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- Attorney visit
for inmate C77015.

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[rip]

[camera rotates]

[scanning continues]

- Is that really necessary
for a non-contact visit?

- It's procedure, sir.

[door opening and closing]

- Tom, I've been asked to
communicate something to you.

The state of California
might be willing to consider

a transfer to Folsom
Prison in return

for you dropping the suit.

- Might be willing
to consider, yeah?

- Right.

- Does that mean they
think we might win?

- It might mean that.

It might mean they'd
rather not litigate

this until after the elections.

It might mean they want to
turn the other prisoners here

against you.

- Have they changed
the trial date?

- No.

- They're still flying me
out to Los Angeles today?

- If you elect to
go to trial, they'll

fly you down to Los Angeles,
and we will go to trial.

- Oh, please tell them that
I elect to go to trial.

[theme music]

[upbeat instrumental music]

- Private versus the California
Department of Corrections.

- Yeah, that's mine.

Tom Padrutt is incarcerated
at the security housing unit

at China Lake, a
state-of-the-art

super-maximum security
prison we're suing

to have it shut down.

- On what grounds?

- On the grounds
that the prisoners

there are being kept so
totally isolated that they're

being driven insane.

There are no windows, no
sunlight, no interaction

with other prisoners.

Literally, they are going mad.

- Sounds like the
perfect environment

to reflect on one's past sins
and catch up on one's reading.

- How are we so
fortunate as to have

this one fall into our laps?

- A prisoner's rights
group contacted me.

- Shall we continue?

Golden Pines Retirement
Community versus Carr,

Nordoff, and Croft.

This one's mine.

The retirement
community is seeking

to evict three senior citizens
because they're participating

in a drug experiment.

- What kind of drug?

- They're wearing
testosterone patches.

The administrator
of the facility

claims that they become overly
libidinous and disruptive

as a result.

- A patch?

How ingenious that is.

- It allows you to control
the ebb and flow, so to speak.

A poker game with the
boys, you take it off.

A weekend up at the San
Ysidro Ranch with a tootsie,

you put it on.

- What are you
looking at me for?

- No reason.

[laughter]

- We also have the issue
of staffing to discuss.

- Yes, we do.

- We've cut through all the
potential candidates under

consideration from the past--

résumés, recommendations,
favors and the like,

and it pretty much
narrows down to 2.

Inez Garcia and
Patrick Flanagan.

- Patrick Flanagan
is a contender?

- Yes, he is.

- I've told you about
my experience with him.

- Yes, you have, and we
should certainly factor that

into the
decision-making process,

which, I would ask, we conclude
by the end of the week.

- And with that,
we're adjourned.

- Don't we have something
to talk about, you and I?

- No.

- What do you mean no?

You kissed me on the mouth.

- Yes, I was upset.

- Does that mean you
regret having done it?

- It means that it was
a transitory impulse,

and I acted on it,
and now it's passed.

- What can I do to
make it come back?

- You can't do anything.

- You little temptress.

I'd like to see you beg.

- What are my chances?

- I'd say they're pretty good.

- You think so?

- Yeah, you graduated in the
top 5% of your law school class.

You've got great experience.

Plus, you know me.

- My interview is Thursday.
- Great.

- Will you be in the room?
- I can't be.

I'm sponsoring you.

- Too bad.

- Oh, you'll do fine.

- I'm nervous.

I'm not used to being
around places like this.

- Yeah, well, you
can get used to it.

Let me tell you.

- I'm sure you can.

- I'll see you Thursday
when you come in.

Maybe we could have lunch
together or something.

- I appreciate you
doing this, Daniel.

- Inez, I've known you
since you were born.

Who are you going to come
to for a job if not me?

- Would you state your
occupation, Mr. Overvald?

- I am the administrator
of the Golden

Pines Retirement Village.

- You've instituted
eviction proceedings

against Mr. Carr, Mr. Nordoff,
and Mr. Kroft, is that right?

- Yes, it is.

- For the record,
would you state

your reasons for doing so?

- They are participating
in the clinical trials

of a testosterone patch.

Consequently, they've
become disruptive.

- Did you ever see one?

- Harold.

- No, I haven't.

- Boys?

- My, my.

- Like a nicotine patch.

- Only these get you
to start smoking.

- Can we return to
the matter at hand?

- What specifically do these
gentlemen do, Mr. Overvald?

- They wear tight pants.

They stage golf cart races.

They get into fist fights.

And they engage in blatantly
promiscuous behavior.

- What's the ratio of women
to men in your community,

Mr. Overvald?

- Approximately 5 to 1.

- Is it possible that
what you characterize

as promiscuity is nothing
more than the laws

of supply and demand at work?

- I didn't just refer to
promiscuity, Mr. Brackman.

I referred to
blatant promiscuity.

