It’s the finale of 60 Days In and I am already excited about next weeks reunion where we see Abner come face to face with David. But first, we have to see how Sheriff Mark Lamb handles the shitstorm of problems that David has caused. Also, we have to get everyone extracted.
H100 Abner
Last week, Abner gave the distress signal to the cameras. I never thought I’d see that happen. While Sheriff Lamb may not know yet that David also blew Abner’s cover, but Abner does and he is ready to hightail it out of there!
Unfortunately, the rest of the pod is up uncharacteristically early and getting ready to pounce on Abner. Will production pull him out in time? To make things worse, apparently there is a guy called Mad Dog who is the head of all the Chicanos in Pinal County Jail and he is housed in a high-security pod across the hall. Somehow, the guys see him through the window. This is bad. Also, there was some sign language communication going on and Abner knows it is about to go down.
At what seems to be the last minute, Abner is pulled for a visit. He meets with Sheriff Lamb who is a lot happier to see him than he was David. When Abner got out he said he lost himself a bit in jail and got back to that criminal mindset. But when he got out in the sun, he remember who he really is.
H200 Mark
At this point, the whole jail knows that 60 Days In is there. Mark is the last male still in with the population. Josh, head of the WOODS, has decided he wants all the whites to be moved out of H200 because of the cameras. It is bizarre to me how the inmates decide what pod they are in. Josh says, “If you mess with the cameras again, I’m going to beat your fucking head in.” He probably was just making a general announcement, but production made it look like he was talking to Mark.
Mark is clearly freaking out and trying to stay calm and read his Bible. Meanwhile, the sheriffs are trying to figure out the best way to extract Mark. I say, quick and in a hurry is the best way!
Mark gets called by the guards to “roll up.” All his buddies think he is going to the military dorm. He is the only person whose cover was not blown this season. Good work, Mark. All the inmates literally pat “Preacher”on the back. It’s kind of sweet. Later, Mark is shocked David blew his cover, and it seems he still doesn’t really believe it. However, he is thrilled to be out because, “that sucked and he’s ready to go home.” But he is also irritated that he didn’t complete the mission. The mission is complete David, 60 days or not. You are the hero of the season!
F300 Brooke, Vivian, Jazmyn
These girls were made pretty much from the moment they came in. Because, they didn’t listen to direction and hung out together. Now that the rumors are everywhere, they are in danger. Thanks, David.
Trisha thinks they are undercover cops. But, she doesn’t seem to connect them to the cameras yet. Trisha gives an interview saying that Brooke put in a kite on her. She knows everything that was on the kite. Where did she get that information? Why don’t they ask her about that?
Brooke ties her hair back confronts Trisha about telling everyone she’s a snitch. She would have taken off her earrangs if they were allowed to have them. You go girl! So, Trisha lies and backs all the way down. As Jazmyn said on the phone to whoever she is talking to during all this, “Barbie turned to G.I. Joe up in this bitch!”
Sheriff Lamb And The Other Sheriffs Meet With David
Just the way David walks in to this meeting makes me want them to arrest him and throw his ass back in the pod. This fool really doesn’t think he did anything wrong. First, David lies on his father. Then, he seems to lecture the sheriffs. This kid should never be on any police force anywhere ever. He’s a loose cannon who believes his own hype. Apparently, His mama or somebody told him he is all that and he firmly believes it. Ignorance really is bliss, y’all. Judge Judy needs to show up to remind him that looks fade, but dumb is forever. Then, they send David‘s ass packing.
The Girls Get Pulled Out
First, Vivian gets pulled out. She is thrilled. Brooke is pissed. She sees herself as in the most danger. So, she thought she would go first. I can see her point. But, she seems to have handled the issued. Pulling Brooke out first might have been a bit too obvious. I’m kind of pissed too. I mean I just learned her name!
With Vivian gone, Jazmyn is nervous. Vivian had her back. Calm down girl, you still have G. I. Jane in there with you! Then, Jazmyn is called to roll out. Now,Brooke may lose her mind. Are the pulling all these girls on the same day? Lots of girls hug Jazmyn when she leaves. One cries. Then, Brooke gets on the phone to complain to someone and brushes off Jazmyn’s hug, Trisha may be on lockdown. She was upstairs talking through the tray slit. “Mutherfucker,” she called out to someone. Is Brooke going to have to fight this bitch?
