release this way. thanks for watching. i call him the don because he walks around like the owns the unit. >> i've been a burglar all my life. and banks were my favorite place because banks have money. >> an old-school bank robber maintains his swagger. >> that just lost the game. >> that's how i do it. medication time. >> an inmate with an imaginary

friend proves to be a challenge for the jail. >> i was doing the beating, jimmy was doing the talking. smashed him. smashed him out. >> and is a shocking act lands his sister in the jail as well. >> all in my face, my eyes, my dress. i never seen no blood gush like that in my life. while boston, massachusetts, maintains its colonial past, it's also ranked as one of the leading metropolitan areas for education and innovation. in the heart of downtown is a reminder that not every one of its residents is on the right track. >> there are especially at the county level a very significant portion of our population,

people who simply can't get out of their own way. mostly they're self-destructive but they commit crimes and hurt people in the process. but their lives can be different and there can be a change made. >> the suffolk county jail is usually the first stop for those who find themselves under arrest. inmates are detained at the facility where the daily population averages about 700. if they have been convicted of a crime and are sentenced to less than two and a half years, most will transfer to the nearby house of correction. which averages 1700 inmates. while their charges vary, nearly all of them will need to confront the truths of their past if they hope to avoid coming back. >> it may be history of abuse and neglect, lack of education, lack of job history, substance abuse issues. you name it. >> but there is another issue that is bringing more people to jail. not only in boston but nationwide. >> the percentages in mental

illness are off the charts. they are shocking. it's much harder once people begin to get older to tackle those deficits that have been growing and growing over a period of time. >> though he was deemed competent enough to understand his charges and stand trial, a life long battle with mental illness is a reality for cory allen. he is serving a two and a half year sentence at the house of correction for an array of crimes. because he is now on medication, jail officials confirmed he was stable enough to consent to an interview. >> i'm here for armed robbery, possession of firearm, assault and battery, intimidating witness, aggravated assault. that's it. >> [ bleep ] get slapped up. trade from the bloody.

[ bleep ] all ferocious. >> i couldn't let something go from from the past. i had to get revenge. it happened to be on my birthday that i allegely picked up this case. got out the car, seen someone, started shooting at each other. it escalated back and forth. followed the person to they house and that's when the assault and battery and the armed robbery transpired at. >> corey's lengthy criminal record has kept him in jail for most of his adult life. >> every time i got out for a short period of time, six months here, two months here. i was out for 30 days before i picked up my next. i had what i thought was a straight job. >> what did you think was a straight job? >> distributing to the community. selling marijuana to the community. >> corey's idea of a straight job isn't the only unusual aspect of his life. he also has an imaginary companion he calls jimmy.

>> jimmy like a dog. just a bright dog. he don't have a whole body. he just got a head. he used to bark. like that. he used to bark. you know what i'm saying? i didn't know where the bark was coming from. so one day i sat there and he talked. so i started talking to him too. you know what i'm saying? he's my friend. you know? >> corey says he has leaned on jimmy since childhood. the relationship has managed to bring him comfort while also putting him in precarious situations. >> jimmy comes out when i'm aggravated or if i get into a debate. or step in the [ bleep ] cell or something like that. jimmy say turn and [ bleep ] him. i turn into the mirror and say that was f-ed up. we just constantly argue. then at the end of the day i still love jimmy. jimmy be with me all my life.

used to. and i want him. plenty of times when i've been lonely. hide in the closet in foster homes. he's the one i talk to. he's not all bad. we make bad decisions together. >> a jail caseworker who asked me not use her name says corey's situation is not unique. >> i've had clients tell me that they've heard whispers, heard people talking, heard voices of their family members in the past, enemies they've had in the past. they've heard various things. we never challenge their hallucinations. we always listen to them. then we try to make appropriate referrals. if we think they need to be medica medicated, we'll encourage them to consider it. >> in order to keep corey's behavior under control, he is

proposed medication by the staff. >> that's how i do. medication time. about to get these medications right now. this is going to keep my nice. right now i'm on five psych pills. this morning i took three. tonight i'll take six. you know what i'm saying? >> corey represents the type of inmate that provides a daunting challenge for jails and prisons nationwide. they show certain symptoms of mental illness yet are incarcerated by the courts rather than hospitalized. >> mr. allen is in the general population unit. should someone be deemed incompetent, that would be -- and you wouldn't be housed in a jail. it would be at bridgewater where our state facility is. >> though he's been ruled competent, corey has posed problems. >> he has poor impulse control. sometimes there are issues.

