Do not mess with the cuffs.
[Brooks] The inmates are being
very compliant.
[Lee] Brendan and Pete are pushing back.
-[Chris Lee] On the ground! Lay down!
-Bro?
[Chris Lee] 878!
[Jefferson] Bro, what are you doing?
You want me to get on my face
and put my hands on my head?
Turn around and do
what everybody else is doing.
[Chris Lee] On the ground!
[Eldridge] Just do it.
Bro, what the…
[Jefferson] Bro, you wanna go in the hole?
-[Chris Lee] Down!
-[laughing] That's ridiculous, bro.
[Jefferson] No.
Put your head all the way down.
-Huh?
-[Jefferson] Put your hands on your head.
[Zaremba] You guys are tripping.
[Jefferson] I'm gonna throw your ass
in the hole.
[Hardey] There's some strong personalities
in there.
And it's just crazy to see how quick
everyone was just like, "Okay."
That was, like, such a defining moment
for me. That was like,
wow.
This is where we're at.
[Zaremba] Are you guys gonna explain
what this is about?
-[Chris Lee] Oops, sorry.
-Oh, my God.
Brendan tried speaking up, instantly
met aggressively by a bunch of people.
They purposely tried
inflicting fear on us,
making us do a drill,
putting our faces down for no reason.
That crossed the line
to extremely disrespectful.
-You guys are losing your minds.
-Silence.
-You said respect goes both ways.
-When I am talking, you are not.
-[Zaremba] This is not respectful.
-[Jefferson] Just stop talking.
-[Terry] Chill out.
-I'll throw your ass in the hole.
[Paramore] It's easy work. Pete, stop.
I tried speaking up a little bit,
but we both folded pretty quick,
which was really frustrating
'cause that's never what I want to be,
never what I wanna do,
and that's not who I am.
[Chris Lee] All right. Help him up.
I actually don't feel good
about the riot drill.
Like, just seeing that look
on their faces of, like, surprise.
Let's go both.
It really hurt my heart.
But, like, 'cause we built
a lot of trust and respect in there…
Kneel.
…they were very willing to do
what they were told for the most part.
All accounted for.
-[Eldridge] Thank you very much.
-[Gaona] Thank you, guys.
But now the guys are feeling
a little betrayed
and a little, like, less trust
and, uh… Um…
I don't have an exact game plan,
but now my personal mission is
winning over their hearts.
[Gaona] I'm glad that that's over.
After that just happened,
I'm already irritated,
and we're gonna wake up crack-ass of dawn
to them knocking on our door,
boom, boom, boom.
"Make your bed, du-du-du,
get in line," or, "Come out and eat."
Bro, like, are you kidding me?
I'm not putting up with that one more day.
[Cook] After that riot drill,
878, Pete, and myself…
Um…
Yeah, we're kinda there.
Now we're getting to that line where
we're like, "I'm disrespecting myself."
[Hardey] That shows us right there,
nobody's ready
to fucking step up to this shit, bro.
Yeah. Everyone just did it.
Unfortunately, we're the minority.
But… what happens
when there's more than four or five of us?
We could take over
that whole jail in 20 minutes, right now.
What's… what's stopping us, right?
[Hardey] So what,
y'all like that shit or what?
You didn't have to do that.
They're not cops.
You're not a prisoner.
-[insects chirring]
-[ominous music playing]
[buzzer sounds]
[Jefferson] Here they come.
Shh. Let's listen.
[Washington] Good morning.
-Good morning.
-[Hudson] Howdy.
[Berens] You guys are
a lively bunch today.
[McDaniel] Oh, yeah.
How y'all made out?
-We made it.
-[Gaona] Yeah.
-We did some riot control tonight.
-[Washington] Riot?
-You get to hit somebody with a shield?
-No.
-[Hudson] What happened?
-[Chris Lee] We had to do a drill.
But they didn't know it was a drill
until after it was done.
-Oh.
-Oh, okay.
[Chris Lee] We're running in.
We're fully geared.
"On the ground." We had to cuff them all.
So we cuffed them on the floor, took them
into their cells, left them in there.
But, I mean,
the whole drill took 20 minutes,
plus another probably 20 minutes in it.
So for about 40 minutes,
they had no idea what was going on.
But the boys, they were respectful
besides Lone Wolf.
-878?
-[McDaniel] Yeah.
He was just giving us lip.
[McDaniel] He's like,
"I'm on the ground." He wasn't.
[Chris Lee] I said, "On the ground!"
He sat there and chuckled, "Pfft."
He was up against the wall.
He was like, "I'm on the ground."
[Gaona] I felt really bad.
Their faces were on the ground,
on the nasty ground.
975 was like…
[McDaniel] He was moving around.
[Chris Lee] Was he the one like,
"What are we going in for?"
-[Hudson] Really?
-He was that upset about it.
[Hudson] Damn!
-Okay.
-So…
Well, I hope you all get
some good sleep today.
-All right. We'll get out of here.
-[Gaona sighs]
[Brooks] It seems that this riot drill
has maybe bought the night shift
some credibility with the day shift.
I think it shows that they're taking
this role on a little more seriously.
Which is good timing as we move
into phase two of the experiment.
-[Washington] Y'all take care.
-[Hudson] Y'all get some rest.
-All right, see ya.
-[Gaona] Bye.
Phase one was all about transformation.
To what extent do you transform
into this role that you've been assigned?
Phase two is about hierarchy.
In phase two,
we're gonna be focusing in on respect.
How are people earning and losing respect
among the inmates and among the guards?
And how does that play out in the pod?
-[Hudson] What we got, boys?
-[Washington] Shift assignment.
-[Hudson] All right.
-[Berens] Ready? I'll read it out loud.
"It's time to decide who will be
the head guard for your team."
So, this is the first step
in the second phase of the experiment,
hierarchy.
The day shift is going to elect
a head guard.
[Cantrell] This is a real thing
that occurs in prison.
You have a person
who's assigned as the head guard.
The buck stops with them.
They're the ones
that kinda lead the shift,
keep things moving forward.
[Berens]
"Once the head guard has been chosen,
he or she should put on
the head guard vest
to indicate head guard status."
"The head guard should be announced to
the inmates next time you're in the pod."
Do y'all wanna do, like,
an anonymous vote on a piece of paper,
and then just see what it is?
-[Berens] I like that.
-[Miloki] Yeah.
-Absolutely.
-[Hudson] All right.
With this role comes a bit of power.
This head guard is going to be responsible
for allocating resources like commissary
and minutes on the phones.
[Lee] And on this day shift,
Chet has clearly established himself
as the vocal leader,
but there's also Laura who is showing
all these different leadership skills, um,
but it's being drowned out
by Chet's kind of overbearing, loud style.
[Cantrell] Let's not forget
Nick Washington. He likes order.
He's firm with the inmates.
I think he could be a good leader.
So, these votes will show
who is actually respected
and who might not be
as respected as they think.
Everybody in the room, write down
who you think should be the head guard.
We'll do four pieces of paper.
I just put it under there.
It's all mixed up, so we don't know who's…
All right, we got one vote for Hudson.
-Hudson.
-[Miloki] Okay.
[Berens] Hudson. [laughs]
Washington.
I voted for myself because
I'm confident in myself,
so of course, I'm going to feel like
I'm going to be a better leader,
but I think it could have went
either way between Hudson and I.
And every great leader once had to follow,
and so I'm not going to hate on
anybody else.
I'm not that type of person.
At the end of the day, guys,
I just want to be fair with everybody.
When I do wear that around,
I want us all to work together.
On this head guard position,
I definitely feel like
it was a good idea
for everybody to vote for me.
That's something that I take
a lot of pride in, is being a leader.
Whatever is at the top of anything,
that's where I want to be.
-[Berens] Look at you, lucky duck. Yeah.
-[Hudson] Oh, it's great. It's great.
When it gets hot and crap hits the fan,
there needs to be one person
that has the final voice of reason,
and I have no problem taking that weight
and putting it on my shoulders.
-[whistles]
-Everybody, listen up!
So, the first thing is we had to take
a vote for a head guard,
and everybody trusted me to do that.
And I appreciate that
from my fellow guards,
and appreciate y'all's respect.
I really do.
It means a lot, and it goes a long way.
I appreciate that, okay?
We're making progress.
The second one, y'all are all gonna have
to go into lockdown,
but I promise you
y'all are going to appreciate why, okay?
Y'all all got phone time.
[cheering and applause]
[Brooks] That's a strategic move here
by Chet.
The first message he sends as head guard
is to hand out a privilege
and let the inmates call home.
[Lee] Yeah, phone calls home
are gonna be important to the guys.
This may be
one of the most important things.
Family contact for inmates is everything.
These phone calls, or anything,
commissary, any resource,
can be given as a reward,
but it can also be taken away.
In corrections,
we call them management tools.
-So, that's on the table.
-That's right.
And they're only getting 50 minutes total
across all two weeks of the experiment.
Fifty minutes is not much.
[line ringing]
[automated voice]
This is a prepaid call from…
Sonny Robertson.
[automated voice]
…an inmate from a correctional institute.
[woman] Hello?
-Hey, what's up?
-Sonny.
What are you doing? Why are you in jail?
I told you where I was going, didn't I?
[woman] Mmm…
I'm in a prison, so yeah.
I know. That's what I was told.
-[woman 2] Petey! Oh, my God, honey!
-Hello?
[woman 2] We miss you so much.
Daddy's lost without you.
[man] Get awful lonely around here, Petey.
Awful lonely.
[Zaremba] I'll be home in no time.
Everything's good, but the food sucks.
But obviously, you know,
that's to come with it.
Like, a day feels like a week.
It's really strange.
[woman 3] Aww.
We have nothing but each other,
so we're just, like…
completely getting to know
each other super fast.
-Hey, Mom.
-[Correra's mom] Hello. Hi.
[Correra] How are you?
[Correra's mom crying]
[Correra] Mom, stop crying.
-Mom, Mom.
-I'm so proud of you.
[Correra] I can barely hear you.
[Correra's mom] I can hear you.
[tender music playing]
[clicking tongue]
[voice breaking]
I don't like hearing my mom cry.
She doesn't really cry in front of me.
[sniffs] She's tough.
I know they're missing me.
I just love my parents.
I love 'em. I love 'em very much.
You gotta really stop crying right now
because you're gonna upset me.
