Justice, USA offers a view of Nashville's criminal justice system, offering unprecedented access to the men’s, women’s, and juvenile jails, as workers and inmates confront issues of incarceration, mental illness, and addiction. Premieres March 14 on @streamonmax.
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00:00 Sometimes the system swallows you up.
00:04 ♪ At the bottom, bottom ♪
00:07 All I see in the courtroom are victims.
00:09 Victims of dysfunctional families.
00:12 Victims of crimes.
00:14 Victims of systems.
00:16 In America, you are innocent until you're proven guilty.
00:22 They just kept saying, "You're not being charged with anything, but you're still going to jail."
00:26 Like I said, you're not guilty of anything right now.
00:28 You'll have your court date, and you'll be able to say your piece, okay?
00:31 The average length of stay awaiting trial is about six to eight months.
00:34 Now again, we just had a guy for four years.
00:36 This place don't care about humans.
00:41 I've had one visit from my lawyer in four and a half years.
00:45 I felt like it was no hope at all.
00:47 I've had a lot of problems with psychosis and hallucinations and, you know, wanting to commit suicide.
00:52 I could really lose it in here.
00:54 I spent three birthdays locked up.
00:57 [knocking]
00:58 You all right? You all want to eat?
01:00 It's difficult to tell a child that they're going to have to do more time in prison than they spend on this earth.
01:05 I'm going to be in prison for 25 years.
01:08 Oh, thanks, Phil.
01:09 We literally box kids up in cages and expect them to become better.
01:14 That makes no sense whatsoever.
01:16 I had a couple of college offers. Now I'm here.
01:20 They're trying to paint me like I'm just a monster.
01:23 The justice system itself is racist. It's classist. It's ableist.
01:28 We are hurting more people than we are helping.
01:32 What are you going to do?
01:34 What's it going to take to make it right?
01:36 [music]
01:41 [silence]