sometimes he's in more need of mental health to get back down to a calming state. >> touch and move. you all over that [ bleep ] head. it's like that? >> yeah. >> it's like that? >> just like that. >> while housing corey provides a challenge to correctional staff, sharing a cell with angel a friend from the streets has made time go by a little easier for everyone. >> known each other for seven or eight years. he's a riot. in here laughing all night, giggling. it's like being on the street almost. makes time go a little faster. it drives me nuts when somebody gets started. new year's eve was crazy in here. the barking got me going crazy. found out it was him. >> do you know why he barks? >> he got issues. got some serious issues.

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for many bostonians, family traditions are not always positive. when a life of crime is echoed by generations, relatives may wind up together in the suffolk county jail. >> there was a study written about ten years ago, and the study basically stated that all of the crime in boston was attributed to 300 families. i see family members whether they're cousins, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers. boston is a small city and it's tough.

>> such is the case for corey allen. >> there's no other family like my family. we all crazy. we all got up and downs. but we love each other. i love my mother, my father, my sister which is here now, and my brother that's here. and my father just left here. ain't that something? >> corey's sister melissa allen who he calls lisa is just a few floors above him at the house of correction where female inmates are detained while they await trial on their charges. >> when i was a little kid, i tried to get her to play football with me. but she wanted me to play hula hoop with her. she took care of me a lot. make sure we eat when we didn't have food. you know what i'm saying? i just love my sister. >> while corey has tender words for his sister, life on the streets has been anything but tender for melissa.

her drugs have made her no stranger to the jail. >> i've been on crack since i was 24. i'm 37 now. it's been a long time. >> all this right here is where i did my dirty work. walk the street, sell drugs, do all that. couple streets down, that's where i lived. and they put me in a room i can see everything i did. >> melissa's life on the street which she admits involved prostitution and drug use often put her in danger. >> if i didn't have a knife, i'd have a razor. somewhere on me. i'd tie it in my hair.

or i'll have it in my mouth. >> melissa is currently in jail on an aggravated assault charge to which she has pled not guilty on grounds of self-defense. the alleged victim was a male friend. and we warn you, the details of they have alleged crime are disturbing. >> i gave him a hundred dollars to go upstairs to get something. to get a package. a package meaning crack. get a whole bunch of crack. he finally came downstairs, i'm like where's my [ bleep ]? what's going on? he's like [ bleep ] you. i said [ bleep ] me? oh, really? and he went to go into my bra to take the rest of my money and i said get off me. he pushed me, he punched me. he's real big so i jumped on his ass. he didn't have no underwears on and had shorts on. and he got big balls. so i took my knife out and i just cut it and it fell on the

floor. his balls fell on the floor. and blood was all in my face, my eyes, my hairs, my dress. everywhere. i never seen blood gush like that in my life. i must have cut a vein or something. i said never, ever put your hands on me. it wasn't the money because i can care less about the money. it comes easily to me. it was the point of how he just came at me and grabbed me and then punched me like i'm a man. but he didn't really know that i can be a man. >> if convicted, melissa could face a sentence of three to five years. but she hopes the judge will view the assault as self-defense. and give her a chance at drug rehabilitation rather than prison. while she is here, her contact with corey has been limited to cards and letters. they have been approved for

inmate to inmate correspondence in the jail. >> oh, it's from lisa. >> he got something wrong with him. everybody ain't perfect. everybody's got their moments and stuff. that boy has his moments every day all day. i don't know. i don't want care what he do, what he does. i don't care. that's my baby brother and i love him. i'm always there for him. >> i was going to write her today. but then i was like, no busy day. then i received her letters. it's just it makes me feel happy. it makes me feel sad. and even though she forgot the e? my name, it's all right. >> my family's one of the most dysfunctional families that's out here. so it's like there's something good about us. >> if i get out i will send some

pictures and money over. be good. stay out the hole. i'm going to cry. i can't keep reading this. i miss her so much. >> corey and melissa's brother william allen is also spending time at the house of correction. he's been sentenced to a year and a half for assault and battery. >> my sister said one day it must be a family curse. it must be. i mean, hard times fall on us all. >> i have a white band and yellow band. these are symbolic to my family, my sister and my brother. corey and lisa. i wear them to keep them close to my heart and let them know i'm thinking about them every day. >> he loves his family. you know what i'm saying?

