0:00:02 > 0:00:09This programme contains some strong language.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13We're going to get the leg irons off for you all.
0:00:13 > 0:00:18You're going to have your cuffs taken off and have a seat inside the cage and you'll be quiet, right?
0:00:18 > 0:00:19- Ma'am, yes, ma'am.- Awesome.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25'These girls are all facing up to three years in prison.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30'But they've been given a choice.
0:00:30 > 0:00:31'Instead of serving time in prison,
0:00:31 > 0:00:34'they've taken the option of going to a boot camp
0:00:34 > 0:00:38'where military discipline is used to change behaviour.'
0:00:38 > 0:00:41..3, 4, 2, 3, 4...
0:00:41 > 0:00:42WHISTLE BLOWS
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Listen up, let's go, ladies, for the haircuts.
0:00:47 > 0:00:48'It's called doing "shock".'
0:00:53 > 0:00:55This is an opportunity for them
0:00:55 > 0:00:59to get some sort of structure in their life
0:00:59 > 0:01:02and hopefully to get them back on the right track.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05You know, get them to think different, act different, talk different.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09'If they make it, they'll be free in six months.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11'But if they fail, they'll be sent back to prison
0:01:11 > 0:01:14'to serve out their full sentence.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17'I'm going to spend time with girls going through shock.'
0:01:17 > 0:01:20This is not easy. It's really not.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23'And I'll be visiting a regular prison to find out
0:01:23 > 0:01:26'what their lives could be like if they don't make it.'
0:01:26 > 0:01:31I'd... Literally, I'd be so rubbish in here. I wouldn't last 30 seconds.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33No, your primitive side is going to kick in
0:01:33 > 0:01:35and you're going to do what's necessary.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45'There are prison boot camps all over America.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49'The military-style regime is designed to re-programme offenders
0:01:49 > 0:01:52'and literally shock them into going straight.'
0:01:52 > 0:01:55- I need your watch. - Oh, yeah, of course.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Bobby pins cannot come in.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00- OK.- We don't want them to pick no locks.- Oh, gosh...
0:02:02 > 0:02:06'But Lakeview, a shock incarceration facility in upstate New York,
0:02:06 > 0:02:13'is unique. It's currently the only camp in America that takes in girls.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15'It's 5.30 in the morning
0:02:15 > 0:02:19'and I'm about to meet the inmates who make up G1 platoon.'
0:02:19 > 0:02:22HIGH-PITCHED WHISTLE BLOWN SHARPLY
0:02:22 > 0:02:24GROANING
0:02:24 > 0:02:27- Morning, G1. - WOMEN: Sir, morning, sir.
0:02:27 > 0:02:32- I said, good morning, G1! - WOMEN: Sir, good morning, sir!
0:02:32 > 0:02:33One step forward march.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36'DI Vasquez is in charge of the platoon.'
0:02:38 > 0:02:43You want time? Now you've got time to fucking clean this stuff up.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Does that go there? I guess you don't want to be here either, huh, ma'am?
0:02:46 > 0:02:49You want this the whole six months?! That's how it's going to be.
0:02:49 > 0:02:54'DI Ricci is one of the platoon's drill instructors.'
0:02:54 > 0:02:56What they got to do, they've got to get dressed.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59They also have to make their bed and straighten out their locker
0:02:59 > 0:03:02- and everything in eight minutes. - Why have you shaved their hair?
0:03:02 > 0:03:09- They get their hair cut approximately a quarter to a half an inch in length.- Why?
0:03:09 > 0:03:14Because they only get three-minute showers, and with the long hair,
0:03:14 > 0:03:17they're going to take more than three minutes just to do their hair.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21Everything is timed, everything is so timed and regimented.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22There's no walking,
0:03:22 > 0:03:26they've got to move with a purpose everywhere we go.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Step heel, step heel, step heel!
0:03:27 > 0:03:30- Some of the girls are quite young, aren't they?- Yes.
0:03:30 > 0:03:31The youngest is 17.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Hurry up, let's go!
0:03:33 > 0:03:35CHANTING
0:03:38 > 0:03:40'G1 is made up of 56 girls.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47'They've been given the chance to come to shock because their crimes were non-violent
0:03:47 > 0:03:51'and they have less than three years left to serve on their sentence.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57'The ultimate aim of shock is to keep people out of jail.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00'Statistics show these girls will be less likely to re-offend
0:04:00 > 0:04:02'for three years after their release
0:04:02 > 0:04:05'than if they'd gone to regular prison.'
0:04:05 > 0:04:07What we're doing now is detoxing.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10If they've done a lot of drugs or been involved in gangs,
0:04:10 > 0:04:15it is very hard for us to break that ice, but we do it. We do it.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18We keep going after them and after them and after them,
0:04:18 > 0:04:20until we do end up breaking that ice.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25You'll do those three that you owe, or you'll go.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27What is wrong with you today, ma'am?
0:04:32 > 0:04:36All that stupid thinking, all that stupid thinking right up in there,
0:04:36 > 0:04:38that's what got in your way.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47DI Ricci, what's gone on there?
0:04:47 > 0:04:52She... She'd failed to do her complete set
0:04:52 > 0:04:54of that particular exercise.
0:04:54 > 0:04:59She's really got that extreme mentality because she's an ex-Blood.
0:04:59 > 0:05:04- An ex-Blood?- Yeah.- So that's one of the gangs?- It's one of the gangs.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Do you think she'll talk to me?
0:05:06 > 0:05:09- I can get her over here if you want to talk to her.- That's possible?
0:05:09 > 0:05:14Yeah. There's no problem. Caride, get over here, hurry up.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18- Right here.- I'm Stacey. What's your name?
0:05:18 > 0:05:21- I'm Tiffany, ma'am.- You've just been here two weeks?- Ma'am, yes, ma'am.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- How are you finding it? - Ma'am, it's hard.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27It's structure, something that I need, ma'am.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30And where would you be if you weren't here this morning?
0:05:30 > 0:05:34- What would you ordinarily be doing? - Selling drugs, gang-banging,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37just running the streets with the wrong people.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41- How come you're here? - I'm here for a gun charge.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Did you ever use it?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- How long did you carry it for? - A long time.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52I've been carrying a gun since I was 16.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55- Seriously?- Ma'am, yes, ma'am.- Why?
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Part of my lifestyle.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Dismissed, ma'am.
0:06:01 > 0:06:02Yes, sir.
0:06:04 > 0:06:09- 23 years old.- 23. Two years younger than me.- Wow!
0:06:09 > 0:06:12'After 45 minutes of military-style exercise,
0:06:12 > 0:06:16'there's still a mile to run before breakfast.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20'And it looks like more of the new arrivals are struggling to keep up.'
0:06:20 > 0:06:23- Would I be allowed to...? - No problem.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25- Hi.- Hello.- How are you?
0:06:25 > 0:06:28- I'm fine. Yourself? - Well, thank you. What's your name?
0:06:28 > 0:06:32- Sharmeek Brown.- Sharmeek, you were struggling to keep up
0:06:32 > 0:06:35- with the rest of the group. - Yes. I'm not physically fit.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38- How are you feeling right now? - I just want to go lay on my rack.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40Oh, my God, I bet you do.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44What did you do to get in here?
0:06:44 > 0:06:46- Burglary.- Wow.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51- Burgled someone's house?- Several times. This one time I got caught.
0:06:51 > 0:06:56- Why, if you had a job?- I was bored.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58I'm being truthful with you, I was bored.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02- There they come.- Oh, gosh. - Oh, yeah.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05Go, go, go! You can do it.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Come on, man, come on.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Right now, we're going to do showers.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Eight at a time. Eight at a time.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Three minutes in a shower, that's it.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25That's insane. Three minutes, yeah?