Brooke is in the pod alone. Finally, Brooke gets told to roll out. Then,Trisha says she scared them off.
The Participants On The Outside
Abner out and in his hotel room, but he is still thinking about David and how he put his life at risk. Nobody saw this coming from David.
Jazmyn says the experience was the most challenging of her life, and she never gave up. She’s so happy and proud of her self. Later,Jazmyn cries when she sees the hotel room with the big king-sized bed, and hot Chinese food and drinks. And for some reason my keyboard is really blurry. She thanks production for all of it. She is so grateful.
Mark says as a superfan he thought maybe some of it was staged. It can’t be as hard as it looks. He says it is a lot harder than he ever imagined. Later, Mark heads to his hotel room. He has a pizza in his room! He’s more than a little excited. He deserves all the pizzas!
Vivian is proud of herself for making it to the end. Her biggest goal was not to give up. Later, Vivian is excited her bathroom has two rolls of good toilet paper.
Brooke loves the clean smell of her hotel room. She is excited about the private shower.
The Participants Meet Up
The three girls meet for drinks at the bar. They are proud none of them tapped out. I think this is the first season ever no one has tapped out. Well, except for Steve and he really doesn’t count. He didn’t make it a week.
Mark and Abner met for a beer. Abner admits he lost himself in there. Mark says he did somethings he wasn’t happy with in there to survive as well. Abner tells him that David was the rat that got them all pulled out. Mark is pissed.
The Debriefing
All the girls had some good information. The sheriffs seemed to discount Brooke a little bit like she had done something to piss them off. But they weren’t that way with the other two. I though Jazmyn had a surprising amount of information. She said the people with not support and no commissary band together to steal from those who do have it. She pointed out that the older women in the pod were often victimized by the younger crew.
In the end, Sheriff Lamb was pleased with the feedback.
Mark said some of the guards were showing favoritism when they brought in things like the razors so they could shave. Brooke and Vivian said the same thing about the searches. Also, the favorites didn’t have any consequences.
Abner says he ran the pod and there guards only came in to mop up the blood. He says the sign language to people outside of the pod needs to be stopped. He says the jail needs to be integrated and they need to tell new inmates that at the gate. Abner tells Mark that David put everyone’s life at risk.
Next week:
It’s the reunion! Holy Crap, Mark steps to Steve ready to fight! Then, the guys tell Steve he was too scared to complete the program. One of the sheriffs calls Steve a little punk! I cannot WAIT for this reunion! Everyone drags David.
This was the most best and realist season to date. I was hoping it would be more episodes but I’ll take what I can get. The reunion is gonna be ?
Can’t wait to see the showdown at the reunion!
Great description TT. I missed allot so you filled in the blanks for me. Abner kinda redeemed himself to me. Admitted his mistakes and seemed humble. Sure made for some goooood entertainment..I am sure he will take lots of ribbing about being the enforcer and also being a Chicano…Mark was definately the strategic one, and played with dignity. Gotta love him. Steve, well. Just a waste of a participant. What an ass. David, this guy is the most narcissistic person on the planet. I pray to God he never gets on a police force in my community. He should not be part of any law enforcement department. He’s the most hated cop in America I bet. The girls, speechless. They shouldn’t have wasted any camera time on them. What a season. So glad I found your site. ?
Thanks. I think the girls redeemed themselves too. Did you see this episode?
I got to watch it again this evening. I think brooke was grasping at straws knowing the end was coming, she had to do something. I think they pegged her right in the beginning, she’s a bitch. Natalie, im still not sure what she accomplished. Jasmyne was kinda fun to watch but feel they really didn’t bring much to the table. I saw on Twitter where the sheriff just offered David a job. Hard to believe that. But if he did maybe we all got played….
This season seemed very short to me…..
All the women seemed to genuinely bond and it was nice to see them getting along unlike participants in past seasons. I was impressed by Brooke confrontingTrisha. I almost started crying along with Jazmyn when she saw her her takeout food!