even if you're doing bad or doing good or he's doing bad or doing good, he put his family first. >> they're the first thing on my mind when i wake up and the last thing when i go to sleep. and nobody failed, we just found 10,000 ways that didn't work. basically that's all it is. we're just destined for greatness but something is stopping us from reaching who we are. maybe we're here for a reason and we haven't missed our blessing. >> all three allen siblings have battled drug and alcohol abuse. but the pain of addiction has been a source of inspiration for william who writes poetry. >> my name is addiction and i'm the geneie in the bottle. but first be warned it's going to be the hardest thing to swallow. you're a grown man so tip that bottle. when you begin to talk, drink, and walk. the jenie says i specialize in two for ones. the thick started to become

thin. my smile went to a frown when he came around. note the spirits in that bottle misled you. now my life's been stolen. i fall on bended knee how could this be. his only reply, it is you who left me. it's not worth it. that's all i got to say about that. coming up -- >> i was the leader of the gang. i had bigger guys bring the tools in. the tools are heavy. even money is heavy if you have duffel bags full of it. 'cuz robots work for free. robot 1:good morning... robot 1:...female child. sfx: modem dial-up noise woman: flaws? yeah, um, maybe. anncr: there's an easier way to save. anncr: get online. go to geico.com. get a quote. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.

. the vast majority of suffolk county inmates are between 17 and 25 years old. so at 65 anthony peppi is an anomaly. >> the system does not discriminate from young or old or middle aged or senior citizens. if you do something bad in boston, you're coming to here or

maybe you're going to the state prison. >> he's an old-timer. he's a hardened criminal. been in and out of institutions his whole life. he's one of those guys, he doesn't really bother anybody. he does his time. >> peppe is serving a two year sentence for the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and use of a fire weapon. >> i call him the don because he walks around like he owns the unit. >> part of his swagger is his games of strategy. for william allen, losing meaning sweating. >> you're down 77 push-ups so far.

what would you like to play for? >> another 20. >> your first move. we play for push-ups on demand. i could call for these push-ups at any time of the day or night no matter where he is or if we're in the yard or the gym. he has to stop what he's doing and give me the push-ups. >> that move you just lost the game. >> he is a master checker player. and the thing about it, of all the people in there he says i'll show you the secret. and he showed me. and then he said don't tell nobody. not even my son knows this. now you know so now we at a level playing field. but still yet, i'm still doing hundreds of push-ups on the floor. >> and you lost again. >> how much is that? >> it was 77 so now it's 97. i'll take five right now. >> allen and peppe have shared

more in common than checkers. both have battled addictions to drugs and alcohol. and for peppe it's been a very long battle. >> my drug of choice was speedballs which was half cocaine and half heroin injected simultaneously. it's a very dangerous high, but it's -- i feel it's the best high in the world. >> but peppe was more than the run of the mill drug addict. >> i've been a burglar basely all my life. banks were my favorite place because banks have money. it's like if you want to steal a car you go to a car lot. if you want to steal some groceries, go to a grocery store. if you want money, the best place for me was a bank. >> peppe has robbing banks since the 1960s. his heists were like something out of a movie. >> i sort of was the leader of the gang.

i had bigger guys to bring the tools in because the tools to open the vault are pretty heavy. even money is heavy if you have duffel bags full of it. you know, we had somebody case it. we had a couple guys do the heavy destruction work. the alarm specialists. once the alarm was shut off, we owned the bank. that's how i felt. if you're hungry, you'd get a bunch of sandwiches and get something to drink and cigarettes. you know, just like a job. >> but in jail, peppe's job cleaning the tv and microwaves pays just a dollar a day. >> i have a little american pride on the microwaves, i take

pride in it. people eat out of them. i don't want anyone to get sick. >> i realize i missed my life because i've been incarcerated so long. and i think the guy with the lunch bag under his hand going to work is very far ahead of me having a nice family, friends, and honest living. >> but peppe had enough time on the outside to start a family. and looks forward to seeing them when he is released in two more months. >> i have a son that'll be 50 years old this september coming up. my youngest one's 16 months. i have a set of twins from a girlfriend. this time i have the opportunity of going home and raising a few more children while i'm there. i don't think i want to screw up anymore. coming up --