-[Correra's mom] Okay.
-Because mind over matter, okay?
During COVID,
my father caught COVID really bad,
and he was in the hospital
for three months.
He had double pneumonia
and was on 100% oxygen flow.
And while that was happening,
my mom had breast cancer,
and they were literally right across rooms
from each other
'cause my mom also had COVID.
I'm an only child. I had to be strong.
I had to figure everything out on my own.
And almost seeing my mother and father
pass away at the same time,
that was probably the hardest thing
I've ever been through.
Mom, it's fine.
I've made some great friends.
There are schmucks in here,
but you know what, Mom?
You should be really proud of me
and trust me,
because this is a hard test,
and I'm doing it just fine.
In this experiment, success is proving
to my family and friends that I did this,
because, like everything I do,
it's for my family,
and I want to make especially
my father proud during this experiment.
[Correra's mom] I love you so much,
Michael. More than you know.
[Correra] I love you. All right.
-[Correra's mom] All right, I miss you.
-I love you. I miss you too.
-[Correra's mom] Keep that head strong.
-I will.
[Correra's mom] All right.
All right, bye, Mike.
[Correra sniffs]
[tender music fades out]
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Paramore] Thrust up to get that spin.
Know what I mean?
There we go. That was a good one.
[Hardey] The thing with the face
on the ground yesterday,
the raid is, like,
I'm sorry, like, that's it.
You think I wanna be
on that fucking floor?
Why do you think you're not in power?
Because you have this on?
-[man] We in jail?
-I'm not--
-We all have these numbers on.
-We do have these numbers on.
Do you think that means
you don't have power?
I don't have power right now
compared to some other people--
[Hardey] Why?
-Because I'm a fucking prisoner right now.
-No, you're not.
[Correra] Okay.
878 is ready to stir the pot,
and he wants to manipulate
the whole prison
and start shit with the guards.
I'm gonna be pissed off
if somebody doesn't listen,
and then I'm stuck in 23 hours
'cause somebody is…
-[unintelligible]
-[Correra] It's gonna really piss me off.
It's really mind-boggling to me
that people wanna go against the guards.
Why do we wanna put everybody in a cell
and be locked away
so people just go crazy?
[Eldridge] Common sense doesn't tell you
what an inmate is?
Oh, I know what an inmate is,
but does that mean you have no power?
I'm not saying we don't have power.
[Hardey] I get you.
I know what an inmate is, yeah.
A lot of the guys use the,
"Oh, well, this is what we signed up for,"
as a reason to just accept everything
as it is.
There's some real grown men in there
set in their ways.
[Eldridge] I wanna come out of this
a better father and man.
That's gonna take
me listening to other people.
I'm hearing everything you're saying.
Not everybody feels how you
and other people might feel
about being rebellious.
We don't all feel that way.
So when people come up to us like,
"You're gonna feel like pussies
when this is over
and you're gonna feel you did bad
and you didn't do what you should've."
No, I'm content in the person
that I'm being 'cause I'm being myself.
-Uh-huh.
-[tense, dramatic music playing]
My life hasn't always been great,
but I have gotten here
because of who I am.
I always say you gotta go through shit
to get through shit,
and that's just what I'm here for.
-[guard] No smiling!
-Oh.
[shutter clicks]
Growing up, I just had
a very, like, rough upbringing as a child.
It was my mom, my three sisters, and I.
For a couple of those years,
we lived in a one-bed motel room.
It was a hard time, but at the same time,
my mom never made us feel like
we were less than
or had anything less than anybody else.
I think the biggest thing I learned
from my mom is resilience.
I'm super assertive.
I'll try to be as respectful as possible,
but I don't mind standing up
and advocating for myself.
'Cause if you don't advocate for yourself,
nobody's gonna advocate for you.
My job is I lead a team every day.
25 to 30 people. That's what I do.
To be a good leader, you have to know
how to take authority from other people,
and I'm okay with that.
In my everyday life,
I'm not looking to start shit,
I'm not looking
to start problems with anybody,
and I have a son
I wanna make it home to every day,
so anything I can do to make my life
as easy as possible, I'll always do that.
My son is my true reason,
my why, my passion.
I wanna be the best leader that I can be
because my son looks up to me
all the time.
I just want to show him that
you have to give respect to get respect,
and I want to come out of this
a better father.
So, as long as I know I show up
for my son,
then I know I'm a good person.
You might not agree with me now,
but I think as things go on,
and maybe we do end up in 23 and 1,
and you go through these things,
maybe you'll wish
that you did push back a little bit
and that you didn't just let it happen.
[Eldridge] No, I won't.
You can't get us all to follow
your training
when you're being the rebellious one.
He wanted to make us feel like we would
feel less about our experience here
because we're not, you know,
doing something that he wants us to do.
It's disrespectful to be plotting
this demise of the guards
when they're trying to do
everything they can
to make it as easy as possible for us.
It's patience, bro. This whole experiment
is gonna be about patience.
Just like the guard shift,
we're now seeing this hierarchy battle
play out with the inmates.
It feels like Derrick and his crew have
the majority for now,
but Brendan and Pete
are hellbent and committed
to taking some of that power back.
[Brooks] Yeah.
[dramatic music intensifies]
-[Washington] Shift assignments.
-[Berens] Okay.
[exhales sharply] "Each shift will appoint
one inmate to become a trustee."
Ah.
Trustees are inmates that are given
a certain level of trust by the officers.
They're gonna get certain privileges.
They'll be getting extra time
out of the cell.
They'll also be getting extra commissary,
and that's gonna give them influence.
If the guards pick the wrong trustee,
that could set the tone
for the housing unit.
[Brooks] Yeah, so who the guards choose
as trustee will have more power.
The question is,
will it actually earn them more respect
among the inmates?
Absolutely. Yeah.
[Hudson] So, they do want us
to pick a favorite.
-[Washington] Yeah.
-[Miloki] Yup.
-[Washington] Ooh, boy, they'd be hot.
-[Hudson] I know.
[laughs]
-Like, I like the Italiano.
-[Miloki] Mm-hmm.
-[Hudson] Good attitude.
-[Washington] Good attitude.
-030?
-[Washington] 030, yeah.
[Berens] In six. He's been pretty…
Aside from his fight
he had in the beginning.
He's been great since.
-[Berens] He's been kinda positive.
-He would love that role.
I like 030. 030 or Italiano, I think.
In a weird way, I'm kinda leaning 030.
I like that too, because actually,
as a matter of fact, we can say,
"All right, 030--"
"We've seen you clean the mess."
And his beds were made really good. Yes.
"You gotta start holding
all of these guys to the same standard
that you set for yourself."
I think he could be a leader.
That's what I'm getting at.
He's got leader qualities.
Yeah.
[Washington] Hold it down! Hold it down!
-[Hudson] All right.
-[camera whirring]
So, we all had to appoint one inmate
to become a trustee.
[tense music playing]
"A trustee is an inmate
who is chosen to perform jobs."
The main job, right, is organization
and keeping this thing clean, right,
and holding everybody accountable.
But as trustee, you get privileges,
things like extra phone time,
extra rec time,
or more time outside of lockdown, okay?
And so, we needed one guy
that we could trust moving forward.
And I'll tell you who stood out to us…
is 030.
I think that we're going to go with you
for our trustee
for holding everybody accountable.
-[applause]
-[Eldridge] Thank you, fellas.
Seriously, I'm about… I'm for my boys.
I feel so seen being here,
and it's so crazy to say
because of where we're at,
but being myself has led me
to being the trustee.
I wasn't surprised.
Like, I know how hard I work,
and I run shit.
Like, every day, this is what I do.
So, surprised? No.
Happy and, you know, very, like, ecstatic
to be in that moment, yes.
Yay! [laughs]
I appreciate it, fellas.
I got us. We'll be good.
[Hardey] I'm not too surprised
to see Derrick as trustee.
There's 100% a lot of power
in the trustee position,
and I think he has his morals
pretty obviously imprinted
right in the front of his brain,
and he's probably going to follow that
in any scenario you give him.
So I'm a little bit frustrated about it.
-Sir, trust me.
-[Hudson whistles]
All right, guys, go back to your cells.
[Eldridge] Oh, dang.
Hey, I appreciate y'all.
[Hudson] Absolutely.
We appreciate you. That's it.
[Berens] Good night.
[insects chirring]
[camera whirring]
[Hudson] Yeah. And they don't say this is…
[Chris Lee] What up, team?
-Hey.
-[Washington] What's happening?
-[Berens] Just finishing up some stuff.
-[Washington] How you making out?
-Hello.
-What's up?
-How are y'all?
-[Jefferson] Hello.
-Just finishing some notes.
-I like the vest.
-Thank you.
-[Gaona] What is that?
I got shot at,
so they gave me a bulletproof vest.
[Berens] I was holding my hand up.
All right, no. So, they want a head guard
on each shift.
That's where the vest came from.
And so everybody just took
a vote on head guard.
They want leadership.
If you ask me, I would say yes,
I'm the leader of the team.
I'm always the leader.
Do you wanna talk,
or do you want me to say the trustee part?
-Sure. You're doing a great job.
-Or you wanna do it?
-Thank you, Hudson.
-You're welcome.
[laughs]
Um, so, "Each shift will appoint
one inmate to become a trustee."
"A trustee is an inmate
who is chosen to perform jobs
like cleaning the pod, passing out meals
in exchange for privileges."
Y'all will have y'all's own trustee.
We'll have our own trustee.
-So there will be multiple.
-[Hudson] We selected 030.
[Berens] "One trustee--"
[Hudson] But if they do something,
you can strip that right from them
and appoint somebody else.
[Berens] Correct.
-All right, appreciate it.
-[Jefferson] All right.
-See you guys.
-[Gaona] Bye, guys.
[Berens] Good night.
Good night.
So, it's going to be one head guard
for the rest--
[Chris Lee] One head guard.
[Jefferson] We don't get to switch?
[Chris Lee] So, I mean, I'll make my case
and then whatever.
I'm fine going any direction.
As far as head guard, I think I've led
and been the leader
up until this point of the group.
-[Jefferson] You wanna be the HBIC.
-[Gaona] I agree.
Majority will rule. I think that's
the most fair way. What do you think?
[Chris Lee] I'm good with a vote.
Whatever.
Okay.
I vote… Chris.
-[Jefferson] What's your vote, Hadley?