We are talking about necking.

We are talking about swapping.

We are talking about
public displays

of highly salacious behavior.

- Is it fair to
say, Mr. Overvald,

that you find the idea
of senior citizens

being sexually active
personally repugnant?

- No, that which seniors
do privately and discreetly

is of no concern
to me whatsoever.

That which destroys the
tranquility of our community,

that which violates our bylaws
is of great concern to me.

- Do you have any more
need of us, Douglas?

- No.
- Let's split.

I've had about all I can
take of this little windbag.

- We're not giving up
our patches, Monroe.

- And we're not moving out.

- Your depositions start
tomorrow, gentlemen.

- We'll be here, doll.

[chuckles]

- You little vixen you.

[laughter]

[transitory instrumental music]

- Mr. Padrutt, how
long have you been

incarcerated in the
security housing unit

at the China Lake penitentiary?

- Three years and four months.

- Would you describe
your cell for us?

- It's 8 feet by 10 feet.

There's a bed, a
sink, and a toilet.

There's a shelf above my
bed with 10 unbound sheets

of white writing paper,
a plastic ink cartridge,

and there's a magazine with
staples removed and one book.

On a shelf above the sink,
there's one roll of toilet

paper and one bar of soap.

- How many hours a day
do you spend in the cell?

- 22.5.

- And where are you
during the period of time

that you're not in the cell?

- I'm in the dog run.

- Would you describe for
us what the dog run is?

- It's a concrete
yard, 12ft by 30ft.

- Would you describe for
us the process by which

you're taken in and
out of your cell

in order to go to the yard?

- You're handcuffed through
a slot in your cell door.

The control booth
officer opens the door.

An assault rifle
is pointed at you.

And then, you remove
all your clothes.

Another officer looks
inside your mouth

behind your testicles,
and they shine

a flashlight up your rectum.

- And this happens
each and every time

that you're taken in
and out of the cell?

- Yes, sir.

- Is there ever a
time, Mr. Padrutt,

when the prisoners are
permitted to interact

with other prisoners.

- No, the prisoners can
talk to the other prisoners

through the walls
of their cells,

but they're not permitted
to see the other prisoners.

- And what effect, if any, have
you observed the conditions

to have on the other prisoners?

- Objection.

The witness has no medical
or psychological expertise.

He's in no position to
answer that question.

- The witness is being
asked for his observation.

- I'm going to allow it.

- Mr. Padrutt?

- Well, some of them scream.

Some cry.

Two weeks ago, one of
them killed himself

by swallowing a shower head.

- And how do they affect you?

I don't sleep more than
a half hour at a time

and I think in a very
precise controlled manner.

I worked very hard at
keeping myself sane,

but I don't believe I'll be
able to do that much longer.

- I have no further questions.

- Who was Michael
Sheehy, Mr. Padrutt?

- He's a prisoner at
Vacaville State Prison.

- He's a prisoner that
you killed, was he not?

- Yes.

- Would you describe to
us how you killed him?

- I beat him to death
with a mop bucket.

- And who was James Wylie?

- He was a prisoner
at San Quentin.

- You killed him
too, didn't you?

- Yes.

- Would you describe to
us how you killed him?

- I stabbed him in the heart.

- Would you describe for us
how you got the knife you used?

- I melted down
some candy wrappers

and waited till they
hardened into plastic.

And then, I shaped
that into a knife.

- And it's your testimony
that you are not

a security risk, Mr. Padrutt?

- Michael Sheehy
sexually assaulted me.

James Wylie put out a rumor
that I was an informant.

In both of these cases,
my killing these men

was necessary for my survival.

- I'll ask you
again, Mr. Patrick,

is it your testimony that
you are not a security risk.

- If I'm such a security
risk, then you should kill me.

You should just strap me on
the chair, drop in the pellets,

and put me down.

But I do not believe the
prison authority has the right

to systematically
destroy my mind

and the minds of the other
men incarcerated at the SHU.

I do not believe that they have
the right to drive us insane.

[knocking]

- Douglas, where do we
stand with the interviews?

- Patrick's coming in today.

Ines is coming in tomorrow.

- It would seem as though
they're both good candidates.

- I agree.

Although, I'd probably
give the edge to the girl.

- Would you?

- She's clerked for
a federal judge.

She's worked in the
state legislature.

She's handled a number of
major appeals successfully.

I think she'd be a real asset.

- What about Patrick?

- A good résumé, a fair
amount of trial experience.

It's not that he's a bad
candidate or has a bad résumé.

- You know his father and I
are extremely good friends?

- Yes.

- Well, they'll both be
interviewed, then we'll vote.

- Right.

- You'll be in the room
for the interviews?

- Yes.

- Good.

- Are you familiar with
these gentlemen, Dr. Gratz?