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doing time in boston suffolk county jail is a world away from the colleges or ivy league university located just miles away. but once a week, those two worlds intersect when students from harvard university and boston college come to the jail to help inmates earn their geds. >> for them to come in and do it for us convicts, that's a good thing. looking out for us. showing us there is a world out there and there's help out there. >> gerard cohen has been teamed with alexander, a harvard sophomore. >> it's one of these you can do in your head probably. but just to be sure, we all make mistakes. just write it out. it'll take an extra five seconds but it's worth it. each answer matters in that final score. >> people have this wall about

how they think of prisoners and what this whole community is like. and it's not true. if you work consistently with someone for awhile, you really get to know them. i think that's one of the more interesting parts of being here. >> you're very confident. >> i sure am. >> well, i'm going to make you prove to me you know this on paper. >> i know he's smart. he goes to harvard. so he's extra smart. >> people can let defenses down in the classroom. they can admit i can't read. i can't do math. where in the units, that's harder to do. you have to protect those kinds of things. you don't want to make yourself vulnerable. and in the classroom you can be vulnerable. >> to maintain a classroom environment, deputies remain outside the room but keep watch on what's happening inside. >> i've decided to do this program because i want to be able to learn a little more so when i do get out, i can teach my son a little more than what i didn't learn in school.

so i can help him when he gets older and tell him daddy did have a couple downfalls but i bettered myself. >> awesome. let's make sure all triangles have 180 degrees. how many are in a right angle? >> i'm hoping to get my ged. then go to harvard, bc, something. the streets are not where it's at. >> the tutoring program isn't large enough to accommodate everyone in the jail. so melissa allen has turned to another inmate for help with math. >> just add six to 18 and that gives the answer. >> i'm not embarrassed when she helps me. i can listen to her. >> i just -- i treat people how i want them to treat me. math is one of my better skills. it comes easy to me. so something that she struggles

with that's easy for me, if i can help her with it it's not going to hurt me. sit down with her for ten minutes and write out multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it well? >> melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. >> monday to sunday nonstop every day. there's not a day that passed, everyday. i looked like a damn fool. running around thinking i'm the [ bleep ]. probably smelt like [ bleep ]. i don't know. i can't do this no more. i don't want my brothers to be here. we better than that. we the allens. we better than that. you know?

i feel like they following me. you know? because i'm the oldest. i can't do this. if they let me out of here, i'm not coming back. i'm not. >> melissa hopes that the judge in her aggravated assault case will send her to drug rehab rather than prison. >> what's up, baby? all the time. that's how we do it up here. >> a few floors below, her younger brother corey was just offered the opportunity to leave jail on parole. he turned it down in no uncertain terms. and will now be in jail for six more months. >> i ripped my parole papers up. i don't need them. i want to do all my time.

i don't want nothing for free. you know what i'm saying? i can do it. that's gangster. you know what i'm saying? >> many inmates choose not to take parole because they truly know that they cannot make it going back to their communities underneath the standards and guidelines that parole gives them. they'd rather wrap up their sentence here walk out the door knowing they have no one else watching over them. >> so you let me go, whatever happens happens. it's my choice. i'd rather just wrap it up. >> there's also a benefit to corey remaining in jail. he receives psychiatric treatment and medication. though he still maintains a life long relationship with his imaginary companion. jimmy takes the form of a pit bull head. >> jimmy always around.

