Very depressing, but as always with Louis T docus, compelling viewing. *promote

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He should do an in depth look at strip clubs and whiskey factories.

>> ^BoneRemake:

He should do an in depth look at strip clubs and whiskey factories.

Well, he's already done a brothel.

Louis makes such compelling viewing. The portion in segment 3 when he had the talk inside the cell with the inmate was riveting. You can see he's very careful to never talk down to people, always tries to be on the level with them. And you could also tell, especially when he first went in, that he was nervous as hell.

God, so depressing. The incarceration imposed on them by the state seems to pale in comparison to the level of suffering that "the code" causes them to inflict on themselves.

Legalizing drugs, free college education for all, universal health care and a complete overhaul of our prison system to emphasize rehabilitation instead of the current warehousing would get us pretty damn close to utopia.

The fact that "the guards say they are powerless to end the abuse" is completely ridiculous. The reason the abuse continues is simply gross negligence on the part of the corrections staff, plain and simple. I work in one of the largest maximum security prisons in the country. Most of the men I deal with on a daily basis are serving life sentences for murder. You don't need 600 million dollars to fix the problem (as the officer suggests), you need officers who do their job. What was the reason they don't have an officer watching the inmates at all times? -- "They can't function," "they don't like the idea of having an officer with them"...so what? "They want to run things"...ok so, you let them?

Why in the world would officers only see the men when they're feeding them or making a head count? Especially when you know that they are brutally attacking one another when you're not around?

Unfortunately, I fear that violence continues like this in jails and prisons because it is tacitly condoned, if not perpetuated, by the corrections staff. It is a means of control - keep them afraid of each other, and leverage for extortion, as we see in Shawshank," "do this or I'll cast you down with the Sodomites."

Another thing I've learned...people in prison (both employees and inmates) act very very different when cameras are around.

loved this. Didn't seem that bad to me, and the staff seemed very capable. Like the man said, these prisoners are incapable of living in a 3rd generation jail, one where the inmates share a space w/ guards.

Episode 2.

even knowing that most of those inmates did violent crimes, I can't help but feel sorry for them in some way. Most of them probably had really shitty lives, and terrible childhoods. It makes me feel bad for my normal life and normal childhood.

Terrifying.