- Yes, I am.

- And would you tell us
in what context it is

that you're familiar with them?

- I work for Durmex Industries.

And I'm involved
in the development

of a transdermal
testosterone delivery system,

in common parlance, the patch.

These gentlemen
are participating

in a clinical trial for same.

- Have any side effects
manifested themselves

in this clinical trial?

- Surprisingly few.

- Would aggressiveness
be one of them?

- I choose my words very
carefully, Ms. Korshak.

Aggressiveness would be an
overstatement, some degree

of boisterousness perhaps, an
intermittent

rambunctiousness even.

But aggressiveness is not an
accurate characterization.

- The purpose of this
drug is to heighten

sexual desire, is it not?

- That is one purpose.

Increasing testosterone
levels also serves to lessen

fatigue, restore muscle tone.

The potential is here for the
patch to become a major asset

in the practice of gerontology.

- How high is high, doctor?

- I'm afraid I don't know as
to what you are referring,

Ms. Korshak.

- I would like to know
what level of sexual desire

you're trying to attain.

- How is that relevant?

- These gentlemen
have been behaving

in a way that suggests that the
level is somewhat excessive.

- Sometimes it gets
real excessive.

That's when it gets
interesting, right, boys?

- Harold.

- Are you familiar with the
practice of

double-patching, doctor?

- I am aware that
it has occurred.

Certainly, it is not sanctioned,
and anyone caught doing so

will be immediately
dropped from the group.

- You didn't have to drop Earl
Grundwald, did you Doctor?

- Mr. Grunwald's death was
not attributable to the patch.

- He was found wearing
two patches at the time

of his death, was he not?

- Yes.

- He was also engaged in
an act of sexual congress

at the time of his
death, was he not?

- Yes.

- He was also 95 years old
at the time of his death.

We should all be so lucky.

[old men laugh]

- How much money is
your company spending

to develop this patch, doctor?

- That is both irrelevant
and proprietary.

You don't have to answer that.

- I'll get a ruling.

- Get a ruling.

- Until then, doctor, I
have no further questions.

- What's your expertise, doctor?

- I'm a psychologist
by training.

I specialize in the
effects of confinement

as a means of punishment.

- And have you ever
had an opportunity

to examine the psychological
effects of confinement

at China Lake penitentiary?

- Yes, I have.

I have interviewed
52 of the inmates

there, including Mr. Padrutt.

- And what were your findings?

- That the technologies
in use at China Lake

are unparalleled in the history
of the American penal system.

The physical layout
of the prison,

including the use of
intercoms and automatic doors,

ensure that the prisoners
will be deprived

of any direct human contact
except with the guards that

take them in and
out of the cells.

The inmates are
given almost nothing

in the way of physical or mental
activity to occupy their time.

The lights are kept on at night.

And the meals consist
of a processed

nutrient loaf that bears no
resemblance to actual food.

The combined effect is one of
prolonged sensory deprivation.

- Is that different from
solitary confinement

at other prisons?

- Well, yes, it differs both
in the degree of the isolation

and the duration
of the treatment.

Now at most of
these institutions,

a prisoner is rarely
kept in solitary

for more than six months.

At China Lake, it
can go on for years.

- What's known about
the effects of this kind

of prolonged deprivation?

- Well, the best
known case studies

we have are of POWs who
were kept in isolation

during the Korean War.

Deprived of contact and
conversation, many of these men

became psychotic.

- Doctor, would you assess the
mental health of the inmates

at China Lake?

- Well, one third of the men
I saw are actively psychotic.

Of this group, most
experienced visual

and auditory hallucinations.

Several have committed
acts of self mutilation.

Two are catatonic.

- And what about
the remaining 2/3?

- 85%, including
Mr. Padrutt, shows

signs of severe
psychological trauma,

including uncontrollable
trembling,

sleeplessness, distortions
in perception, and panic.

- What, in your opinion, are the
prospects for these men being

successfully integrated into
a general prison population

or the world outside
of prison following

incarceration at China Lake?

- In my opinion, there
are no such prospects.

- Thank you, sir.

Nothing further.

- Your evaluation
of inmates at China

Lake consisted of interviews,
is that right, doctor?

- Yes.

- You would ask inmates if
they had various symptoms,

and they would
respond affirmatively,

for the most part?

- My interviewing technique
is a little more sophisticated

than that, counselor.

I usually can gauge
pretty well whether or not

somebody is being truthful.

- Assuming that the
problems at China Lake

are what you say they are, what
remedies would you propose?

- I recommend that the prison
be shut down so that it can be

modified to include
common areas,

recreational and educational
facilities, and a fully

staffed psychiatric clinic.

- So you would close a
$200 million facility,

spend countless additional
millions of dollars

on modifications, all so that
the most vicious criminals

in the state of
California could be

made to feel more comfortable?

