Andrew Jarecki

I'm not going to lie to that man's mother.

But right now, this is their world, bro.

I'm not going to say more.

I'm not going to put myself in harm's way.

Might have been his death sentence.

He also, as he started to get closer to getting out, you know, because he was killed a month before he was getting it out.

And so as he started getting closer to release, he just started to get more frustrated and more angry and started to say things to guards about like, you know, you know what I've seen in here and I'm going to, you know.

And then lo and behold, he gets found in a cell and

dead and you know he's bleeding from orifices in his body and it was pretty clear that he was given what they call a hot shot which is they give you a cigarette that's got something bad on it and it uh and it can kill you boy

We already – we knew a bunch of stuff.

We knew because we had had this – we had visited some prisons as volunteers.

And I had gone on the death row with my filmmaking partner, Charlotte Kaufman.

We had gone into – we had gone originally into Holman Prison where they have the death row.

And we went in there with the chaplain.

And the lieutenant came down and said, you know, unfortunately, we're so understaffed right now, which is an understatement.

um that you know we don't have anybody to take you around but you know chaplain i know you want to show your friends around the death row so you know just go for it so we ended up walking around the death row for like two or three hours just talking to men and those men were very helpful they they weren't you know we weren't talking to irrational people we weren't talking to you know they're

There are people who were trying to get the story out.

And so we knew going in that there were a lot of bad things happening.

We didn't know exactly what.

And then when we went into Easterling and the men started calling us aside and saying, you know, they beat me so bad I defecated on myself.