jimmy, jimmy. me and jimmy have some interactions the last few weeks. some of it has been good. some of it has been bad. but they put me on a new med. but i told them if i feel and jimmy feels that it's making me slow in any shape or form, i'm going to get off the medication because i don't like to be down. i like to be up. >> corey's decision to go off his medication not only effects him but his new cell mate jonathan elliot who must cope with both corey and jimmy. >> man you crazy. >> hard to live with. he has two personalities. there's only two bunks in here

but when there's three it gets crowded. with four personalities it's hard to deal with. >> like you perfect. >> i'm not saying i'm perfect. but other people feel the same way. >> that's crazy. >> i don't mind him at all. he's probably one of the best i've had since i've been here. >> and what do you think about johnny? >> i love johnny. even though he don't know how to keep his food in his mouth. he spits it all over. noodles everywhere. play chess together. flips out. he looks out for me. i look out for him. we just get along. >> try to calm him down, yeah. i'm living in here. i'm like hey you want that? i mean, he's a hyper kid. coming up -- one of the jail's oldest inmates is sanctioned for fighting. and william allen must confront

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there's a good reason why some inmates try to avoid trouble while serving time at the suffolk county jail in boston. for each month they don't receive a disciplinary write up, they can earn good time. or days off their sentence. 65-year-old anthony peppe's release was less than two months away. >> there's nothing better than getting out of jail. it's like such an awesome feeling. i can't describe it. you'd have to be in prison to

know. as soon as you are a ton of bricks is off my shoulder. >> but peppe has just been told he will not receive 15 days of good time. he's been sanctioned for fighting. >> peppe was down in a meeting security housing unit in 121 and the officer heard scuffling coming from the back of the unit. and as the officer approached he looked in his cell and found that inmate peppe was bended down breathing heavily and the other inmate was doing the same. he had scratches on him. therefore, he was able to write him up for fighting. inmate peppe alleges he was poking at another with his cane and the inmate attacked him. >> he knocked me out of the chair. knocked my glasses off my face and said i hit him. i did not hit this man. i'm 65 years old.

my back hurts all the time. i'm not rugged anymore. i don't want to fight no more. i just want to enjoy the rest of my life. i was a lover, not a fighter. >> because the fight allegedly took place inside a cell where there's no security camera coverage, jail officials cannot determine who started it. so both peppe and the other inmate have been sent to segregation. the 23 hour lockdown unit for a period of five weeks. >> no one to play anything with. cards, checkers, anything. so isolation is not a nice place to be. they let you out for a shower. and recreation a few times a week. and that's it. otherwise everything comes right to the cell. your meals are delivered here. caseworker comes by. nurse comes by. everything's delivered here. pretty dull. >> peppe's time in segregation might be even more stressful. he and the mother of his

16-month-old twins are having problems. >> me and my girlfriend, the babies' mother, aren't getting along right now. so whatever she decides, she decides and i'll walk away from her. i would like to grow them up and everything. but if it's not meant to be with her, it's not meant to be with her. >> but peppe still has some hope for the future. >> i have had quite a life. really quite a life. i want to enjoy whatever life i have left. and i hope to return back to society and never do any more crime and just be at peace with the world. >> now you re-enter society coming straight out of jail. you find ways that didn't work. doesn't mean you fail. it was a little more than the judge could allow.

coming out of jail i can't put that on my resume. honestly tell them i was in prison. i was being rebuilt. i was in a state of repair. >> peppe's friend william allen has another six months to serve on a year and a half sentence. his work detail helps him earn time off his sentence. >> i have the pleasure of serving on two details. i do the segregation unit which is the hole. and i do the tower detail which is uniforms, trash, and mopping. >> allen had recently applied for early release to a halfway house but was denied by the classification director. jail officials are not convinced he has come to terms with the violent charges that brought him to jail. >> there are major issues in his criminal history that he needs to address and be accountable for. >> allen has asked to speak to

his caseworker to see how to get the reconsider. >> he's going to ask the questions he asked you. are you an addict and e have you addressed your anger behavior? >> as far as drinking and alcoholism, i remain on the 12 steps daily. >> that's not an answer for me. that just basically gives me ten pounds of bull crap in a five pound bag. that's all. you need to address mr. travis with facts. not, like, i'm going to. i want to go to or need to go to. you need to give him facts that says this is what i've done to make myself a more productive person and to address what potentially are long-term problems for me. you know? you have a violent criminal history. you've got to be able to explain your criminal history to the

