[tense music]
[radio chatter]
[radio beeps] - [Officer] All right, I got it.
[tense music]
[knocks softly]
How's it going, boss? - It's going all right.
- [Officer] Looks like your grandma asked you to leave.
- [Officer] I know, but I guess she wanted you out of her car.
- Are you Trey?
- [Officer] Well, you're under arrest, Trey, okay?
- [Officer] You have a couple warrants.
No new charges as long as you cooperate and just step out,
face this way, and put your hands behind your back, okay?
- [Officer] Yeah, if you try and resist
or anything, there'll be more charges,
but as long as you just cooperate, all right?
- [Officer] You comply?
Okay, go ahead and step out and face this way.
- [Officer] Turn that way.
You too, I like those. - Yeah.
- [Officer] Let's walk over to this vehicle over here.
- [Officer] That's cool.
He always has bunches of keys.
It's just the drugs, they're burning up his brain.
- [Officer] Money, wallet.
He didn't want to bring anything with him,
which is probably because he wants
a reason to come back home.
So, the judge told him, "If you cannot handle Comm Corr,
you're going to prison."
- Well, I wish you the best. - We've been through this crap
for years now, and I can't deal with it anymore.
[tense music]
- We do have quite a few repeat offenders
that keep coming back to us.
- It's a lot of parole violations,
probation violations.
People that go to Comm Corr, Community Corrections,
either violate something there, they run.
- You could take a seat there while in these handcuffs.
[tense music]
- I was on probation.
I had court, and I missed it 'cause I was sick,
and then they put a warrant out for me and arrested me
and forced me to go to Community Corrections.
I had a little over a year left.
I left.
Community Corrections, to be honest,
I really didn't feel like I needed it 'cause I really don't.
They tell you what to do, I have no rights whatsoever.
That's how they keep you in a vicious cycle,
putting you around people who do drugs
over and over and over again.
- This individual was brought in on three separate warrants,
one of them being an unauthorized absence
for Community Corrections, and then he also has one
for trespass, and then the next one for vehicular eluding.
- This is probably my 24th time since I was 18,
so I've been in there quite a few times.
I'm completely done with living the same vicious cycle again
and again and again, doing drugs.
That's the way I was when I was a kid.
Now that I'm a grown man, I'm still (bleep) paying for it,
and all my family does is push me away, right,
because I have warrants.
- What's that?
He's coming back again.
He's not very happy.
I was there with him when he got released,
and we talked about life and making the right decisions.
I am sad that he's back.
- This place is the last place I wanna be.
You gonna work with us, Trey?
You gonna get changed out or not?
- I know, that's why we're asking.
I appreciate it.
[tense music]
- We could see something from drug addiction, alcoholism,
firearm charges, to first degree murder.
It really varies.
- I don't wanna be in here.
Where I need to be is rehab.
- Damn this (bleep), and it's the weekend.
- So, we see something from people that will come in,
get a process only, sign yourself out, and go home-
- Shew, it's a good day.
- To people that, once they come in these doors,
won't be leaving until they go to prison
and will spend the rest of their life,
you know, in the prison system.
- What's up? [chuckles]
These shoes, they suck.
These aren't really comfy either, if you wanna get that.
[laughs] Jail sucks,
but I don't care if I'm (bleep) sitting here right now.
Like, I died the other day.
[tense music]
I did too much heroin.
I crashed my car into a median and overdosed.
I thought for sure I was dead, I was done,
fried, going upstairs, but they brought me back to life.
I turned myself in, I just had to come down here
and get it outta the way.
I had to do the right thing.
Do I still take a picture? - Yep.
- [grunts] I'm a brunette this time.
- Three days.
I was a mess, they had to Narcan me,
and they're telling me to stay still.
I cannot stay still
because my body's reacting to the Narcan.
So, I'm freaking out, and then I've got a leg up on one cop.
I got another leg up on another cop, and I'm like,
"I'm sorry, I'm not trying to kick y'all.
It's my body, I can't help it."
But they saved me, the cops, everybody, the ambulance,
20 people in the room just trying to pump me back to life.
That kind of scared me straight.
- Yeah.
Spiking drugs is not the cool thing to do.
My friend, he died from the same thing that I overdosed on.