-[McDaniel] Kiana.
[dramatic music playing]
Clearly, Officer Lee wants to be
the leader.
I chose Officer Gaona because
it made Officer Lee uncomfortable.
Officer Gaona, she knows that,
like, we're a team.
We make decisions together.
Just 'cause she's not out there
doing motivational speeches,
why not let her wear the vest?
[Gaona] So, it looks like it's your call.
I vote Kiana.
-That's two and two.
-[Gaona] Oh, yeah.
I mean, I'm not gonna vote
against the group, so…
-I'm fine with Kiana.
-Okay.
-Wow! I am shocked.
-Wow.
[Lee] Hadley orchestrated this.
Undermined all the power of the hierarchy.
Hadley single-handedly undermined
all of Chris's power.
Okay, my friends, officers.
I didn't think that my PM squad
would pick me as the team leader.
I am happy to do it,
and I will always hear everybody out
and make the best decision
according to what's fair.
So far, Officer Lee has been
our spokesperson,
and so this is completely unexpected,
to be honest with you.
-[Jefferson] Chris, how you feeling, huh?
-What's that?
-How you feeling?
-Fine.
I mean, I'll back down
and take my place in the back. It's fine.
The back is fun. [giggles]
It sounds like
you don't want me to be the leader,
so I'm fine backing down
and not bringing the energy.
It seems like
you're a little disappointed, Chris.
-Yeah, I am.
-[Jefferson] Uh-oh!
Of course. It sounds like you've been
disappointed with what I've done.
-So I'm fine.
-That's not what it is at all.
-It feels that way.
-[Jefferson] It's not.
-How does it not feel that way?
-I feel like you've done an amazing job.
It's time to let somebody else step up
to the front.
I'm fine. Like I said,
I'm fine letting somebody else,
but if you guys want me to continue
to do what I do…
I mean, it doesn't sound like you do.
And it's also okay for me to feel
a little bit of emotion,
a little emotion because,
I mean, I shared my piece.
That's where I stand. You guys
are going against that. Also fine.
It's okay for me not to be like, "Yeah,
it's the greatest thing in the world."
I am greatly disappointed in the decision.
But at the end of the day,
lions don't mind the opinions of sheep.
-It does change stuff, though.
-Clearly it changes something for you.
No, I'm saying you have to go
tell the prisoners that
she's the lady
that everything goes through.
That's literally what it says.
[Gaona] Although I am someone
that is so okay
with submitting under a man's leadership
like I do in my marriage so willingly,
I believe that women have as much value,
and power, and authority as men do.
Let's roll up out this biatch.
True authority, it's not demanding
control of the people that are under you.
And so, if given power,
it's to put me last, everybody else first.
-She put on her badge.
-I've got my badge on today.
-Yeah, you're…
-Oh, look at me dressing myself.
My name is Kiana Gaona. I'm 26 years old,
and I'm from Austin, Texas.
Growing up, I wanted to model.
I was just seeking fulfillment
from compliments from people,
validation from guys
that thought I was pretty.
I partied and I drank,
and I thought that that was
where my fulfillment would come from.
I was so lost.
[emotionally] And then,
I encountered Jesus.
And…
[sniffs] He saved me.
[inspirational music playing]
[Gaona] My faith is who I am.
In my book, the best example of power
is how Jesus led
and how He had full authority.
But He was kind, and He was compassionate,
and He put others before Himself.
In this experiment,
I just really want to prove that
peace and authority,
and compassion and authority,
and love and authority can coexist.
And I really want to push myself
and see, if given power,
I am about my faith
and I am who I think that I am.
-[keys jangle]
-[Jefferson] Whoo!
Good evening! Welcome to night crew.
Heyo!
[man] What, did they pick her?
-They picked her?
-You guys can sit down. Take a seat.
[man] Shut the fuck up.
Wow. That's interesting. Officer Gaona.
[Chris Lee, indistinct]
-[Robertson gasps]
-[Ellenburg] What is it?
The Officer Guerrero has
the vest that Mississip--
-Guerrero has the vest. Interesting.
-Mm-hmm.
-[Gaona] Good evening.
-[Correra] Look who's got the black vest.
[inmates applaud and cheer]
[Chris Lee] Take a seat. Take a seat.
Look at you.
[Chris Lee] So, announcement number one.
The night crew has selected a captain.
And we got Miss Officer Gaona.
Let's give it up for Officer Gaona.
[cheers and applause]
Hey, she who must be obeyed
and respected, all right?
Officer Gaona is not doing her job.
If you're going to be the leader,
you come in there and you say,
"Hey guys, we're doing this,
we're doing that."
She is just standing back,
still doing the same thing,
and letting Lee do her job.
So, for the night shift, later,
we are going to be selecting a trustee.
Okay.
So, this is the nightly edition
of what we'll call FTB.
Stands for "For the Boys."
Football scores.
[inmates applaud]
[man] All right.
[Correra] When they all came in, like,
Officer Gaona being a head guard,
I was a little shocked by that,
because definitely has more
of, like, a quieter approach.
When it comes to Lee,
he's very theatrical.
He knows how to work a crowd and a room.
And the others kinda stand back
because he does want to be the leader.
You can tell from day one when we met him.
I was jotting them all down for the boys.
Ohio State beat Purdue, 34 to 10.
[Gaona] I don't know.
The vest hasn't really made me want
to, like, puff my chest more
or be louder or anything.
It's just pretty much the same
as it has been.
And it still feels like a team effort.
I got the other teams all lined up.
As soon as I have final scores for 'em,
tomorrow's version of FTB
will take care of you.
[inmates applaud]
Obviously, you know, I felt like
I should be the person to run the group.
And so, I will continue to lead
in my own way
regardless of what my title
or elected position is.
[indistinct chatter]
-Put those there. Yeah, man.
-[Zaremba] Thank you, Officer G.
Are you, like, bored with the experiment?
Or are you still having fun with it, or…
-They're keeping it interesting.
-[Zaremba] They are? Oh, cool.
You guys gotta start thinking
of the experiment yourselves.
You guys don't have a lot of power either.
You got to think of the game, man.
They're getting you guys.
Yeah.
-I'll leave you all to it.
-All right, thank you.
[chuckles evilly]
I'm turning them against the system.
-What you playing?
-[Hardey] Chess.
-By yourself?
-[Hardey] Yeah.
-You gotta outsmart yourself?
-[Hardey] I don't know. You don't really.
How do you feel you're doing so far?
-Pretty good. Yeah.
-Yeah? Good.
Yeah. I was… I, uh…
I think I was just looking at it
a little bit wrong at first.
Hmm. Why is that?
Maybe it's just my PTSD of…
-Badge.
-…that badge. [chuckles]
What happened with that?
[Hardey] I've just had a few run-ins
with them.
-[Gaona] Makes sense.
-Yeah.
[Gaona] Makes sense.
It's cool. You get to flip the script
and give yourself a different perspective.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Thanks for chatting, man.
Yeah, dude. Yeah, absolutely.
He stood out to me specifically.
Like, we gave 878 the nickname Lone Wolf.
I see Jesus in 878's kind eyes.
Oh, Jesus, I'm so emotional.
[voice breaking] That was the first thing
I noticed about…
He, like… He just has really kind eyes,
and so I see Jesus in that.
I poked at… What's his number, Lone Wolf?
What's his number?
-Yeah.
And it made the connection click
of why he, like, mouthed off
during the riot training.
He said that he came into the experiment
with a negative…
[McDaniel] Connotation?
…view. Yeah. Connotation of the badge.
-He said he's had multiple run-ins and…
-[Jefferson] Mm. Yeah.
When we fulfilled on that,
he was ready to fight back. Right.
[Gaona] Yeah. And so he said that,
after that, like, he's having, like,
a perspective change.
I was like, "Oh, who's this?"
-[McDaniel] Excuse me. Jesus.
-[Jefferson] He should.
So, with that being said,
what are y'all's opinions
on picking him to be our trustee?
[tense music playing]
-Look at Kiana.
-Yeah, right?
Sometimes influence doesn't look or sound
so authoritative, or loud, or dominant.
For Kiana, her stepping in and saying,
"Hey, I think we should give this
to Brendan," is
a meaningful sign that
she's stepping into her power.
[Cantrell] But I also wonder
if Brendan's gonna use this trustee role
to advance his own agenda.
It's going to give him the resources,
the position, the access.
Exactly. Does he use this as
an opportunity to work from the inside?
-Hello.
-[Chris Lee] Heyo.
To be honest,
I don't support the decision.
878 has clearly been trying
to just stir the pot.
Openly rebelling against different rules.
But Officer McDaniel said
he wanted Kiana to be the leader.
And then Officer Jefferson decided
that she also wanted Kiana.
And so, "You're the captain. Let's roll."
You know? It definitely is gonna
mix up the experiment.
We got, uh… We got some news.
Okay. So, as you guys know,
the AM shift has picked a trustee
to represent the morning.
And so, we debated,
and we have come to a consensus
of who we want
the trustee for the PM shift to be.
[inmates applauding]
[Eldridge] I don't reward bad behavior
as a general manager.
I don't reward my son's bad behavior.
So, to see that behavior
that 878 was presenting be rewarded,
it was like a slap in the face
to everybody on the pod.
Yeah, we share the same title,
but we are not the same.
[inhales deeply]
[emotionally] And it pisses me off.
'Cause I know me.
And I know that I'm… I'm…
I'm genuinely frustrated.
And I'd rather him not be in my space.
I'd rather not breathe
the same air as him.
[inmates applauding]
[Terry] Recount!
-Would you like to say anything?
-Yeah.
Uh, thank you, guys. Um…
Bullshit.
[Hardey] Yeah, help me keep it clean.
Help me out. Help me out.
-Cool.
-[Terry] What was the tally?
It couldn't have been… It had to be close.
I'm just kidding, y'all.
[Chris Lee] Dude, you at least had
a third of the vote.
-[McDaniel] Landslide, actually.
-[laughs]
They must see me
as somebody who is weak, lonely,
having a really hard time.
So, they kinda threw me a bone
with this trustee position.
But now I'm hoping to use
my position as trustee
as a tool to make big changes.
We want freedom of showers.
We want the phones to be on 24/7.
We want more rec time.
We want our cells to be open.
And the guards can respect us
to follow our rules.
-Thanks again. You won't regret it.
