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son gets another chance. >> me being over there to see my mom in jail is hard. orange county, california, conjures images of well manicured neighborhoods and sure if you're culture that gave birth to the beach boys. blending in the heart of one of the busiest neighborhoods is a reminder of the county's other

side. theo lacy jail the largest of five in the orange county system. sits on 11 acres, has a capacity of more than 3,000 inmates. >> let's go. hands behind your back. >> mark gonzales is one of them. except for his tee shirts and scrubs, he could be mistaken for any other fun loving oc teenager. >> i love surfing and the ocean, promise land, nothing could go wrong for robbing a weed store and getting arrested. >> my mom is in a lot of shock. first offense. my baby is robbing weed stores? what do you need that for? >> unlike most inmates in the orange county jail system who have not been convicted but are

awaiting trial gonzalez pled guilty to robbery. with good behavior he could be out in nine months. if his family gets its way, back in minnesota. >> i have a bunch of newspapers, my mom sent me a subscription, i wanted to stay updated what is going on in minnesota, concert-wise, weather, still feel like home in a way. i'm the first one in my family to ever get in trouble. although we have treatment history, never led to crime. they were so shocked but they send me letters every day, they get mad when i don't talk to them. they still love me they understand how difficult it is for me. i'm doing nine months for the first time, that is a lot of time. >> it's time he could have avoided if, as he claims, he hadn't allowed himself to be talked in to committing robbery. >> how would you like to rob a marijuana store, that is not me. i tried to to keep it peaceful

with everybody, it grows from the ground, why steal from it? two months later out of money, out of weed, kind of stressing, all right how about now? i was like all right we'll see how it goes. >> he and his friend targeted a medical marijuana dispensary had a delivery service. >> they came, delivered to us, he asked for my information, i just pretended to dig through it, he came around back with the gun and did what he did, and popped out and that was it. >> less than a week later, gonzales and his friend were pulled over for a cracked windshield. the police officer smelled marijuana coming from the car. >> they searched the car and found the gun, the weed, everything, they matched the weed up with the description of the robbery. then the gun he admitted was his, i didn't get charged with the armed robbery, thank god. i learned my lesson. yeah. i learned my lesson.

not to get pulled over. i'm just kidding. >> because he is a low risk first time offender, gonzales had one piece of good news. instead of being housed among the hundreds of inmates facing charges like murder, rape or gang activity, he has been assigned to live in the minimum security workers barracks, probably the most desirable housing unit on the entire jail. >> as you see a barracks type of setting, once day room is open they are free to go within this side of the barracks, when they play ping pong and cards, watch tv, read the newspaper. they have a little more freedom in that it's a big dorm-style of barracks. >> pick it up, if you don't want it. >> that is what i'm saying. >> for every six days that you work, you get another extra day

of good time and an extra day of work time taken off of your sentence. so for every six days that you're in custody and working, it's like eight days as long as they behave. >> gonzales works in the laundry facility. >> i work all the clothes that everyone wears, i sort them and f fold them, take them off the truck, brand new, fresh, socks, pants, i get new clothe every day, never dirty, always new. that is what matters. my mom would be doing my laundry. >> gonzales says he has a good relationship with his mother. but she is about to fly in from minnesota for her first visit to the jail. >> she wasn't very happy last time we talked. she will be here a couple weeks, we will see what she has to say.

>> three miles away, in the women's wing of orange county central jail facility, paula rivas, serving three years for identity theft and fornl ri is preparing for spa mother-son reunion. >> i want him to forgive me, i want him to know i want to be out there. rivas' son is a marine who deployed to afghanistan seven months ago ma. >> i wanted my son to join the military, when you realize they are going to war and there is nothing you can't do, it's not easy. being in jail he has nothing to come home to, i'm in here. i can't -- i could write him but difficult. i didn't want him to get a

letter with orange county jail stamped on it. i look for articles about over there. every time i see the newspaper, i don't know if it's my boy. it's not been easy. >> rivas says she loves her son but admittedly not been there for him over the years. she was often more focused on drugs than family. >> i was getting high, one way or another from 9 years old, whether on weed, drinking, back then lsd, pcp. in my later years, it has been -- it was coke for a while. but i went to other drugs. heroin, meth. i have been coming here for the last ten years consistently. and it's pretty sad i know the deputies this place more than my own family. i know this place more than my son, you know? >> this is the first time rivas' son has been deployed while she was locked up.

normally she would serve her time in prison, a judge granted her request to stay at the orange county jail so she could be closer to her son when he returns from afghanistan. >> prison is a cake walk, so much easier, i got it made up there, upstate is r-house, this is their house. over here, the deputies. this is their house. they run it, it's their home, very tight. nobody wants to do their time here. i chose to stay to see my boy. everybody thinks i'm crazy but no. i want the 45 minutes with him. because you never know if it will be the last. >> coming up. >> i drink and get aggressive, i said i wasn't going to drink again and here we are. >> cell mates share tales of booze and bank robbery.

