Well I'm sure it makes it easier when you've got a camera crew around you, and guards all around, with the promise that they'll be getting a lot of time in solitary, plus probably extra time added to their sentence
Louis's prison conversations get to a place that, with the best will and skill in the world, nobody else gets to. The sad truth of getting to that place is finding out that there are no answers, that poor and uneducated men turn to crime, they overcrowd prisons, and the only thing they accept without argument is a code built on brutality. Why do you fight? It's the code. Why follow the code? You just do.
just me thinking out loud, but could it be because in a lot of ways the normal systems have failed them? they feel ostricised from civil society and are under immense pressure? i dunno. its a very hard topic with no immediate easy answers.
@@squaids667 you need to live in the areas these guys come from to understand. It’s so easy to blame it on the system but that’s a pathetic excuse to end up in prison
2.54 "Shit that's the code, that's they rules, you gotta ask the person they made it" How ironic that he seems to want to adhere to and uphold the rules of prison life, yet if he had just followed the rules outside of prison, he wouldn't be in such a predicament now,
+gimp91 The same code exists on the streets. Show some empathy. He's a product of his environment, like all of us. "Parents?" "Nope. Deceased". No surprise.
Louis weird weekends was a good series, honest and insightful. If he hasnt already, Louis should do a documentary in the UK, exploring Britains multiculture, especially in areas like Manchester, Bradford and parts of Birmingham and London, to do with the good and bad things about it.
More. It is easier to stab someone if you on the bottom bunk.So it's more dangerous being on the top. If you're on the top, your bunk mate has an eye on you but you don't have an eye on them
+ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ «ORESTISPC» ΚΟΝΤΟΖΗΣ rewatch the video. Louis Through is a short guy and the top bunk is level with his chest. It won't take much to kill the guy in the top bunk. That is why no one wants to take it. Take it from someone who's been in
UUUh manok750i mate... Usa is literally the definition of a first world country... like im not kidding it literally the first world country by the definition of the word. It mentions usa in its definition...
The only guy in there who seems likeable is that guy who "chooses to sleep on the top bunk." Seems reasonable. Having said that, he must have done something pretty bad to be in maximum security
Joe Kennally Yeh a big fat bloated one now, its just they were alot better than this yrs ago, used to play real informative documentaries BBC2, now theres too much emphasis on the entertainment factor.
The point isn;t to correct his english but rather to get him to elaborate on the meaning of his statement. In a normal documentary a narrator would cut in to explain the meaning of the prisoner to the audience, but Louis has the interviewee explain it instead.
For people asking questions about prison life in America. Go to a guys channel called Shaun Attwood. He is an English guy who spent 6 years in an American jail. You wouldn't believe some of the shit that happens and the "code" of the prison that you don't see unless you have lived it.
The mental scramble when Louis presents simple challenges to the accepted norm, and you can see the guys never had to rise to that next level of the conversation. ‘You could be an honest person, but not want to fight?’ ‘Yeah Umm but you gon have to’ ‘Why’ ‘Hell that’s the code, go ask the guy that made it’ Lmao. Cretins.
Such a bad life in jail how can anybody enjoy it i would wake up so depressed in jail i probably wouldnt get no sleep with alll the noise in there i will never go jail i will just stay a good boy
I know this is 4 year old but in that african documentary Louis wants to go in an abandonded tower blockdrug/crime lair and the militia advises him not to and he goed anyway, that guy is not scared anymore than the avarage guy, probably a lot more brave in fact
Way prison officers and some of the fools prisoners says as if they are wild beast locked up and they will bite you as soon as they see any human Listen, in jail everyone just wants to do time and go home nothing more than that. You only get few who is just new on the line and wants to show off little bit and some time things get wrong with one another and end up doing one another, that's all. In the jail all are human end of the day and doing time for being a beast but they are not born beast who will just jump on you for nothing and rip ur head off. I spend most of my 20s 30s in jail and all is bull shit way the prison authority and prisoners they make out. Obviously some fools prisoners like to boost and prison officers wants to show to the world how serious dangerous job they doing by putting their life in danger. I never heard any prison officers has been killed or crippled part from cat scratch
Louis Theroux is a bit of a shit interviewer. You can tell these guys would beat him up if the camera crew weren't there, or if he was a prisoner as well lol. Trevor McDonald is the much better interviewer in my opinion.