At the time, I didn't know he was dead,
but he helped me live that day,
I think, he brought me back.
I was overdosing.
All of a sudden, there was this presence in the room,
and I know that was him.
It's the angels, it's magic, whatever you wanna call it.
I'm proof that there's angels,
I'm proof that there's something.
[tense music]
- Keep going.
Do we drop her here or keep going?
- You would call this busy, I call it normal.
- Took my kids to school this morning, and picking them up,
as soon as I get to the house,
I look in my rear view and see flashes.
I wasn't there.
I thought you were supposed to be innocent
until proven guilty.
They treated me guilty until proven innocent.
[tense music]
From what I'm just now hearing.
I'm just now hearing it.
- So, there was a shooting a little while back,
and they were looking for him.
One of them Crime Solvers posted it on Facebook.
They had a person that's wanted.
They're, like, wanted for a shooting.
So, somebody had hit me up, and they were like,
"Bro, this look like you," and I just never paid it no mind.
- Somebody called Crime Solvers with a tip.
They found him today.
He had four warrants out for his arrest.
- Oh yeah, quick question,
when you put everything in my property,
can you make sure you put the money in there, too?
I don't want nothing on my books.
- They can't keep the money in there.
They're gonna deposit it into the kiosk
that they have in property.
- It's like $600.
That could be going towards the bond or something.
Those four warrants, they were pretty serious.
It's like all involving a firearm or shooting.
- Three or four felonies, that's some serious stuff.
If he's convicted, I think that's 30+ years
or something like that.
[tense music]
- [Deputy] Do you have any drugs, weapons, paraphernalia,
anything that'll harm me, stab me, or poke me?
- [Arrestee] No.
- Same (bleep).
- I've been in and outta here
for quite some time for the past couple of years.
So, I mean, I'm kind of used to it by now, you know?
Same vicious cycle again and again and again.
I'm strong-willed enough to where I can build
my own schedule again, not be on drugs and work
and do what I need to without having somebody
always hovering over my shoulder.
- In Community Corrections, I had a little over a year left.
I left there because I don't need it.
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
You're in better shape than I've seen you.
- Duh, I'm sober as (bleep).
Sober as (bleep), I don't need that (bleep).
You won't let me (bleep) go.
The gate. [gate lock clicking]
[suspenseful music]
- She told me no bond.
Now I'm just snatched away.
In my kids' mind, she's in the Merchant Marine.
We both are.
Go out to sea for a couple of months at a time,
'cause when she's here, I'm gone,
and when I'm gone, she's here, so it's like this.
That's our system.
So, like, she's out, gone on a boat right now,
so ain't no way she can come back.
- Should be her grandma and my 14-year-old.
That's what I'm saying, like, they just be doing stuff.
I'm flabbergasted right now.
Take a left.
All right, just turn your head to the right
and look at that door.
- [Derrius] They had a person wanted for a shooting.
- [Derrius] They're trying to say just because I look
like this person, then that's me.
His hair was different, a little bit,
like his dreads was a little thicker than mine,
and his face was skinnier.
Like, I've got a baby on the way,
so my face has been getting fat.
That dude does have a resemblance.
He is my complexion, brown skin, got dreads,
but it's like, all right, bro.
[indistinct chatter]
- Hopefully they get me processed
outta here soon, I'm hungry.
And this is an ugly charge, a DWI 2.
- [Producer] What does the 2 mean?
- The second time in five years.
I did it in 2021.
I didn't overdose, I just
had a crash,
and I had a possession of drugs.
But before I turned myself in, I hooked myself up with rehab
so that in case I did get a bond, I could go.
- All right, it's about to move, so just stay still,
hands outside the pockets.
I'm scanning her to make sure she doesn't have any contraband.
- They are at home with my parents.
So, right now, they're okay.
They're 15 and nine,
two girls, Riley and Reese. [chuckles]
They're my angels, too.
- She's clear.
We're gonna go this direction and we're gonna go
right at the corner.
- That's the worst part,
because until after I'm in rehab,
after I do what I gotta do, like,
I think they'll allow the visits again.
I just need to be clean.
You can take a left, please. - Left.
- [Deputy] You ready for her?