-Yeah, dude.
Yeah, appreciate that.
Hey, I believe in you.
'Cause, yeah, I'm not an inmate.
I'm not a real prisoner. And…
And it's an experiment.
I'm not anyone's bitch. No.
[Hardey] Don't trust me!
[Zaremba] The rebellion is on its way.
[laughing]
[dramatic music playing]
[inmate snoring]
[alarm sounds]
[sighs] Oh, boy.
[yawns]
[Lee] It's a new day. Here we go.
[camera whirring]
[Gaona] I'm exhausted, man.
[McDaniel] I can barely think.
[music fades out]
I'm still a little… lost on…
shower times.
Is… There's shower times
with the day shift,
but at the night shift
there's not shower times?
I don't think they even know.
[Zaremba] The guards and the difference
between the day and night shift,
they don't have any unison.
Between shifts, they're almost fighting
amongst each other.
You know, like,
we have more power than them, though.
-[Paramore] Yep.
-[Zaremba] There's more of us.
We could flip it on 'em.
We don't have to do any of this.
[Paramore] If you do
what you think you're gonna do,
they have options.
'Cause you're acting like
they don't have any recourse whatsoever.
But they can put their hands on us.
-I get where your heart is at.
-Yeah.
That's not the answer, though.
[Zaremba] Coming in,
I wanted to test the experiment
and see what happens
if we change this or change this.
So, in my opinion,
we should be pushing back on the guards
to show that they don't have any power.
Uh, however, I tried speaking up,
um, hit with very hard feedback.
375!
Are you still running your gums?
[Zaremba] No, no, officer. I'm not.
Pop 'em one more time and that's it.
He has no respect.
[Zaremba] Respect this.
Hey! Put him in lock… lockdown.
[Zaremba] I realized that,
in order to make a change,
I need people on my side.
If you just band together,
you're much more powerful,
and I'm going to try and make allies.
Let me see if there's any notes.
Okay, guys, night shift notes quick.
"New cell can be found in the black binder
on the bulletin board in the break room."
Used peaceful cell transition
as leverage
for them to get the microwave back.
[dramatic music playing]
[Berens] They gave them the microwave.
What a bunch of pushovers.
[Washington] We need unison
between the guards.
[Miloki] That's what I'm saying.
If we're on a different page,
and they're on a different page,
then it's not going to work.
My thing is, them suckers come in
and mess it all up
and then leave for us
to come back and fix it.
I thought we were all in agreement.
What happened here?
I mean, I specifically said,
"Don't give them the microwave back."
-There was a firm understanding.
-[Berens] I said it twice.
I guess I'm gonna be more…
I'm gonna be more direct. [scoffs]
-[Hudson] Yeah.
-Let's have a conversation about it.
-All right.
-We can duke it out.
We are here to simulate guards
and establish a unified,
structured program for a prison.
And for the night crew,
the fact that
you would go against us as guards
to cater to the prisoners,
they totally undermined everything we had.
That's gonna cause issues.
[Berens] All right, guys, here we go.
I didn't appreciate
the disrespect on our end,
and I'm gonna let them know
that ain't right.
[dramatic music playing]
[tense music playing]
[Berens] I feel like their mindset's
probably in a different, like…
We're like, "This is the structure.
This is how we're going to do things."
[Hudson] 100%. I feel like, when you're
Mr. Cool Guy, Mr. Nice Guy all the time,
then that's whenever they're like,
"These guys are essentially a pushover."
"I can get away with this. I can do that."
That's true.
[Brooks] During this first phase
of the experiment,
this transformation phase,
the most fascinating dynamic
to observe thus far has been
this inconsistency between
the two shifts of the guards,
the two different groups of guards.
We see this here with the microwave.
And it's empowering the inmates
to start testing boundaries.
That's right.
-Is this a one-way phone?
-No, sir. Put the phone down.
-One way?
-[Berens] You cannot touch the podium.
-Oh, man.
-[Berens] Thank you.
[Cantrell] They are definitely becoming
aware of their own power.
I think they're finding that power
from the weakness they're sensing
between the shifts and the guards.
[Lee] Exactly, exactly.
Now, among the inmates,
some of these guys are saying,
"Can we manipulate the situation?
Can we play on that? Let's push back."
-Yeah.
-"Let's take over."
It'll be interesting to see.
[whistles]
If anybody's not wanting to go outside,
you're more than welcome to stay in here,
but stay in your cell with the door shut.
If not, we're all about to
go out there for rec.
-[man] Nice.
-[Hudson] Let's go do it.
[tense, dramatic music playing]
[buzzer sounds]
Ah! Now, that's nice.
-[inmate] Oh, this is nice.
-[Hardey] That's nice, bro.
[Zaremba] How you feeling?
My head's kinda hurting a little bit,
probably 'cause yesterday,
after that, like, gravy.
-Yeah.
-[Hardey] Bro.
[Zaremba] I'm starting to feel, like, sick
thinking about the food. Are you too?
[Hardey] Dude, what if we all stood up,
we're like, "We're all leaving
unless you bring us pizza once a day."
What I'm realizing is
I'm not the type of person that…
is gonna let some shit happen to me
if I can change it.
Yeah, I respect authority,
but if something's not making sense,
then I might have something to say
or I might, you know, disobey.
[R&B music playing]
My name is Brendan. I'm 26,
and I'm from Sylvan Lake, Michigan.
I went to community college,
but I didn't even finish a semester.
I would pull up to the college,
park there, and sleep.
[laughing] I swear to God.
So, now I'm a bartender/server,
and the customer is, like,
damn near never right.
[chuckles]
My house got raided, and they found, like,
one Adderall pill and, like, one Xanax,
and then two guns that I had.
And just because of the vicinity
of the guns to the drugs,
ended up being
some pretty serious charges, actually.
So, I was, like, facing,
like, eight years in prison,
but I ended up getting, like,
two of the charges dropped.
My mom is just, like,
still so confused with me.
She just has no clue what I'm doing.
I don't know what I'm doing.
So I have fears of
never making my mom proud, bro.
My participation in this experiment is
to learn more about myself,
and I want to make my mom proud.
She could, like, honestly tell me, like,
"I see what you're doing.
I believe in you."
That's really how I would know that
I was, like, doing something right.
You can't bend your head.
Yeah, your head gotta be straight down.
Jeff and I were already talking.
We see it, bro.
These guards, they're a little, like,
power-trippy sometimes.
You know what I'm saying?
[Zaremba] They looked weak
when they changed their mind
on the microwave.
Bro, I don't understand why
we don't all just come together right now.
"We're gonna do this when we want.
We're gonna shower when we want."
-Right.
-"You're not putting us in no cell."
"You guys are just gonna chill
in that bird's nest
and then just bring us our food,
and that's it."
[Zaremba] I like Brendan a lot.
Me and him were the first two to be like,
"Why don't we look at this
a different way?"
"Why don't we ask
to just keep our doors open?"
"Why don't we ask for more shower time?"
"Why are we so okay
with how restricted we are?"
If they say anything to me
that's, like, out of line,
I'm just gonna tell them no.
And I hope everyone has my back.
-You know what I'm saying?
-You know I do.
[Hardey] Majority always wins.
Know what I mean?
-You gotta just start talking to people.
-[Zaremba] Yeah.
-I'm on board.
-[Hardey] Yeah.
[dramatic musical sting]
[dramatic music playing]
-[Hudson] I'm still aggravated.
-I knew they'd give the microwave back.
-[Miloki] You did?
-Yeah.
I'd have taken that bitch back
to the hotel if I'd have known that shit.
-[Miloki laughs]
-[Berens laughs]
-Take this…
-[Miloki] Stuff it in your backpack.
[Hudson] I would have.
[Chris Lee] What up, team?
Hard dicks and airplanes.
-What's happening? Y'all all right?
-How are we? Good to see you guys.
-How was the day?
-Man, it was a day.
-[Jefferson] Hello, hello.
-[Chris Lee] Hello, hello.
-[Washington] Carrying a latte.
-Double fisting. [giggles]
One thing that I do wanna talk
to everybody about, um…
At the end of the day,
we're all here to achieve one goal.
We're all here to work together, okay?
And it is to unify and run this prison
with structure, okay?
But what we all did not appreciate
was that we were so specific
with that microwave.
[tense music playing]
That was something
that happened on our shift,
and that was part of our punishment.
And we amplified that multiple times
and wrote it down in notes that even said,
"Do not give back microwave."
-Okay, y'all did that.
-Hold on just a second. I'm gonna listen--
[Jefferson] Ain't no hold on. No!
[Hudson] Let's have respect
when we talk to each other.
-No!
-He can't talk?
No. We don't have to do what y'all say do.
Do we have to--
-[Washington] But we… Listen.
-Wait, are you in charge here?
It's not about who's in charge.
-Wow, y'all unify really well.
-[Washington] We are all equal.
No one person is
more superior than the next.
Y'all don't tell us what to do
is what I'm saying.
-We're not telling y'all what to do.
-[Jefferson] You are!
If you allow him to explain,
then you would understand.
You guys, "We clearly said we…
with the microwave." So what? So?
-It's just called respect.
-[Washington] If we're a team--
I don't care.
Officer Hudson, you know, he just
take over shit. Like, it's too much.
You have to speak up,
because if you do not,
people will run you over.
[Hudson] The whole point is
we're here to work together.
-And acting childish is not the way.
-Okay, 'cause you're in charge. [scoffs]
But you're not.
I said it, and that's it.
That's the way I work in the world.
That's the way I'm gonna work here.
[Washington] All right.
-[Jefferson] Bye.
-[Hudson] Bye.
[Jefferson giggles] He's so mad.
He didn't wanna give me no hug. Aww.
Sometimes I do feel like
I'm misunderstood.
Growing up in Chicago,
I grew up in the hood.
I didn't have much.
My upbringing shaped me.
It made me be guarded everywhere I go.
And when I approach confrontation,
I approach it with, like,
"What's up? What you wanna do?"
That's how I am.
That's how I was brought up.
I think that power is different
for men and women.
Women, we have to, like, kind of fight
for power and take our power.
Women have to fight for what we want.
Woo! Miss Jefferson coming in. Woo!
[Jefferson] I don't like that.
Don't tell us what to do. What the hell?
You know what? I do appreciate the fact
that you stand your ground.
Like, it's crazy.
