Miami mega-jail. Part 1 /

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Imprint:London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2011.
Description:1 online resource (59 min.).
Language:English
Series:Louis Theroux
VAST: academic video online
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13630954
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Other authors / contributors:Theroux, Louis.
Cooper, Emma.
British Broadcasting Corporation.
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Title from resource description page (viewed May 13, 2014).
In English.
Summary:In the first episode of this two-part series, Louis spends time in one of the most notorious sections of Miami County Jail: the fifth and sixth floor of 'Main Jail', where many of the most volatile inmates are incarcerated. Held in large cage-like dwellings for up to 24 men, the inmates have developed a strange and violent jail culture. The men - who remain in the cells almost all the time and may only leave for yard time twice a week - live under the sway of a gladiatorial code. They fight each other for food, for status, and often just to pass the endless hours of confinement. Trips to the infirmary are a frequent occurrence as inmates are viciously attacked and beaten, but the guards say they are powerless to end the abuse.