Strike 2 (feat. Lauren Graves)

Super max is a place that America sends the prisoners it wants to punish the most A place former warden Robert Hood calls a clean version of hell The public has never seen the operation inside But you will tonight The so called super max prison is a 21st century Alcatraz And after months of reporting we pulled together a picture of this little known facility The government won't say much about the place it calls ADX, short for United States penitentiary administrative maximum I don't know what hell is But the assumption is that for a free person, it's pretty close Do you think the, uh, guard towers are watching us I know they're watching Do you think the, uh, guard towers are watching us I know they're watching I know they're watching I know they're watching Do you think the guard towers are watching us I know they're watching Most prisoners spend up to 23 hours in their cells Every minute, every meal The window in their cell is blocked so they can't see the mountains But the federal bureau of prisons doesn't want us watching them When the super max job came along You were excited about taking it Why Well in our system there's 114 prisons And there's only one super max These are like the Harvard of the system You talked about the brutality of isolation What do you think about that It breaks down the human spirit, the human psyche I've heard it describe as a clean version of hell The perfection of isolation to paint it pretty The perfection of isolation Is that the way it was to you Yeah, they perfected it there