First and Last

You know, you a pretty boy.

Uh-oh. There he go.

There he go with that.

Baby Jesus. He's bouncing on us.

I'm taking off on you folks.

I already got a job waiting on me on the outside.

Get out of here and stay out of here, Boo.

Gotta meet each other outside, stop meeting up in here.

Yeah.

I can't mess up again.

Because, if I mess up one more time,

No parole, and it's ten years prison time.

The most emotional part of this job is seeing

the young seventeen-year-olds coming into jail.

The first day I walked into admissions, I was scared.

It smelled like depression, anxiety.

It felt like a bad dream.

I look at this as an experience, because I am young.

I have life ahead of me and I don't want to keep coming back here.

It's difficult to see some of the young adults come into our facility,

knowing that there's a potential for a wasted life.

It really make you lose yourself.

It seem like time is nothing.

I'll have you all stand up and walk down the hallway.

This is my first time being in Gwinnett County jail.

'Cause all my other charges have been juvenile.

It's my first time getting locked up for...

- Like... - Some serious shit?

Nah, nah. This is my first adult charge,

I had just got my probation exterminated

for juvenile, that's it.

So this the first time I've been in County.

Oh, okay. From a jouvey.

Where they pick you up at?

I don't even know, nigga. We was just... I was riding back from the mall,

and they get me, my girl, her sister,

one of my niggas... We was smokin' and threw the blunt out the window.

Talking about, we see "twelve" behind us,

"put the strap in the trunk, put the clip in the trunk

put all the zans in the trunk, all the weed in the trunk."

They pulled us over for the bumper.

They found one .380 bullet laying on the floor.

And they was like, "Oh, we're searching through everything."

Nigga, they lifted up... or they popped the back seats open,

and then they popped the trunk, and they just found all that shit.

And then they were trying to arrest all four of us,

and I wasn't finna let my girl and my nigga go to jail for some bullshit.

So I was like, "This is mine."

I sat here and rode around with

14 zans and a gun on me,

and got pulled over, and decided to take the charge to myself.

Well, of course I'm gonna do that,

because I'm not gonna let someone else take the charge for me.

That's not what I do.

That's some G shit, I will say that. That's some G shit.

I'm just saying that's some real shit, bro!

- You going home tomorrow night? - Tonight.

Is that right? Congratulations.

Thank you!

Done with it once and for all!

My name is Amy Middlebrooks.

I'm 54 years old and I live in Athens, Georgia.

I'm going home tonight.

I live with my son and his girlfriend,

and we got a couple of roommates, and my husband.

And then my daughter lives in Snellville and I'll stay with her off and on

to help her babysit when she goes to work.

Do your best to stay out of here.

Oh, yeah. It's all done and over with now.

Can you tell me how you ended up here?

Well... That's kind of tricky. Um...

I got a speeding ticket...

a year ago, January.

1st court date and our car broke down.

My second court date, my car ran 48 hours and it broke down again.

So they put me on probation.

23 hours of community service. We didn't get the paperwork right away.

The woman wasn't really affiliated with them.

In August, my son bought a car.

The tag was expired, got pulled over for the expired tags.

Found out my license was expired...

Then, our roommate's car broke down... So that left us with...

...take the 30 days...

So, the judge ordered me to do 30 days,

and I done 15 because you get two for one.

So that's why I'm sitting here.

You come across the other Joker, just pull it out.

For me, jail was scary to start with. It's all in how you look at it.

Oh my gosh!

I look at it like it's a little vacation away from all the drama on the outside.

That's my little getaway, and...

You won!

- Thought I didn't have 8. I did, though! - Shit!

My husband, he'll be glad when he sees me, but...

I can't say I'm all that glad to see him.

You know, I do need my peace once in a while, just to keep

a strong mind.

- Hey, hey! Listen, now. - Oh, we're sweet!

Real shit, tho.

When a wolf smile,

you see his teeth, don't you?

So that let you know that... that the instinct is in him.

If you push him in a corner,

what his he gonna do?

He gonna bite.

And I was put in that corner. And when you living that lifestyle,

you have to be all the way real with that shit.

You can't have no heart.

'Cause if you have heart, love will get you killed.

Hey, we been... we want a purge, man.

We want a purge.

This is my first day here.

for violating my parole.

I did ten years at the Alabama Correctional Facility.

I left Birmingham, Alabama

without really telling my parole officer.

You don't supposed to leave the state without you being off of parole,

or getting permission from your parole officer.

Didn't know I had no warrant on me, for this shit.

So the police jumped down on us, you know, standing on the block, you know.

In front of the store.

And, uh, the police jump down and ran my name,

and it said I had a holding warrant.

- Mayweather, Miller. - Yeah.

If you're in jail at the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office,

and you have a hold for another state for a parole violation,

then you would be charged as a fugitive from justice.

The state that has the warrant on them is responsible for providing a transport

to bring that person back to the other state.

Generally, it's around 14 to 20 days

they are awaiting transport to the other state.

I had to leave Alabama.

'Cause I know if I would have stayed in Alabama, I would've had to carry a gun.

You see what I'm saying?

'Cause once you're a gangster, a gangster always carry a gun.

I don't even think that I might live to see 40

when I go back to Alabama, man.

All right, step in, face the back.

Hold your bits above your head if you have to.

When I walk out, the first thing that come to my mind is "don't come back."

And I'm gonna change my group of people, my friends, sorry to say to y'all.

Yes, I'm changing y'all.

Biggest thing for me is getting to hug and kiss both of my kids

and tell them that I love them and that Daddy's not going anywhere.

This is not a place for me, so yeah,

this is this is my last rodeo right here.

Can't wait to be free.

It's like one mistake can mess you all up.

The first time I got caught, it was possession marijuana.

Second time it was possession of a controlled substance.

It was a felony.

They gave me three years' probation for that.

I just been in and out after that.

Once they get you once, it's just like a yo-yo effect.

It'll come back and get you.

This is my last chance because if I get busted again,

I could go to prison and do, probably up to ten years for...

for the charge that I have.

Some inmates here get probation.

It could be from several months to several years on probation.

They have guidelines they have to sign.

to say that "I agree that I'll go by the terms of this probation."

And if not, I can be put back in jail

for the full term of that original probation.

I was doing good in school with freshman,

sophomore, junior year,

doing my best I can. And then senior year comes and...

started doing weed. And...

fell in with the wrong crowd.

You start following their ways, using drugs and stuff like that.

A lot of people get away with it, so, like, why don't I do it?

The main fear I have right now is going back to jail.

Every day I think about that, and it's scary.

Last name Chambers?

I need to stand in that yellow box, okay?

Let me have your full name and your birthday.

- Jeffrey Daniel Chambers, 12/08/99. - Okay.

Okay. These are your charges, okay?

You have a bond of $3,250, okay?

I gotta pay all that in cash?

If you was to pay physical cash. If not, can't come up with that whole amount,

you could have a friend or family member go to a bonding agency,

12 to 50%, that's what they'll charge.

Once you get to the room with the phones, you can call and get a rate.

So, where do I go? I go to number 9 right now?

Go all the way around, go inside door number 8.

It's open for you, okay? Close the door behind you.

Yes, ma'am.

Hey, how you do this? How you do it? How you do this?

Press one. One again,

and then you type your number.

Hello. This is a free call from...

Jeffrey.

...an inmate at Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department.

- Yeah, baby. - Mama.

$3,250.

$3,250.

But for bail, you only gotta pay 15%, so I just gotta find a bailsman.

Do you need some bond people numbers? They on the TV right here.

No, no, honey. They're all up and down 20 right there.