0:07:25 > 0:07:28- Ma'am, yes, ma'am.- Tell me how to have a shower in three minutes.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30- Work as fast as you can. - And get out.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34Put your shampoo in your hair before you go in there.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37And you work it in there and then soap up your wash cloth,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40wash yourself and rinse off real quick.
0:07:40 > 0:07:451, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 - go, hurry up.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Stand right in front of it, facing it.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53She's just been sent to the back of the room. She's facing the door.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56- What happened?- She was talking.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00When you're standing here waiting to use the shower, there's no talking.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03We're taking a couple of minutes of shower time from her.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07- How long has she got now? - She's going to have one minute to take a shower.- 60 seconds?
0:08:07 > 0:08:0860 seconds.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10You want to take a shower, ma'am?
0:08:13 > 0:08:16What is there to talk about, ma'am?
0:08:16 > 0:08:20- I was talking about shampoo, sir. - Huh?- I was talking about shampoo.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22- Shampoo?- Sir, yes, sir.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25You wanted their Finesse? They had Finesse and you didn't?
0:08:25 > 0:08:28It'll be a long six months for you, ma'am.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Go, get in there. You have one minute, go.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Hurry up! Get it done.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41They tell you to get out, you get out!
0:08:42 > 0:08:47I see I'm going to get you in about another week. Keep going!
0:08:47 > 0:08:48Don't give me that look.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53What did that lady come in and say to you?
0:08:53 > 0:08:56They think that I'm going to get sent out over here and put in G2.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59- That's where the disquals go. - What's disquals?
0:08:59 > 0:09:03Kicked out of the programme, restarts. Recycles.
0:09:05 > 0:09:10It's when you keep doing that - you keep rolling your eyes - they just get so mad.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13- It's feedback to them.- Can you not stop yourself?
0:09:13 > 0:09:17Sometimes, no. I'll learn, though.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27'I joined the girls for breakfast,
0:09:27 > 0:09:31'where I was told inmates have just eight minutes to eat.'
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- You can't sit down until all the seats are there?- You cannot sit down
0:09:37 > 0:09:39until you're given the command of "seats".
0:09:47 > 0:09:51They've got to get permission to eat, permission to sleep,
0:09:51 > 0:09:57they've got to get permission to use their head, to take a shower, talk.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00- Go to the toilet? Wash? - Yes. Everything, everything.
0:10:03 > 0:10:08And I can see there's guys just sat here and girls sitting here.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10- Are they allowed to interact? - No, they're not.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13They're not allowed to interact at all with the guys.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15And what would happen if one of the girls
0:10:15 > 0:10:19- just muttered something to one of the guys?- They would get a misbehaviour report
0:10:19 > 0:10:21and get kicked out of the programme.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26'I noticed the new inmate, Tiffany Caride,
0:10:26 > 0:10:29'who I'd spoken to earlier, was having to eat standing up.'
0:10:35 > 0:10:38Cos my feet wasn't together. You know, I have to stand...
0:10:38 > 0:10:41I have to sit like this. I was sitting like this...
0:10:47 > 0:10:50I would say, "Fuck it, jail is way easier than this."
0:10:51 > 0:10:53- Is jail easier?- Mm-hmm.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57- You can go fight when you want to? - Say that again?
0:10:57 > 0:10:58You can go fight when you want to.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01This is some bullshit that we're going through.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07# Sick in the head and out of your mind
0:11:07 > 0:11:09WOMEN: # Sick in the head and out of your mind
0:11:09 > 0:11:10# You must be loco
0:11:10 > 0:11:13# You must be loco! #
0:11:13 > 0:11:17'After breakfast, I asked if Tiffany could be excused
0:11:17 > 0:11:20'from the daily regime to talk to me.'
0:11:20 > 0:11:23I have a big dollar sign tattooed on my arm.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26So talk me through this dollar sign. What does it mean?
0:11:26 > 0:11:29It says, "The root of all evil is money,"
0:11:29 > 0:11:32the root of all evil, cos I've done evil.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37- Let me see. Oh, yeah. - The root of all evil, money.
0:11:39 > 0:11:44You know, I done evil things for money.
0:11:44 > 0:11:49I've sold drugs to people that I should care about, you understand,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52like people that, I don't know,
0:11:52 > 0:11:55people that couldn't take care of themselves
0:11:55 > 0:11:58or couldn't fend for themselves because it was their addiction.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00I took advantage of them for that.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Talk me through what a normal day would be like
0:12:03 > 0:12:06- when you were dealing drugs? - I'd be at the crack house,
0:12:06 > 0:12:08you know, making money, and I'd stay up till like...
0:12:08 > 0:12:10About the time we wake up here to exercise,
0:12:10 > 0:12:14I'd be just going to sleep, from being up all night,
0:12:14 > 0:12:17and I probably pop, like, three pills within a day.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19So I'll go to sleep at five and then the next day,
0:12:19 > 0:12:22I wouldn't go home to wake my daughter for school.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24- Like, my mother would do that. - So did your mum know?
0:12:24 > 0:12:26My mother used to cry all the time.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30But it's just the money.
0:12:30 > 0:12:36I used to make anywhere between 1,500 to 2,500 a day. You know?
0:12:36 > 0:12:38It's like...what's better than that?
0:12:38 > 0:12:42- It's addictive. - It's very addictive, very addictive.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45I was just like a boy, always walking around with a gun.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Why were you walking about with a gun?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50What's your train of thought when you get up in the morning
0:12:50 > 0:12:52and you think, "Oh, I must get the gun"?
0:12:52 > 0:12:55It was a part of my outfit.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58I was so used to it that it's just a part of my outfit.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Like now I'm talking about guns and my whole palm is itchy.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05- Cos you want the gun? - Yeah.- Really?- Mm-hmm.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10- Would you ever use it?- If I had to.
0:13:15 > 0:13:20Sometimes you feel guilty for liking parts of her,
0:13:20 > 0:13:23because she has done these terrible things.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26You know, if she was selling drugs to my little sister,
0:13:26 > 0:13:29I'm sure I'd feel very differently about her.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32If she'd robbed my mother on the street,
0:13:32 > 0:13:35I'm sure I'd feel very differently about her.
0:13:45 > 0:13:46Straightforward.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- Sir, 73, sir.- Sir, 74, sir.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55Sir, 75, sir. Last on G1's count, sir.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07'When I came back the next morning,
0:14:07 > 0:14:10'I found the new girls were being punished.'
0:14:10 > 0:14:13- Hurry up!- Can you tell me what's going on?
0:14:13 > 0:14:16We have to do a lap with our mattress on our heads.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Because when we came back to the dorm,
0:14:18 > 0:14:22he said the bathroom was closed and somebody went to the bathroom anyway.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24- So, it was after formation? - Ma'am, yes, ma'am.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26- You guys are not having a good day today.- No.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29It's all right, though, we do this a lot.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Sharmeek Brown looked like she was struggling again.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35This place is ridiculous and I want to go the hell home.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Why are you upset today?
0:14:37 > 0:14:40I'm not even mad, people are just assholes.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44- We gotta pay for everybody else which is un-freaking-fair.- Yeah.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47I'm just frustrated right now and I want to go back to Albion.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- Is Albion another prison? - Yes, I'd rather go to prison.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53DI, can you see how some of the girls get frustrated
0:14:53 > 0:14:56because it's not them that did the wrong thing,
0:14:56 > 0:14:57yet they're still having to pay?