Louis brings in very positive energy to places that really need it!
Only Louis Theroux can lightly challenge a high security inmate and not get beaten up xDD
Well I'm sure it makes it easier when you've got a camera crew around you, and guards all around, with the promise that they'll be getting a lot of time in solitary, plus probably extra time added to their sentence
"put bruh right dur" - rodney 2k11
Hahahahahahaha 😂 this comment got me
I do love how these inmates stick to "the code". Yet can't obey laws.
Prison traditions. Passed down through generations from a time where it meant something.
Now it means nothing but they've nothing else.
They've wasted every opportunity and piece of hope that they had in their lives, so this "code" is all they have. It's actually quite pathetic.
All three missing the point, you should watch the full documentary.
I think they GET the point, but just don’t give 2 poops
Might be something to with them all having the combined IQ of about 40
Louis: how you doing guys
Prisoners: 👀🤣😂
Louis's prison conversations get to a place that, with the best will and skill in the world, nobody else gets to. The sad truth of getting to that place is finding out that there are no answers, that poor and uneducated men turn to crime, they overcrowd prisons, and the only thing they accept without argument is a code built on brutality. Why do you fight? It's the code. Why follow the code? You just do.
just me thinking out loud, but could it be because in a lot of ways the normal systems have failed them? they feel ostricised from civil society and are under immense pressure? i dunno. its a very hard topic with no immediate easy answers.
@@squaids667 you need to live in the areas these guys come from to understand. It’s so easy to blame it on the system but that’s a pathetic excuse to end up in prison
He was trolling tf outta the top bunk dude 😂😂
It’s considered to be the less desirable option
No, he was just putting it well.
He chooses to be on the top bunk 😀
He no stitching
louis is a don
He's not a don....he's intelligent
Dons are intelligent
Louis q's are too rational for the prisoners to even fathom.
Sheeeed it's da code!
2.54 "Shit that's the code, that's they rules, you gotta ask the person they made it" How ironic that he seems to want to adhere to and uphold the rules of prison life, yet if he had just followed the rules outside of prison, he wouldn't be in such a predicament now,
#JUDGENOTLESTYEBEJUDGED innit?
+gimp91 The same code exists on the streets. Show some empathy. He's a product of his environment, like all of us.
"Parents?"
"Nope. Deceased".
No surprise.
Well I suppose he's learned his lesson and wants to be on his best behaviour in prison so he can be let out early or something.
gimp91 spot on. Cheers
He did follow the rules. Just different ones.
2:06 "Fiiine with it, no problem!" Peaceful guy... *cough*
what a hell hole
ma ma ma ma maid man!
lol
Louis got his own kinda swag up in dis.... he on point. Puttin in work, getting paid. He on balance.
I love how Louis (and the camera men) brave their selves to do this... some of the things I see them do I certainly couldn't.
If one of these chaps tried to fight me their Father would be receiving a very strongly worded letter indeed.
but not in all caps... surely you jest
“That’s the code, you’d have to ask the person who made it”
Ah yes, Mr. Johnathan Prison
Thank you Louis, ur a brave and smart man
Louis weird weekends was a good series, honest and insightful. If he hasnt already, Louis should do a documentary in the UK, exploring Britains multiculture, especially in areas like Manchester, Bradford and parts of Birmingham and London, to do with the good and bad things about it.
I agree. He should maybe do some stuff in the UK jails as well. BTW, @ 2:39. what's the "glack"...anyone on here know??