- Objection.

- I'm going to allow it.

- It's not a matter of
making them more comfortable.

The state of California
is running a facility that

not only denies these men
the chance at rehabilitation

but effectively destroys
their mental capabilities.

Now, I find that unconscionable.

- Well, thank you, doctor.

Your moral outrage
is duly noted.

I have nothing further.

- Leland.

- Patrick, my boy, how are you?

- Great.

Great, they told me
you were in here.

I just wanted to stick
my head in and say hi.

- Well, I'm glad you did.

I got my interview today.

- I know all about it.

- I just wanted to say thanks
for everything you've done.

Leland.
- Well, what have I done?

We need an associate,
you need a job.

- Well, you made
it possible for me

to come in and be considered.
And I appreciate that.

- Excuse me.
Are you Patrick Flanagan?

- Yes.
- They're ready for you.

- Great.
Which way am I headed?

- Come with me.

- I'll walk you.

This is Denise Iannello.

- How do you do?

- Nice to meet you.

- You still playing squash?

- When I can.

- Patrick was the
number-two ranked

squash player at Harvard.

- Is that so?

- Well, it was a weak
field when I was there.

[leland laughs]

- You're right in here.

- Thank you.

- Good luck.
- Thanks.

- You'll do fine.

- Let me start by saying
that we are, all of us,

very impressed with your résumé.

- Thank you.

- We also all know that
there are a few things

we need to discuss.

- Yes, there are.

- I'd like to ask you to
explain the incident at Harvard.

- I plagiarized a
law review article.

What would you like to know?

- How do you explain it?

- It's hard to keep an
explanation from sounding

like a justification,
and I want very much

for it not to sound like that.

I did what I did because
I wanted to fail.

I wanted to
self-destruct I could

just as easily have driven
my car into oncoming traffic.

- Has the impulse passed?

- It feels like it has.

I ended up taking some
time off from school,

albeit not voluntarily,
and I thought about myself.

I ended up going
to a psychiatrist

for the first time in my life.

I took stock of myself.

All I can say is that
I'm a very different

person at 27 than I was at 21.

- There's another matter
we need to discuss,

and this happened
only a year ago.

You represented a plaintiff
in a whistleblower suit

and had your case
dismissed because

of falsified lab reports?

Say it ain't so, Joe.

- I'll say it ain't so.

I'll say it to my dying day.

Those falsified lab
reports were planted

by the defendant corporation.

Unfortunately, I
couldn't prove that,

and the judge bought
that I was responsible.

One day, I hope I can prove it.

- And then, there's the
matter of Daniel Morales.

- You and he had a
bit of a contretemps.

- I'm sure you've
heard the events

recounted by Mr. Morales.

I would offer up a somewhat
different interpretation.

Both our clients were on trial
for armed robbery and murder.

He represented his.

I represented mine.

- He claims that you
induced your client

to turn state's evidence.

- The state induced him.

They offered him parole.

- He claims you put
your client on the stand

knowing he was going to lie.

- I didn't know he
was going to lie.

I don't know that he did lie.

- Should you come to
work here, Mr. Flanagan,

this is a matter that
you and Mr. Morales

will need to settle.

- Mr. Morales has thus
far refused to talk to me.

- You may want to make
additional efforts.

- Mr. Carr--

- Call me Buzz.

- Buzz, are you aware that since
the beginning of this study

the Golden Pines residents have
lodged 15 complaints against

you and your co-defendants?

- From those without
the patch, no doubt.

[giggles]

- Some of these complaints
were from women.

- I haven't had any complaints.

Have you, Dwight?

- No, but I have had a
few marriage proposals.

- Mr. Carr, is that
your signature?

- Yes, yes, that looks like it.

- That would indicate
your familiarity

with the bylaws of the
community in which you live.

- Do I give her that?

- Just tell her the truth, Buzz.

- All right.

Yes, I am familiar
with the bylaws.

- On October 10, 1993, did not
you and your two friends here

take over a square-dance class
and attempt to lead your female

partners in the Lambada?

- Oh, oh, yes, we did.

- And a fine
lambada it was, too.

- And did not two of those
females faint on that occasion?

- Oh, no.

[laughs] What they
did was swoon.

- I believe fibrillate would
be closer to the truth.

- I would ask that your client
not interject, Ms. Korshak?

- They interject; why
can't I interject?

- I would ask that
no one interject.

- Let me ask you
something, dear.

Don't you think we should be
able to decide for ourselves

what kind of
recreational activities

we can engage in without
being dictated to?

- Mr. Kroft--

- Unless of course, a
minx such as yourself

were interested in
doing the dictating.

- This is depraved.

This is utterly depraved.

- Spare us the
sanctimony, Mr. Overvald.

