Documentary series on US prisons. Behind the razor wire of CSP Sacramento, where gang wars threaten to tip the facility into chaos.
Cameras go beyond the bars to meet "the keepers", men and women tasked with watching over South America's most dangerous criminals. Explosive, eye-opening stuff.
Even prison officials admit that it's a must - when you come to prison, you have to join a gang; you have no choice. To achieve power, control, and even just to survive, prisoners must quickly learn how to take charge in the yard. In this clip, meet one inmate whose gang-related responsibilities include educating new inmates on making prison-knives and stabbing people.
Documentary filmmaker Jonathan Schwartz broaches the taboo subject of homosexuality behind bars with this frank and unflinching look at the sexual hierarchy in prison narrated by Danny Trejo. In 2003, there were more than two million Americans serving time in the nation's prisons. Over the course of their time served, one in five of those inmates will be "turned out," sodomized by their fellow prisoners and forced into sexual slavery. The vast majority of those victims will be non-violent drug offenders, a prison population that has nearly doubled since 1993.
Today, more than 80,000 Americans are in solitary confinement. Explorer looks at the science of solitary and discovers what it means to be absolutely alone. We go inside Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP) and witness prisoners on the edge and the guards who watch over them.
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