Drugs, Bribery & Violence: The Secret Prison Economy | Life Inside 

I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to crack. Spent my whole life fighting Crack addiction. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with related health challenges.

matt hancock looks like he's been through a lot since im a celeb

My cousin before he got deported back to the Philippines was a big hustler out here in LA and of course in and out of prison. I use to ask him like why wasn’t he scared about going back to prison. And basically he told me every time he went to prison, he had friends already there, since he was a hustler who liked to share all his “earnings” he was well liked by everyone. He told me he would do things like get close with a female guard to smuggle in things like cigarettes and he would just give the cigs to everyone in his cell block or when he was out in the yard. So he said he always felt like Robin Hood just coming back to his people when he would go back to prison. My cousin could have honestly been some huge business tycoon but he came to the US as a teen, with an accent, and bullied everyday. So where do you turn to in those situations when you live in LA back in the 90s? You turn to the gangs who offered brotherhood and protection. My cousin is doin well tho, he got deported back to the Philippines where I hear he has turned over a new leaf and has a new family there. His two sons here are grown and doin amazing things with their lives. But yeah long story short, prison is tough and scary for a lot of people, but the flip side of that is the prison system is not doin enough to change lives for the better. My cousin should have done more to learn from his bad decisions in life, there’s no doubt about that. Regardless of that, these privatized prison industries just need to be abolished

Just to say I loved your first book so much. Listened to the audiobook and you reading it was just fantastic. You have a wonderful narration style. Looking forward to your second is going to be my holiday book!

Letting murderer work on your back is wild.

Just listened to Chris’s audiobook “a bit of a stretch”…I highly recommend it!

I’ve got stories like this for DAYS

Chris Atkins: masterclass in doing time

“He sorted out the knots in my back“ is crazy

This isn’t a reupload for the first time in the last couple weeks?

Spice is a huge problem in prisons and very deadly. There should be a documentary on the amount of deaths in the US prison system that are covered up as medical or self inflicted when in reality their deaths could have been prevented if not by negligence and lack of humanity.

I like the kettle trick 👍

Prison in Connecticut wasn't bad at all. It had a real summer camp type vibe

This guy definitely got taxed like crazy

I never met such a high maintenance inmate b4😂

i bet his little nickname in jail was "snitchy"

I’m a tattoo artist, and a barber. Generally an artist overall. I have had a few people tell me that I’d be well off in jail because of my traits. I AM WELL OFF AT HOME BRUH, WUT.

Some of them prisoners are living better than i aaam on the outside!😂

Hope you're working on some new films Christopher 🤨👍

Plot twist: It's the guards and prison contractors bringing it in.

Do a documentary on Jefferson county Ohio

I worked in prison system in nc for 4 years youd be surprised how easy it is to get touch screen phones and drugs. But no way you could have a canned anything cause they would use it for cutting people open in a fight.

Damn thats some prison dunn sign ME 👆 nah just playing😅

after seeing this documentary I realise where 17% of youtube comments be coming from.

When I was In prison, I saw more drugs in thier than on the outside! And this is coming from an ex ice addict and opiates addict!

What a wonderful existence.

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Sad truth about prison iv known people wanting to go inside just to sell and earn triple if not more than street price

Very true..There were plenty of times we didnt have tobacco but not once was there ever a time i couldn't get dope in prison

When he started talking about tuna it took me back to boarding school days lol

this guy has a audiobook on audible

Crunch crunch

With cash app and those apps being out don’t get me wrong yeah, food is currency but the smart ones have the money sent home especially when you’re well off you end up having so much food you don’t know what to do with it

Well i guess things are very different across the pond. In just about every RURAL American town you should be able to get dope within a few days ( if you dont know anyone there). And in EVERY American city, you can get some in a few hours by standing around local gas stations or hangout. And thats only if you don't know anyone. Its sad , but thats probably the best argument for full legalization of drugs. At least the quality and quantity will become a known entity, and that will absolutely significantly cut down overdoses

Tolong cari tau tentang narkoba sinte bung

He got Butt Plugged for a pack of cigarettes 🤣🤣

4G?! Why did I think prisons had wifi?

Spice is worth 2-2.5 on a prison wing? But cash is useless? 2,000-2,500 cans of tuna?

Prison is about survival. You can get any drug that you want in there if, you fit in with the right ones.

bodybuilders love tuna not because of how it tastes & a lot of guys spend their time in prison trying to get as big as they can because you get a lot of time to rest which you normally wouldn't get on the outside

I used to sell Heroin in Prison for only about 16 years tho

O sistema é podre no mundo inteiro....o que acontece nessa prisão acontece em todas as outras do planeta....sem novidades......