Cleaned up Abner looked sooo different.
Thought Marc would tap-out long ago but he did a great job IMO.
I had forgotten about Asshole Steve. It doesn’t look like his shitty attitude has changed much since he “finished” the show.
Cant wait until next week’s episode!
You missed the point a bit. The participants are not supposed to ‘get along’; that is not part of the show at all. The fact that three girls like that with nothing at all in common were hanging around together and eating together was what brought attention to them & resulted in their cover being blown.
Tamara Tattles is my people ya’ll. I absolutely have loved reading this commentary. Hey ya’ll, I’m Mark from Season 5! The awkward fist bumping, bible studying participant. Thank ya’ll for being fans! Let me know if you have any questions!
YAY! Mark can talk to us now!
In other good news, it looks like the reunion is two hours.
Mark, on the show it said on the screen that David was sent home after debriefing. Wasn’t the reunion filmed before all of you guys left for home? If so, did they bring David back? I forgot where he lives but it seems odd that they would send him home just a day or so before the finale. Clearly we have seen that he was there.
Also, did you guys see the episdoes before this reunion? If you filmed right away they would not all be completed yet.
What was the most surprising thing you saw on the show when you did watch it?
How may days were you in before they had to extract everyone?
So, the reunion was filmed quite a few months after we got out. We did not see any episodes prior to when you guys saw them. I would say the most surprising thing that I saw was how many people thought the show was 60 Days In. There was no talk of that show at our pod. Finally, I cannot answer on how many days we were there contractually. But I would tell you that we were there the majority of the time
Mark! You did so well! Congratulations! I can’t imagine how hard and stressful that experience would be, but you handled it so well.
I do have questions–thank you for being willing to answer.
–Do all the other inmates know what everyone is in there for? And do they just ask you when you come in? I seem to remember one of them asking to see paper on it.
–Why do they have the guys sleeping in rooms of eight or so instead of cells with two, as the women did? It seems the larger rooms could lead to more fights, and it would be harder to sleep, I imagine. But I can also see it would be awful to be in a small room with one other guy on lockdowns, especially if he is a bully kind of guy.
–How could you sleep with all the noise from the other guys? Do they turn the lights off at a fixed time at night in the sleeping rooms? But is there still a night light?
–I was curious too exactly how long you all were in. I would have much preferred if they would have indicated to us how many days were passing.
–Did you ever have any computer access? Were there books available for you to read (besides the Bible)?
–Were there any windows you could see out of to the outside? Even small, narrow ones? How often could you go outside? I am very claustrophobic about being in a room without windows, or even with the blinds closed.
OK, that’s probably enough questions for now. I’ll probably think of more later.
Again, well done to you!
Showing paperwork to your appropriate pod boss was actually standard and it was done by every inmate that came in to the pod.
I do not know why they had guys in dorms and girls him double cells What I do know is that being in a dorm sucks!
They never turn the lights completely out. They dim them But it is very irritating. Honestly I never slept three hours a night and it was never three hours at one time. I was completely sleep deprived when I got out. But it is very irritating. Honestly I never slept three hours a night and it was never three hours at one time. I was completely sleep deprived when I got out
I cannot answer how many days we were in.
We did not have any computer access, but we did have access to books. Every week the guard would push in a quart of books and we could select I cannot answer how many days we were in.
We did not have any computer access, but we did have access to books. Every week the guard would push in a cart of books and we could select two
We had no access to any windows. We did have access to go to the rec room which had a window that you could look out but all you saw was a blue sky
Thanks for answering! I thought of some more questions:
Did you get to watch news programs, so you had news of the outside world?
Did you have cable TV? Were certain shows blocked? Were violent/scary movies allowed?
Do you think it’s a good system that inmates who have outside people willing to put money on their commissary account are able to buy extra items? Or does that just lead to theft and other problems?
Can regular inmates (not show participants) fund their own commissary accounts, or does an outside person have to do that for them?
OK,
So as far as the TV situation was. We did have a couple of news channels but they were never watched by the inmate population. In the morning though, they would watch some standard news programming on the local channel. It was like Good Morning Arizona or something like that.