I wouldn't necessarily do it the same way,
but I appreciate the fact that you do it.
Thank you.
[dramatic music playing]
[Chris Lee] The morning shift
definitely leads different
than the way I prefer to do things.
[enthusiastically] Good evening!
Welcome. Welcome, welcome.
It seems like they like
to maybe use their badge or power
a little bit more, like, demanding.
It's more like, "I'm in power,
and so, therefore, you listen to me."
Just happy to see our favorites.
That's it.
Good to see you all, too.
Make them beds! Make them beds!
I'm a big believer
in being loved creates respect.
And when they love you,
they'll get on the ship,
and they'll row in the same direction.
Welcome back, 875.
Good to see you.
-[Zaremba] Got some energy.
-[Chris Lee] Always got energy, brother.
We wanna make a great culture,
have a great experience in here.
With that,
we're gonna have a little fun. Okay?
What we're gonna do
we're gonna take a few minutes.
We got sheets of paper for
every single person to create an airplane.
Okay? We're going to be doing
a paper airplane contest.
[Lee] Is this a line too far?
Unexpected. At least, in my world,
very unexpected.
-Let's go! [laughs]
-[scattered applause]
[Cook] Whether it be games
or things to do,
Officer Lee is very good
at this kind of church camp mentality.
[Correra] To be honest, I don't think
I've made a paper airplane in my life.
But I've been to those camps.
You kinda look back at that scenario,
and you're like,
"Eh, I was a little institutionalized."
I'm ready to take flight.
[Cook] Because of this culture
that Officer Lee has instilled,
I think there's some people there
that are starting to get a little bit
of a Stockholm syndrome.
Are you starting to conform that much
to where you're excited to be in jail?
[Chris Lee] Aim over the wall.
[all laughing]
That blows my mind.
And nada! Failure to launch. All right.
[McDaniel sighs] I like these games,
but they're getting fucking old.
They're taking too long.
[Gaona] It's 7:30. They need to eat.
[McDaniel] Officer Lee.
So, 428's winning so far. And then
who was sec… Who else hit it?
[McDaniel] Officer Lee.
These guys don't have
their fucking radios on.
-[Gaona] That's bad.
-[McDaniel] That is bad.
-I thought we'd discussed that.
-[Gaona] Yeah.
Clearly, Officer Lee wants
to be the leader,
but I still don't believe
that there's a set leader.
Officer Lee is our voice,
but I think that we need
to all make decisions together.
Okay! [laughs]
-He's working the crowd.
-Yeah, exactly.
He needs some timeout time.
I feel like everyone's got an ego,
but being the loudest doesn't always bring
the best influence, you know?
-[Chris Lee] Whoo!
-[Padilla] Yo, how it--
He doesn't throw that like a football,
I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what.
I try to stay away from people like that
'cause I'm not too keen on authority.
I usually like to push back
when it comes to being told what to do.
[chuckles]
[upbeat guitar music playing]
I'm Hadley McDaniel. I'm 28 years old.
I'm from South Omaha, Nebraska,
and I'm not a pussy.
Young Hadley grew up
on a ranch in central Nebraska,
riding horses and branding calves,
moving cows, building fence.
My dad and I butted heads, but you know,
he was just trying to take care of me.
I liked to pick fights
with the biggest people,
and I got beat up a lot as a kid.
[chuckles wryly]
I'm not too keen on authority.
People get in power, and they immediately
think they can do whatever they want.
So I like to stir things up, I suppose,
cause little issues, you know,
get people riled up.
I wanted to be an inmate.
I just think it'd be more fun.
So, as a guard,
I'm still trying to figure out
how to like, you know,
stir things up in there.
'Cause I don't know, something about
pushing people who've got a sense of power
gets me off in a way.
[laughing] I don't know.
[Chris Lee] We got 30 minutes for chow.
[Ellenburg] Which one's our sweet cake?
I'm feeling like this one's cornbread
and this one's cake. This is giving--
-That one's cornbread, but it's sweet.
-[Ellenburg] Okay. Okay.
Bon appétit, either way.
But this is what you gotta remember.
We're eating this.
This is part of the game.
We don't have to be eating this.
We don't have to wait
for them to tell us to shower,
for them to close our doors.
-We don't have to da-da-da.
-[Ellenburg] It's all part of it.
It's a game. No, no,
but I'm actually being literal, too.
[Ellenburg] No, I know.
We're allowing that to happen.
You realize that, right?
That's the game. It's just a game.
So, why are we just letting them
tell us what to do?
Dude, it's all because of this simple fact
of this versus that uniform.
[Drew Lee] That's a good point.
Bro, think about how crazy it is that
we're not… we didn't do anything wrong.
We're not in jail, actually.
They put him in a cell for six hours
'cause he changed the time on a microwave.
I think that's
an interesting way of thinking about it.
But then I also think about,
like, how far can you really push that?
You know? If I tell 'em no--
Push it to where I'm comfortable
where I can shower when I want,
when I can… we can close our doors,
sleep when I want.
[Ellenburg] Maybe.
Or all of us could get punished
by having to do 23 hours in a cell.
[Hardey] When you're trying
to change things,
you gotta kinda win majority.
So I wanted to try
turning these guys on our side.
All it is is that
it's just they're afraid of punishment.
878, he's been losing it all day.
Oh, my gosh, bro.
He's literally plotting a rebellion.
-[laughs]
-Like, he's literally recruiting.
We watching human beings unravel
in front of us, bro.
878, he's 100% lost it.
You literally have a guy planning a coup
from the inside,
and he thinks that we're the problem,
like we need to wake up.
They were given rules, and they're
enforcing rules that aren't on the rules.
And then, Pete, he's a good dude.
He's actually from my hometown.
Me and him both are from Cleveland.
But he's very much lost in that delusion
that he can somehow control the situation.
It's another search for control.
They will say that, "It's 20 of us.
Why are we listening to them?"
But how does that end?
Bro, nobody… Like,
literally nobody sees it like us.
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
[camera whirring]
[indistinct chatter over radio]
-Oh, jeez. What?
-What?
-Yeah.
-Oh, yeah.
[McDaniel] What the fuck is this?
[Chris Lee] Well, always wanted
to be on a SWAT team.
[Gaona] Oh, what did we sign up for?
Throughout this whole experiment,
we're gonna have a series of interventions
that test different things
to see how people react
under these different circumstances.
And as the final step
in our transformation phase,
we have a challenging one
coming up tonight,
and that is riot training.
This is part of legitimate training
that many officers will go through, right?
Riot control drills have been
a big part of my career.
Even though it's only a drill,
it's a physical way
for the guards to show that
they have control over the inmates.
[Chris Lee] Of course they gave it to us.
'Cause we're treating them too good.
-[Jefferson] Y'all remember that.
-Yeah. Yeah, being too nice.
[Brooks] It's going to require that
the night guards actually transform
and assume that authoritative role.
Because it's such a departure
from their approach so far.
I'm wondering if
these games turn into something like,
"You've been using me,
and now you're gonna come in here
with a show of force?"
-[Brooks] Yeah.
-There's something else brewing here.
Some of the guys
have been plotting all day…
-They have.
-…about the opportunity to push back.
So, have they sensed a weakness,
a chink in the armor, an opportunity
to flex their collective power,
which they've been talking about all day?
This is the test. Let's find out.
[McDaniel] So, what does it say?
"You'll carry out a riot training drill."
[Gaona] No.
"You'll need to get dressed out
in your riot gear."
"Next, go down to the pod
and take control of the inmates."
Oh, my God.
-"Order the inmates to get on the ground."
-I don't wanna…
"If anyone's in their cells, they'll need
to get out and into the day room."
"Once on the ground,
they should be handcuffed."
"Once you feel the inmates are secure,
put the inmates back in their cells."
-They ain't gonna like this.
-Yeah.
I've been doing everything
to establish relationships with these guys
and build trust.
So, like, getting this assignment
to go and do this hard thing,
like, as a leader, that sucks.
And it also says "drill". So…
Can we say that?
We should carry it out like a real thing,
not say it's a drill,
just to take control of the room
so they take it serious.
Yeah. I am so intimidated.
-Really?
-[Gaona] Yes.
I don't know how
to work these things. [giggles]
Slap it on your…
You slap it on their wrist.
-[Jefferson] I am nervous as hell.
-[Chris Lee] You're nervous?
-[Jefferson] Yes.
-[Gaona] Yes.
I'll tell you what,
I'm about to look goofy.
[McDaniel] We all are.
Oh, jeez Louise.
[Jefferson] How about
I'll just take notes, and y'all do this?
[laughing]
[Gaona] As somebody that is compassionate
and quick to love people,
it is the last thing I want to do.
And as I'm putting on this gear,
it's like,
"What the heck am I doing
with this on right now?"
Night team, let's go.
-[Gaona] Ready?
-[Chris Lee] Mm-hmm.
[Gaona] The sooner we do it,
the sooner it's over.
[buzzer sounding]
-[Chris Lee] On the ground!
-[Jefferson] Get your ass on the ground.
[Chris Lee] Get down here now!
Down on the floor!
Everyone on the ground! On the ground!
On the ground double time!
Get out of your cells now!
Wow, there's a different tone.
[Hardey] Bro.
-[Chris Lee] Out of your cells!
-[scoffs]
-[Chris Lee] On the ground!
-[Hardey] They're in riot gear.
[Chris Lee] On the ground! Down here!
Out of your cells! Now!
[Jefferson] Come out of your cell now!
-[Chris Lee] 878, come on.
-[Jefferson] Hey!
[Chris Lee] On the ground!
[Hardey] Why? Why are we doing
all this dumbass shit? I don't understand.
[Zaremba] Whatever's going on,
we need a little explanation.
[Chris Lee] Do not disrespect!
[Hardey] Why are we listening to these
little shits they're telling us to do?
-[Chris Lee] I repeat, on the ground!
-[Zaremba] You guys are fucking tripping.
-[Hardey] This is dumb as fuck.
-[Chris Lee] Now!
[handcuffs clattering]
[Chris Lee] Do not mess with the cuffs.
[Brooks] The inmates are being
very compliant.
[Lee] Brendan and Pete are pushing back.
-[Chris Lee] On the ground! Lay down!
-Bro?
[Chris Lee] 878!
[Jefferson] Bro, what are you doing?
You want me to get on my face
and put my hands on my head?
