The Miami-Dade County Jail and the Miami Dade Boot Camp - the two toughest divisions of the Miami Dade prison complex but they couldn't be more different. Boot camp doesn't give its participants a minute to themselves, the inmates in prison have nothing but time to themselves. Two extremes, united in one world. One, a protocol to break the inmates by bootcamp drill, the other, old dilapidated group cells with its own special hierarchy within prison walls. Behind rusty iron bars, murderers, rapists and robbers adhere to their own rules to survive.
Killer Torrence knows the prison system of Miami like the inside of his pocket: he has survived almost 30 years within these walls. His perspective: life imprisonment. As a formality, his sentence is being renegotiated, nevertheless the chance of parole is minimal. What does it feel like when you know you will never get out from behind these iron bars? Torrence explains ...
Robber Therkil has better prospects: He is allowed to leave his 16-man cell in a year. If he can survive that long. He’s a bit talkative and mentioned gangs on camera. That got him a black eye off camera….
So that they do NOT have to spend the next years and decades behind bars with criminal heavyweights, the young boot camp participants have voluntarily signed up for extreme drill. If they survive the physical and psychological torment for 16 months, an early release and thus a second chance beckons.
Until then, Robert, Giuseppe and Osman, however, have to endure a lot - and bend to the will of the drill instructors. These include sports until collapse, and food and water that is rationed - enough to survive, but not enough to ever get full...
This documentary was produced by Maximus Film and directed by Sina Hutt. It was first released in 2016.
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