REEL OPENS VAR SHOTS HANDS BEHIND PRISON BARS, PRISONER'S FACE SHOT FROM BEHIND BARS

WATCHTOWER - GUARD HOLDING RIFLE LOOKING OUT

CU AFRICAN AMERICAN PRISONER PEERING OUT OF JAIL CELL

B&W INTERIOR PAN OF OVERCROWDED ALABAMA PRISON DORMITORY

HUGELY OVERCROWDED PRISON DORMITORY

AFRICAN AMERICAN SEEN MAN KNOCKING DOWN A WALL

PRISON YARD AS SEEN THROUGH CHAIN LINK FENCE. INMATES SHOOTING HOOPS

A MUCH IMPROVED PRISON DORMITORY LOOKING CLEANER AND UNCROWDED.

PRISONERS EATING IN MESS HALL. "ALABAMA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS " ON BACK OF SHIRT

PRISON WARDEN, LYNN HARRELSON OUTSIDE PRISON TALKS WITH INTERVIEWER ABOUT REALISTICALLY UNDERSTANDING WHAT CAN BE DONE TO DEFRAY COSTS

CORRECTIONS OFFICER DOES ROLL CALL IN PRISON YARD

PRISON GUARD WATCHING OVER PRISON YARD FROM HIGH UP IN TOWER

POLICE CAR DRVING SLOWLY DOWN NEIGHBORHOOD STREET

AFRICAN AMERICAN OFFICE WORKER PULLING OUT FILE DRAWER AND LEAFING THROUGH THE FILES.

YOUNG REPEAT-OFFENDER, MEYERS, TALKS WITH PROBATION OFFICER ABOUT COMMUNITY SERVICE. THEY TALK ABOUT MEYERS' DRUG USE AFTER HAVING FAILED TWO URINE TESTS.

PROBATION OFFICER GLENN WILEY, MOBILE, ALABAMA, TALKS ABOUT HOW THE OFFENDERS NEED TO KNOW SOMEONE CARES.

OFFENDER, MEYERS, SITTING IN LIVING ROOM ON HOUSE ARREST WATCHING TELEVISION, LOOKING BORED FLIPPING THROUGH MAGAZINE. HE SPEAKS WITH INTERVIEWER ABOUT HIS PUNISHMENT AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT PRISON, MAKES YOU THINK BEFORE YOU BREAK THE LAW AGAIN.

MEYERS SWEEPING COURTHOUSE BASEMENT. PARKING GARAGE WITH SHERIFF PATROL CAR. COMMUNITY SERVICE

MEYERS' PAINTING SPEED BUMP IN COURTHOUSE GARAGE. HE TALKS WITH INTERVIEWER ABOUT DOING BETTER.

PRISONERS LIFTING WEIGHTS IN PRISON YARD.

COMMISSIONER ALABAMA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS, MORRIS THIGPEN. HE TALKS WITH INTERVIEWER ABOUT HOW THE LONGER AN OFFENDER IS IN THE PRISON SYSTEM, THE LESS CHANCE THEY WILL CHANGE AND BECOME PRODUCTIVE ONCE RELEASED. RESCIVIDISM.

BARBED WIRE AREA OUTSIDE PRISON. NARRATOR SPEAKS OF THE COST OF INCARCERATION, THE WORK INMATES DO IN PRISON DOESN'T DEFRAY THE COST OF THEIR INCARCERATION NOR DOES IT SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES OR PAY BACK THEIR VICTIM'S LOSSES.

PICK UP TRUCK HAULING HUGE BAILS OF HAY

AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN SITTING OUTSIDE LONE, SMALL WHITE, GROCERY STORE WITH AWNINGS. COCA COLA SIGNS ON BUILDING

SMALL SOUTHERN DOWNTOWN. ONLY ONE CAR DRIVING DOWHN THE STREET

WACASTER IS SEEN SPEAKING WITH AN AFRICAN AMERICAN PRISONER IN HIS CELL.

WACASTER BEING SWORN IN IN AN ALABAMA COURT ROOM. THE JUDGE CLAUD NEILSON, TALKS ABOUT HOW SO MANY OFFENDERS DO NOT NEED TO BE IN A PENITENTIARY.

WACASTER TALKS WITH SAME AFRICAN AMERICAN INMATE, WHO IS WEARING A CLEAR SHOWER CAP AND SMOKING A CIGARETTE, ABOUT POTENTIAL SENTENCE OF A HABITUAL OFFENDER - PRISONER REPEATS IT - 15-99 YEARS AND TOSSES HIS CIGARETTE BUTT.

BACK IN COURTROOM, WACASTER AND ATTORNEY TALK ABOUT PRISONERS SENTENCE AND IF IT WOULD BE BETTER THAN A PRISON SENTENCE. THEY DISCUSS BACK AND FORTH

HANDS HOLDING ON TO PRISON BARS,.CELL BLOCK PRISON YARD WATCH TOWER.

WRIST BAND, INMATE CHECKS IN BY PHONE FROM APARTMENT.

PRISONERS PLAYING BASKETBALL IN THE YARD AS NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT THE ANSWERS TO PRISON REFORM AND OVERCROWDING MAY NOT LIE IN HARSHER SENTENCES.