- No kidding, if we were in
our '30s, or '40s, or '50s, it

wouldn't be depraved, would it?

- There are rules that govern
conduct in our community.

- Well, to hell with your rules.

We're not living in
a ding-dang gulong.

We're living in the USA!

- Gentlemen, the fact
is there are rules.

And these rules are
legal and enforceable.

And notwithstanding
the fact that you

are three very attractive men
with testosterone surging,

in the end, your options
are to adjust or move.

- You are wicked.

- Clearly, we have a
difference of opinion.

- It's also quite
impossible for us to move.

- Why is that?

- Because you've got
all our money tied up,

you little squint.

Between your entrance
fees and your rent,

we can't afford to move.

- Yeah, and if it weren't for
what we make selling patches,

we could hardly get by.

- You have been selling patches?

- I believe that's
a felony, Douglas.

- I'll need some time to
confer with my clients.

- Take all the time you want.

As far as I'm concerned,
this deposition is over.

I'll be in front of a judge
tomorrow seeking an injunction.

Good day, gentlemen.

- Drug traffickers.

And to think that at one
time I had hoped to make you,

Dwight, the master of
ceremonies at our pageant.

- How does a prisoner wind up
in the security housing unit

at China Lake, warden?

- He proves himself to be
unmanageable at other prisons.

- Characteristically,
how would he do that?

- He'd kill someone,
he'd traffic in drugs,

he'd make himself a
threat to the rest

of the prison population.

- The security housing
unit at China Lake

employs technology
and prison design

not found in other prisons.
Is that right?

- Yes.

- And what, to your mind,
is the effect of that?

- The most significant effect
is that not a single prisoner

or guard has been killed since
the unit's been in operation.

- Why is it necessary
to isolate these men?

- To protect them.

These men have demonstrated
that they can't function

in a group environment.

- Do you acknowledge
that some prisoners

may be psychologically damaged
by the conditions in the SHU?

- I would argue
that most prisoners

are psychologically damaged
in one form or another

to begin with.

I will acknowledge that it's
not particularly pleasant to be

incarcerated in the SHU.

But I'd also argue that
there's no one there who

doesn't deserve to be there.

- I have no further questions.

- It's fair to say, is it not,
warden, that you've pretty

much abandoned any
pretense of providing

a means of rehabilitation
for these men, yes?

- Rehabilitation requires
a certain minimal level

of cooperation on the
part of the prisoner.

These men, thus far, have
not demonstrated that.

- And according
to you, the nature

of the operation at
the SHU is dictated

by what they have demonstrated.
- That's right.

- All right, prisoners are
allowed in the yard for 90

minutes a day, is that right?
- Yes.

- Are they recreational
activities of any kind

available to them in the yard?

- I don't know what constitutes
a recreational activity

to your mind.
- Are there weights in the yard?

- No.
- Why aren't there weights?

- Weights can be
made into weapons.

- Is there a basketball
or handball in the yard?

- No, there isn't.

- Why isn't there?

- They can also be
made into weapons.

And if you doubt that, I
suggest you talk to your client.

I'm sure he'd tell you
exactly how he'd do it.

- Objection.

I ask that the latter part
of the witness's response

be stricken.
- So stricken.

- Warden, isn't the mental
deterioration of prisoners

the express purpose of
the SHU at China Lake?

- No, it is not.

- You do understand it to be
the inevitable and proximate

result of incarceration
there, though do you not?

- I understand no such thing.

- Isn't this prison designed
for one thing only, sir?

Isn't it to make it as
easy as possible for you

to store these men?

- I've worked in
the prison system

for 19 years, Mr. Rollins.

There wasn't a single
day in all that time

that I would call
what I did easy.

When I was a guard, I took
it as a personal failure

to have a prisoner
die on my watch.

I felt it was my
responsibility to see

to it that prisoners stayed
alive for the entire length

of their sentence.

I still feel that way.

Now, I don't fail
nearly as often.

[transitory instrumental music]

- All right, Ms. Korshak.

I've read your motion.

You have something to add?

- Your honor, in addition
to the disruptive incidents

referred to in my
brief, we have reason

to believe the
defendants have been

peddling these testosterone
patches to other residents

of Golden Pines.

We ask the court to
enjoin this study

immediately to cut
off distribution

of this illicit testosterone.

- Your honor, there's absolutely
no evidence of any trafficking.

Enjoining the study would be
a drastic overreaction and

grossly unfair to my clients.

- These patches
constitute controlled

substances, your honor.

Their wreaking havoc
on the community,

and we have no idea what the
long-range side effects are.

- I'm 82 years old, missy.

How long range should
I be concerned about?

- That's quite
enough, Mr. Nordoff.

- Can I say something, judge?

- Go ahead.

- Yeah, well, before
we got our patches,

Harold, Dwight, and I were
just three lonely old men

sitting around waiting to die.

