His eyes swollen shut, he looked as though he’d just gone 10 rounds with Wladimir Klitschko.
Maybe most of his fellow inmates appeared grim. Unsurprisingly, we found ourselves drawn back to Main Jail and the strange atmosphere of the fifth and sixth floors, the maximum security floors, where we began to do most of our filming. It seems the common denominator was that those guys grew up in terrible environments and were just dealt a bad hand.The other guy that said he felt relieved to be in jail because he didn't have to take care of his alcoholic mother or prostitute sister anymore... really broke my heart.
But as time passed, it became clear that he was talking about a widely held predatory ethos that exists in the worst parts of the jail.Inmates refer to it as “the code”: a brutal Darwinian system in which the strong prey on the weak. They need support and understanding and help learning coping skills. Writing exclusively for ShortList, broadcaster and journalist Louis Theroux describes his four weeks filming within Miami’s notorious county jail system.
But it isn’t difficult for inmates to conceal their activities from officers.
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To my knowledge, none have so far been released.
They professed to be shocked by what they saw.
The programme follows Theroux as he spends time in the Miami-Dade County jail system: the Pre-Trial Detention Center (PTDC) (formerly known as DCJ or "Main Jail"); Metro West Detention Center (Metro West); Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGK); and the Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department Boot Camp Program (Boot Camp).
Well Louis’s series producer gave us some information about what happened to It’s a jail in Main, it is one of America’s biggest and it is home for inmates that have not yet been convicted. The men remain in the cells almost all the time and may only leave for yard time twice a week, leading to their living under the sway of a gladiatorial code known as "GABOS" ("Game ain’t based on sympathy") where, "The most powerful inmate rules by sheer force of strength.
“I could just extort him, have his mama sending me money,” he said, smiling.
Where is Shaw now. One of them said that the victim had been testifying on other people’s cases. After seeing the documentary, one Miami-Dade county commissioner called for an investigation into conditions at the jail. I asked another inmate if, by some quirk of fate, I’d been arrested and sent to their cell, a bespectacled Englishman with a college education who was clearly not cut out to fight, they might let me off the obligation to fight the other men in the cell.
always in their cells and they are only allowed out twice a week.