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. the most trusted inmates in orange county, california live in the workers barracks of the theo lacy jail. they enjoy more privilege and move mement than other housing units. the majority of the inmates live more restricted, they are confined to one or two-man cells in housing units known as modules or mods. >> are any giving you any issues? >> no. >> most of the inmates require a lot more supervision due to their charges and criminal sophistication. they are entitled to two hours every day of day room, three times a week they get an hour in the outdoor rec facility.

they are in their cell, 22 hours. >> let's go. >> some of the inmatesare bei ag pulled out for surprise shake down. >> let's go, guys. >> go out to rec, enjoy your time we'll pull you back in. a lot of times they keep fruit and turn it in jailhouse alcohol called pruno, save bread, save all that. the yeast in the bread to ferment the sugary juice, will turn in pruno. which they are making one right here. this can be dangerous because there is no way they can know what the alcohol content is on this. >> ryan abbey has never been caught with alcohol in jail. but it's gotten him in plenty of trouble on the outside. >> drink and i get aggressive, i

guess. i start arguing and you know, pitiful. i hadn't had a drink in 16 months, this is the second time i had drink in 16 months, this is where it brought me back to. so, yeah, i did five months here last time i was here last year and i said i wasn't going to drink again and here we are. >> but alcohol is more than just a problem for abbey. also the foundation of his career. >> i'm an investor in a vodka company, boo-t ay vodka. >> that is what you were intoxicated on? >> you are 100%. it sneaks up on you, let me just say that. sneak up on you, we had a few

shots that night i was celebrating a bar that i was a part owner of too, that we sold, and every time i drink this is what happens. >> unfortunately for abbey falling off the wagon will likely lead to consequences beyond jail. he's expecting to get a prison sentence the next time he goes to court. >> different experience, but i think you have to show respect that you show when you're here for the deputies, for the inmates, and it is what it is, i guess. >> abbey's cell mate jimmy torres can tell him about life in prison. >> i spent all my 30s inside, i got out when i was 41, federal government don't mess around when they hammer you, they hammer you good.

torres is at orange county, appealing conviction for armed bank robbery he claims he didn't commit. but he does take credit for dozens of other bank robberies, some of which landed him a prior 11 year sentence at a federal penitentiary. >> the yankee bandit, my cell mate in '91 world famous bank robber, holds the record at 72 banks robbed. oh, man i was getting warmed up at 72. through the years i probably robbed 100, no more than 150, we'll put it that way. >> torres says the inspiration to become a bank robber occurred when he was a young boy growing up in a tough part of orange county. >> i never had money in my pocket to buy ice cream, that used to bother me all the other kids had money. i got caught stealing from the neighborhood guy, i remember i finished seeing that bonnie and clyde movie with warren beatty

and faye dunnaway, and i remember saying i'm going to rob a bank like bonnie and clyde used to. i was a kid. >> how much money do you think you've gotten from your bank robberies all these years? >> you might want to ask caesar's palace. i have no idea, i never counted. >> torres didn't just gamble away his loot. but was a modern day robin hood. >> i give money to homeless people when i see them on the street, i would give them $100. i was coming out of the a bank at christmas time, kids with the salvation army, asked me for money, i don't have any right now but i will be right back. you can imagine what i did, okay? >> now 49 years old, torres started his career as a bank robber when he was only 17. and he claims all of his robberies have been non-violent. >> i would go in there, and basically just passed the note.

i never used the gun. i put "this is a robbery give me all the 100's, 50's, bottom drawer first. i didn't want the money from the top drawer, you want the big money. >> torres became known as the money bandit. because of how he would cover his face during robberies. but he says the mummy in these surveillance photos which led to the latest conviction is an imposter. >> i would put band-aids to hide my identity. band-aids. nothing like the guy in the surveillance picture. where is the money bandit? he happens to be on the streets today. easy scrape goat. >> his dna was led to the hat, now he hired a new attorney who filed for retrial. >> there were big time errors,

certain evidence was not brought forth that should have. my trial attorney passed away from a brain tumor. she had a brain tumor, no wonder, she kept for getting everything i kept telling her and she did fatal mistakes during my trial. >> coming up. >> hi, son. >> hello. >> mark gonzales gets a visit from his mother and later -- >> i joined the marine corps for her, trying to get her to be proud of me once. >> paula rivas' son braces for a visit with his mother.