0:14:57 > 0:15:01They still have to pay because of the fact that they have to learn
0:15:01 > 0:15:04to hold each other accountable. You may have come by yourself,
0:15:04 > 0:15:08but you can't get through the programme without the help of the staff and the help of each other.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12And there was no let-up back at the dorm.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13WHISTLE One...
0:15:13 > 0:15:15WHISTLE ..two...
0:15:15 > 0:15:17WHISTLE ..three...
0:15:17 > 0:15:18WHISTLE ..four...
0:15:18 > 0:15:19WHISTLE ..five...
0:15:19 > 0:15:21WHISTLE ..six...
0:15:21 > 0:15:22WHISTLE ..seven...
0:15:22 > 0:15:24WHISTLE ..eight...
0:15:24 > 0:15:25WHISTLE ..nine...
0:15:25 > 0:15:28WHISTLE ..one zero.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31- Come on!- Come on, come on, Come on.- Come on, Brown,
0:15:31 > 0:15:35Come on! Everybody else is doing it, ma'am.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Brown, you got any kids?
0:15:38 > 0:15:43- Sir, no, sir.- You got any family? - I have a lot of family, sir.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47- OK. They waiting for you? - Sir, yes, sir.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Think about the pain that your family feels
0:15:50 > 0:15:53every day that you're not home, where you belong.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57- Sir, yes, sir.- Sir, yes, sir.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01They did absolutely nothing but stick behind you.
0:16:01 > 0:16:06And you're upset because you got to pay for someone else, as they call.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Peter paid for Paul.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12What? Your family's paying for you every day that you're not home.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Where are you going, ma'am? Whoa, whoa, whoa!
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Ma'am, come here. Back it up. Back it up.
0:16:24 > 0:16:30Let them tears roll down. You do not move. You understand?
0:16:30 > 0:16:34- Hello? Ma'am, yes, sir?- Sir, yes, sir.- Tell me the right way.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39- Do you understand?- (Sir, yes, sir.) - OK, good. Very good. See? It's good.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Little progress there.
0:16:41 > 0:16:46You're workable, ma'am. You got it inside you to do this programme. You know that? You do.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50Everybody got five minutes. Locked up at one o'clock. Got it?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52ALL: Sir, yes, sir.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58(I want to go home.)
0:16:58 > 0:17:00SHE SOBS
0:17:00 > 0:17:03(You want to go home?)
0:17:03 > 0:17:05This is not easy.
0:17:05 > 0:17:10It's really not. You've really got to humble yourself.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12It's basically...
0:17:12 > 0:17:15You got to do stuff that you're not normally used to doing.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21I'm not used to nobody telling me what to do.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26She's going to be one of my projects, I tell you.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30Hopefully, I can work with her, hold my compassion with her,
0:17:30 > 0:17:35you know, just...be strong to her, you know?
0:17:35 > 0:17:39And with these girls that are tough - and they are very strong -
0:17:39 > 0:17:42do you sometimes try to push them to the extreme?
0:17:42 > 0:17:46Try and get tears from them to see how far you can go?
0:17:46 > 0:17:50I go to an extreme where I want them to realise what they messed up,
0:17:50 > 0:17:54why they're here - because what they did was wrong, you know?
0:17:55 > 0:17:59I work with them. I work with them for the whole six months.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02- So, we'll see what happens. - Do you think about them sometimes
0:18:02 > 0:18:05- when they leave? Do you think, "I wonder how X getting on"?- Yeah.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08So, you keep in contact with some of them?
0:18:08 > 0:18:11They keep in contact with me, yeah. They just send me cards,
0:18:11 > 0:18:14- and I read them, you know?- Can you imagine Brown sending you a card
0:18:14 > 0:18:17- in a year's time? - You know what? Yes.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18SHE LAUGHS
0:18:18 > 0:18:21THEY SING MILITARY DRILL
0:18:25 > 0:18:28'I met up with the most senior members of the platoon,
0:18:28 > 0:18:31'who are nearing the end of their six months in shock.'
0:18:38 > 0:18:40WOMEN CHEER AND CLAP
0:18:40 > 0:18:45Hey! What's going on? I heard you cheering?
0:18:45 > 0:18:49- We got our pictures.- Pictures? What's the pictures of?
0:18:49 > 0:18:52It's a picture of our whole platoon, and our DI, and we're in
0:18:52 > 0:18:55our white shirts and our little ties, and we're holding up our flag.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57It's like a platoon picture.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01- Oh, I see my head from here! - Is it hard for your self-confidence
0:19:01 > 0:19:04when someone shaves all your hair off,
0:19:04 > 0:19:08says you can't do your eyebrows, you can't wear a scrap of make-up,
0:19:08 > 0:19:10you've got to look like a boy for six months?
0:19:10 > 0:19:14It is. I feel ugly all the time. I say it all the time,
0:19:14 > 0:19:17I look in the mirror, and sometimes I feel like I want to cry
0:19:17 > 0:19:21because I look like a boy. I have this ID, and this picture,
0:19:21 > 0:19:24and it looks like a little Italian boy to me.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28Is it hard for you, not wearing make-up and not wearing nice clothes?
0:19:28 > 0:19:31I hate it. Because I wear make-up all the time when I'm at home.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34- Yeah?- All the time, eyeliner, mascara, eye shadow...
0:19:34 > 0:19:39I'll never get used to not wearing it. It's weird.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43'Although the shock programme lasts six months,
0:19:43 > 0:19:45'inmates can be kept here for longer, if necessary.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47'It's called recycling.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50'I was told senior inmate Nicole Hartman
0:19:50 > 0:19:52'had been through this process.'
0:19:52 > 0:19:55- Is it OK if I have a chat with you? Would that be all right?- Yes.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Perfect. Can I come in?
0:19:58 > 0:20:00How long have you been here, Hartman?
0:20:00 > 0:20:03- I've been here for ten months. - It's a long time.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06- Yes.- Have you been recycled? - I have been recycled twice.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09What did you get recycled for?
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Well, I had a really big anger management problem.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17I would flip out all the time, and then I got recycled for that,
0:20:17 > 0:20:21and then the second time was the week before I supposed to go home.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26- You were a WEEK away from graduation?- Yeah.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30Were you quite violent? Did you fight a lot?
0:20:30 > 0:20:32I fought a lot, yes.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Just because people said things that you didn't like?
0:20:36 > 0:20:40Yeah, sometimes if people just... I was really bad.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43I would just be walking down the street,
0:20:43 > 0:20:48and somebody rolled their eyes at me, or just... I was out of control.
0:20:48 > 0:20:53Has shock changed that mentality? Or do you still think that?
0:20:53 > 0:20:58Sometimes I still think it, but the first thing that shock teaches you
0:20:58 > 0:21:00is you have to change how you think.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04- I'll have to let you go. Sorry. - I got to go to dinner.- OK.- OK.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07- Thank you for speaking to me. - You're welcome, ma'am.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18She seems quite, erm, vacant, doesn't she?
0:21:18 > 0:21:20She just seems...
0:21:24 > 0:21:26..quite distant.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30She's due to graduate in two weeks.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34I can't imagine what she must have been like ten months ago.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43- 'Counsellor Kubick is one of shock's therapists.' - Counsellor Kubick, nice to meet you.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Seats.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47ALL: Lakeview!
0:21:47 > 0:21:50'She runs the drug and alcohol programme.
0:21:50 > 0:21:55'Almost three-quarters of inmates arrive with a history of addiction.'