We had basic channels on the TV, some cable channels but not a lot. Thank God we didn’t have A&E, that would have been bad because 60DI Season 4 was still on the television when we went in. We went in about halfway through their season. A lot of those channels had action/scary movies, but often times we watched the History Channel or March Madness on “White TV Day”.
As far as commissary is concerned. Commissary is necessary. We had to order deodorant, toothpaste, etc from there because state issued stuff didn’t work. But as far as the goodies, I’d say it’s a good thing because they only had us on a diet of 2,000 calories and we stayed hungry all the time! It’s a good thing BUT inmates need to be wary because people will steal. In my pod, I will admit that we were good about not stealing and if anyone was caught, they were rolled out. Inmates don’t like thieves.
I was so scared for you when you went in! Then you damn near took over the crew. I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been not to be able to call out all the racist ignorance that I saw from Josh. I’m sure most of the other inmates were also this way? I also admired how you focused on your mission when you first went to the guards about your pin # being ‘stolen’ to see how it would be handled.
I get filled with anxiety just watching the participants when they are initially placed into the cells. Do you have words to describe this? I’m sure that my intestines would be running swiftly and often!
I wish I had more specific questions. Any juicy or interesting details would be awesome. Could you write a book?
I would not say that I was scared going in for the first time, but I was nervous. My stomach was up in my throat and it was an interesting experience. Thank you so much for your kind words, the entire time I wanted to complete the mission. I hated the racial politics there but you had to play them. I felt terrible when Dillon got jumped. I did everything I could to prevent it, and I hope he is doing good
Mark! You were awesome! Very proud of you, hope you have recovered from this experience, we were all on your side
Thank you so much. I have recovered. I will admit to that the first month of being home, I didn’t sleep much. But eventually I got back into a routine. Thank you so much for being a fan
thank you so much for replying!
It’s my pleasure!
Mark,
1.Is Josh as creepy in person as he is on the show?
2. Are you in contact with anyone from jail and are you allowed to be in contact with anyone from jail?
PS- Fantastic job!!
Yes, but he will look out for you as long as you follow the politics. Unfortunately we had to follow them in there or risk getting jumped.
I am not in contact with anyone. We were strongly advised not to for safety
Congratulations Mark! Do you have any idea as to why the same racial politics did not seem to apply to the women? There was no racial talk in the women’s pod.
It’s standard that women’s pods are more family oriented while men’s are race. That’s just how it is!
You did a great job Mark. You did it with honesty and integrity. You said at one point, you did things in there you weren’t proud of. Were any of these things shown because I didnt see a thing you shouldn’t be proud of.
so I wasn’t proud of the fact that I had to run with the white guys. I tried my hardest to associate with everyone. I did Bible studies and help them write resumes. That is why Josh put me on the leadership council
Loved watching you on the show Mark! You seem like the kind of person that I would want to hang out with in real life 🙂 I appreciate how smart and level headed you did your time there. I think you should be really proud of yourself! Glad you’re doing well now!
Question – Would you ever write a book about your time there or does the contract you sign forbid you from revealing much more than we saw or will see on the reunion?
If you’re ever in the ATL, hit me up and we’ll grab coffee. I’m seeing if Tamara will one day soon! I’ve thought about writing a book, but due to contractual reasons, we can’t mention the show at all. If I wrote one, it would probably be a Christian living or personal motivation type book
Mark….
Why did they call David “Prince” Please tell me that was his last name?? Does he ever apologize to you personally (not asking for spoilers). Does he realize what he’s done? Having been married to a cop ex, I’d love to see his personnel file. Many believe there is ALWAYS a justification for bad behavior.
Did you personally feel at risk that morning you rolled out?
Prince was his nickname from growing up in Jamaica. David and I are cool. I know he’s getting a lot of heat right now, but of all the participants, I was with him the most. He has apologized for his actions to us and I’m good with that.
I did feel at risk when I got rolled out, BUT, It wasn’t through David’s actions, the overall demeanor of the pod had changed. That had nothing to do with David. If anything, David was a great buffer when crap was going down and once he left, no one was there to speak up like he did. He really did run the pod
I knew Mark was gonna make it! I knew he wouldn’t be the one who blew it or quit. He was the sleeper but he was determined! Good on you Mark!
