At an Arkansas detention facility, a sheriff implements a radical social experiment to grant men who are incarcerated more agency.
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00:02 Jails in America are violent and understaffed.
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00:06 Which means inmates are locked down for up to 23 hours a day.
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00:12 That's why this sheriff is willing to risk it all on a new, radical idea.
00:17 No locks and no officers.
00:20 >> And let y'all be a community.
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00:24 Detainees will have six weeks to prove that they can act more like people and
00:29 not criminals.
00:30 >> It could end helping somebody to be free and stay free.
00:34 >> Man, come on, it's a pod full of felons.
00:38 [MUSIC]
00:43 >> We running the pod now.
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00:45 >> I wish they'd had a father that knows the jury.
00:48 >> We're gonna get rid of this mother [BLEEP]
00:50 >> Dude, we finna make poops.
00:51 >> The drug is here.
00:52 [MUSIC]
00:54 >> We're not gonna let nobody mess this up for us.
00:56 >> No, you guys are gonna ruin it for all of us.
00:59 >> [LAUGH]
01:00 >> It's a big opportunity for me to
01:02 reconnect with my kids, be the best father that I can be.
01:05 >> You wanna keep this freedom, you go by the basic rules and you'll be good.
01:08 >> Let's go, people, let's go.
01:09 >> [LAUGH]
01:11 >> The things they're doing here might
01:13 shut this [BLEEP] down.
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01:16 >> We need to be prepared if things get out of hand.
01:20 >> It don't take one person to mess all of it up.
01:24 >> Y'all didn't arrive for y'all life now.
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