0:21:55 > 0:21:58What we're going to do is have inmate Hartman come up,
0:21:58 > 0:22:00and she's going to do a lead for us. OK.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Go ahead, Hartman. Come on up.
0:22:02 > 0:22:07'Hartman's here for drink-driving with her young children in the car.'
0:22:07 > 0:22:13My name is Nicole Hartman. I'm 22 years old.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18The environment that I grew up in was pretty bad.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21My dad's part of a biker club.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25There's a lot of violence, and a lot of drugs.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28When I was nine years old,
0:22:28 > 0:22:31both of my parents went to prison,
0:22:31 > 0:22:35and me and all my siblings went to foster care.
0:22:35 > 0:22:40I acted out and I got kicked out from foster home to foster home.
0:22:40 > 0:22:47When I was 15, my mother got out of prison and she got us back.
0:22:47 > 0:22:52I went and lived with her. I'd started drinking and smoking weed.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55I smoked weed, and I drank with my mom.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57We used to go rob stuff together.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00She wasn't really a mom, per se.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03I met my husband.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07He was a drug dealer for my dad. He was selling drugs for my dad.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10I started selling a lot of drugs.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15My kids are out there.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22- And I'm in here. - Hartman, during that period of time, when you and your mom...
0:23:22 > 0:23:25What was your relationship like during that period of time?
0:23:25 > 0:23:28My mom had always been in and out of my life so much
0:23:28 > 0:23:31that when she was gone, I took care of everybody.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34I took care of my dad. I took care of my brother. I was the mom of the house.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38What was your relationship like with your dad during that period of time?
0:23:38 > 0:23:41I was the right-hand man. That's what I did and...
0:23:44 > 0:23:49..in times...in times of whatever, I would take the heat for him,
0:23:49 > 0:23:54or if something needed to be done, I was the person that would do it.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Family always comes first, no matter what.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59No matter what the consequences are.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06That's how it's supposed to be.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12- To any extent?- To any extent. To any extent...
0:24:15 > 0:24:17You're doing fine.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Where do things stand with Mom and Dad right now?
0:24:24 > 0:24:29Right now... I haven't talked to my mother...
0:24:29 > 0:24:33and my father...
0:24:35 > 0:24:39It's like I want to be mad at him, but I can't. I just...
0:24:41 > 0:24:43..it's my dad.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49That's OK.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Good job. Thank you.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54APPLAUSE
0:24:58 > 0:25:00INAUDIBLE
0:25:02 > 0:25:07To hear her background, where she's from,
0:25:07 > 0:25:11you kind of understand a lot more, I think.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14She's come a long way, because in the beginning of the programme,
0:25:14 > 0:25:18the only thing that came across was the aggression.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22- When I spoke to her, I found her a bit scary.- Absolutely.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Her father is in a motorcycle gang,
0:25:24 > 0:25:27and she learned very well how to be aggressive,
0:25:27 > 0:25:31how to get what she wants, even at the sake of other people,
0:25:31 > 0:25:34how to step on people's toes, how to not feel feelings,
0:25:34 > 0:25:37you know, to be tough.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41She's so far enmeshed into this family dysfunction
0:25:41 > 0:25:44that six months isn't going to take all of that away.
0:25:49 > 0:25:54If I'd have sat here and told you before shock incarceration
0:25:54 > 0:25:57that I found you scary, what would you have done?
0:26:01 > 0:26:02Probably...
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Good. You should be.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11I mean, how does it make you feel, knowing that you do
0:26:11 > 0:26:15come across as scary to some people that don't maybe know you?
0:26:17 > 0:26:21I think I've done it for so long that it's a defence mechanism.
0:26:21 > 0:26:27And I'll do it subconsciously, without even... Just walking around.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31To me, that's what's normal, is giving off the persona
0:26:31 > 0:26:33that is intimidating to people.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38I've tried to lose some of the edginess.
0:26:38 > 0:26:43I smile a little bit more, but it's a work in progress!
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Step it up, ma'am. 4-30 a step.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54'Just weeks into her time in shock,
0:26:54 > 0:26:57'inmate Brown is still struggling to adapt.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00'Along with some others in the platoon,
0:27:00 > 0:27:03'she's been called up in front of the weekly disciplinary committee.'
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Report.
0:27:05 > 0:27:10Inmate Brown, reporting to the Learning Experience Committee, as ordered.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Thank you. While you're in here, you can make eye contact with us, OK?
0:27:13 > 0:27:14- Sir, yes, sir.- OK.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18The way the officer wrote... It's from Officer De Jesus, OK?
0:27:18 > 0:27:19Sir, yes, sir.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23He wrote that feedback towards staff during the morning run -
0:27:23 > 0:27:26negative attitude and body language. OK?
0:27:26 > 0:27:30What exactly led Officer De Jesus to believe that you were giving
0:27:30 > 0:27:33negative body language to him? What exactly did you do?
0:27:33 > 0:27:34Probably standing like this.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38- OK, which is negative body language, right?- Ma'am, yes, ma'am.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42- We talk about flat-tyre sound. You know what that is?- Sir, yes, sir.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46- All right, let me hear the flat-tyre sound, so I know you know it. - Ssssssss...
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Yeah. What do you think that conveys?
0:27:48 > 0:27:52Sir, I believe it's that "You're getting on my nerves," sir.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54OK, that's exactly... Frustration.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57"You're getting on my nerves," all right? "I'm getting angry."
0:27:57 > 0:27:59We want to learn how to communicate through our words,
0:27:59 > 0:28:01not through our body language, OK?
0:28:01 > 0:28:04What we're going to ask you to do over the next seven days
0:28:04 > 0:28:07is to wear what we're going to call a "positive attitude sash".
0:28:07 > 0:28:09- Do we have the sash?- Yep.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14OK, what you're going to do is put this through your left arm,
0:28:14 > 0:28:16just like that, and over your head. OK?
0:28:16 > 0:28:21Let that yellow sash be a reminder to you
0:28:21 > 0:28:23to keep the attitude positive.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26Positive attitude starts this minute, OK?
0:28:33 > 0:28:36When they told you you had to wear the sash,
0:28:36 > 0:28:39- you didn't look that impressed? - It was humiliating.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43- It really is. - What's humiliating about it?
0:28:43 > 0:28:46I know it's obviously quite embarrassing to wear the sash.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49It's yellow. Everybody's going to look at me.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51Tell me what your mates would say on the street
0:28:51 > 0:28:53if they saw you knocking about in that yellow sash.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55"What the hell is wrong with you?"
0:28:55 > 0:28:59Why do you think this sash might work, if you think it will?
0:28:59 > 0:29:03It's going to work for me, because I don't like wearing it!
0:29:05 > 0:29:07I do not like wearing this.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10When I saw the lady pass it to me, I wanted to cry,
0:29:10 > 0:29:12but I refuse to cry.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15It's just... I don't like it. I really don't.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17But I will learn from it.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30'The whole dorm is gathering for an afternoon session
0:29:30 > 0:29:32'known as "confrontation".
0:29:32 > 0:29:35'It allows the platoon to air their grievances with each other
0:29:35 > 0:29:37'in a controlled way,
0:29:37 > 0:29:42'and Sharmeek Brown has found herself voted into the hot seat.'
0:29:42 > 0:29:48So if you're in the inner circle and you do not have a confrontation for Miss Brown, stand up.
0:29:48 > 0:29:52If you're in the outer circle, tap in. Take your seat, change seats.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00All right, come on, straight up, let's go.