Its a city within a city within a state.You just have to have MONEY

this guy knows hardly anything about prison

“In British jails…” like they’re the roughest jails because they stay locked down. 😂😂

Prison is not like he is implying you have to make a bong out of a apple. Outside you can have a triple chamber for cash. I am on a suspended sentence for fighting and have a good background in education I honestly fear the place and if I offended again I have a one way ticket to jail.

Man paid his way through all his sentence😂 more money than bollocks LuL

Just like an American prison except we don't get no PlayStations and nothing like that and instead of tuna it'd be Top Ramen as the currency

They need to make changes and remove the corrupt correction officers and hire enough officers. And most importantly rehabilitate the inmate's so they don't come back

Tuna lol in USA we have moved into the future everything is cash app or venmo 😂

The fact that we get free videos on RU-vid by VICE is truly a gift.., keeping the education and knowledge alive. 👏👏👏

Only a white collar guy would say drugs are easier to get in prison. 😂

Sooooo you're saying prison is not the spot to be at? 🤔🙃

so this is 1 person

"meh" this guy is super invested in having a story to tell, pretty weak account to be honest. Subtext for instance won't get you high, buprenorphine is a partial opioid agonist, is actually prevents you from getting high and helps prevent overdose, hence why it is hard to get people addicted to opioids to take it. Maybe if you were completely opioid naive, you might get a small buzz. He's not only not very believable but also pretty annoying, also, why was he in prison? I usually love VICE docs. This was weak sauce: I wouldn't trade one can of tune to watch this.

Who abuses pregablin or gabapentin?! Lmao, what are you trying to do, take a nap and calm your restless leg syndrome?

Is vice just reposting old videos now?

Like a every jail....

"Spoice"

I already knew what country this was by looking at this dudes teeth in the thumbnail

2:09 you spend the cash on corrupting COs make them smuggle things like an xbox into the prison cash is king

How many tins of tuna for a baloney sammie

Limmy was right all along!

Prison is a world inside of a world 🐸🍺🔪🔥

Ya paid to get ya washing done 😂 whoppa

Hooch aint a myth, but remember to burp it lol

HOMEBOY WENT TO PRISNEYLAND NOT PRISON LOL, alot diff in America !

This whole story made me laugh, this sounds like a juvenile camp in the U.S what a joke

This nerd just telling on everyone?!

Kinda wanna go to prison in London now😂

Drugs are easier to get in jail They are on the road

Ive been to prison in the usa multiple times (never federal) and never saw a single game console lol everything else is true af though.

He was butt out for a pack of smokes.

Smuggle in rolling papers and tobacco. Canned tuna 😂 No tobacco pouch of top or whatever and rolling papers you food. .y advice. Canned tuna this guys butt would be for sale 😢 im joking 😊

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This dude doesn't have a clue😂cause he has afew packets of amberleaf 🤥

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Dont think he realizes how hateable he is

Fucking british accent , i cant get it so fast..

Lost me at White Collar crime, I'm a lag but better than ODC.. Mheh..Still a Lag.

Northern jails aren't that bad 😂

Europe is a cakewalk compared to America

Why can't everyone in prison have a flat screen TV and/or a Playstation? 🙂 They're not that expensive! Even in the USA, prisoners are allowed to buy their own TVs...

This is boring. What exactly is the point ?

I smell a rat

Quit dry snitching on the homies bro. You’re on the “outs” now. You’re entirely out of pocket dropping these dimes on the floor.

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Absolutely true 100%... I don't think I would've paid a prisoner to rub my back though.. I seen that from a massage therapist in jail and within a couple days, in the country even before prison, that boy had himself a couple... Well boys... Pain over pride anyway any day!

Is it really a secret?? 🙄🙄

Pregabalin is not a painkiller just saying

Fake news

i think you're full of it and trying to make money off of you're lame exaggerations. i've done more than my fair share of time in state and federal prisons so believe me, i know the deal with prisons and drugs. my cellie in my last stint in federal prison was from kent england, (a wild coincidence because part of my family long ago is from wortham), and had been in a uk prison. he said drugs were more common in uk prisons but they are not near as abundant as you claim especially from the prison medical dept. like in the u.s. they just don't hand you drugs. you stand in a line take the pills and have to let a guard check your mouth. things like tylenol are given in blister packs but never anything you can get high on. in prisons things like methadone and subutex come in liquid form. you're not going to slide that in your pocket.

This is old subby ain't been pills 4 years