Unlocked A Jail Experiment - Trailer - video Dailymotion

At an Arkansas detention facility, a sheriff implements a radical social experiment to grant men who are incarcerated more agency.

Transcript

00:00The prison system, that's the Wild West in some aspects.

00:04You're locked down 23 hours on a day.

00:06They feel like animals.

00:08The more you lock a pod down, the more tension and anxiety will exist.

00:14So if we want real change, we have to try something bold.

00:18We got a little experiment.

00:19We're going to open up the doors.

00:21We're going to step out and let you guys control your living environment.

00:25And you can start building the skills you need so you don't have to come back to my jail.

00:30I don't believe it's going to work.

00:31Because if they think, oh, I can get away with this, I can get away with that.

00:33What else can I get away with?

00:36Let me out that cage, you just made me worse.

00:39It's like the streets, anything can happen, man.

00:42You can get anything in jail, there's drugs everywhere.

00:46We're going to get drunk.

00:47If there's some tension with another race, my job is to keep that stuff in line.

00:52We don't like other races putting hands on our people.

00:55They're going to cause a riot.

00:56Trying to push his little weight around is awesome.

01:01I'd be scared.

01:01You want to be a part of this, then you'll abide by the rules.

01:04Watch the stone, eat some popcorn.

01:06We've had a wave of violence and drugs.

01:09I'm going to keep staying sober because we don't want to jeopardize the program.

01:12But if we let the inmates start to accept responsibility,

01:15this is my life.

01:16They start caring about the community as a whole.

01:18If it works, it's a breakthrough.

01:23A lot of these people, they want to better themselves.

01:25They want to change.

01:26If it fails, we can be making things a lot worse.

01:33All comes out to this moment.

01:35Let's go.