0:30:00 > 0:30:05You gave up on yourself and didn't push yourself on the morning run after PT.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07We pay for you constantly.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09You constantly give feedback. While we're paying for you,
0:30:09 > 0:30:13you're not even PT'ing. You're complaining, giving feedback.
0:30:13 > 0:30:17You roll your eyes, and you respond to him in a very sarcastic way.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19You're rude, you're very rude.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22Your military bearing is very ghetto, very hood.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25You can't even do an about-face, because your pants are so tight.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28You don't be quiet, you lay on your rack a lot,
0:30:28 > 0:30:31and I feel disregarded, and that's my confrontation with you.
0:30:31 > 0:30:34I'm sick of listening to your nonsense.
0:30:34 > 0:30:38Now, you're either going to get real, or you're going to leave.
0:30:38 > 0:30:40Because you didn't become like this before you got to us.
0:30:40 > 0:30:43You were like this in the world, except worse.
0:30:43 > 0:30:47You were worse in the world, correct? Treating people like...
0:30:47 > 0:30:49HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:30:49 > 0:30:50- Correct?- Yes.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53What's wrong with you...really?
0:30:53 > 0:30:55What's going on?
0:30:55 > 0:30:57Tell your peers what's going on.
0:30:57 > 0:31:01And, yeah, you do got to answer the question.
0:31:03 > 0:31:08Look at them, and tell them who you are, and what's going on,
0:31:08 > 0:31:10and why you act like you act to them.
0:31:10 > 0:31:16The reason why I treat y'all the way I do is because I've been hurt
0:31:16 > 0:31:20so many times in my life, and it's basically just
0:31:20 > 0:31:25- a defence mechanism, because I just don't want to get hurt no more. - Hurt how? Break it down for them.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29You ain't the only one sitting here that's been hurt.
0:31:29 > 0:31:33Violently. In many different ways.
0:31:34 > 0:31:36Physically? Sexually?
0:31:36 > 0:31:38Because what you're suffering from right now
0:31:38 > 0:31:42is that terminal uniqueness - nobody knows what I'm going through.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46- Tell them.- I've been violated sexually before and... - How old were you?
0:31:49 > 0:31:52- Probably about 12.- OK.- And...
0:31:52 > 0:31:55That hurt you, didn't?
0:31:55 > 0:31:59- Yes.- Very much.- Yes.- That's right.
0:31:59 > 0:32:03- That's right.- And I never would have talked about it before...
0:32:03 > 0:32:05- Was it a family member?- No.
0:32:05 > 0:32:09And that's the problem. You are not talking about pains you need to talk about,
0:32:09 > 0:32:12which is the first step of ASAT.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15And until you start getting that stuff off your shoulders
0:32:15 > 0:32:16and clearing yourself,
0:32:16 > 0:32:19you can't go nowhere in this programme,
0:32:19 > 0:32:21because look what it's doing to your programme.
0:32:21 > 0:32:23I'm over here. Put your head up. I know it's hard,
0:32:23 > 0:32:27but you can't go nowhere in this programme until you get real.
0:32:27 > 0:32:28Because you're not fooling us.
0:32:30 > 0:32:34- You're fooling you.- I don't know how to deal with it, still to this day...
0:32:34 > 0:32:37You say something? Who have you talked about that in here?
0:32:37 > 0:32:38- Nobody.- Exactly.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42I've seen some of your fellow peers raising their hand,
0:32:42 > 0:32:46saying, "Yes, I understand that feeling, because I have experienced some of those feelings."
0:32:46 > 0:32:50And they're raising their hand, some of the people that confronted you,
0:32:50 > 0:32:53raising their hand, because they can identify with that.
0:32:53 > 0:32:59But if you won't talk to them, you don't know who else in here has experienced those same things.
0:32:59 > 0:33:03- Do you need help?- Yes.- Then say what you want to say, say what you need
0:33:03 > 0:33:06and say what you're going to do.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09- I need help and...- I need...?
0:33:09 > 0:33:13- I WANT help...and... - Look at them.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16..I'd appreciate it if all of you would help me.
0:33:16 > 0:33:19What do you want them to help you on?
0:33:20 > 0:33:22Help me work on me.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26Who here would be willing to help her? There you go.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29And if I was you, I'd pick 'em all.
0:33:29 > 0:33:32Especially those that got confronted.
0:33:32 > 0:33:36You let this sit with you. Leave her alone.
0:33:36 > 0:33:39Let her sit with her stuff, think about her things.
0:33:39 > 0:33:41Feet.
0:33:53 > 0:33:57There were times in there, more towards the beginning,
0:33:57 > 0:34:01where it felt really quite harsh, too harsh, and I looked at Brown,
0:34:01 > 0:34:05and I thought, "I really feel uneasy about this.
0:34:05 > 0:34:09"I feel really uncomfortable, I don't really know where to look."
0:34:09 > 0:34:12Do people experience that? Do they get that?
0:34:12 > 0:34:14Their feelings are really intense,
0:34:14 > 0:34:17so that comes across when they confront,
0:34:17 > 0:34:21but when you get the breakthrough, I think that it's worth it.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Yeah, because I'm certain critics would say,
0:34:24 > 0:34:28"That's humiliating. It's a step too far. It's not productive.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31"Why are you doing it? Are you doing it just because...?"
0:34:31 > 0:34:34And I would say that if you only looked at confrontation,
0:34:34 > 0:34:36didn't look at the context in which it was in,
0:34:36 > 0:34:39didn't look at the entire programme, and everything,
0:34:39 > 0:34:42then I think it would be easy to draw that conclusion.
0:34:44 > 0:34:47'But I wanted to catch up with Brown on her own,
0:34:47 > 0:34:51'to see how SHE felt about what was revealed during confrontation.'
0:34:51 > 0:34:55- How are you?- I'm better, ma'am, yes, ma'am.
0:34:55 > 0:35:00Are you surprised by what confrontation can do?
0:35:00 > 0:35:05I never thought I would say that to anybody that I didn't know.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08So, for me to break down that wall,
0:35:08 > 0:35:12that felt good to me. It really did.
0:35:12 > 0:35:17That's another stepping stone that I stepped on, I crumpled it up
0:35:17 > 0:35:19and I can let it go now.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23And how did you feel when, at the end, the counsellor said,
0:35:23 > 0:35:26"Who can help Brown? Who's willing to help Brown?"
0:35:26 > 0:35:29and every single girl in the room put their hand up?
0:35:29 > 0:35:36At that moment, I felt good, because when I thought that, like I said,
0:35:36 > 0:35:39I don't like most of them, but when I thought that they didn't like me,
0:35:39 > 0:35:43and they put their hands up, it just let me know, that's another wall that
0:35:43 > 0:35:48I can probably put down, because they didn't have to put their hands up.
0:35:48 > 0:35:49It was quite full on for you...
0:35:51 > 0:35:55..and you didn't have to let me be there, so thanks for that.
0:35:55 > 0:35:59I feel that I can talk to either one of y'all about anything,
0:35:59 > 0:36:01especially you.
0:36:01 > 0:36:05You made me feel so good being here. You really did.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10There you go. I know you've got to go.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12- I'll walk over there with you.- OK.
0:36:12 > 0:36:15I don't really want to be seen dead with you in that bloody sash, but...
0:36:15 > 0:36:17- I know!- ..what can I do?
0:36:17 > 0:36:21They're going to think you've got an attitude problem, too.
0:36:24 > 0:36:25(Good night.)
0:36:28 > 0:36:32'For some, the regime at Lakeview is hard to handle,
0:36:32 > 0:36:35'and a third of shock inmates might not make it through.
0:36:35 > 0:36:39'They could find themselves serving out their full sentence back in a regular prison.'
