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Louis has breakfast with two inmates who tell him about mealtime politics and the brutal punishments inflicted by the prisoners on anyone who doesn't play by their rules. Strong themes and language. Compelling video from BBC show Louis Theroux - Behind Bars.
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“Tell him nick”
Nick: that’s how it is
Nick is a man of few words.
Some say Nick is Ginger Joe from Kersal Massive
(Search for them, you'll know what I mean)
@@richdunbar4351 but where is little f*ing kev yeah ?
Thanks for your input Nick
😂😂👌
Louis is so good at playing a naive inquisitor when he knows full well what they mean and how dangerous everything is.
Louis doesnt know shit. Hear how wrong he is whenever he narrates.
@@Northern85Star I disagree, I think he's a very intelligent person that knows how to get people to talk
@@RB_90 Not really. He only ever touches on the surface. He knows how to find controversial figures, that is all. Rest is up to editing.
@@Northern85Star I don't think you become that successful unless you've got a good head on your shoulders and know how to get good information out of people. Editing is massive I'll give you that but you need the content to start and my man lowers peoples guards by making himself seem less in the know. When in reality he knows full well what the convicts do to snitches and how it all works
@@RB_90 Idd, he has made himself a public image as naive. What you call a rat.
Louis "Why would you do that?"
Cellmate "Tell em Nick!"
Nick "Just how it is"
"Great! Thanks for clearing that up Nick"
😂😂😂😂😂😂❤
The genious behind louis is that he comes across as a child so intrigued about every single detail. This disarms the person opposite and the he can pretty much ask anything and always get an answer...
Yeah that's not 'genius'. It's just an interview style/technique.
@@arveyilleszender5809 thanks for the comment. Brought back memories from 2 years.
I don't think it's a complete act, he seems quite similar outside of his documentarys, these are all questions I would ask, when you're totally new to a system you ask the most ridiculous questions
The irony in spelling 'genius' wrong😐
but he comes off like a sheltered retard
I love the ending: "see you later guys"
hahah Louis is amazing
Haha 😂 I knew someone would mention it, he's a dork but he's keeping it real! 😀
Laura Bailey the lack of a response from the inmates!
Luis Murrighile could've been much worse - if he said it on deathrow.
Laura Bailey it was a very 'feminine' way of saying it, at least in the eyes of prisoners. It would run the risk of making the brothers look bad. Imo it was dangerous for him to say it like that and I think he intentionally did it.
Let's face it, there's nothing that Louis is going to able to say to these savages that doesn't sound wholly 'feminine' to them. He could get up and walk away without saying anything, but that might be construed as disrespectful.
That line was hilarious - "why would you do that?"
Almost seems like they don't know the answer. "just the way it is". They don't know why. These people are sheep and weak.
Its a good question tho
There is an answer... They say that's that way it is because it's true. No time to explain the complexities of prison politics in a 3 minute clip. first of all prison is 100% segregated, something that's not going to change overnight. all trades, all business that is mutually beneficial stays within your race. The whites wouldn't want you to trade food, give food for a haircut, make a drug deal with a black or mexican because there are plenty of whites who can offer the same thing and they want the economy to benefit themselves. Everyone eats, bunks, sleeps, hangs out, uses the bathroom with their same race. You can still hang out with individuals outside your race though, but your race is like your gang and it comes first. Let's say you are white and you and your black friend jump a white, both the whites and the blacks will want to kill you.
@@nehuge I want to see you last a few years in San Quentin. When you go against the prison culture there is a very high chance you'll get your head stomped in and killed. It isn't a joke. Just the way things are. Prison is about survival - nothing else matters.
Didn't say I took the challenge to last there a few years.
3:08 Black hand tries to prod Theroux when he’s with the brotherhood... maximum balls.
To be fair the brotherhood guy looked like a black guy from the angle in the scene just before that timestamp
I always thought it was strange for inmates to adhere to the rules in prison so strictly but they can't keep from breaking the law on the outside
More instantaneous consequences and far more brutal. That can be repeated over and over
The law wont shank you in the shower for breaking their rules
@@johnredcorn2476 but breaking the law puts you in a situation where you might get shanked in the shower
@@iljaslundqvist9626 as this movie shows, some people make genuine mistakes and end up inside and have to become criminals just to survive
Stupid comment
Louis asks basic questions and let's them talk. When someone speaks they feel important, even if they are not. This is why social media is so successful.
Hmm
What a great comment never thought of it like that. Using this thanks.
Good points.
i didn't ask you anything yet you spoke.
