ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY.

At 16, Nikko Jenkins entered the Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility and served 10 years for offenses including robbery and a count of weapon to commit a felony carjacking. A majority of his development as an incarcerated teen involved stretches of isolation in solitary confinement and “segregation.” He served 60% of his time isolated in solitary confinement for months and years at a time without normal human contact during his transformation from teen to adult.

In 2015 he noted that “the only ones with him in isolation were the demons.” Over the span of sentencing he appeared in a number of incidents rooted in racial tension between gangs and correctional staff described as “white supremacists” to inflicting self-harm & mutilation covering his body in an attempt to stop the violent orders of the childhood voice he details in this documentary as Apophis; an ancient Egyptian serpent god — the same voice that ordered him to kill upon his release a decade later.

Documents as early as August 2008 detail Nikko’s frustration & telling to mental health staff at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution (TSCI) that isolation is making him feel “homicidal.”

Upon release on July 30, 2013 Nikko now 27 was granted freedom into society without the State of Nebraska issuing a re-entry program or mental health treatment plan for his transition back into society.

Nikko returned to the City of Omaha severely depressed, without a mental health plan, medication or resources to treat his ongoing accounts of hallucinations and hearing dangerous voices. Within three weeks of release in August 2013, Nikko Jenkins enacted on the voice commands of Apophis who commanded him to kill during a psychotic episode/breakdown.

Nikko currently sits on death row. In the latest development as of November 2019 the ACLU is representing Jenkins in an appeal summoned into the  Supreme Court.

Through an unorthodox and experimental approach to produce a raw document of testimony, history and cinema…the director continues to work closely with Nikko himself in this never before seen “inmate-produced” documentary. The film will track the case as it happens to explore and address the murky state of race, incarceration and the mental health crisis in the United States as detailed in the case of the State of Nebraska vs. Nikko Allen Jenkins.