3: The Major and Her Crew

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04/11/22 • 46 min

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State investigators interrogate a high-ranking prison guard, who is accused of coordinating attacks on prisoners.

State investigators interrogate a high-ranking prison guard, who is accused of coordinating attacks on prisoners.

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2: Us and Them

Damaria Bates and Jimia Stokes started their jobs as mental health workers, full of hope. But soon, they saw signs of severe abuse-- mentally ill prisoners with injuries, drenched in tear gas. When they tried to report the problems, they say fellow staff retaliated against them.

In this episode we go behind the walls with the two women, as they try to make changes from the inside out. As two of the only black women on the mental health staff, they say they navigated racism and harassment. They began to feel like it was impossible to do the job they came to do.

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A man goes into prison with a 7 year sentence. But ends up getting 97 more years. How does that happen? And what do small town politics have to do with it?