🤣🤣 🤪
"The Barbarian Brotherhood".. *goes on to pour miilk on his cereal in a toddler sized tray*
ROFL SAVAGE
and taking food from a Jewish person
You wouldn't say that to his face
Lol hilarious
@Samuel L. Jackson 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"why would you do that?" is not a dumb question you see him search deep in his soul like a lost memory of his mother appeared to him and asked him "why would you do that?" reality is he felt ashamed to be in jail and asked that question
stay positive everyone show love not hate
+2basick hahahahah.. nah man its a simple punishment. He was probably afraid to explain the really well organized, but for sure primitive structures of his prison gang more detailed.
+CLEVEN11 No, he couldn't answer, because there is no smart sounding answer. There is no good reason to do that. And if he said the real ''reason'', (ego, etc) it would cut too close to the truth.
+curiousSOUL22 maybe he was concealing gang loyalty?
Exactly, it showed that they actually had no reasoning. "That's how it is" is not a reason, it just means they just follow along and don't want to think for themselves about this stuff. It's pointless and arbitrary and I expect except for the few who really do hate the other races they all realise how stupid it is but are stuck in this spiders web and can't get out.
Of course it's racist if your gang is defined by what race the members are allowed to be, I don't even think anyone stated or even implied there was a difference.
when he says "thats just the way it is" it makes me think of the Five Monkeys Experiment. they just do it because they saw others do it and to keep social cohesion they become a part of it until you've forgotten why you were doing it in the first place
I mean they have to. If you don't do what your prison gang tells you to do they'll mess you up badly.
Dude that's EXACTLY what I thought too. The five monkeys experiment explains all of this quite well. The system has been segregated for so long based on racial lines that go back to the times of segregation, that even now when society has become racially integrated, the prison system still works just like it did way back when. It's like they're stuck in time, it's crazy. Also gotta keep in mind that a lot of the Cali inmates in GP are aryan brotherhood. They may not come out and say it on camera but a lot of these prisoners are legitimate white supremecists.
Louis is one of the best interviewers you will ever witness.
Louis Theroux is one of the best documentary makers of contemporary times and of course he has to play devil's advocate in order to get a reaction out of the people he is interviewing.
" see you later guys"
Bruh, in the afterlife?
louis acts like that and always asks dumb questions to get people say dumb shit on camera and express their real feelings. he provokes people on purpose like that
Well that’s just dumb!
The guy has just blown an amazing opportunity to get some real insight into the thoughts of gang members inside the prison system. Instead he asks assinine questions and can only repeat the answer he is given.
@@Ella-bo9jf then don’t watch it? A huge number of people find his style very interesting and informative, and he’s often able to get answers out of people you wouldn’t expect.
@@Ella-bo9jf holy fuck. Insufferable.
@@Ella-bo9jf He get the realest insight there is
These people are dumb, arrogant, prideful and have a total lack of self control. Their narrative of "tough and strong" is nothing but a story. They're locked up like children, and that's all.
@Aussie Menace You have no clue about anything have you, Nazi?
"Who would be me up"?
Inmate: "Me"🤣🤣😭😭
Funny part 😂
Could of fool me, the white dude doing all the yapping looks puertorican.🙈🙉🙊
Have you ever seen Italians, Spaniards, Greeks and Eastern Europeans; etc ? They are all of the white race but have brown skin.
Nah. He looks and sounds exactly like a tanned version of Johnny klebitz from gta 4.
Puerto Rican’s can be white 😂
@@lesmach6495 I hate to break it to you bro...
@@shaqoneill8069Mexicans too
Louis mvp for finishing that plate
Louis should really revisit san quentin I would love to see a follow up, especially with the guy serving 400 or so years for home robberies with "torture tactics"
oh yeah i remember that guy, kinda liked the man
Here's an old article about the bald guy www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2221220-181/racist-gang-growing-in-sonoma
That guy serving 400 years is David Silva
@@user-jh3rx3ej7h interesting. What's the bald guy's name?
@@SeaJayBelfast Brett lancaster
Not a huge fan of prison documentaries but I like the ones that Louis has made so far. As for the people slating his questioning style, he's asking perfectly valid questions. What questions do you think he should ask then? Seeing as you are such experts in this field.
He can't really go around reading the riot act to these prisoners because then it wouldn't be a particularly insightful or balanced documentary.
"Why would you do that?" Guy literally doesn't have an answer "thats the way it is"
Right.
Most prison rules seem that way, another video of Louis in a jail somewhere... all they could say was "that's the code". They do it but they don't know why
Because the rules where established long before they ever arrived in prison. It's been this way since the desegregation of the prison system.