[tense music]
- For all DUIs that come in, it varies from person to person.
Sometimes you get emotional ones,
sometimes you get mean ones.
I've had 'em defecate on themselves
before they even got here, so, yes, we get a lot worse.
- Right here, bud.
- Pretty sure I got a DUI.
I think I was doing about 114,
and I ran off the road.
I remember hitting a fence post,
and that's the last thing I remember.
I remember thinking, "Oh, (bleep)."
[tense music]
- Single vehicle accident.
He said that he went around the curb too fast
and just wound up hitting a fence and a couple of trees.
He had a good amount of damage to the truck,
but it could have been worse.
- I offered him a breath test.
He gave me a positive reading.
He was about two-tenths over the limit.
He was like, "Just take me to jail if you've got to."
He's one of the nicest ones I've had.
They're usually not that nice.
My kids' mom just recently came back into the picture.
She's got this new man.
He's this perfect man, this perfect dad.
I was told that my kids were asking, you know,
"Why doesn't daddy want me at his house anymore?"
Naturally, it absolutely ruined me.
I made the irresponsible decision
of getting drunk, bringing it up to my fiancee.
I left the house intoxicated,
got to my baby mama's house.
My kids were looking at me crying,
and I saw and heard her on the phone with the police,
saying, "I need a deputy down here.
So, maybe I got scared, maybe it was my pride, I don't know,
but I turned around and I (bleep) left.
That's a choice that I've made, I drove intoxicated.
I don't know how I'm alive 'cause of the speed I was going.
[door banging] [arrestee shouting]
[door banging]
[suspenseful music]
[tense music] [banging]
- [Sarah] Okay.
Thank you so much.
[arrestee shouting]
I am happy, I actually got a bond.
[arrestee shouting] [door banging]
- I don't know.
I was already prepared to come in here
and sit in jail for a week.
[arrestee shouting] [door banging]
It's the magic. [laughing]
- Well, I think she thought she was gonna stay,
but she ended up getting a $3,000 bond.
Turning yourself in really helps.
The magistrate sees that you're taking initiative
to try and take care of your situation.
- They do have it as a DW 1.
- [Producer] Interesting.
- Okay, I'll take it.
I'm calling my man.
- Here you go. - Okay, thanks.
We weren't expecting this.
Hey, babe.
[arrestee banging and shouting]
- You know what, at first, it does, but after a while,
you just ignore it, and you check on 'em
when we do a check.
- I got a bond.
Yeah, tomorrow, I just gotta go to pre-trial,
and then I just have to do a urine screen
and stay clean the whole time, and I can't have weed.
Okay, bye.
He's calling a bondsman right now.
He's mad, but he's there.
[arrestee continues shouting]
[suspenseful music]
- You know, another day in the Mesa County extended stay.
[suspenseful music]
- This is a housing order.
It's for ones who are gonna be staying.
- Right now, we're heading to housing.
I'm used to this, you know,
a little bit more freedom, a little bit more space.
I'll be able to have some fresh air
and just wait until court comes, you know?
- I don't really do that once I get here, you know,
'cause my family's probably pretty disappointed.
I just leave it at that, you know?
[tense music]
[arrestees shouting indistinctly]
- This is it right here, 134 right here.
- You know, I wish that I could just go home
and see my kids again.
I kind of just feel like I have to accept
the fact that my kids are one day not gonna want me.
- If I don't lose my job,
then [stammering] I'm, yeah.
I'm 12 inches away from 37,000 volts of power every day.
So I have a lot of stress on me,
you know, on top of [sighs] everything else.
- This is my first time.
I'm not this irresponsible, you know.
I know y'all hear that a lot,
so I'm not gonna sit here and preach that to y'all.
Right hand.
- I'm just shaking, man.
I'm more little nervous than anything.
- I mean, I haven't had my hand held, you know, for,
it's been a while, man.
[arrestee shouting]
- Do I have to call her back?
- She's gonna be pissed.
Hey. [deputy chuckling]
Yeah, I don't know.
Yep, you know where I'm at and you know the situation.
- I mean, I don't know, but by the looks of it, yes.
- So, here's what's going on,
just so y'all both know, you have a charge of DUI 1st.