0:36:39 > 0:36:40Ready, mount.
0:36:40 > 0:36:44- ALL:- Sir, good night, sir. - Good night, ladies.
0:36:56 > 0:37:00'I've come to Manhattan to try and understand what life
0:37:00 > 0:37:04'might be like for the girls who don't make it through shock.'
0:37:04 > 0:37:09The crazy, craziest thing is, this prison I am going to visit,
0:37:09 > 0:37:14Bayview, is literally smack bang in the middle of Manhattan.
0:37:15 > 0:37:19You know, it's literally like someone throwing a prison up
0:37:19 > 0:37:21on Oxford Street in sort of central London.
0:37:24 > 0:37:27'Bayview is a high-rise medium-security prison.'
0:37:27 > 0:37:29BUZZER
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Hello.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34OK. Here we go.
0:37:34 > 0:37:38'I'm being shown one of the floors by Officer Batts.'
0:37:38 > 0:37:41OK, Stacey, this is the eight-floor housing unit.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44And this houses our general population.
0:37:44 > 0:37:48And, as you can see, these are the cells. Or rooms.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54MAN SHOUTS ORDER
0:37:56 > 0:38:01'On this floor, there are 37 inmates serving anything from three years to life.'
0:38:01 > 0:38:02OK, ladies, clear.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05'Batts suggested that I speak to one of the girls
0:38:05 > 0:38:08'who's been in and out of the prison system for years.'
0:38:08 > 0:38:10< No, no, no, no.
0:38:18 > 0:38:22She's got... She's gone back to bed.
0:38:22 > 0:38:24Offley?
0:38:24 > 0:38:28- It is seven o'clock in the morning!- No, I know.
0:38:28 > 0:38:34- What time should I come back? - I already said at 8.30. Come on!
0:38:37 > 0:38:41- 8.30, yeah?- Yes.- OK.
0:38:41 > 0:38:45Oh, dear. She's not a happy bunny.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48She's got the hump, she doesn't want to be up this early.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50Hello. Are you all right?
0:38:50 > 0:38:54'Eventually, I find an inmate who's prepared to show me around.'
0:38:54 > 0:38:56- Can I come in?- Come in.
0:38:56 > 0:39:00- What's your name?- I'm Danielle. - Danielle, I'm Stacey.
0:39:00 > 0:39:03'Danielle's serving a six-year sentence
0:39:03 > 0:39:06'for badly injuring people while drink-driving.'
0:39:06 > 0:39:08- Is it scary, this floor?- Hmm?
0:39:08 > 0:39:13- Is it scary, this floor?- Not to me.
0:39:13 > 0:39:15- No?- I think you get used to things.
0:39:15 > 0:39:17OK.
0:39:19 > 0:39:23- So, we are left or right? - We're going to go right.- Right.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30- So, this is our bathroom. - Ahh.
0:39:31 > 0:39:34Oh, wow. OK.
0:39:34 > 0:39:37Sometimes girls will come here just to hang out, because there's no visiting.
0:39:37 > 0:39:39Most notorious for fighting.
0:39:39 > 0:39:42Most of the time, people will come in here fighting.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45If you want to be out of view, someone will lock the door,
0:39:45 > 0:39:48hold the door and block the window so no-one can see,
0:39:48 > 0:39:51- or you go in the shower area. - How bad can it get?
0:39:52 > 0:39:56Just fighting. Just fighting.
0:39:56 > 0:39:59I mean, nobody dies, if that's what you mean.
0:39:59 > 0:40:03What kind of things do they tend to fight over?
0:40:03 > 0:40:06Typically, here, it's either disrespect or other females.
0:40:06 > 0:40:11You don't hold your ground, then you're a guppy, you're a dodger.
0:40:11 > 0:40:14- So...- It's jealousy, a lot of jealousy here?
0:40:14 > 0:40:18I think that women are a bit more free, sexually, than the men are,
0:40:18 > 0:40:20so it's more, you know...
0:40:20 > 0:40:25- this one is messing with this one. You know? That kind of thing.- OK.
0:40:25 > 0:40:27I'd... Literally, I would be so rubbish in here.
0:40:27 > 0:40:31- I just wouldn't last 30 seconds. - No, that's not true.- I swear.
0:40:31 > 0:40:33No, I know. I know I wouldn't.
0:40:33 > 0:40:39No. Because it's either, you do what's necessary,
0:40:39 > 0:40:41or you fall apart.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44And your primitive side is going to kick in,
0:40:44 > 0:40:46and you're going to do what's necessary.
0:40:46 > 0:40:49- Want to see the showers?- Yes.- OK.
0:40:49 > 0:40:51Show me these showers.
0:40:52 > 0:40:53Gosh.
0:40:55 > 0:40:58- Is that it? Two? Oh, no. - No, it goes back.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01OK, and this must be, I'm assuming,
0:41:01 > 0:41:05where girls come to get intimate with each other?
0:41:05 > 0:41:08More so in the stalls than actually in the shower.
0:41:08 > 0:41:11Forgive the frankness, but just to finger-pop in a stall...
0:41:11 > 0:41:16So what, they just lock the door, and one of them sits on the toilet...?
0:41:16 > 0:41:19No, one will... You'll stand and cock a leg.
0:41:20 > 0:41:24- And they just finger each other in the toilet?- Yeah.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27- Does that happen a lot? - I don't really want to know.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30I mean, I see pairs of feet under there,
0:41:30 > 0:41:33but do I enquire as to what they're doing? No!
0:41:36 > 0:41:37Thank you.
0:41:39 > 0:41:43'I was surprised by the relative freedom the girls have here.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45'They even have their own kitchen.'
0:41:46 > 0:41:49Yum, yum, right? SHE LAUGHS
0:41:51 > 0:41:55Danielle, what are you cutting? Is that the lid?
0:41:55 > 0:42:00- Yeah.- It's the lid off the can, innit?- Mm-hm.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05Have these ever been used for anything other than cutting peppers?
0:42:05 > 0:42:09No, because if that would be the case then they'd take it from us.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11'I was still keen to meet the inmate on the wing
0:42:11 > 0:42:14'who's on her third stretch of prison time.'
0:42:14 > 0:42:16I'm going to see Offley.
0:42:16 > 0:42:19She said I can only have five minutes with her,
0:42:19 > 0:42:21and then I have to leave her alone for ever.
0:42:21 > 0:42:26'At 25, her convictions include armed robbery and assault.'
0:42:27 > 0:42:29I got something to do.
0:42:29 > 0:42:34- Sorry. Offley?- Yes, ma'am. - How are you today?
0:42:34 > 0:42:37I'm aggravated, because you keep on following me,
0:42:37 > 0:42:40- you keep on bothering me.- I don't want to aggravate you, I'm sorry.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42You cannot learn from my time here.
0:42:42 > 0:42:46You cannot understand nothing about what goes on in the penitentiary environment.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49That's why I need to come here and speak to people like you.
0:42:49 > 0:42:51Tell me, tell me what your life is like.
0:42:51 > 0:42:55- You would not understand what my life is like.- Try to explain.
0:42:55 > 0:42:57I don't want to try and explain, you're wasting my time.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00You want to get to know something you're not going to know.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02You have to experience for yourself.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05You have to come, commit a crime, it could just be steal from a store,
0:43:05 > 0:43:09whatever, come to jail, be an inmate,
0:43:09 > 0:43:12and then you'll see what it's like to be in prison.
0:43:12 > 0:43:14What would I see if I was in here as an inmate?
