First and Last

Can you not film me right now?

Why am I being put in jail?

You can look up and around as long as it's a straight-ahead picture.

Take me where I can go to a phone with my Mom, and charge my phone.

"Can you charge my phone? Can I take a shower?"

Would you like a coffee and a cheeseburger with that, too?

You can't charge your phone in jail, ma'am. That's not how we do things.

I'm honestly scared.

I have never been in jail before.

All right, come over here.

Second, step in here, put your feet in the yellow footprints.

Separate your arms.

- Like this? - There you go.

I'm in here right now because I had an altercation with my fiancé.

I wanted to leave. He didn't want me to leave.

So, he started pushing on me.

I'm like, "Hey, don't touch me. Don't touch me."

'Cause he just kept touching me

and I had to defend myself as of that point.

Have a seat for a minute.

But the officers pulled up, he was acting completely calm,

which was so weird.

I overreacted, and I just couldn't control myself.

The cops was like,

"Um, calm down, like if you don't shut up, um,

I'm taking you to jail."

Well, the first time I got arrested, I was drivin'

with... with no license.

I wasn't out doin' anything, but I made a mistake.

Some people make mistake in life and I made those mistakes,

and I'm paying the consequences.

I got hit with a felony, doin' stupid stuff.

I just made a horrible mistake and I'm tryin' to just get back

to contributing to society.

I try to exercise some balance and learn from my mistakes

and learn from my decisions, learn from the pain,

learn from every angle of this experience I can,

so that I can keep myself in a situation where I don't have to repeat this.

Turn around. Face the wall.

Turn around. Put your back on the wall.

Look at the camera.

Sixty-five, 67, 68.

Three sixty-eight sound right?

I guess my other 200,

I guess he said they'll take into evidence.

Uh, I don't know about that.

Yeah, it was supposed to be five.

Okay.

So, I'm armed robbery, no priors.

Foolishness.

I... I feel like...

a fish out of water.

You know, I ain't never ever in my life been charged with no armed robbery,

Nothin' like that. Don't have any priors. You know, you feel pretty helpless.

You know, I'm stressed out.

I'm thinkin' now why I'm in here, you know, what am I gonna do?

Morris, stand in the yellow area with your hands out of your pockets.

I will verify your information.

- How tall are you? - Six five.

- What do you weigh? - About 185.

And have you been here before?

- No, ma'am. - Okay.

- These are your charges... - Okay.

- ...with your bond amount. - Okay.

Um, I was gonna ask, with being charged,

um, I have an interview tomorrow.

When they do the background check, will that appear?

- I don't think it would appear that soon. - Okay.

I'm not from here. I'm from Florida.

I was up here, you know, um, I have a $45,000-a-year job,

you know, uh, interview tomorrow,

for a management position at a manufacturing company.

Come on over. I'm going to need your left wrist.

I'm just trying to get myself out, you know,

so I can still catch that interview tomorrow, you know, at eight o'clock.

You know? So that... that's all that I'm thinking about.

They're gonna take you at one? - Mm-hmm

Yeah, I'm leaving this room tonight at one o'clock.

I'm just really excited to get home.

I'm so excited to go home.

I can't believe it, you know?

I didn't think the 60 days would ever be, like, over.

I don't know.

I look at this picture on my arm band and I was literally so fucked up

and it's like... that doesn't even look like me.

I turned into a monster and I didn't even see it.

I didn't start doin' meth till I was 19 years old.

When I should have known better, when I had seen what it had done to people

and it's like I still fell into it and it's like it can happen to anybody.

They don't lie about it, man.

The first time you do it, you're hooked.

I haven't stayed with my mom in, like, two years.

You talked to her though, within that time, right, or no?

No, not really.

I was kind of meth-ed up.

I was homeless, but I was homeless on my own account.

I didn't want to be in my house shootin' up meth,

havin' my mom walk in on me.

Like, I always had the chance to go home.

I just chose drugs.