- Yeah, the patch
opened our eyes.

It restored us.

It made our lives less lonesome.

- We're begging you, judge.

Take away our Motrin,
take away our digitalis,

even our Milk of Magnesia,
but for God's sakes,

do not take away our patches.

- If you men are trafficking
in a controlled substance,

you can and will be prosecuted.

Since there is no
evidence of such activity,

I deny plaintiff's motion
to enjoin the study.

The eviction notice will
continue as scheduled.

We stand adjourned.

- Very well said.

- Your honor, the defense
calls Elizabeth Rowe.

- Objection, your honor.

The testimony of this
witness is wholly irrelevant.

- What is this witness here
to testify to, Mr. Clay?

- Your Honor, Ms. Roe witnessed
the killing of her father

at the hands of Mr.
Padrutt 19 years ago.

She's flown here
at her own expense

to testify to the
nature of that crime.

- Testimony about
a crime committed

prior to Mr. Padrutt's
confinement is irrelevant.

Objection sustained.

Call your next witness.

- The defense calls
Roland Prince.

- Objection.

[sigh] The testimony of this
witness is wholly irrelevant.

- Is Mr. Prince also here
to testify to events prior

to Mr. Padrutt's incarceration?

- Yes, your honor.

His sister was killed
by Mr. Padrutt.

- Objection is sustained.

Call your next witness.

- The defense calls
Dorothy White.

- Objection, irrelevant.

- Mr. Clay.

- She was assaulted
by Mr. Padrutt.

- Objection sustained.

Call your next witness.

- The defense calls Trent Ma.

- Objection.

Irrelevant.

- Counsel will
approach the bench.

Are all your remaining witnesses
crime victims, Mr. Clay?

- Yes, your honor.

They're here to testify
to the nature of crimes

committed by Mr. Padrutt
and other men who

are now being held--

- OK, what you're
doing is grandstanding.

I'm not impressed.

It does not help your case.

The testimony of all
of these witnesses

is inadmissible and irrelevant.

What you have done is waste the
time of this court and the time

and the money of these
people who showed up here.

I submit that you owe
all of them an apology.

Step back.

- Well, Inez, we know something
about you from your résumé,

but perhaps it
would be best if you

told us yourself about the
kind of work you've been doing.

- I've been working in a
storefront legal clinic

in East LA.

I've done mostly immigration,
landlord tenant, and criminal.

Primarily, I'm a trial lawyer.

- You've handled some
pretty major appeals.

- Yes, I have.

- How come you're leaving?

- We had a rough year last year.

Our budget was cut.

They closed our office doors.

- How do you feel about
doing types of law other

than what you've been doing?

- I feel good about it.

It's one of the reasons
I want to work in a firm

like this is that I hope to
try other types of cases.

- You see yourself
as a trial lawyer?

- Yes.

- Are you prepared to
serve second chair while

another lawyer tries the case?

- Absolutely.

- Are you prepared to
spend the vast majority

of your time doing work that
has no political

significance whatsoever?

- That's an odd question.

- Well, it's not an
odd question at all.

You worked in a legal
clinic at East LA.

I'm sure you
derived a great deal

of professional
gratification from handling

cases that were in concert
with your political beliefs.

- You weren't doing
it for the money.

- My question is, how
happy would you be here?

- I think I could be very
happy here, Mr. Brackman.

I'm interested in acquiring
a certain credibility

as an attorney that currently
I feel myself to be lacking.

I'd be making considerably more
money than I'm used to making.

And I also know something about
this firm from Daniel Morales.

I know the kind of
cases you take on.

I think I know the
kind of people you are.

This is where I want to work.

- Fair enough.

- The Eighth Amendment to the
United States Constitution

says that cruel and
unusual punishment

shall not be inflicted.

It codifies what
we very much like

to believe about ourselves,
that that we have evolved,

that no matter how much we may
revile an individual, no matter

how heinous may be their crime.

We don't torture them.

We don't use the rack, or
the whip, or the thumb screw.

We, as a society,
have come to believe

those devices to be immoral.

And so our Constitution
makes them illegal.

Your honor, the use of
psychological torture, as found

in the security housing
unit at China Lake,

is no less immoral
and no less illegal.

You have heard
uncontroverted expert

testimony that 30%
of the prisoners

there are clinically psychotic.

You've also heard
expert testimony

that what brought about
this mastocytosis is

the conditions at the prison.

Now, assuming that those
conditions don't evoke

a sense of moral
outrage, there are

still practical considerations.

Most of the men at the SHU will
one day finish their sentences.

And when they do,
we, as a society,

will have to deal with them.

We will either maintain them
in psychiatric hospitals,

or we'll put them
back on the streets.

And we will soon find out
what this latest prison

technology has made them into.