D RM "tell you to get out there" he means they force new inmates to fight.
Tbh Lois is putting himself and the other timers at risk, asking questions like that lol
He said two weeks like it's a life sentence
I wouldn’t last two minutes in a place like that 😬😬😬
well the way i see it if you sleep in the top bank you are less. vulnerable because you are elevated higher of the ground
More. It is easier to stab someone if you on the bottom bunk.So it's more dangerous being on the top. If you're on the top, your bunk mate has an eye on you but you don't have an eye on them
If you are 6,9 feet you can
+ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ «ORESTISPC» ΚΟΝΤΟΖΗΣ rewatch the video. Louis Through is a short guy and the top bunk is level with his chest. It won't take much to kill the guy in the top bunk. That is why no one wants to take it. Take it from someone who's been in
so many people in one cell? I thought this existed only in third world countries
usa is 3rd world country
UUUh manok750i mate... Usa is literally the definition of a first world country... like im not kidding it literally the first world country by the definition of the word. It mentions usa in its definition...
Such a dumb idea. It's mean't to be max security, all predators, yet it is a communal dorm. Bullying/Abuse/Assaults will be common place.
@@hilltopcresent ahhaajhahahaha
I think it may be a holding tank if they're awaiting court. They would be on best behavior as to not screw up their case
Theres a point to what he's explaining. If your not willing to fight, your an easy target to flip.
Louis has always made great documentaries...but my god does he come off so painfully awkward that it’s actually hilarious 😂
If Louis slept in this cell for 2 weeks with these guys they would protect him . Louis just has that calm likeable attitude that has no threat.
I doubt it. I think they'd make him a mawg very quickly.
2:52 lol shi' that's the code!
i bet they all thoroughly enjoyed meeting Louie no doubt
They’re all keen to have rules and follow them in here. Shame they bloody well couldn’t on the outside 😐
The only guy in there who seems likeable is that guy who "chooses to sleep on the top bunk." Seems reasonable. Having said that, he must have done something pretty bad to be in maximum security
He is the main man, the the the main man, you know the the the main man
Guys like Ronnie and company love being inside, there they think they are something, because otherwise outside their just trash.
Ur talks trash
Their or they're? Difficult one.
At least spell correctly or just look like a total hypocrite.
@@peterhardie4151 they're
@@elstoniobanderas4091 2 years it took you, proof grammar is difficult.
This resembles throwing Harry Potter to a pack of wolves lol
ACCIO FIREBOLT!!!
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sorry.
BSEmadcow Later on in this scene one of the prisoners shouts out "Yo Harry Potta, whassup bruh"
:-D
Harry pothead
The code is the code - i can't tell you the code - gonna have to figure it out yourself 🤔
"Der berr Dee burr bummm bderr" derr.....Rodney
He walk in like his you doing lol
BBC took the full version of this off youtube
Starting to hate BBC lately, too corporate controlling. Most of their videos of documentaries on YT they dont even let you comment on them.
we paid for the fucking show to be made in the first place
+Raiken Xion Well they are a corporation.
Joe Kennally Yeh a big fat bloated one now, its just they were alot better than this yrs ago, used to play real informative documentaries BBC2, now theres too much emphasis on the entertainment factor.
Init, them paedophile protectors won't even reply
These guys not snitching.
Haha! Louis seems so awkward and out of place when he does these things. :')
@Bodybuildinq not really, it's their parents who taught them it's ok to be like that
"Where you at"- how good of the presenter to question his crap 'English' lol
The point isn;t to correct his english but rather to get him to elaborate on the meaning of his statement. In a normal documentary a narrator would cut in to explain the meaning of the prisoner to the audience, but Louis has the interviewee explain it instead.
He didn’t choose to be on the top bunk.
He says he likes the top when really he hates it
Or you fight for a bottom, know you're gonna lose and end up being on the top bunk anyway witha broken jaw
What is the difference when he is staying in bottom or top bank?
