Pete Polis went from playing for the Yankees to building a drug empire out of a furniture store. Growing up in Long Island with a father in the NYPD, Pete was on the right track — drafted to play for the Blue Jays, White Sox, and Yankees. But after walking away from baseball, his life took a shocking turn. He became a pastor, took a job at a furniture store, and secretly built an intricate drug operation — eventually working with a cartel. When the feds caught up, Pete was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison. In this interview, Pete reveals how he hid his double life, what really goes on inside the drug game, and how prison led him to start over. Now sober and running a recovery house, this is the wild redemption story you don’t want to miss.

Nick Mattice thought he was starting a safe, steady career in juvenile corrections — but what he witnessed behind bars would change his life forever. From inmate assaults to shocking policy failures, Nick pulls back the curtain on a broken system few are willing to talk about. This is the raw truth about working inside a juvenile detention center.

Ghost shares his journey from growing up in the toughest parts of Brooklyn and Queens to surviving the streets as a member of the Crips. After his brother was paralyzed, Ghost was pulled deep into gang life—getting shot 7 times, losing an eye, and barely escaping death. In this episode, he opens up about life inside the gang, the pain that pushed him there, and the strength it took to finally walk away.

Richard McDonald was a Mormon kid from Southern California with a bright future—until a car accident left him hooked on painkillers. What started as a prescription spiraled into a 16-year addiction, a hidden gambling problem, and a $472,000 embezzlement scheme to fund it all. Indicted by the FBI for wire fraud and sentenced to 24 months in federal prison, Richard shares the shocking truth behind his downfall and how he’s rebuilding his life.

Melo grew up in poverty on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, raised in a single-parent household and surrounded by the harsh realities of the streets. By 16, his life took a dangerous turn — leading to 13 years behind bars in some of New York’s most notorious maximum-security prisons. In this conversation, Melo shares what it’s really like inside the system: the violence, the survival tactics, the mental toll, and the lessons he learned the hard way. Now free and determined to turn his life around, he’s using his story to inspire change.