The fact that we get free videos on KZfaq by VICE News is truly a gift. 👏👏👏

I could believe what they’re saying; my cousin was murdered in Hudson County Jail by the guards. The guards went around telling everyone to say nothing happened; the family found that out from an anonymous letter written by an inmate and sent to my aunts house.

Man this hurts me to the core , Because Jackie This is a good Good Man, I move back to Chicago had nothing my man Help me get on my feet Help me get a Job, gave money never asked me for anything back, I just caught this interview on KZfaq by Accident , to see this king go through something like this got me in Tears no Ho Mo , Met him through another Man and he didn’t even have to help me, all my times around him were positive and Good , this Right here hits home for Me, Really Messed my Head up tonight ! I’m about to Pray for this King! And his Family Right now , damn I had no idea 🙏🏾

Let's pray for everyone in this world. Amen.

I’m not convinced at all that “most of the guards are good.” Ostensibly it would seem that most of them are bad.

Love that lala is doing what everyone needs to realize that most people in prison need and I believe in it full heartily this world could be so different

Prisons make money on prisoners being incarcerated and lose money when there is actual rehabilitation. This means the American Prison System is not in place to be an institution of rehabilitation(social, mental, physical or otherwise) -but a place of assault and depravity.

There was a privatized prison that was shut down in Appleton, MN due to low prisoner counts. I wish this was the case all over the USA. Non-violent inmates with addiction/drug issues should NEVER be placed in a prison. Prison should only be for the most violent deranged offenders. Don't mix non-violent people with violent offenders. Its so wrong.

Horrible places. For profit prisons are among the worst things history will look back on.

La La literally just repeated the talk i had w my 9 y.o. son last night. "What do you expect a person to do ...?"

I wouldn't live in a state where it's illegal to own and possess a firearm...because we know THAT Law will not be applied equally.

I live in Alaska, and I personally knew someone who was killed while wearing his ankle monitor, by another two people which one of those individuals was also wearing a ankle monitor! They were caught quickly and charged, but it still shouldn’t have happened. Also he was dead for two days, with his ankle monitor beeping the entire time, before anyone shown up to check on him for not moving for two entire days! And his roommate, who is a nurse, ignored the beeping and didn’t check on him or try to save him… It was a heartbreaking situation. He was in recovery and was working towards passing the bar exam to become a lawyer. Unfortunately he had met the wrong woman, who took their break up to the extreme by sending these guys over to hurt him for dumping her… It shouldn’t have happened. There needs to be better precautions taken to track ankle monitors, and keep tabs on them when they don’t move, or move outside of their allowed area. I’ve heard of plenty of other horror stories of people who have murdered, robbed, or assaulted innocent people while they were supposed to be monitored on ankle monitor instead of being in prison. The whole prison system is broken.

Set the environment for failure and then be surprised when there's failure Set up the environment for success & don't be surprised when there's success

My father is currently located at USP Thomson and says it's not right what these guards are doing. Channel 4 is looking into things also

Him saying his wife is an Angel was so sweet, You can tell by the pictures that their love is real and genuine, God bless their hearts and release Jackie and send him back to his loving family please.

American prisons have always been more concerned with dramatizing individuals and inhumanity, rather than rehabilitation and integrating prisoners back into society. Some one needs to do a study on this so we can confront the serious issues within prison systems in the not so greatest country in the world.

Love these documentaries

I am a big fan of La La. Her reality show was one of the few I watched. She represented positivity as a whole. I appreciate how she utilizes her celebrity status.

Thank you so much i appreciate the knowledge your giving. Such an intelligent young Man!

I was stalked by an ex prison guard. He is a ju jitsu instructor and told me he would write up false reports on prisoners so he could beat them while his buddies took bets. He threw a man down some stairs and got away with it.

Bobby's story is heartbreaking I hope he's doing well

This problem makes me very angry at the system. More than I already was.

While it's completely rational not to have any empathy for these prisoners, it has been shown in small Norwegian prisons that the most hardened criminals can be rehabilitated. Their prisoners are allowed pets, given real-world skills, are given the opportunity to make ammends and are treated with respect. They are allowed to go home for weekends and always return on Sunday evening. There are no high walls and razor wire and repeat offenders are almost non-existent If you're skeptical, believe me so am I. It's true that it isn't large-scale enough to assume it would work everywhere, but at some point you have to ask yourself...is the reason for you saying no to more humane rehabilitation of violent criminals due to skepticism and fear, or simply revenge? Keep in mind that if there is no actual rehabilitation in most prisons, then incarceration is simply just revenge. We call it justice, but its just a legalised form of regulated revenge Then you have to ask yourself again, is our current prison system actually working? If not, why do we expect them to change if the system remains the same?

it’s so unfortunate seeing documentaries like this. The guards who beat inmates in the “dungeon “ and the medical staff who lied should be charged but hell will freeze over before anything like that ever happens

The people who fill comment sections with "you did the crime, you do the time" sentiments are the same ones who have moral panics over "cancel culture".