person in classification. that's the only way that this is going to work for you. okay? so if i knew right now i'm thinking about what can i do to present myself to classification and show them that my criminal history is in the past, this is what i'm doing to become a more positive person, and this is the direction i need to head in. okay? >> all right. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> two floors above, william's sister melissa allen is about to go to court on charges of aggravated assault. she has written the judge a letter asking to go to a drug rehabilitation program rather than prison. >> i said dear your honor, i have been thinking about how i can change my ways. number one way is to stop using violence as an answer to everything. because in the long run it's

only hurting myself and my kids. another thing i would like to change is my use of drugs. because drugs are getting me nowhere in life. your honor, jail is not helping me. so your honor, please give me another chance to get into a program. thank you and i won't disappoint you this time. coming up -- >> did you see me talking to the dude? i was doing the beating, jimmy was doing the talking. >> corey goes off his med while his brother and his sister melissa face major changes themselves. ♪ let me make you smile ♪ let me do a few tricks ♪ some old and then some new tricks ♪ ♪ i'm very versatile ♪ so let me entertain you ♪ and we'll have a real good time ♪ [ male announcer ] with beats audio and flash,

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while the goal of most inmates is to find a way back to the streets, corey allen recently rejected an opportunity of parole and chose to serve the

remainder of his two and a half year sentence at boston house of correction. but it might not be an easy stay. he was recently involved in a brutal fight caught on the jail surveillance camera. >> he thought i was a punk. he thought he could talk to me any way he want. not one time did he bother me that day, but twice. i had to do what i got to do. [ bleep ] him up. smashed him. smashed him out. >> the tape is reviewed by captain michael colewell. >> this inmate is approaching the corey allen and delivers the first blow in what turns out to be a pretty significant altercation. ultimately, inmate allen gets the upper hand here and delivers what you see here as a succession of blows to the head, closed fist punches to the head and torso.

>> and that happens for several seconds as the responding officers begin to arrive. >> they asked me what was the weapon. that's what they asked me. what weapon? they said we believe you used a weapon. i didn't use no weapon. they said it looks like i used a weapon. i didn't use no weapon. you know what i'm saying? i just didn't play no games. >> even though corey didn't start the fight, he received two months in segregation. he passed violations and having gone beyond defending himself. since the move he's refused his medication. >> i'm about to swerve on something too. >> corey says his interactions with his companion jimmy are increasing. >> did you see me talking to the doo

dude when i was beating him. that was jimmy. i was doing the beating. jimmy was doing the talking. anything i do, jimmy do too. i don't believe i take the medication for myself. i believe i take the medication for jimmy. jimmy's a [ bleep ] right now. >> corey's brother william has also had a setback. while working his job detail, he was caught entering another inmate's cell. he has now lost his chance at an early release to a halfway house. >> when he entered the other inmate's cell, it was 3:00 in the morning. in the particular housing unit he was in, those doors are not secured. they're not locked due to the nature of what kind of housing unit that is. they're not supposed to be going into other cells at that point. at that time, he was on a detail. and that detail was the night detail. that's why he was awake at 3:00 in the morning. however, he chose to take

advantage of the situation by entering someone else's cell at that time. inmate allen is typically not a disciplinary problem. >> i've been here almost a year and some months and i haven't had one disciplinary action. this is my first one. so all they charged me was with being out of place. that's all the charges was. >> william will now have to serve out the remaining six months of his sentence in jail. >> now i have to go into survival mode. i mean, you regret your movements, your actions. you got to think about whether to bite your tongue, hold your tongue. this is a game of chess here. this is nothing but an art of war. >> while things have been tough for the allen brothers, their sister melissa has gotten good news from the judge. he has given her 60 days to find a drug rehabilitation facility that will accept her for an intensive six month treatment plan. >> i was going like this.

my knees were knocking together. i have my cross. i was like please, please, please don't send me to jail. he said i'm going to do this last thing. go in 60 days and find a program. when you find that program, bring the paper back over. when they accept you bring it back to him. and they'll wave me in and take me from there. you can't get no better than that. for the things i did, you can't get no better than that. >> family has been so many years since we drifted apart. it doesn't mean i don't love you. i was trapped in the dark. i had to confront my fears to keep from going insane. it's telling me i need it but it's killing me slow. never again will it be second to none.