0:43:14 > 0:43:16What you see now. You're filming everything,
0:43:16 > 0:43:19- you're going to see the same thing. - Why are you angry with me?
0:43:19 > 0:43:22Because I just told you, you keep on bothering me,
0:43:22 > 0:43:23I don't want to talk to y'all.
0:43:23 > 0:43:26- I want you to leave me alone, for real.- No, I will.
0:43:26 > 0:43:28I'll leave you alone, but if we don't get it...
0:43:28 > 0:43:32Oh, lunch is now being served. I've got to go, excuse me. Thank you!
0:43:32 > 0:43:34Wait - can you close the door?
0:43:34 > 0:43:36She's unbelievable.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41Is she ready to be let out in a couple of months?
0:43:41 > 0:43:45It's part of the prison system. It's part of the prison system.
0:43:45 > 0:43:50She might change tomorrow, we don't know, we just got to wait.
0:43:50 > 0:43:53But like I told you before, if she changes or doesn't change,
0:43:53 > 0:43:57she has two be released, especially if it's her max date.
0:43:57 > 0:43:58We have to let her out.
0:44:00 > 0:44:04'There's no compulsory exercise at Bayview,
0:44:04 > 0:44:07'but there's some outdoor space. It's known as the rec,
0:44:07 > 0:44:10'and it's where the girls can go to relax.'
0:44:12 > 0:44:17- Hey!- Oh, my God, do you know them? Danni, who is it?
0:44:17 > 0:44:19It's a friend of ours.
0:44:19 > 0:44:22- Did she used to come here?- Mm-hm.
0:44:22 > 0:44:25- Which one is it? - The one on the left.
0:44:25 > 0:44:28- She looks nice.- Yeah.
0:44:29 > 0:44:33- She looks good, right? - How long did she do in here?
0:44:33 > 0:44:38- Six-and-a-half.- Six-and-a-half years? If she's been in here for six-and-a-half years,
0:44:38 > 0:44:41the last thing she'd want to do is come anywhere near this place.
0:44:41 > 0:44:44No, when we make bonds, we make bonds.
0:44:44 > 0:44:48- She looks good. > - I know, doesn't she?
0:44:52 > 0:44:55'After serving four years of her six-year sentence,
0:44:55 > 0:44:58'Danielle could get parole any time soon.'
0:44:58 > 0:45:02I never even really considered the future,
0:45:02 > 0:45:04cos I didn't care if I had one.
0:45:04 > 0:45:08- And I'd smoked weed since I was seven.- You smoked weed at seven?
0:45:08 > 0:45:09- Yes.- Seven?- Yes.
0:45:09 > 0:45:13My mother started me on it because it would make me go to sleep, initially.
0:45:13 > 0:45:16My mother's pretty much who I had,
0:45:16 > 0:45:19but she was kind of involved in her own life.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22She was a drug addict. She was an alcoholic.
0:45:22 > 0:45:27Everything from shooting up, smoking crack, snorting coke, drinking... You name it, she did it.
0:45:27 > 0:45:31And she got sick of her life, and she committed suicide,
0:45:31 > 0:45:36and me and a friend came home, and I found her in our living room.
0:45:36 > 0:45:39Where's your dad?
0:45:39 > 0:45:41I don't know...
0:45:43 > 0:45:45..and I don't care.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48'I wanted to know how Bayview had helped Danielle
0:45:48 > 0:45:50'prepare for life outside.'
0:45:50 > 0:45:56A, A, A, A, A, A, That's really amazing.
0:45:56 > 0:46:00Yes. I came in with an eighth-grade education,
0:46:00 > 0:46:02and I'm going for my bachelors.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05Why do you think you are so focused
0:46:05 > 0:46:09and so into taking everything you can, education wise,
0:46:09 > 0:46:13when there's so many people here who do just plod along?
0:46:16 > 0:46:21Because my life before I came here, I wasted it. It was a waste.
0:46:21 > 0:46:23I was a waste of existence.
0:46:23 > 0:46:25And I'm not going to be that when I leave.
0:46:25 > 0:46:29The things that I've accomplished being in jail is not something
0:46:29 > 0:46:31I would have on the street.
0:46:31 > 0:46:33It's not.
0:46:39 > 0:46:43I do find this place depressing, and it's draining,
0:46:43 > 0:46:46and it's not a nice place to be.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48But, you know, you have to take into account that Danni,
0:46:48 > 0:46:51you know, she may be an exception,
0:46:51 > 0:46:53but she does seem to have taken something from prison.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56It is quite a telling sign, isn't it?
0:46:56 > 0:46:59You know, if you can flourish in prison.
0:47:01 > 0:47:03SIRENS BLARE
0:47:08 > 0:47:10'I'm back at Lakeview.'
0:47:13 > 0:47:16- Home sweet home. - Home sweet home, right?
0:47:16 > 0:47:20It's not Manhattan, but it'll have to do.
0:47:21 > 0:47:25'The senior members of the platoon are due to graduate tomorrow,
0:47:25 > 0:47:28'so preparations are under way.
0:47:30 > 0:47:33'But I was keen to see how new inmate Brown was getting on.'
0:47:35 > 0:47:38How have the last few days been here?
0:47:38 > 0:47:42- For me, they have been good, ma'am. - That's good.
0:47:42 > 0:47:44What about the others?
0:47:44 > 0:47:47I guess cos they're going home, they're fooling themselves,
0:47:47 > 0:47:51- so a lot of them are getting in trouble, ma'am.- Oh, really?
0:47:51 > 0:47:55The attitudes, them talking, back-talking...
0:47:57 > 0:48:01Somebody got a Super, meaning that they might not go home tomorrow.
0:48:01 > 0:48:02- (Really?)- Mm-hm.
0:48:04 > 0:48:05(Hartman.)
0:48:05 > 0:48:09- What did she get it for? - For back-talking, body language.
0:48:09 > 0:48:10(Oh, my God.)
0:48:10 > 0:48:12Hey...
0:48:12 > 0:48:14Hartman, what's going on?
0:48:14 > 0:48:16I don't want to talk.
0:48:16 > 0:48:19- Will you talk to me for two seconds? - Uh-uh.
0:48:22 > 0:48:24It's just that I want to understand...
0:48:24 > 0:48:27- I don't want to talk right now, Stacey.- Will you talk to me after?
0:48:27 > 0:48:30I don't want to talk right now. I'm trying not to be rude.
0:48:30 > 0:48:33I don't want to talk right now, Stacey.
0:48:33 > 0:48:34OK, I'll speak to you a bit later.
0:48:34 > 0:48:38'Hartman's already been here for ten months
0:48:38 > 0:48:40'and been recycled twice,
0:48:40 > 0:48:44'and now her chances of leaving tomorrow are in doubt.'
0:48:46 > 0:48:50She must go before a specially convened disciplinary committee.
0:48:50 > 0:48:54Sometimes when they do this, it's because they don't want to go home.
0:48:54 > 0:48:57They sabotage themselves and stay here,
0:48:57 > 0:49:01maybe from not having nothing to go home to, or scared to go home...
0:49:02 > 0:49:07..but to get this close and to display her behaviour,
0:49:07 > 0:49:11especially being here this long, you know, she's been here a while,
0:49:11 > 0:49:14it just makes me think she doesn't want to go home.
0:49:14 > 0:49:16God, if she doesn't graduate...
0:49:17 > 0:49:21- When will they decide? - They'll discuss what's gone on today
0:49:21 > 0:49:23and then they'll give her a decision.
0:49:23 > 0:49:26INDISTINCT ORDER
0:49:29 > 0:49:32- Hey.- Hey, how you doing? - How was that?