Great reporting Vice News

It’s wonderful to hear Lala talk. She’s an inspiration for us all

How is that not torture?

I was there for 2and half years before I came home a year ago,the stuff I went through personally and what I saw was inhumane!!

Great program

Thanks for all the work YOU do Vice. I was beaten in a city jail in Texas.

Parchmen prison in Mississippi need to bee on here 11 of 20 inmates died due to STABBINGS!!! IN JUST 1 MONTH

Nice wrap up 👍

I LOVE what Lala is doing ❤

Respect ✊🏼 La La 🪷

Love this show

I think we need to term it, “ Supermax incarceration abuse “

This is exactly how criminals should be treated, they should not have any human rights bcz you took someone else human rights, what about all the good people who lost their lives for these criminals, what about all the children lost their lives for criminals, their families still suffering. what about their huma right??

Yes yes VICE....Fuegooooooo ☝🏽😔🔥

I was in Albany County, NY Jail in 2019 and that place was hell, if there is hell on earth that place is hell on earth. I saw many black brothers been beat up by staff (guards). In 2022 my trini freind scaped and was beat up there is actually news about him his name is Pharaoh Mangroo.

Then don't commit crimes that will get you in prison in the first place. Whining about prison is a joke.

Great reporting. Love Vice News!

What’s Worst? Doing a crime and getting snatched from your loved ones? Or doing a crime then getting tortured by the guards of the prison? Don’t do the crime

If a prison is an economic lifesaver and you promote it as a "job creating opportunity" - you have a prison indutry. Plain and simple.

thank you

The lesson i learned from this is don't get caught with a gun. They make it seem like the man was innocent. Dude got caught with a phone in jail as well. Cmon now people

"Don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time" only work if the workers of the correctional system are held accountable for their own crimes. Not doing so just end up turning "correctional system" into an oxymoron; we're getting more, hardened criminals paid for by the taxpayer.

What is Lala’s program at Rikers Island called?

A friend of mine was seriously abused in prison and with no medical. It’s another horrible story that tells me prisons are subject to extreme lawlessness by certain low paid , low class staff. This was jail btw, where people are still supposed to be “innocent”. Regardless of opinions on this, there is no reason for such maltreatment by staff - there are individuals taking liberties on their own accord with seeming impunity as the inmate has no leg to stand on…and sometimes literally so.

And Bobby......preach with your knowledge...💚

I'm helping a very good friend to write about his experience in prison. I feel I know this well, and will fact check with him prior to writing. He spent his time in a dorm situation with older inmates. The facility (in Texas) was what they called a bowling alley farm, with multiple dorms along a central walkway. Each dormitory would house about 75 inmates. The major problems are, honestly, the entire judicial system. About 20% of the prison facilities are private contract centers, meaning for-profit companies run these facilities. The rumors that we both wish were investigated hard and deep are that the judicial system itself is monetarily incentivized to fill prisons.

I’m Chicago it’s different these guys can’t be rehabbed they get out and go back to same bull

Please also let’s pay homage to Michelle Alexander 🙏🏽😊

Mann I'ma put it just like this and this perspective is from someone whos had the experience! And folks ask me all the time how was prison, & my answer will never change and it's prison was like being on the streets! But the streets of Gotham city! & Alot of them are exactly where they need to be because there animals in there! Now although it sucks folks are loosing they're lives due to super harsh conditions but at the end of the day if you don't Wana end up there just don't do dumb shyt! And if you can't help it & dumb shyt is just in your nature then it's the perfect place to be for you! Although it's a horrible place to be it was Indubitably my awakening. My first bid & my last! You think females are bad?? Wait til you get thrown in a pod with over 45 grown ass gossiping men who don't have nothing but Time!! It can be so chill one min & in a split second all hell breaks loose and before you know it a race war or riot pops off! My first bid I was in the mist of one and scared for my life the entire time!! The Lord had to be walking with me on that prison yard because it was a movie scene! And I advise you all to stay far away from one if you can help it. But if you Wana beat those conditions just stay tf out of the system. And alot of those prison deaths aren't just random, if you go in there with bad charges you'll instantly become a target. Meaning if your a pedo, or murdered a woman or children it's over for you pretty much so just don't do crimes & weird shyt 💯🙏🏽✌🏽

“Arrested for gun possession” please explain that further because that alone is not a crime.

That LaLa women who puts on for the Inmates is amazing. She is going places with this injustice

That writing from the inmate that got sentenced to 112years. His writing and story is great 👍 😃

Criminals complaining about their little cells is comical 😅 you are not the victim buddy

American prisons are factory farms. Do not let the system fool you into ending up there. imagine being a factory farm animal that had many chances not to end up there. Do your best to stay out of trouble because this system just wants more meat for the grinder.