I put myself in a big mess.

Like, I'm disappointed in myself, honestly.

I've accomplished nothing.

Wasn't always going to jail, you know?

I mean, I like being outdoors.

I like sports. I did gymnastics for a while.

- You gonna go back to school? - I might.

I gotta help myself first before I can do anything else.

I wanted to go to college.

I wanted to be a criminal investigator.

Now, I'm a third-time felon, 20 years old.

I can't... I don't even know what I'm gonna do.

I don't know what job I could get, besides working at McDonald's at this point.

And it sucks.

Like, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

I don't know nobody to call.

So what happens after this process?

You're gonna be in here for a little while.

- I'm gonna be in here for a little while? - Couple of hours at least.

What the hell?

I'm sorry, y'all, I'm freakin' out. This is my first time bein' in jail so...

We've had a couple run-ins like this before.

I always had, like, anger issues, but...

it's just gotten worse.

Like, it's different when you get into a fight with a female.

I know.

You can play it completely calm

when you done fightin' her because y'all on the same level.

- I'm a female, you a female. - Right.

But a dude, you hyperventilate, you goin' crazy.

'Cause he has power over you. He can kill you.

- I could have died in there. - Right.

Of course I'm scared.

Aw, don't cry. It's okay.

That shit is fucked up.

- Don't cry. - Mm-hmm.

We have a lot of people that come in

and are arrested for domestic violence.

When you arrive on a domestic violence scene,

it can be tricky because the person that's got the scratch marks on 'em

and whatnot, may have been trying to defend themselves,

uh, or it was actually the perp.

It's very, very difficult to figure out.

You Robinson? Just stand in the yellow square, please.

All right, can I have your full name and date of birth?

Brittany Robinson. 7-13-90.

Okay, you're here on a battery charge.

Your bond amount is $2,400.

- They brought your phone with you? - It was in the police car.

Um. Right now, you're gonna get your fingerprints taken.

After that, you're good to be bonded at any time.

How's somebody's gonna bond me out, man, when I don't have no number?

How I'm gonna call somebody to bond me out?

I have a job. I got two kids. Like, what am I supposed to do, ma'am?

- You have somebody to come? - I don't have any numbers.

- Well, nobody know you came? - He broke my phone, so...

You think he'll let 'em know?

No.

That malicious.

- Fabulicious. - He won't let 'em know.

So y'all just emotional today?

He was cheatin' and I had to leave.

- I don't have time for that. - Oh yeah, cheating on you?

If you feel like you were wrong,

I mean, you can come up here to our magistrate court when you get out

and speak to the judge that, you know, charges should be pressed against him.

- Mm-hmm. - They're open 24 hours a day up here.

Okay?

Well, we'll see what we can do for you in a little bit.

Try to think real hard about, um, some numbers.

I'll think about some numbers now.

Yeah. If you can, just do what you can, okay?

- Okay. - All right, you have a good day.

You too.

She said I can get out, but they just need...

I don't have no numbers.

So I'm up here thinkin' about... Six, four, one...

Six, four, one.

An inmate can be in a holding cell for up to 48 hours.

It can be a grueling process,

sitting and just waiting to find out if you will get a bond,

if a loved one will come to the jail facility to bond you out,

or if you will get dressed in.

Fuckin' fuck me, man.

Last night, um, I went out to a... a club.

We met, um, two strippers there.

Um.

I had, uh, a room. They came back to my room.

I got, uh...

caught up, you know, in, you know, uh, you know, the sex.

They asked me for $200.

I mean, I told 'em, you know, that I'm not giving them no money.

I need the money for myself.

Next thing I know, North Cross PD kicked open the door.

Guns drawn, uh, shields raised, um...

Told me to get on the ground, put me in handcuffs instantly.

Uh, didn't question me or anything.

The cops took 200 of my dollars

because, allegedly, that's how much I robbed the person for.

So clearly, the girls told the cops, "He robbed us or whatever, for $200."