This was one of the few times that the danger seemed real in there. I really believed Abner was in trouble
Can’t wait for the reunion. David and the punk need a good dragging.
Thank you so much for being a fan! I wasn’t going to quit. I worked undercover in the military and I knew that I should lay it low. I was always finding intel. Unfortunately, for timesake, they only covered one thing from each participant. But I had about 4 pages of notes!
Great recap. The sheriffs seemed to have an issue with Brooke from day one. She is very pretty and does have a resting bitch face but I don’t recall her doing anything for the sheriffs to treat her any different than the other two women. I really like Mark. He is very genuine and I think David is soooo jealous that Mark did so well. David only cares about David and if I had to trust him to have my back on the job as a fellow cop I’d be worried. Steve will never admit it but I think he quit cause he was scared shitless.
Thanks for supporting me!
Mark!!! I’m so proud of you!
Abner and the girls redeemed themselves. Except Brooke doesnt understand what an alpha female is.
I cannot wait for the reunion,hoping for David to get smacked
Thanks for your support!
Am I a nerd because I’m completely geeking out that Mark posted on Tamara Tattles
(which is my fave site btw – & I visit daily)
Ok I might sound 10 but I’m actually 40 LOL.
Mark your’re the star of season 5 by far!!
Katie Kate,
You put a smile on my face. I may have to give you an awkward fist bump and invite you to bible study sometimes! lol. Thank you for your kind words and I got nothing but love for you. On another note, I’m 41 and sometimes I wish I was young again. You know life was much simpler, no mortgage, bills, student loans, etc. lol Thanks so much for being a fan.
Just came here to say that Abner looked hot in the debrief!!! Dang Abner!!!! ????
Abner looked hot in the pod ?
Do you get recognized when you’re out in public,Mark? you look like a David to me so I kept getting confused. But I hope your kid is proud of you because we sure are and you far exceeded expectations. I also thought it was a good idea for the participants to know who the others were from the got go because previous seasons a lot of time was wasted trying to figure that out. Abner is and will always be my celebrity crush! Can’t wait for the reunion!
I do get recognized a lot now. Just the other day I went to Kroger for the wife and it should have only taken 20 minutes to get in and out. An hour and a half later, I get a text that says “did you get lost”. lol I literally thought every 60DI fan in Georgia was there that day. I will always take time to talk to you if you stop me and I had a LOT of people stop me. I get a lot more people that just start at me and you can tell they want to say something, but don’t because they are not sure if i’m that guy off the show or not. It’s actually quite comical.
Thanks for answering, Mark. I am following you on twitter now. Best of luck to you always! Mine is @KWelch5343 so you’ll know it’s me. I follow Tamara too
One more final note – follow me on Twitter or Instagram – @therealmark60
Tamara, send me a DM and we’ll schedule coffee!
Hi Mark. Congrats on the season.
How and when did you learn about Tamara Tattles?
I ran upon this site a couple a years ago when I was just a fan of the show and would always read the recaps. Little did I know that I would be written about a couple of years later.
The word “surreal” is overused, but it does seem fit your experience.
Well done Mark! I’ve been watching since S1 but I think this season has been my favorite. Can’t wait for the reunion.
Mark,
Are your children aware of what a star you have become. For me, hands down the most impressive participant so far. Do you feel any different? When you were in, did you think you were following the guidelines of what the jail was expecting from you. I wonder if you had a clue that you would have the reaction, love and support you are getting from the viewers.
Wow Mark! This is so awesome you are a TT fan! You were so calm on the show, I was always worried something was around the corner. Looking forward to the reunion And hope to see you more here too!
I live and work the Pinal County area. The jail has contracts with the local school districts to provide landscaping and maintenance. The districts say that the inmates only do work when students are not on campus. Shockingly (sarcasm), that’s a lie. Despite the fact that school is only 4 days a week in several of these districts, the inmates were on campus with no visible correctional officer (he may have been in the truck) in the middle of the day while kids were there.