The 5 Levels Inside a Maximum Security Prison

Day one, you're the fish. By the deepest level, you're in a concrete box 23 hours a day and you may never come out. A maximum security prison has five levels, and most people on the outside never imagine what happens on each one. A documentary breakdown of real, documented cases at every level inside a supermax. Inside this documentary: From the new "fish" with zero power, to the MS-13 ritual of being beaten for thirteen seconds to belong. From the Aryan Brotherhood — one percent of inmates blamed by the FBI for eighteen percent of prison murders — to the enforcer Thomas Silverstein and the 1981 killings that followed. From the shotcaller running a drug empire on a contraband phone, to ADX Florence in Colorado, the supermax built for the men no other prison could hold, where Silverstein spent 35 years in a cell he called his "personalized coffin." Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:25 Level 1 — The Fish 01:39 Level 2 — The Soldier 02:47 Level 3 — The Enforcer 03:59 Level 4 — The Shotcaller 05:13 Level 5 — The Supermax ⚠️ Educational / documentary. We do not glorify or encourage crime. 🔔 Subscribe to Every Level for one new descent every week. #truecrime #prison #gang #supermax #documentary