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Prison debts, red uniforms and a lifer's calm: 'Collecting Prison Debts!' passes 1.5 million

Fifteen uploads went up in seven days, and Matthew Cox's channel drew about twice its usual daily views, more than 30 million in the week.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Collecting Prison Debts!Collecting Prison Debts!

Fifteen uploads, and nearly all of them live behind bars. Matthew Cox, the former con man who served 13 years for bank fraud and now interviews people about their crimes, spent his week on prison life: a first day inside, a white guy in the wrong prison, a home robbery plan, and the one that took off, "Collecting Prison Debts!"

Posted on Tuesday, it passed a million and a half views in four days and is still the video gathering the most each day. The comment section has gone somewhere unexpected. Plenty of viewers find it funny that the debt collector never actually got what was owed, and a recurring thread comes from people who did time themselves, swapping notes on why the lifer units were the calmest places they were ever held. Others can't get past the gang leaders in the video wearing red uniforms.

"First Day In Prison!" arrived on Friday and is already gathering views almost as quickly. Meanwhile the breakup question from a week ago, "Is He Wrong For Breaking Up With Her?", has passed 660,000.

The whole channel ran at about double its usual pace and added 20,000 subscribers. Among the true crime and courts channels near its size, no one gained more views over the week; Beyond Evil, Willie D Live and Nancy Grace were busy too, while CLR Bruce Rivers kept to an even, ordinary pace.

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What viewers say

  • So he didn't even get the stuff that was owed 😂
    @LouieDog1288See it on YouTube
  • Lifer wings are the best. Everybody is chilled out and don’t have anything to prove.
    @GratifyMeNow13See it on YouTube
  • “I get over there and I love it is wild” 😂
    @JeziahwilsonSee it on YouTube

Public comments from the video's page on YouTube

The videos drawing views on Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime right now

Is He Wrong For Breaking Up With Her?666,913 views · 2026-09-27 Ordering Packages To Girlfriends House574,012 views · 2026-09-30 First Day In Prison!446,724 views · 2026-10-02 Home Robbery Plan!427,339 views · 2026-09-28 White Guy In the WRONG Prison!226,027 views · 2026-09-29
The facts
Subscribers
1,240,000 ▲ 20,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
30,647,228
Videos published this week
15
Video published
September 29, 2026
Video views so far
1,518,176
Views on its first day
516,204

The numbers

Here is how Matthew Cox's week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels
Matthew Cox | Inside True…
30,647,228
Willie D Live
3,636,972
LackLuster
2,394,346
Nancy Grace
2,356,641
Beyond Evil
2,051,504
Unseen
620,578
Danielle Kirsty
462,558
subscribers
1,240,000
▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days
total views
1,147,212,468
views per day
7,436,487
typical day: 3,692,878
this week's videos (first-day views)
Collecting Prison Debts!
516,204
Is He Wrong For Breaking Up With Her?
264,876
Ordering Packages To Girlfriends House
249,331
Home Robbery Plan!
111,185
White Guy In the WRONG Prison!
135,729
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
LackLuster
1,510,000
CLR Bruce Rivers
1,460,000
Unseen
1,420,000
True Lives
1,340,000
Beyond Evil
1,300,000
Matthew Cox | Inside True…
1,240,000
Danielle Kirsty
1,240,000
Willie D Live
1,210,000
Nancy Grace
1,070,000
As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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