- Okay, a DUI. - The bond's 500,
and he's going to have an eight-hour hold.
- Well, it's not your bondsman to pay.
- Not one time have I laughed.
[arrestee screaming] [tense music]
[arrestee continues shouting] [tense music]
[sirens wailing]
- The main stuff is done, this is all the fluff.
The bondsman can't get me out
until they've finished doing this.
- You said you got someone coming to get you, right?
- [Sarah] Yeah.
- All right, so I'm gonna do your picture
and your fingerprints so when they come here
and get you, we won't hold you up, okay?
- Okay, good, the quicker, the better.
- [Deputy] In you go.
- Do you want my glasses on or off?
- [Deputy] Oh, you can keep 'em on for right now.
I'll have you take 'em off in just a minute.
- Yeah, I am, unfortunately.
- Turn your head and look at
the numbers on the door right there for me.
- I had pink hair, black hair, blonde hair,
and then this is brunette.
Do I have a goofy look on my face?
- I don't know.
- Oh, no, ho, ho. [laughing]
- Come over here, Sarah.
- It's worth your life.
You have to believe that your life is, like, worth enough,
and lately, like, I've been hearing a lot from my mom
and certain friends that I'm worth it
and I need to be around because I'm loved
and I bring a lot of light.
Now I can go home and open the shades, all the blinds.
I can just, "Hey, I'm home now."
- From what they told me in the interrogation room,
that person in the picture is me.
I'm really taking the blame for somebody else's (bleep)
and can't do nothing about it, you know.
I really gotta sit here and, like,
can't do nothing about it.
I don't go to court 'til Monday 'cause it's the weekend,
so I'm definitely gonna be in here for the weekend.
So, the judge can give me a bond right then and there
or she can deny that, and then I can appeal it.
Hopefully, they give me a bond.
I want you to be level-headed, you hearing me?
I love you, and thank you for being here for me.
Bye.
- So gentlemen, make a left here.
- And have a seat inside that room right there, guys.
- Just seeing my hair tied back.
- Can you grab your shoes? - My shoes, oh, I'm sorry.
- Gate 58, alpha 58, one for release.
All right, you have a great day, okay?
- Thank you.
I feel really excited that I'm about to leave
and about to see my man out here, waiting for me.
We're gonna be able to sleep together tonight.
We're so happy.
[chuckling] It's crazy, right?
- I'm glad you're out. - Thank you.
- I'm surprised. - I'm so surprised.
- You know, I love her to death.
I was scared that she was gonna be in jail
for a while again, and so hopefully she gets it this time
and we go from there and move forward.
[kissing]
- Bye. - Bye. [chuckling]
[tense music]
but as soon as we get housing free, we're gonna get you out.
All right?
[tense music]
- Stand up, we're gonna--
- Stand up.
[door banging] [tense music]
[indistinct shouting]
- This is a normal thing, man.
Where the (bleep) you from, bruh?
- You know, my body
is still hurting and I've had some confrontations
with some guys, but other than that,
it's something that's normal, you know?
Today, I have sentencing.
The judge could give me up to six years,
which I don't really necessarily think she will.
Not really ready for it.
I'm a little bit stressed out, you know.
I'm just ready to get this (bleep) done.
I just got off the phone a little bit ago with my mom.
You know, she says they're not gonna come to court
just because, you know, they're gonna let me walk
this one alone, you know, because if I continue
to make these choices, I'm gonna be walking alone
the rest of my time, you know?
[arrestees shouting] [tense music]
- I was in Community Corrections, I had 30 months,
but instead of giving me 30 months Community Corrections,
they converted it into 30 months DOC.
So, now I have to go to prison.
I'll see parole, hopefully soon.
This isn't for me, you know.
This is not the place I want to be.
Where my family is, it's where I want to be.
My dad knows that I'm gonna go to prison,
you know, and I've never been here before.
Never did I want to have to experience that,
but here I am, you know?
- It's a hard decision to hear,
but like you said, it's the best way
to get it behind you and move forward
to a better life, yeah. - Better life for me.
- Yeah, you're too young, you gotta get out of the system.
- Yeah. - You got this, man.
We see a lot of repeat offenders, unfortunately.