Turn around and do
what everybody else is doing.
[Chris Lee] On the ground!
[Eldridge] Just do it.
Bro, what the…
[Jefferson] Bro, you wanna go in the hole?
-[Chris Lee] Down!
-[laughing] That's ridiculous, bro.
[Jefferson] No.
Put your head all the way down.
-Huh?
-[Jefferson] Put your hands on your head.
[Zaremba] You guys are tripping.
[Jefferson] I'm gonna throw your ass
in the hole.
[Hardey] There's some strong personalities
in there.
And it's just crazy to see how quick
everyone was just like, "Okay."
That was, like, such a defining moment
for me. That was like,
wow.
This is where we're at.
[Zaremba] Are you guys gonna explain
what this is about?
-[Chris Lee] Oops, sorry.
-Oh, my God.
Brendan tried speaking up, instantly
met aggressively by a bunch of people.
They purposely tried
inflicting fear on us,
making us do a drill,
putting our faces down for no reason.
That crossed the line
to extremely disrespectful.
-You guys are losing your minds.
-Silence.
-You said respect goes both ways.
-When I am talking, you are not.
-[Zaremba] This is not respectful.
-[Jefferson] Just stop talking.
-[Terry] Chill out.
-I'll throw your ass in the hole.
[Paramore] It's easy work. Pete, stop.
I tried speaking up a little bit,
but we both folded pretty quick,
which was really frustrating
'cause that's never what I want to be,
never what I wanna do,
and that's not who I am.
[Chris Lee] All right. Help him up.
I actually don't feel good
about the riot drill.
Like, just seeing that look
on their faces of, like, surprise.
Let's go both.
It really hurt my heart.
But, like, 'cause we built
a lot of trust and respect in there…
Kneel.
…they were very willing to do
what they were told for the most part.
All accounted for.
-[Eldridge] Thank you very much.
-[Gaona] Thank you, guys.
But now the guys are feeling
a little betrayed
and a little, like, less trust
and, uh… Um…
I don't have an exact game plan,
but now my personal mission is
winning over their hearts.
[Gaona] I'm glad that that's over.
After that just happened,
I'm already irritated,
and we're gonna wake up crack-ass of dawn
to them knocking on our door,
boom, boom, boom.
"Make your bed, du-du-du,
get in line," or, "Come out and eat."
Bro, like, are you kidding me?
I'm not putting up with that one more day.
[Cook] After that riot drill,
878, Pete, and myself…
Um…
Yeah, we're kinda there.
Now we're getting to that line where
we're like, "I'm disrespecting myself."
[Hardey] That shows us right there,
nobody's ready
to fucking step up to this shit, bro.
Yeah. Everyone just did it.
Unfortunately, we're the minority.
But… what happens
when there's more than four or five of us?
We could take over
that whole jail in 20 minutes, right now.
What's… what's stopping us, right?
[Hardey] So what,
y'all like that shit or what?
You didn't have to do that.
They're not cops.
You're not a prisoner.
-[insects chirring]
-[ominous music playing]
[buzzer sounds]
[Jefferson] Here they come.
Shh. Let's listen.
[Washington] Good morning.
-Good morning.
-[Hudson] Howdy.
[Berens] You guys are
a lively bunch today.
[McDaniel] Oh, yeah.
How y'all made out?
-We made it.
-[Gaona] Yeah.
-We did some riot control tonight.
-[Washington] Riot?
-You get to hit somebody with a shield?
-No.
-[Hudson] What happened?
-[Chris Lee] We had to do a drill.
But they didn't know it was a drill
until after it was done.
-Oh.
-Oh, okay.
[Chris Lee] We're running in.
We're fully geared.
"On the ground." We had to cuff them all.
So we cuffed them on the floor, took them
into their cells, left them in there.
But, I mean,
the whole drill took 20 minutes,
plus another probably 20 minutes in it.
So for about 40 minutes,
they had no idea what was going on.
But the boys, they were respectful
besides Lone Wolf.
-878?
-[McDaniel] Yeah.
He was just giving us lip.
[McDaniel] He's like,
"I'm on the ground." He wasn't.
[Chris Lee] I said, "On the ground!"
He sat there and chuckled, "Pfft."
He was up against the wall.
He was like, "I'm on the ground."
[Gaona] I felt really bad.
Their faces were on the ground,
on the nasty ground.
975 was like…
[McDaniel] He was moving around.
[Chris Lee] Was he the one like,
"What are we going in for?"
-[Hudson] Really?
-He was that upset about it.
[Hudson] Damn!
-Okay.
-So…
Well, I hope you all get
some good sleep today.
-All right. We'll get out of here.
-[Gaona sighs]
[Brooks] It seems that this riot drill
has maybe bought the night shift
some credibility with the day shift.
I think it shows that they're taking
this role on a little more seriously.
Which is good timing as we move
into phase two of the experiment.
-[Washington] Y'all take care.
-[Hudson] Y'all get some rest.
-All right, see ya.
-[Gaona] Bye.
Phase one was all about transformation.
To what extent do you transform
into this role that you've been assigned?
Phase two is about hierarchy.
In phase two,
we're gonna be focusing in on respect.
How are people earning and losing respect
among the inmates and among the guards?
And how does that play out in the pod?
-[Hudson] What we got, boys?
-[Washington] Shift assignment.
-[Hudson] All right.
-[Berens] Ready? I'll read it out loud.
"It's time to decide who will be
the head guard for your team."
So, this is the first step
in the second phase of the experiment,
hierarchy.
The day shift is going to elect
a head guard.
[Cantrell] This is a real thing
that occurs in prison.
You have a person
who's assigned as the head guard.
The buck stops with them.
They're the ones
that kinda lead the shift,
keep things moving forward.
[Berens]
"Once the head guard has been chosen,
he or she should put on
the head guard vest
to indicate head guard status."
"The head guard should be announced to
the inmates next time you're in the pod."
Do y'all wanna do, like,
an anonymous vote on a piece of paper,
and then just see what it is?
-[Berens] I like that.
-[Miloki] Yeah.
-Absolutely.
-[Hudson] All right.
With this role comes a bit of power.
This head guard is going to be responsible
for allocating resources like commissary
and minutes on the phones.
[Lee] And on this day shift,
Chet has clearly established himself
as the vocal leader,
but there's also Laura who is showing
all these different leadership skills, um,
but it's being drowned out
by Chet's kind of overbearing, loud style.
[Cantrell] Let's not forget
Nick Washington. He likes order.
He's firm with the inmates.
I think he could be a good leader.
So, these votes will show
who is actually respected
and who might not be
as respected as they think.
Everybody in the room, write down
who you think should be the head guard.
We'll do four pieces of paper.
I just put it under there.
It's all mixed up, so we don't know who's…
All right, we got one vote for Hudson.
-Hudson.
-[Miloki] Okay.
[Berens] Hudson. [laughs]
Washington.
I voted for myself because
I'm confident in myself,
so of course, I'm going to feel like
I'm going to be a better leader,
but I think it could have went
either way between Hudson and I.
And every great leader once had to follow,
and so I'm not going to hate on
anybody else.
I'm not that type of person.
At the end of the day, guys,
I just want to be fair with everybody.
When I do wear that around,
I want us all to work together.
On this head guard position,
I definitely feel like
it was a good idea
for everybody to vote for me.
That's something that I take
a lot of pride in, is being a leader.
Whatever is at the top of anything,
that's where I want to be.
-[Berens] Look at you, lucky duck. Yeah.
-[Hudson] Oh, it's great. It's great.
When it gets hot and crap hits the fan,
there needs to be one person
that has the final voice of reason,
and I have no problem taking that weight
and putting it on my shoulders.
-[whistles]
-Everybody, listen up!
So, the first thing is we had to take
a vote for a head guard,
and everybody trusted me to do that.
And I appreciate that
from my fellow guards,
and appreciate y'all's respect.
I really do.
It means a lot, and it goes a long way.
I appreciate that, okay?
We're making progress.
The second one, y'all are all gonna have
to go into lockdown,
but I promise you
y'all are going to appreciate why, okay?
Y'all all got phone time.
[cheering and applause]
[Brooks] That's a strategic move here
by Chet.
The first message he sends as head guard
is to hand out a privilege
and let the inmates call home.
[Lee] Yeah, phone calls home
are gonna be important to the guys.
This may be
one of the most important things.
Family contact for inmates is everything.
These phone calls, or anything,
commissary, any resource,
can be given as a reward,
but it can also be taken away.
In corrections,
we call them management tools.
-So, that's on the table.
-That's right.
And they're only getting 50 minutes total
across all two weeks of the experiment.
Fifty minutes is not much.
[line ringing]
[automated voice]
This is a prepaid call from…
Sonny Robertson.
[automated voice]
…an inmate from a correctional institute.
[woman] Hello?
-Hey, what's up?
-Sonny.
What are you doing? Why are you in jail?
I told you where I was going, didn't I?
[woman] Mmm…
I'm in a prison, so yeah.
I know. That's what I was told.
-[woman 2] Petey! Oh, my God, honey!
-Hello?
[woman 2] We miss you so much.
Daddy's lost without you.
[man] Get awful lonely around here, Petey.
Awful lonely.
[Zaremba] I'll be home in no time.
Everything's good, but the food sucks.
But obviously, you know,
that's to come with it.
Like, a day feels like a week.
It's really strange.
[woman 3] Aww.
We have nothing but each other,
so we're just, like…
completely getting to know
each other super fast.
-Hey, Mom.
-[Correra's mom] Hello. Hi.
[Correra] How are you?
[Correra's mom crying]
[Correra] Mom, stop crying.
-Mom, Mom.
-I'm so proud of you.
[Correra] I can barely hear you.
[Correra's mom] I can hear you.
[tender music playing]
[clicking tongue]
[voice breaking]
I don't like hearing my mom cry.
She doesn't really cry in front of me.
[sniffs] She's tough.
I know they're missing me.
I just love my parents.
I love 'em. I love 'em very much.
You gotta really stop crying right now
because you're gonna upset me.
-[Correra's mom] Okay.
-Because mind over matter, okay?
During COVID,
my father caught COVID really bad,
and he was in the hospital
for three months.
He had double pneumonia
and was on 100% oxygen flow.
And while that was happening,
my mom had breast cancer,
and they were literally right across rooms
from each other
'cause my mom also had COVID.
I'm an only child. I had to be strong.