Iron triangle culture is the same across the US. Go around town near these private plantations. You'll feel it.

I really couldn’t give less of a f about murderers ngl

Prison is deadly stay out of them.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time? 🤔

He shouldn’t be carrying a gun whith out a permit anyway. It’s his own fault for breaking the law, and leaving his family waiting

Ubarikiwe..

Is this a private-run or state-run prison?

What a wonderful wife. Get home and do right. Every great reason to do so .

Yes

Best wishes

Do you know how hard it is to get sent to prison? Am I supposed to have empathy for predators?

Interesting

OMG 😮 I love her kitchen 😍!

another one wow

From someone who just came home from a long bid ….. only thing you need to change is the system and those in power . The corruption is another level … Do your research on cases like this and it will open your eyes

You know this woman said has blackhas black American she says we've been all incarcerated let me tell you something bro I'm 67 years old and I never been incarcerated and like I said I mean I like listened to your content I don't know what she's saying bro but I never been

the captions are wayyyy off unfortunately

96 years until your eligible parole for 2 armed robbery is insane especially at 16. If there's not more to the story that is fucked up

Sorry but Lala still has a lot to learn if she intends to benefit anybody in prison. Prison inmates are not there to be your designated hashtag being used to improve your public image & max out your clout. America and its government desperately need to address its socioeconomic failures that are at the root of causes for crimes & violence. Our government desperately needs to finally, actually admit that the conditions of poverty they knowingly squeeze the masses into (because it ultimately benefits them to be this way unfortunately) & facilitate is the cause for 99% of crimes if not all of them, save ones for involving the lack of proper mental health care in this country. We need to totally reverse & change the current ways the incarcerated are viewed in every spectrum of American society; remove all assumptions of stereotype/demographic/etc, and instead start with asking why these people did what they did, tackle those issues rooted in the dysfunctional socioeconomic aspects of our communities that cause these lawless behaviors, and emphasize the fact that these prisons should not be torture/punishment chambers but REHABILITATIVE CENTERS FOR TREATMENT in order to overall improve & ready very damaged, broken people for a reintegration into society (if they have release dates when it comes to the second piece). Yes, taking responsibility for your actions is of course expected *HOWEVER* when people are driven to certain actions such as criminal and violent behaviors, then there is an unaddressed portion holding some relief of responsibility on the individual - there is a reason, and there is an intentional lack of equal opportunity in this country. It needs to be publicly recognized & properly handled. It has been pinned under the wrong labels for far too long. These are struggling human beings that are in need of rehabilitative care that need to be heard, empathized with, and assisted in life. Nowadays average citizens do not live beyond their means, they are more often denied the means to live. THEY ARE NOT YOUR INSTAGRAM PUBLIC IMAGE IMPROVEMENT P.R. PACKAGE, LALA & KIM. They definitely DON’T need another anxiety-inducing group therapy session with a less than qualified “counselor” or whatever dork they have leading the group. K thanks.

I think I'm the only person that stopped watching this as soon as she said she was friends with kim

How is that different from Guantanamo Bay detention torture facilities...Because that's exactly what I am seeing...

If ya'll worked on the inside- you'd know why inmates are treated like this. They aren't exactly boyscouts.

Everyone has an excuse for a criminal, until a criminal hurts one of *their* loved ones.

Ridiculous, vice still bringing heat no matter what people are saying

Sad y'all used that line for the title. Everyone there is human. Every single one.

We need more prisons built for all the criminals going in and out of prison. We need harsher longer sentences for criminals that can't be rehabilitated

In my heart I consider this a war on American Citizens. It should be a priority to fix our Justice system and reasses the prison system. It’s heartbreaking learning all these stories and our elected officials don’t speak about it.

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Yooooo the audio levels are wack at the begining

Opportunity is not entitlement. Opportunity leads to success. VICE is for the people

Follow up story idea maybe to provide some BALANCE?? Now do a story on VICTIMS of a selected number of these savages in this prison detailing their CRIME and the physical trauma inflicted upon each of their VICTIMS, what their life and it's quality since the crime!!! OR would that be outside your liberal agenda??

Make no mistake, judges do not discriminate on race, like they used to. I'm white and did 3.5 presumptive on my first charge. Non dangerous non repetitive. The prison population was an exact mirror of my state's population demographics. Just because you are white doesn't mean you will get off. It usually means you will avoid police charges SOMETIMES because the lack of police contact to.begin with. I'll admit that. But, these days they want these prisons FULL. So they contact us all.

Prison shouldn’t be a resort.

12:60 .. whaaat..

Horrific

Simple question: Why did Jackie have an illegal firearm?

It's always them 'high value kangs' in orange jumpsuits😂😂

We make time for whats imp for us

Lala is amazing.

I had to be his voice when he couldnt speak