--- title: Watch President Obama Greet a Group of Inmates at El Reno description: VICE's Fixing the System will air this Sunday on HBO canonical: https://time.com/4044587/obama-vice-prison-greeting/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-22T17:05:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:09:27.593Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch President Obama Greet a Group of Inmates at El Reno og:description: VICE's Fixing the System will air this Sunday on HBO og:url: https://time.com/4044587/obama-vice-prison-greeting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch President Obama Greet a Group of Inmates at El Reno twitter:description: VICE's Fixing the System will air this Sunday on HBO twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch President Obama Greet Inmates in a Federal Jail by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Sep 22, 2015 5:05 PM UTC by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Sep 22, 2015 5:05 PM UTC A clip from a soon-to-be-released _VICE_ documentary shows President Obama being introduced to a group of inmates when he became the first sitting president to visit a federal jail. The president greets the group with a “How y’all doing?” and proceeds to shake hands with each of them. President Obama made history in July, [becoming the first sitting president to visit a federal penitentiary.](http://time.com/3954018/obama-prison-visit/) Airing Sunday, the _VICE_ on HBO special report [_Fixing the System_](http://www.vice.com/read/fixing-the-system-prisons-obama-shane-smith-hbo) follows the president on his tour of El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma. **_Read More:_** [_I Am an Inmate at the Prison That Obama Just Visited and This Is My Hope_](http://time.com/3962579/inmate-el-reno-prison-obama-visit/) _Fixing the System_ analyzes the challenges faced not only by an inmate, but their families, politicians and the entire judiciary. The special will air on HBO this Sunday, Sept. 27 at 9:00p.m. ET ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4044587/obama-vice-prison-greeting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4044587/obama-vice-prison-greeting/"},"headline":"Watch President Obama Greet Inmates in a Federal Jail","datePublished":"2015-09-22T17:05:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:09:27.593Z","description":"VICE's Fixing the System will air this Sunday on HBO","url":"https://time.com/4044587/obama-vice-prison-greeting/","keywords":["White House","war on drugs"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4044587/obama-vice-prison-greeting/","name":"Watch President Obama Greet Inmates in a Federal Jail"}}]}] ```