Your honor, I'm asking the
court to declare the conditions

and procedures at the China Lake
Prison security housing unit

cruel and unusual punishment.

I would ask the court
to shut it down.

- Your honor, China
Lake is a success.

Tom Padrutt and the other
inmates in the security housing

unit there have
demonstrated their inability

to live in the
society of other men,

even in the
controlled environment

of a maximum security prison.

Attempts to rehabilitate
them have failed.

They are the most
violent, most dangerous,

most incorrigible inmates
in the entire prison system.

And somehow, the prison
system must deal with them.

China Lake offers the
safest, best, most

economically feasible solution.

Now, is there
psychological damage?

No doubt there is.

It comes with the territory.

Commit heinous
crimes on the street,

continue committing
heinous crimes in prison,

and we will do that which
is necessary to counteract

your ability to commit crime.

We will put you in
a place like this,

and we will be safe from you.

- Come on, just wait a second.

- Not a minute too soon.

- Officer, I'm the
attorney for these men.

Please advise me as
to what's going on.

- It's been alleged
that these gentlemen

have been selling a controlled
substance, counselor.

We have no choice
but to bring them in.

- Who alleged this?

- Monroe, who else?

- We searched the units of
several other residents here.

We found testosterone patches.

We questioned the residents.

They said they purchased it
from these gentlemen here.

- They ratted us out.

- Please put your hands
behind your back, sir.

I have to handcuff you.

- Come on.

- Wait.

those patches don't
contain testosterone?

- What?

- Who are you?

- I'm Dr. Kendall Gratz.

I'm conducting the
clinical trials.

Those patches are placebos.

- What do you mean placebos?

Every clinical trial
has a control group.

In this trial, you're it.

- You mean, we haven't been
getting the real thing?

- We'll need a statement
to that effect, doctor.

- I'll give you a statement.

I also have full documentation.

- But what about--

you know?

- Yeah, we--

- The mind can be a powerful
aphrodisiac, Mr. Carr.

- I'll talk to Lorraine Korshak.

We'll see what effect this has
on the eviction proceedings.

- Well, shoot.

- Where you going?

- I'm going to go lay down.

- I think I'll do the same.

Come on, Dwight.

- Where you going?

[two knocks]

- Two minutes, that's
all I'm asking.

- What do you want?

- I want to see if
I can clear the air.

- Man, we have
nothing to talk about.

- Well, with all due respect,
I don't think that's right.

- You're going to
tell me what's right?

- No, what I would ask,
though, is that you at least

consider the possibility that I
didn't do what you think I did.

- Patrick, I have
a client doing 20

to life in a maximum
security prison

because your client lied
on the witness stand.

- What, are you saying
your client was innocent?

- I'm saying he never would have
been convicted of felony murder

if it hadn't been for
that particular testimony.

- I don't see it that way.

- Like I said, we have
nothing to talk about.

- So what do you propose we do?

- I propose we stay as far away
from each other as possible.

- Well, that may be a problem
if I come to work here.

- Yeah, well, we'll cross that
bridge when we come to it.

- Tell me something, do your
partners know how you feel?

- Oh, yes, they do.

- It's a little surprising
I'm still being considered.

- Right, I'm coming.

Whatever we're here to
do, let's do it quick.

I've got a set spa
scheduled for 130.

- They faxed over the
terms of the agreement.

They'll be here any minute.

And we need to discuss this.

Dwight, have a seat, please.

- Thank you.

- I strongly advise
against you signing this.

- Well, we are going
to sign it, Doug.

- Let me tell you what's here.

In exchange for them dropping
the eviction proceedings,

you agree to no parties
without written permission

from the management,
no music after 9:00 PM,

no tight jeans, no Spandex
bicycle shorts, no cruising

in electric golf carts--

- Douglas, it doesn't
make any difference.

Let's sign the paper
and be done with this.

- Guys, we can go
to court and win.

They have no right to
impose these rules on you.

- We don't want to make waves.

They want things to be
quiet; let them be quiet.

- Explain something to me.

You find out that you've
been getting a placebo,

and suddenly you want
to fold your hands

and file in like
good little boys?

What's the story?

- The story is we're old.

- You were old yesterday.

You were old the day
before yesterday.

You were also studs.

- We were under the
illusion that we

were receiving medication.

- You don't need the medication.

You had the desire to be
a bunch of sharpsters,

and that's what you were.

You didn't want to be physically
decrepit, and you weren't.

The fact that those patches were
placebos is good news, boys.

It means that you can
go back to being studs.

- Good morning.

- I assume you
received the documents?

- Yes, I have.

- Good.

And are they acceptable?

- Not as far as I'm
concerned, they're not.

- Are they acceptable
to your clients?

- You'll have to ask them.

- OK.