I had to figure everything out on my own.
And almost seeing my mother and father
pass away at the same time,
that was probably the hardest thing
I've ever been through.
Mom, it's fine.
I've made some great friends.
There are schmucks in here,
but you know what, Mom?
You should be really proud of me
and trust me,
because this is a hard test,
and I'm doing it just fine.
In this experiment, success is proving
to my family and friends that I did this,
because, like everything I do,
it's for my family,
and I want to make especially
my father proud during this experiment.
[Correra's mom] I love you so much,
Michael. More than you know.
[Correra] I love you. All right.
-[Correra's mom] All right, I miss you.
-I love you. I miss you too.
-[Correra's mom] Keep that head strong.
-I will.
[Correra's mom] All right.
All right, bye, Mike.
[Correra sniffs]
[tender music fades out]
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Paramore] Thrust up to get that spin.
Know what I mean?
There we go. That was a good one.
[Hardey] The thing with the face
on the ground yesterday,
the raid is, like,
I'm sorry, like, that's it.
You think I wanna be
on that fucking floor?
Why do you think you're not in power?
Because you have this on?
-[man] We in jail?
-I'm not--
-We all have these numbers on.
-We do have these numbers on.
Do you think that means
you don't have power?
I don't have power right now
compared to some other people--
[Hardey] Why?
-Because I'm a fucking prisoner right now.
-No, you're not.
[Correra] Okay.
878 is ready to stir the pot,
and he wants to manipulate
the whole prison
and start shit with the guards.
I'm gonna be pissed off
if somebody doesn't listen,
and then I'm stuck in 23 hours
'cause somebody is…
-[unintelligible]
-[Correra] It's gonna really piss me off.
It's really mind-boggling to me
that people wanna go against the guards.
Why do we wanna put everybody in a cell
and be locked away
so people just go crazy?
[Eldridge] Common sense doesn't tell you
what an inmate is?
Oh, I know what an inmate is,
but does that mean you have no power?
I'm not saying we don't have power.
[Hardey] I get you.
I know what an inmate is, yeah.
A lot of the guys use the,
"Oh, well, this is what we signed up for,"
as a reason to just accept everything
as it is.
There's some real grown men in there
set in their ways.
[Eldridge] I wanna come out of this
a better father and man.
That's gonna take
me listening to other people.
I'm hearing everything you're saying.
Not everybody feels how you
and other people might feel
about being rebellious.
We don't all feel that way.
So when people come up to us like,
"You're gonna feel like pussies
when this is over
and you're gonna feel you did bad
and you didn't do what you should've."
No, I'm content in the person
that I'm being 'cause I'm being myself.
-Uh-huh.
-[tense, dramatic music playing]
My life hasn't always been great,
but I have gotten here
because of who I am.
I always say you gotta go through shit
to get through shit,
and that's just what I'm here for.
-[guard] No smiling!
-Oh.
[shutter clicks]
Growing up, I just had
a very, like, rough upbringing as a child.
It was my mom, my three sisters, and I.
For a couple of those years,
we lived in a one-bed motel room.
It was a hard time, but at the same time,
my mom never made us feel like
we were less than
or had anything less than anybody else.
I think the biggest thing I learned
from my mom is resilience.
I'm super assertive.
I'll try to be as respectful as possible,
but I don't mind standing up
and advocating for myself.
'Cause if you don't advocate for yourself,
nobody's gonna advocate for you.
My job is I lead a team every day.
25 to 30 people. That's what I do.
To be a good leader, you have to know
how to take authority from other people,
and I'm okay with that.
In my everyday life,
I'm not looking to start shit,
I'm not looking
to start problems with anybody,
and I have a son
I wanna make it home to every day,
so anything I can do to make my life
as easy as possible, I'll always do that.
My son is my true reason,
my why, my passion.
I wanna be the best leader that I can be
because my son looks up to me
all the time.
I just want to show him that
you have to give respect to get respect,
and I want to come out of this
a better father.
So, as long as I know I show up
for my son,
then I know I'm a good person.
You might not agree with me now,
but I think as things go on,
and maybe we do end up in 23 and 1,
and you go through these things,
maybe you'll wish
that you did push back a little bit
and that you didn't just let it happen.
[Eldridge] No, I won't.
You can't get us all to follow
your training
when you're being the rebellious one.
He wanted to make us feel like we would
feel less about our experience here
because we're not, you know,
doing something that he wants us to do.
It's disrespectful to be plotting
this demise of the guards
when they're trying to do
everything they can
to make it as easy as possible for us.
It's patience, bro. This whole experiment
is gonna be about patience.
Just like the guard shift,
we're now seeing this hierarchy battle
play out with the inmates.
It feels like Derrick and his crew have
the majority for now,
but Brendan and Pete
are hellbent and committed
to taking some of that power back.
[Brooks] Yeah.
[dramatic music intensifies]
-[Washington] Shift assignments.
-[Berens] Okay.
[exhales sharply] "Each shift will appoint
one inmate to become a trustee."
Ah.
Trustees are inmates that are given
a certain level of trust by the officers.
They're gonna get certain privileges.
They'll be getting extra time
out of the cell.
They'll also be getting extra commissary,
and that's gonna give them influence.
If the guards pick the wrong trustee,
that could set the tone
for the housing unit.
[Brooks] Yeah, so who the guards choose
as trustee will have more power.
The question is,
will it actually earn them more respect
among the inmates?
Absolutely. Yeah.
[Hudson] So, they do want us
to pick a favorite.
-[Washington] Yeah.
-[Miloki] Yup.
-[Washington] Ooh, boy, they'd be hot.
-[Hudson] I know.
[laughs]
-Like, I like the Italiano.
-[Miloki] Mm-hmm.
-[Hudson] Good attitude.
-[Washington] Good attitude.
-030?
-[Washington] 030, yeah.
[Berens] In six. He's been pretty…
Aside from his fight
he had in the beginning.
He's been great since.
-[Berens] He's been kinda positive.
-He would love that role.
I like 030. 030 or Italiano, I think.
In a weird way, I'm kinda leaning 030.
I like that too, because actually,
as a matter of fact, we can say,
"All right, 030--"
"We've seen you clean the mess."
And his beds were made really good. Yes.
"You gotta start holding
all of these guys to the same standard
that you set for yourself."
I think he could be a leader.
That's what I'm getting at.
He's got leader qualities.
Yeah.
[Washington] Hold it down! Hold it down!
-[Hudson] All right.
-[camera whirring]
So, we all had to appoint one inmate
to become a trustee.
[tense music playing]
"A trustee is an inmate
who is chosen to perform jobs."
The main job, right, is organization
and keeping this thing clean, right,
and holding everybody accountable.
But as trustee, you get privileges,
things like extra phone time,
extra rec time,
or more time outside of lockdown, okay?
And so, we needed one guy
that we could trust moving forward.
And I'll tell you who stood out to us…
is 030.
I think that we're going to go with you
for our trustee
for holding everybody accountable.
-[applause]
-[Eldridge] Thank you, fellas.
Seriously, I'm about… I'm for my boys.
I feel so seen being here,
and it's so crazy to say
because of where we're at,
but being myself has led me
to being the trustee.
I wasn't surprised.
Like, I know how hard I work,
and I run shit.
Like, every day, this is what I do.
So, surprised? No.
Happy and, you know, very, like, ecstatic
to be in that moment, yes.
Yay! [laughs]
I appreciate it, fellas.
I got us. We'll be good.
[Hardey] I'm not too surprised
to see Derrick as trustee.
There's 100% a lot of power
in the trustee position,
and I think he has his morals
pretty obviously imprinted
right in the front of his brain,
and he's probably going to follow that
in any scenario you give him.
So I'm a little bit frustrated about it.
-Sir, trust me.
-[Hudson whistles]
All right, guys, go back to your cells.
[Eldridge] Oh, dang.
Hey, I appreciate y'all.
[Hudson] Absolutely.
We appreciate you. That's it.
[Berens] Good night.
[insects chirring]
[camera whirring]
[Hudson] Yeah. And they don't say this is…
[Chris Lee] What up, team?
-Hey.
-[Washington] What's happening?
-[Berens] Just finishing up some stuff.
-[Washington] How you making out?
-Hello.
-What's up?
-How are y'all?
-[Jefferson] Hello.
-Just finishing some notes.
-I like the vest.
-Thank you.
-[Gaona] What is that?
I got shot at,
so they gave me a bulletproof vest.
[Berens] I was holding my hand up.
All right, no. So, they want a head guard
on each shift.
That's where the vest came from.
And so everybody just took
a vote on head guard.
They want leadership.
If you ask me, I would say yes,
I'm the leader of the team.
I'm always the leader.
Do you wanna talk,
or do you want me to say the trustee part?
-Sure. You're doing a great job.
-Or you wanna do it?
-Thank you, Hudson.
-You're welcome.
[laughs]
Um, so, "Each shift will appoint
one inmate to become a trustee."
"A trustee is an inmate
who is chosen to perform jobs
like cleaning the pod, passing out meals
in exchange for privileges."
Y'all will have y'all's own trustee.
We'll have our own trustee.
-So there will be multiple.
-[Hudson] We selected 030.
[Berens] "One trustee--"
[Hudson] But if they do something,
you can strip that right from them
and appoint somebody else.
[Berens] Correct.
-All right, appreciate it.
-[Jefferson] All right.
-See you guys.
-[Gaona] Bye, guys.
[Berens] Good night.
Good night.
So, it's going to be one head guard
for the rest--
[Chris Lee] One head guard.
[Jefferson] We don't get to switch?
[Chris Lee] So, I mean, I'll make my case
and then whatever.
I'm fine going any direction.
As far as head guard, I think I've led
and been the leader
up until this point of the group.
-[Jefferson] You wanna be the HBIC.
-[Gaona] I agree.
Majority will rule. I think that's
the most fair way. What do you think?
[Chris Lee] I'm good with a vote.
Whatever.
Okay.
I vote… Chris.
-[Jefferson] What's your vote, Hadley?
-[McDaniel] Kiana.
[dramatic music playing]
Clearly, Officer Lee wants to be
the leader.
I chose Officer Gaona because
it made Officer Lee uncomfortable.
Officer Gaona, she knows that,
like, we're a team.
We make decisions together.
Just 'cause she's not out there
doing motivational speeches,
why not let her wear the vest?