They are known as bottom boys
Louis seems really nervous here, which is unusual... i don't blame him though!
For people asking questions about prison life in America. Go to a guys channel called Shaun Attwood. He is an English guy who spent 6 years in an American jail. You wouldn't believe some of the shit that happens and the "code" of the prison that you don't see unless you have lived it.
Rodney sounds like fog horn leg horn for a second.
Ma ma ma my main man ma ma my main man
rodney is fit
American jails treat prisoners like shit, then the public is surprised they re-offend.
Next to no effort is put into rehabilitation.
what's so wrong with the " TOP BUoNK"
Farts rise.
The mental scramble when Louis presents simple challenges to the accepted norm, and you can see the guys never had to rise to that next level of the conversation.
‘You could be an honest person, but not want to fight?’
‘Yeah Umm but you gon have to’
‘Why’
‘Hell that’s the code, go ask the guy that made it’
Lmao. Cretins.
Such a bad life in jail how can anybody enjoy it i would wake up so depressed in jail i probably wouldnt get no sleep with alll the noise in there i will never go jail i will just stay a good boy
lol ditto
Enjoy..?
Thas rite
I think some nice wallpaper would go down a treat.. What about a poster or a nudie calendar in the hall... Lovely
You can't obey laws but you'd rather die breaking a code.
*bricking
I bet the camera crew were bridling themselves. And Louis obviously..
name change the law to "the code" and problem solved
Stay out
Maybe a TV and a ps 2..or is the system creating monsters to lock up.. $$$$$
hi guys, i'm Louis, i've got a drug delivery for T-Bone, is T-Bone in this cell, where are you T-Bone?
@djjake You'll be suprised how intelligent some of these guys are. Although, for what they did then hell, they can rot.
They stick to the code but not the laws 🤦♂️
Change the laws to the code and problem solved
whats with the top bunk ?
dunno i would have thought top bunk is preferable personally. Cause you got no one sleeping above your head.
More work to climb up......workers, not much work; bosses, .....
He seems ok dosnt care that he is in prison😄
Lol
Miami zoo
I need subtitles
I need in english yo understand rodney
louis is scared shitless
wouldn't you be a bit scared?
If you walked into a room full psychos you would be scared too.
He hides it well...
Every body is diffrent though not every guy would get scared a guy whos angry wouldnt be scared
I know this is 4 year old but in that african documentary Louis wants to go in an abandonded tower blockdrug/crime lair and the militia advises him not to and he goed anyway, that guy is not scared anymore than the avarage guy, probably a lot more brave in fact
Respect from russian, love in here. Fk hate
shiiet
Way prison officers and some of the fools prisoners says as if they are wild beast locked up and they will bite you as soon as they see any human
Listen, in jail everyone just wants to do time and go home nothing more than that. You only get few who is just new on the line and wants to show off little bit and some time things get wrong with one another and end up doing one another, that's all. In the jail all are human end of the day and doing time for being a beast but they are not born beast who will just jump on you for nothing and rip ur head off.
I spend most of my 20s 30s in jail and all is bull shit way the prison authority and prisoners they make out.
Obviously some fools prisoners like to boost and prison officers wants to show to the world how serious dangerous job they doing by putting their life in danger.
I never heard any prison officers has been killed or crippled part from cat scratch
Which country you in prison?
@@elstoniobanderas4091 UK
@@ranamiah6276 Thanks.
Your experience and comments are based on UK, but the US prison culture seems a lot more extreme tht US? So, incomparable?
@catfacetheoriginal Haha, don't be silly. They don't have any parents. One parent familys on welfare that's about it. Parents taught them, hahaha.
Why do blacks not speak english? Put bruh riht dur, das all, shieeeet da da code
Louis Theroux is a bit of a shit interviewer. You can tell these guys would beat him up if the camera crew weren't there, or if he was a prisoner as well lol. Trevor McDonald is the much better interviewer in my opinion.
Ur shit