What Andrew Jarecki has said about Contraband cell phones in prisons

1 quote · 1 episode · Mar 27, 2026

Andrew Jarecki, American filmmaker and documentarian, director of The Jinx and co-director of The Alabama Solution, has been quoted on Contraband cell phones in prisons once in 1 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, most recently on March 27, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Jarecki says guards supply the drugs and phones because their base salary is inadequate.

    “we make $36,000 a year without the drugs, without the cell phones. So, of course, we got to sell the cell phones and the drugs because that takes us up to 70 or 75,000”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2475 - Andrew Jarecki (Mar 27, 2026) · Listen from 4:50

Episodes

  • #2475 - Andrew Jarecki

    The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 27, 2026 · 2 h 47 min

    Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki tells Joe Rogan how he documented deaths, drugs and forced labor inside Alabama's prisons, and revisits his Robert Durst film The Jinx.

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