Gentlemen, what'll it be?

Harold?

- Well, as a matter of
fact, I do have a question.

That rule that says
we've got to have written

permission before we
can have a party, well,

what constitutes a party?

- I think you can assume
standard usage of the word.

- So if, for instance,
I were to meet,

let's say, a woman like you,
and I struck up a conversation,

and one thing led to another,
and you came back to my place,

and I put on my
Charlie Rich records,

and we had a couple of drinks.

And after a while, you
turned to me and said,

Charlie Rich or no Charlie Rich,
you're the silver fox as far

as I'm concerned, and the
patients took a hold of us,

would that constitute a party?

- That would not be
acceptable behavior.

- Then, to hell with it.

- That's right.

Douglas, you do
whatever you have to do.

- And I say we go to court.

- Fine.

- You are willing to
go to court over this?

- In a red-hot minute.

[laughs]

- It's horrifying to consider
that an institution whose

highest aim is the
rehabilitation of men

could actually be subjecting
some of those same men

to conditions that
drive them insane.

What's even more
horrifying is the thought

that those conditions may
be necessary to save lives

and to allow that
institution to survive.

From the evidence presented,
it's quite clear to me

that many of the
inmates of China Lake

are psychologically being
harmed by the prison.

It's equally clear
that the prison system

has legitimate security needs.

And to meet those
needs, it may be

necessary to place Tom Padrutt
and men like him in isolation.

There's nothing in
our Constitution

that prohibits a special
unit for the dangerous,

incorrigible offender.

Therefore, I deny the
plaintiffs petition.

I find in favor
of the defendant.

This court's adjourned.

- Tom, we'll appeal.

- I don't think so, Jonathan.

- Just give me a minute.

Please, Tom, Tom, it's
not costing you anything.

You're in prison.

Let me just work on the appeal.

- By the time you're ready
to go back into court

again, I'll be as crazy
as the rest of them.

- Hold the elevator, please.

- Yeah.

- What are you doing?

- We want to say something.

- This isn't the way to do that.

- This is the way
we're doing it.

- OK, what do you want to say?

- We want you to hear from us
the kind of man you represent.

- I don't make any apologies
for the kind of man--

- He killed my father
in front of me.

- He killed my sister
because he wanted her car.

- If you appeal
this case, we'll be

right there in the courtroom.

- Whether we're allowed
to testify or not.

- Any attempt to restore to
this man any freedom at all,

we'll be there, and
we'll bear witness.

[elevator begins moving]

- This shouldn't take very long.

We just need to put the
two candidates to a vote.

- Before we do that, I'd
like to say something.

- By all means.

- I think Inez Garcia would make
a great addition to this firm.

She's smart, she's
principled, she's got

all kinds of trial experience.

Plus, I've known her
since she was a kid,

and I can vouch
for her character.

That said, I would
urge you whether or not

you vote to hire Inez, not
to hire Patrick Flanagan.

- Because of what he did to you?

- Because what he did to me
is indicative of what he does.

- I'm not sure that's
altogether fair.

- Check his track record.

Plagiarism in law school,
fabricating evidence

in one case, suborning
perjury in another?

- He would argue that there
are legitimate explanations

for these things.

- Of course, he would.

Guys like that always do.

It doesn't change
the fact that there

has been a pattern of
treachery to his entire life.

- Since I have known this
young man, for his entire life,

let me weigh in
with what I think.

Patrick did plagiarize
a law review article.

He was young, he had
problems, and he did it.

And he also paid
for having done it.

He was suspended from the
university, he took off a year,

and he came back and graduated
in the top 10% of his class.

- What about since then?

None of us can prove that
he fabricated evidence.

And we can't prove,
none of us can prove,

that he suborned perjury.

To exclude him on the basis
of any of these charges

strikes me as manifestly unfair.

- And we can only
hire one of them.

- Oh, we can definitely
only hire one.

- Let's put it to a vote.

Inez Garcia.

- Yes.

- I vote yes.

- I also have Jonathan
Rollins' proxy.

He votes yes as well.

- I vote no.

- Also no.

- No.

- I don't feel comfortable
voting on this.

I haven't been here long enough.

I abstain.

- 4 to 3 against.

Patrick Flanagan?

- I vote Yes.

- Yes.

- Also yes.

- You're going to abstain
this time too, right, Eli?

- Right.

- You're going to fall in
line behind Leland McKenzie.

- Well, he is owed a certain
amount of deference, Daniel.

- He's not owed this.

- The vote's been taken.

Should an opportunity
arise again,

I suggest we do go after Inez.

- As far as I'm concerned,
there won't be a next time.

- What does that mean?

- That means I quit.

- Oh, come on, Daniel.

- Save your breath.

[emotional breath] I don't
want to work for a firm

that does what
this firm just did.

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