0:49:32 > 0:49:36We asked her...if she should think she should go home,
0:49:36 > 0:49:38- or is she ready to go home... - What did she say?
0:49:38 > 0:49:43She says she is. I mean, I go, "Well, what happened yesterday with the attitude?"
0:49:43 > 0:49:46She goes, she was having a bad day and the stress of going home.
0:49:46 > 0:49:48She actually said she was afraid to go home.
0:49:48 > 0:49:52Personally, I think she IS ready to go home, but I told her,
0:49:52 > 0:49:56"I'm not going to be there to save you when you screw up out there,"
0:49:56 > 0:49:59you know, "You'll end up back in jail," and she knows it.
0:50:02 > 0:50:07'Back at the dorm, the rest of the senior girls are preparing to go home.'
0:50:11 > 0:50:14- Have you cleared your locker yet? No?- I haven't.
0:50:14 > 0:50:18I've just cleared some trash out but I'm going to take these clothes and stuff out,
0:50:18 > 0:50:20that I'll never wear again in my life.
0:50:20 > 0:50:22Goodbye!
0:50:23 > 0:50:29- Have you got anyone coming to graduation tomorrow? - My mom, my daughter and my aunt.
0:50:29 > 0:50:31- Your daughter's coming?- Mm-hm.
0:50:31 > 0:50:35- How old is she?- She just turned three on August 3rd.
0:50:35 > 0:50:37She's this one.
0:50:37 > 0:50:39- Oh, my gosh.- This one.
0:50:39 > 0:50:40Aw!
0:50:40 > 0:50:43Oh, my God, she's the spitting image!
0:50:45 > 0:50:48Hartman is still on track to graduate,
0:50:48 > 0:50:51but she's requested a session with Councillor Kubick
0:50:51 > 0:50:53before she leaves.
0:50:56 > 0:51:00One of the things that you mentioned on Monday was your fellow peers,
0:51:00 > 0:51:04you know, that they're excited, they're getting ready to go home,
0:51:04 > 0:51:09and you're at the point where you're feeling not the elation that they're feeling
0:51:09 > 0:51:10but more of being terrified.
0:51:10 > 0:51:14It's scary because everything that I left at home
0:51:14 > 0:51:18is at home waiting. Just like I'm counting down days to go home,
0:51:18 > 0:51:21all my problems are counting down days until I can come back,
0:51:21 > 0:51:23so...it's scary.
0:51:23 > 0:51:27If I were to fail, I would say it would be because I went back
0:51:27 > 0:51:29to being with my mom and my dad.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32Now, we've talked before,
0:51:32 > 0:51:36and you have mentioned about not having anything to do with your mom
0:51:36 > 0:51:39and you have mentioned before, in passing, that
0:51:39 > 0:51:43you know that you probably shouldn't have anything to do with your dad
0:51:43 > 0:51:47but now sitting here today, you've said emphatically,
0:51:47 > 0:51:50"Not having anything to do with my mom and my dad."
0:51:50 > 0:51:54So that's a shift from the last time we've talked
0:51:54 > 0:51:57and from previous months that we've talked.
0:51:57 > 0:52:00How is that hanging in your head and in your heart?
0:52:00 > 0:52:03It hurts.
0:52:03 > 0:52:07But like you said the other day, sometimes making the right choice
0:52:07 > 0:52:11is the one that hurts more than...doing the wrong choice,
0:52:11 > 0:52:13and...
0:52:13 > 0:52:17I just know that I can't be the person that I want to be
0:52:17 > 0:52:19and do all the good things
0:52:19 > 0:52:22and still have that much dysfunction going on
0:52:22 > 0:52:25because it just won't work.
0:52:25 > 0:52:26It's not going to work.
0:52:26 > 0:52:30Are you on the fence about it? Are you still struggling with it?
0:52:30 > 0:52:35It's so hard because...I never had to do anything by myself.
0:52:35 > 0:52:39OK, I'm doing the right thing in ending all my dysfunctional relationships
0:52:39 > 0:52:43but that leaves me with just me, and now, how am I going to do
0:52:43 > 0:52:46all the stuff that I need to do by myself?
0:52:46 > 0:52:48- Mm-hm.- So it's...
0:52:48 > 0:52:49- It's terrifying.- It's scary.
0:52:49 > 0:52:51Yeah, it's terrifying.
0:52:51 > 0:52:57It means you have a lot of work to do, that the work doesn't stop just because you get out of the gate,
0:52:57 > 0:53:01but you are definitely more prepared now
0:53:01 > 0:53:03than you have ever been
0:53:03 > 0:53:06to handle those tasks when you get out.
0:53:06 > 0:53:10Stay focused...on what you've got to do,
0:53:10 > 0:53:13so that you don't slip back into old Hartman.
0:53:16 > 0:53:17(OK.)
0:53:17 > 0:53:19You feel good? You feel OK?
0:53:19 > 0:53:21- Yeah.- OK...
0:53:24 > 0:53:26Y'all better hurry up
0:53:26 > 0:53:29cos we got somewhere to be at ten o'clock.
0:53:29 > 0:53:31- Show time! Whop! ALL:- Whop!
0:53:31 > 0:53:34Won't ever be another Thursday, y'all!
0:53:34 > 0:53:36Show time! Yeah!
0:53:36 > 0:53:38LAUGHTER
0:53:38 > 0:53:41WOMEN CHANT
0:53:44 > 0:53:48ALL CHANT: Ta-ta-ta t-t-t-top girl!
0:53:48 > 0:53:50Ta-ta-ta t-t-t-top girl!
0:53:50 > 0:53:53ALL: Ta-ta-ta t-t-t-top girl!
0:53:57 > 0:54:01'It's expected that 90% of the girls graduating today
0:54:01 > 0:54:05'will stay out of the prison system for the next three years.'
0:54:20 > 0:54:22LAUGHTER
0:54:22 > 0:54:24EXCITED CHATTER
0:54:30 > 0:54:33CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:54:37 > 0:54:39Ah! Why you gon' buy a wire bra, girl?
0:54:39 > 0:54:43They literally haven't worn anything except state greens
0:54:43 > 0:54:47for some of them six months, some of them eight months, some of them ten months,
0:54:47 > 0:54:50so this is like a huge, huge, huge deal.
0:55:00 > 0:55:04- Bye!- Bye, Stacey!- Bye-bye. - Best of luck with everything, yeah?
0:55:07 > 0:55:10Aw! I've missed you.
0:55:10 > 0:55:13Hartman, you're off?
0:55:13 > 0:55:14Yup.
0:55:15 > 0:55:17Who's here? Dad and Mum?
0:55:17 > 0:55:19Yeah.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22- Are you going to go home with them tonight?- Yeah.
0:55:23 > 0:55:26- Bye, Stacey.- Bye, Hartman.- Bye.
0:55:26 > 0:55:30- It's been nice getting to know you. - You, too.- Good luck, yeah?
0:55:37 > 0:55:40- Be nice.- I have been nice.
0:55:42 > 0:55:44It's so great to see you.
0:55:45 > 0:55:47- Bye, Stacey.- Bye.
0:55:47 > 0:55:52It must be incredibly hard for Hartman. Really, really difficult. She's...
0:55:52 > 0:55:55in a really, really, really tough situation.
0:55:55 > 0:55:57She has to... You know, they're family,
0:55:57 > 0:55:58they're her blood, they're...
0:55:58 > 0:56:04who she's came from but... they also seem to be the reason
0:56:04 > 0:56:06why she's found herself here.
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