Andrew Jarecki

the behavior modification dorm where guys have been killed by guards.

And you've got to look in that dorm where people have been in solitary confinement for five years at a time.

Don't let them show you just what they want to show you.

And I felt much safer, even though the warden had said to us, when you go in there, don't talk to any of the men.

They're all very dangerous.

I immediately felt safer talking to the inmates than I did talking to any of the guards.

And

When we left, it was really because we got kicked out, right?

We start, you saw in the beginning of the film, we sort of start getting nosy and we start trying to look in some of these other areas and then they shut down the filming, they throw us out.

And then we thought, well, maybe we're stuck now.

How are we gonna make a film about this?

We feel we have to because we're the only people that know what's going on in here.

But they're not going to let us back.

So it was then that we found out that there was this network of men inside who had access to these contraband cell phones who were documenting what was going on.

So that was our way of getting into those buildings that we couldn't see inside.

And one of the first things we...

What we learned was one of the guys inside, Melvin Ray, texted us to say, hey, you know, this guard was a guard that we had been tracking already who was a particularly violent guard.

He just beat somebody very badly, and he's now – that person, the victim, is at UAB Hospital.

So we jumped in a car and we went to UAB Hospital and just walked up.

I just put my iPhone in my pocket and we just walked up to the intensive care unit.