A big part of the answer is that whatever they do they all do together. If the rules are that someone can't do that then they all pile on at the same time. If the guy with the neck tattoos didn't do that they would all beat him up too. If they all just decided that they weren't going to do that, that might actually change things. But the thing is the cohesion of the group is actually extremely important in these circumstances. It's a real us against them mentality, because of the level of abuse and violence in there
You do it or you get murdered. You exercise daily or you get stomped. You don't carry a piece up your ass see the first two options. It's a violent place, don't go to jail or prison.
@@1bigfin Yep. People complaining about individual prisoners not having good explanations for the rules, as if they had any part in setting them or could break them if they wanted to without facing consequences
I love this man,he is a really professional interviewer.
The “barbarian brother hood “ lolllllllllllll I had to rewind that a few times …….
Fair play to Louis, not many interviewers would have the balls to sit with prisoners and eat.
Love when he gets down to a question as basic as “why would you do that?” They don’t even have an answer for him really highlights the fact that they just want any excuse to beat on each other. They are all definitely in the right place.
u sound ignorant as fuck - if they don’t beat the guy then they’re viewed as weak and therefore victim to being beat up.
@@rishiarora3234 You just proved my point, everyone in there just looking for an excuse to beat on each other.
Well yes and no. Sure it gives them a reason but these rules aren't made out of thin air. Since gsngs are so segregated in Cali, prison gangs are too... to protect YOU if you get there for some reason...imagine races ganging up like this but allowing interaction between eachother. You would constantly have riots because one idiot borrowed shit from another idiot from another race and then stabs him for it and both races have to jump in. Or two guys from diff races play fucjing scrabble and argue and fight and now everyone's fighting. If it's all segregated you still get people fighting but 99% between their own race so it never escalates because its resolved among eachother.
I know it's stupid but its there for a reason. Same shit doesn't apply jn like Philly or NY or whatever because street gangs aren't as segregated so it's impossible to do such segregation in prison.
It's not because they want a reason, it's a rule in prison. If they don't do that other people will beat them up. Imagine you get a gay guy in your cell, word gets around the prison that you're fucking him, then people think they can fuck you. At that point you either get him out of your cell or kill him, that's how it works bro. You can't be a bitch, everyone for himself in there.
The reason why is because racial gangs used to prey on other races by taking their stuff. If your race sees another race taking stuff of your tray they assume its under duress.
Moral of the story: Stay out of trouble that sends you to jail/prison.
With every statement those guys justify their being in prison.
@Judas Iscariot that's kind of extreme to say so. There are cases where they reform and get better persons. Yes, there are more cases that end up still locked but everyone deserves second chances. Some guys end up locked for small things and get their life ruined in prison, and then again we can't blame them. I don't know why you think so but think about if your father had to stole to put you bread on the table and got locked up for doing it once. Would you still do the same?
@@eduardd.1086 the problem is America’s “justice” system: it’s just a breeding ground for reoffenders, and because everyone wants to treat prison as primarily a place for punishment, that’s not going to change any time soon.
@@rainbowevil Most American prisons are privatized so they wont focus on reforming but dehumanizing them as a means to coax them to reoffended.
"Cya later guys"
Bro I went to school in the hood and this prison cafeteria looks nicer than the cafeteria in my elementary school lmao they were really training us for this since we were kids
Guard throwing hail mary’s with the bagged lunch 🤣🤣🤣
i watch this video cause it makes me hungry and grateful for the food i have ty
Louis about to be shivved at 3:10.
Yes the guy looks like going to punch him in the face kkk
🤣🤣🤣🤣...a spoon..
Bwhahahha
hahaha funny :D
Yeah! I was looking to find a comment talking about this! It looks like it could be the same dude who was behind Louis in line on the way out, and if you look you can see that dude is eyeing him down hard while they walk through the door. It looks like they cut a lot of time between the shot of them walking out and the shot of them walking through the yard, and then it cuts out again; it seems like there is a pretty intense story there, I wonder what the hell happened in the parts they cut out...
Louis have some serious BALLZ, he goes to bad places were their is shooting and talks to some crazy people and yet hes so calm 👍👍👊
I like the way Mr Snrub thinks!
"Who would beat you up?"
"🤔... me." LMAO
AWESOME music
Saint Quentin looks like an old school sort of prison. Just by looking at the way the prison is built, the routines and even how the guards react and what the prison is made off. It just looks very old fashioned compared to other prisons I have seen.
I really love how all these criminals say: 'the rules men the rules'. But outside they say fuck the system and they hate the rules.