I've been here for about 15 years
and rarely do I see someone just come in once.
It's multiple times, unfortunately, and it's sad.
It's hard on people's families and lives.
[tense music]
[chatting indistinctly]
Sir, face that way.
[tense music]
- [Arrestee] Ah, okay, I'll be nice.
Have I not been nice?
- [Fiancee] Tyler, how are you gonna pay this bondsman?
- [Deputy] Take your (bleep) pants off.
- [Arrestee] I'm taking my (bleep) pants off.
Is there any way you can get in my phone
and send me my number for work?
- I mean, it's 11:30 at night. - That's part of their jobs.
- Okay, it's 270 (bleep). - All right, I love you.
[arrestee banging]
- Have a good night. - Oh, I will enjoy my night.
Y'all wanna hear me get fired,
put that one speakerphone, too?
(bleep).
[phone ringing]
- Hello? - Hey, Buck?
- Yeah. - Man, look,
hey, this is Tyler. [chuckles]
- What's up? - So, I don't know
what your caller ID may have just said,
but I got myself in a little heap of something
and I don't think I'm gonna make it to work
in the morning, man.
I'm in jail, cuz.
If you, you know-- - Oh, (bleep).
- Yeah, so, I mean,
you know how I am.
If you gotta let me go, you gotta let me go, man.
- [Buck] Ah, (bleep). - Yeah.
- All right, dude, if there's any way I can help, let me know.
Let me know when you get out and get stuff situated,
all right? - Yes, sir.
Well, I appreciate it, and I apologize.
- [Buck] No, man, (bleep) happens, even to the best of us.
Let me know how you're doing with stuff and everything,
and I'll see what I can do.
- All right, Buck, I appreciate it, man.
- All right. - Enjoy your evening.
- [Buck] All right. [phone beeping]
- Still have a job [laughs] so far.
All right, Tyler, I'm done.
I'm gonna get you moved to the back, to population.
All right, bud.
"Why would I let my kids be around somebody
that's just gonna spend time in jail?"
[tense music]
[arrestees chatting]
- How's it going, Tyler? - Good.
- [Producer] You remember talking to us last night?
- Oh, yeah.
- I thought, "Wow."
- Tyler? - Yes, sir.
- Absolutely.
- And your other hand as well, okay?
- [Tyler] I'm kind of embarrassed, honestly.
- Oh, absolutely, 'cause I have to drive company trucks.
It's a lesson learned.
I couldn't sleep last night, so that's really all I did,
was just thought just about,
yeah, I guess, just trying to straighten myself up,
'cause I have a lot of, got a lot of loose ends
and responsibilities that I think I should,
you know, try to take care of.
- Yeah, I didn't have a shirt last night,
so I didn't know what to do.
- We always keep some extra clothes here in the back
so if they come in, they don't have anything to wear
whenever they're getting released, we can give 'em
some form of garment.
- We're gonna go right outside these doors.
- [Tyler] That I was able to somehow walk away from that.
A lot of feet kissing to do.
- [Producer] Excited to get out of here, huh?
[tense music]
[indistinct chatter]
- In there.
Well, let's make this the first and last time,
if that's gonna be the case. - Yeah.
It's 4:38 in the morning.
I'm wearing this blue jumpsuit.
So, I had been finally sentenced to DOC,
Department of Corrections, in Colorado.
I've never been into prison, this is my first time.
I'm very nervous.
- Don't mess up on parole. - Oh, I'm not going to.
I came in sober, like for once, I was doing good, you know?
Since I got in trouble from when they switched me
from probation to Comm Corr,
to even now, I haven't had one charge in the past two years.
I get one new charge,
besides my misdemeanor of running from Comm Corr.
I'm just fed up with this (bleep), you know?
I'm just tired of being in and outta here.
I'm ready for something new, I'm ready to start
a new chapter in my life.
[indistinct chatter]
Yeah.
Ah.
- [Deputy] Leg up, there you go, perfect.
- I'm nervous. - You're nervous, huh?
- I ain't never been to prison.
- I get that. - You ever been to prison?
- I know you don't-- - Nervous?
[tense music]
And here we go.
[indistinct chatter]
Here we go, fellas.
Locked in, ready to go.
[suspenseful music]