[Gaona] So, it looks like it's your call.
I vote Kiana.
-That's two and two.
-[Gaona] Oh, yeah.
I mean, I'm not gonna vote
against the group, so…
-I'm fine with Kiana.
-Okay.
-Wow! I am shocked.
-Wow.
[Lee] Hadley orchestrated this.
Undermined all the power of the hierarchy.
Hadley single-handedly undermined
all of Chris's power.
Okay, my friends, officers.
I didn't think that my PM squad
would pick me as the team leader.
I am happy to do it,
and I will always hear everybody out
and make the best decision
according to what's fair.
So far, Officer Lee has been
our spokesperson,
and so this is completely unexpected,
to be honest with you.
-[Jefferson] Chris, how you feeling, huh?
-What's that?
-How you feeling?
-Fine.
I mean, I'll back down
and take my place in the back. It's fine.
The back is fun. [giggles]
It sounds like
you don't want me to be the leader,
so I'm fine backing down
and not bringing the energy.
It seems like
you're a little disappointed, Chris.
-Yeah, I am.
-[Jefferson] Uh-oh!
Of course. It sounds like you've been
disappointed with what I've done.
-So I'm fine.
-That's not what it is at all.
-It feels that way.
-[Jefferson] It's not.
-How does it not feel that way?
-I feel like you've done an amazing job.
It's time to let somebody else step up
to the front.
I'm fine. Like I said,
I'm fine letting somebody else,
but if you guys want me to continue
to do what I do…
I mean, it doesn't sound like you do.
And it's also okay for me to feel
a little bit of emotion,
a little emotion because,
I mean, I shared my piece.
That's where I stand. You guys
are going against that. Also fine.
It's okay for me not to be like, "Yeah,
it's the greatest thing in the world."
I am greatly disappointed in the decision.
But at the end of the day,
lions don't mind the opinions of sheep.
-It does change stuff, though.
-Clearly it changes something for you.
No, I'm saying you have to go
tell the prisoners that
she's the lady
that everything goes through.
That's literally what it says.
[Gaona] Although I am someone
that is so okay
with submitting under a man's leadership
like I do in my marriage so willingly,
I believe that women have as much value,
and power, and authority as men do.
Let's roll up out this biatch.
True authority, it's not demanding
control of the people that are under you.
And so, if given power,
it's to put me last, everybody else first.
-She put on her badge.
-I've got my badge on today.
-Yeah, you're…
-Oh, look at me dressing myself.
My name is Kiana Gaona. I'm 26 years old,
and I'm from Austin, Texas.
Growing up, I wanted to model.
I was just seeking fulfillment
from compliments from people,
validation from guys
that thought I was pretty.
I partied and I drank,
and I thought that that was
where my fulfillment would come from.
I was so lost.
[emotionally] And then,
I encountered Jesus.
And…
[sniffs] He saved me.
[inspirational music playing]
[Gaona] My faith is who I am.
In my book, the best example of power
is how Jesus led
and how He had full authority.
But He was kind, and He was compassionate,
and He put others before Himself.
In this experiment,
I just really want to prove that
peace and authority,
and compassion and authority,
and love and authority can coexist.
And I really want to push myself
and see, if given power,
I am about my faith
and I am who I think that I am.
-[keys jangle]
-[Jefferson] Whoo!
Good evening! Welcome to night crew.
Heyo!
[man] What, did they pick her?
-They picked her?
-You guys can sit down. Take a seat.
[man] Shut the fuck up.
Wow. That's interesting. Officer Gaona.
[Chris Lee, indistinct]
-[Robertson gasps]
-[Ellenburg] What is it?
The Officer Guerrero has
the vest that Mississip--
-Guerrero has the vest. Interesting.
-Mm-hmm.
-[Gaona] Good evening.
-[Correra] Look who's got the black vest.
[inmates applaud and cheer]
[Chris Lee] Take a seat. Take a seat.
Look at you.
[Chris Lee] So, announcement number one.
The night crew has selected a captain.
And we got Miss Officer Gaona.
Let's give it up for Officer Gaona.
[cheers and applause]
Hey, she who must be obeyed
and respected, all right?
Officer Gaona is not doing her job.
If you're going to be the leader,
you come in there and you say,
"Hey guys, we're doing this,
we're doing that."
She is just standing back,
still doing the same thing,
and letting Lee do her job.
So, for the night shift, later,
we are going to be selecting a trustee.
Okay.
So, this is the nightly edition
of what we'll call FTB.
Stands for "For the Boys."
Football scores.
[inmates applaud]
[man] All right.
[Correra] When they all came in, like,
Officer Gaona being a head guard,
I was a little shocked by that,
because definitely has more
of, like, a quieter approach.
When it comes to Lee,
he's very theatrical.
He knows how to work a crowd and a room.
And the others kinda stand back
because he does want to be the leader.
You can tell from day one when we met him.
I was jotting them all down for the boys.
Ohio State beat Purdue, 34 to 10.
[Gaona] I don't know.
The vest hasn't really made me want
to, like, puff my chest more
or be louder or anything.
It's just pretty much the same
as it has been.
And it still feels like a team effort.
I got the other teams all lined up.
As soon as I have final scores for 'em,
tomorrow's version of FTB
will take care of you.
[inmates applaud]
Obviously, you know, I felt like
I should be the person to run the group.
And so, I will continue to lead
in my own way
regardless of what my title
or elected position is.
[indistinct chatter]
-Put those there. Yeah, man.
-[Zaremba] Thank you, Officer G.
Are you, like, bored with the experiment?
Or are you still having fun with it, or…
-They're keeping it interesting.
-[Zaremba] They are? Oh, cool.
You guys gotta start thinking
of the experiment yourselves.
You guys don't have a lot of power either.
You got to think of the game, man.
They're getting you guys.
Yeah.
-I'll leave you all to it.
-All right, thank you.
[chuckles evilly]
I'm turning them against the system.
-What you playing?
-[Hardey] Chess.
-By yourself?
-[Hardey] Yeah.
-You gotta outsmart yourself?
-[Hardey] I don't know. You don't really.
How do you feel you're doing so far?
-Pretty good. Yeah.
-Yeah? Good.
Yeah. I was… I, uh…
I think I was just looking at it
a little bit wrong at first.
Hmm. Why is that?
Maybe it's just my PTSD of…
-Badge.
-…that badge. [chuckles]
What happened with that?
[Hardey] I've just had a few run-ins
with them.
-[Gaona] Makes sense.
-Yeah.
[Gaona] Makes sense.
It's cool. You get to flip the script
and give yourself a different perspective.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Thanks for chatting, man.
Yeah, dude. Yeah, absolutely.
He stood out to me specifically.
Like, we gave 878 the nickname Lone Wolf.
I see Jesus in 878's kind eyes.
Oh, Jesus, I'm so emotional.
[voice breaking] That was the first thing
I noticed about…
He, like… He just has really kind eyes,
and so I see Jesus in that.
I poked at… What's his number, Lone Wolf?
What's his number?
-Yeah.
And it made the connection click
of why he, like, mouthed off
during the riot training.
He said that he came into the experiment
with a negative…
[McDaniel] Connotation?
…view. Yeah. Connotation of the badge.
-He said he's had multiple run-ins and…
-[Jefferson] Mm. Yeah.
When we fulfilled on that,
he was ready to fight back. Right.
[Gaona] Yeah. And so he said that,
after that, like, he's having, like,
a perspective change.
I was like, "Oh, who's this?"
-[McDaniel] Excuse me. Jesus.
-[Jefferson] He should.
So, with that being said,
what are y'all's opinions
on picking him to be our trustee?
[tense music playing]
-Look at Kiana.
-Yeah, right?
Sometimes influence doesn't look or sound
so authoritative, or loud, or dominant.
For Kiana, her stepping in and saying,
"Hey, I think we should give this
to Brendan," is
a meaningful sign that
she's stepping into her power.
[Cantrell] But I also wonder
if Brendan's gonna use this trustee role
to advance his own agenda.
It's going to give him the resources,
the position, the access.
Exactly. Does he use this as
an opportunity to work from the inside?
-Hello.
-[Chris Lee] Heyo.
To be honest,
I don't support the decision.
878 has clearly been trying
to just stir the pot.
Openly rebelling against different rules.
But Officer McDaniel said
he wanted Kiana to be the leader.
And then Officer Jefferson decided
that she also wanted Kiana.
And so, "You're the captain. Let's roll."
You know? It definitely is gonna
mix up the experiment.
We got, uh… We got some news.
Okay. So, as you guys know,
the AM shift has picked a trustee
to represent the morning.
And so, we debated,
and we have come to a consensus
of who we want
the trustee for the PM shift to be.
[inmates applauding]
[Eldridge] I don't reward bad behavior
as a general manager.
I don't reward my son's bad behavior.
So, to see that behavior
that 878 was presenting be rewarded,
it was like a slap in the face
to everybody on the pod.
Yeah, we share the same title,
but we are not the same.
[inhales deeply]
[emotionally] And it pisses me off.
'Cause I know me.
And I know that I'm… I'm…
I'm genuinely frustrated.
And I'd rather him not be in my space.
I'd rather not breathe
the same air as him.
[inmates applauding]
[Terry] Recount!
-Would you like to say anything?
-Yeah.
Uh, thank you, guys. Um…
Bullshit.
[Hardey] Yeah, help me keep it clean.
Help me out. Help me out.
-Cool.
-[Terry] What was the tally?
It couldn't have been… It had to be close.
I'm just kidding, y'all.
[Chris Lee] Dude, you at least had
a third of the vote.
-[McDaniel] Landslide, actually.
-[laughs]
They must see me
as somebody who is weak, lonely,
having a really hard time.
So, they kinda threw me a bone
with this trustee position.
But now I'm hoping to use
my position as trustee
as a tool to make big changes.
We want freedom of showers.
We want the phones to be on 24/7.
We want more rec time.
We want our cells to be open.
And the guards can respect us
to follow our rules.
-Thanks again. You won't regret it.
-Yeah, dude.
Yeah, appreciate that.
Hey, I believe in you.
'Cause, yeah, I'm not an inmate.
I'm not a real prisoner. And…
And it's an experiment.
I'm not anyone's bitch. No.
[Hardey] Don't trust me!
[Zaremba] The rebellion is on its way.
[laughing]
[dramatic music playing]