They obey by their own code of conduct outside and inside. It's the law they don't agree with.
@@James-semaJ People talk about codes like "no snitching," but then you see them snitching from the lowest levels to the highest levels. People will do whatever they think is best for them at any given moment.
Outside they aren’t cornered and don’t have to worry about their cellmate being forced to stab them in their sleep for not listening
@@James-semaJ they won't say why the rules are that way because they know its stupid.
@@poleagincluding you 😂
Louis cracks me up when he says "you would really do that?" (that they'd beat him up).He always get that line in, in his docs
Louis is one of a kind, he is a brain 🧠🧠🧠.
Louis’ voice makes what he is saying sound comical even though objectively it is very serious
3 dudes would just attack me? And do what? Pummel me? Hahaha
It's just how it is 😐
The music at the start is beautiful
It’s called Mansfield and Cyclops by Espers
0:09 Hank Schrader moonlighting as a prison guard
“It’s how it is” seems to be a common answer throughout this documentary. I’m guessing the rules, the structure they all live by, whether they agree or not, is what keeps them alive/safe.
it's the opposite haha Over here we don't have the racial shit to the same extent in prison so when you do your time with over 21s it's pretty relaxed (y.o's get a bit mental but that's just cause it's full of wee guys trying to make a name for themselves hahaha) The codes of conduct they live by just keep you in catching more charges
More than that. Humans love following rules and routines
Louis Theroux is a very brave man
Do'n't know why but it's funny when they laugh at 1:52
At 1:18 there is a black n white table haha
Hahahahahahahahahha
"Tell him Nick"
Nick *swallows food* "that's just how it is"
haha " see you later guuyyss " :D
Massive portions. Looks pretty good too.
Right at the end in a typical dorky Louis voice “ see you later guys “ hahahahaha
I quite like the look of the food actually. It always makes me hungry watching this.
It's pretty careless having prisons like this in this day and age. I've seen small unit prisons that are like a friggen school camp where the focus is on rehabilitation and education. Any sign of politics and the inmates get re housed into a different unit.
We don't have people /resources to manage that. This is a very efficient way of housing them
@tunittin haha the best part is they're all looking back at the camera
What a pointless existence, which is even more prononced when you see the amazing scenery outside the prison
3:24 I feel sorry for him when looks at the cameraman knowing he's going home and he's going to the cell. I know how painful it is to be in that cage separated from the outside world
What did you go to prison for Prince?
That's the whole point of prison
His fault
Might sound weird but seen this made me hungry!!; )
I always watch this while I’m eating. I love food.
Man, give me your fruit cocktail
The coffee cup at 2:49 is an Ikea variant I own and use every day.
New life please
That 'white' guy doesn't look very white
he's white
HE wouldn't have gotten into a white gang if he wasn't white. Before they let you in they make you put in work and also get crooked guards to get a hold of your files and information. The lifeline of prison gangs are crooked guards without them they would have no function.
Xophe There's no such thing as a white American. They all have Irish, Slavic, or Italian heritage.
He has a facial structure/skin colour very similar to some southern german/austrians i know
Philip Godsworth actually once you leave the coasts (and what is considered to be the south) white people are mostly german in origin
He says "blacks at one table, whites at one table", but right behind them are some black and white guys sitting at a table together?
LecceDiPane i think it mostly applies to the gang members but could be wrong
LecceDiPane let's just say there is more to that story than 4 friends, I think it's two girlfriends on a date if you catch my drift
Man that's not true you can be black and white and sit at a table together in jail if you're not in a gang or in gang politics trust me not everyone is gay or turns gay
James Jones I don’t know who gets punked more but I do know whites are racially the most targeted group to be punked or get beat up.
they all beat each other and kill each other. saying one group is more targeted is stupid.
This looks fun, where do i sign up!?
"who I'd met in yard" sounds so Brit gangster lmao like "these dons who I met on road"
"do you really mean that?" oh no im just messin with you man we all get along just fine, we even have ping pong fridays and shit
Mariano Pantoja complete opposites. you’d think they’d send into prison someone who would be able to understand what they’re saying to him. it’s like he landed on another planet haha
@@7betJesus I think the interviewer is acting dumb on purpose. It is part of his "gimmick"
Eating bacon and eggs while watching this 😆
These guys seem like nice people if you have them just one on one like this.
love y’all
Respect from Russia, watched 20+ times.
Jozeph Reyes simple. there is no prison gangs in Russia in that way you mean it.
What's up russian
Fool
in the background you can see a table with 2 white guys, and 2 black guys... kind of disproves what this guys is saying doesn't it
No, its the code that you can't take food from another race, and obviously gang members won't sit with a rival gang, but non-gang-affiliated people of different races can sit together. The guy wasn't saying that all blacks together etc. was part of the rules, he was just observing it to be generally the case after Louis asked him about it.
Home sweet home!
When he said “so that’s it” that hit me hard.
I didn't know vin diesel was a prison guard
Haha
Sadly Louis got shivved in his back with a spoon shortly after this was filmed 3:09
esa carcel se ve mejor que las que hay acá en Ecuador
y no solo acá sino en todo latinoamerica me parece.
"we had to get cha" lol this guy is crazy 😂
"all white guys at tables all black guys at tables" table behind him has 2 white and 2 black guys at it lol
Now i pray for never go to jail
i'm half black half white, and i'm from a Latino country.. where the hell i will belong if i go to prison ?!
Xeno Morfh if you look latino just blend in with them
You sit on the floor
all of sudden I'm eating my food like there's no other day while watching this lol
What a productive day. Relatively speaking.
'Why would you do that' It kills me everytime he sounds so scared
"All blacks on one table; all whites on one table". He's obviously not talking about the table behind him with both black and white guys sitting together.
ProgrammedForDamage it’s probably a group of loners, serving a relatively small sentence
dat guy is a white guy....just his skin is black....dats all
H e probably meant just the gangs.
I can’t believe you’ve done this
Love is coming
I served time in prison. I was there for two years. I didn't play those stupid prison games. I talked to who ever I wanted to as much as I wanted for how long I wanted to. I used my time to better myself , not to play foolish games.
Not all prisons are the same. If you've done time you should know that, different states/periods of time/yards/security levels have different codes of conduct for different people.
He got a Rodger head from American Dad
I get the feeling that Louis slowly turns into an inmate as the show progresses.
Louis at the end "bye guys!" like a little kid on the school yard.
It's very odd that the prisoners say that they would beat louis up if he was a prisoner and he gave a black guy food, but they have absolutely 0 reasoning behind their actions other than "It's just the rules." I really wonder why that is. Does anybody think in prison? Seems odd, you have all the time in the world to think and you don't question an extremely illogical set of rules? However, I'm guessing if they were to publicly question it they'd get beat up. But i'm just assuming. Prison life looks freaking terrifying.
Same reason why a popular kid in school is ostracized by their clique if they associate with a kid who might not be so popular. The explanation 'it's just the rules" is vague and inadequate, but there really are no words to describe why people behave in the peculiar ways they do in enclosed environments like school, work, or even prison. The only difference is that prison has purely physical consequences for transgressions in the natural social order whereas in, say, a school or workplace, the consequences are purely social and are often times subtle and clandestinely cruel. But that's just the way it is.
It's not if he gave a black guy food it's if he ate food given to him by another race. The reasoning behind that is prison can be a place filled with diseases. The races stick together and share things like drugs, rolled cigs, maybe even cups with each other. Each group/race can at least kind of regulate how sanitary it's members are but not between groups/races. That is why those "rules" were established and now they are iron clad rules that also represent you knowing the "program" and operating by the rules of the group. You come across as someone who thinks he is so intellectually superior with statements like "Does anybody think in prison? Seems odd, you have all the time in the
world to think and you don't question an extremely illogical set of
rules?"It always strikes me as funny when people speak on things they no nothing about.
I seriously doubt that's the reason. If it is, why has NOBODY brought it up in any prison documentary when an inmate is interviewed about the racial violence and segregation ?
R A
Are you directing your comment to what I said? If you are believe me I know from experience what I am talking about. There are many reasons for the way things are established but what I stated is definitely one of them.
Nah, I wasn't. RUclips reply doesn't actually work i guess
there are mixed race tables right behind them. what's the deal there?
these guys love this place. it is just like a college. it ain't no prison
Scary.
It's so strange that people who don't want to follow the law have no problem at all to life by rules that are way strickter and make way less sense than any law
3:09 Louis is gonna get spooned
LOL
Anyone notice when he talked about the interracial sharing of food at about 1:56 the two black and two white men sharing a table behind them looked over nervously?
Good
3:10 The guy looks like it will hit him
lucky he dint got jumped for asking lots of questions
I was surprised they didn't tell him to shut up or stop asking... cause they kept pausing and looking at each other before answering his questions LOL good thing their shot caller probably won't ever see this.
How can we watch this full documentary i looked all over youtube and can only find a few 3 min parts to it
"It's just how it is."
Deep bruh 😱