. orange county, on vacation. i can leave this place on probation. >> say it again! >> i came here on vacation, i'm going to leave on probation. say it again. >> mark gonzales came to orange county to serve and enjoy the california lifestyle. he will leave as a convicted felon for participating in the

robbery of a medical marijuana deliveryman and presumably with considerably less air. >> that's me right there, all dreaded up, didn't have my glasses, couldn't see a dang -- i came in with no shoes and a tank top. yeah, i was pretty -- yeah. >> drug use led to problems for him before his arrest. >> seventh, eighth grade i started smoking pop, started psychedelics and place outpatient rehab facility for the first time. didn't work out, i was losing jobs, i was failing school, wasn't doing that well. i barely graduated. >> now three months in his one-year sentence, gonzales is headed to the visiting room at orange county theo lacy jail facility. his mother, who asked we not reveal her face, has just flown in from his home state of

minnesota. >> hi, son. >> hello! >> oh my gosh, this is the first time i've seen you with your haircut, i really like it. >> yeah? so how was your day? >> it was all right. sat outside, read a lot. really sunny, i have been sitting outside. >> are you still working every day? >> every day. >> that is a good thing, isn't it? >> yeah, work every day have my time go by fast. >> have you checked into classes, son? >> no. >> okay. >> one thing gonzales and his mother need to settle is exactly where he will fulfill his court-machine dated rehab. >> i can go here and do a program here and transfer for free, instead of paying. >> transfer where, here? >> from phoenix house here and transfer over there to the phoenix house once i get out. they will pick me up and it's free. >> yeah, well -- >> you would have me go to minnesota? >> yeah, you'll have more family support. that is absolutely critical to your recovery, son.

>> will be hard because we talked about with my friends there and all my friends use, pretty much. >> yeah, they do. >> it will be hard. you already know that when i switched schools it's hard for me to get in another group of friends. >> mark, it will be hard no matter where you go. >> i don't want to be shoveling for five years or surfing for five years. i would rather lean the other way. >> but you can snowboard. >> i can snowboard here. >> but i just think that the support is something that is crucial. >> that's true. i want to choose what is best for me when i get out of of here. so far everything has been going well for me in here, just like where i have been placed, where i have been housed. when i feed, when i feed the mods, it's totally different. >> that is what you said. >> people are locked up in a different way than i am. just made me be so thankful for

where i am. i would probably never be in the mods, the mods is like way inside, like no sunlight, two man cell, you're in a cell, lock the door on you. >> so that is where you see the real serious inmates, i would imagine. >> um-hmm. a whole different world. a whole different world. >> are they close to you? that is somewhat disturbing. >> you can't hear me? >> when their 45 minutes is up the intercom is cut off. gonzales' time with his mother comes to an abrupt end. >> i love you. i'll see you tomorrow. i'll see you tomorrow.

>> so how did it go? >> it was all right. good to see her, i haven't seen her in a while or heard her voice, at first she seemed kind of worried and sad, but she is strong, she picked herself up and was good to talk to her and see her and soon i will see the rest of my family and everything will be going by fast and i will be out of here. she is probably feeling down right now, we get cut off, dead silent, i can't do sign language or nothing, can't write no notes, don't want to get in trouble. so she is probably sad she has to go back all alone i'll see her tomorrow. i miss her a lot. we used to do so much together, now she is visiting me in jail. that is part of our journey, still continuing what we do. it won't change anything at all. coming up. >>. ♪ ♪ >> the mummy bandit sings the

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. ♪ i'm wanted america's most wanted man, yes, i am, if you seen it coming baby, i'm on the lam. >> jimmy torres has reasons to sing the blues. he spent 11 years in a federal penitentiary and was recently convicted of a bank robbery he says he didn't commit. >>. ♪ i'll be on the lam ♪ ♪ >> and the crowd went wild. i was america's most wanted man.

>> thanks, bro. that is the crowd. unfortunately they are captured audience. >> torres used to sing in a band on the outside. but he's probably better known for being a prolific bank robber. now, he's pursuing a literary career working on his autobiography. the bank robber blues, tale of the mummy bandit. a couple guys i let them read it and they are my critics. they say it's a page-turner. keeps the reader interested. it doesn't take a genius to figure how to write one and lay it down. i'm just getting warmed up. i got a lot more to go. i'm like in 1985 right now. >> but for now, torres puts his book aside to help out his cell mate, ryan abbey. >> tell them you need help, okay? you got a problem.

we both know that. from what you told me, i read the police reports. >> abbey was convinced his latest arrest will send him to prison. the judge has allowed him the option of entering an alcohol treatment program. now he has to be accepted by one. >> 38 years old, now in theo lacy alcoholic, like to be accepted to your program if i could be accepted to your program, the judge recently allowed me to go to rehabilitation. >> don't write it in ancient scriptures, that is what it looks like. >> messy. >> a little messy. >> thankful for a second chance. >> looks like you're using ancient scripture. >> a chance to change my life. to get in the steps of alcoholism. >> while things are looking up for abbey, mark gonzales had a big setback. one likely to disappoint his

mother. >> said don't get in any trouble, don't do anything bad. >> shortly after his mother's return to minnesota, gonzales was given a new job. he was moved from laundry detail to helping in the jail's intake unit. >> inmate gonzales was a trustee worker. when an inmate gets booked in, he would take his property and put it in different carts and bins, so he had access to inmate property and he stole a cell phone and transported it back to his dorm. >> but gonzales says one of his co-workers stole the phone. >> it was in a big thing of clothes, i put it in the bag with other stuff that needed to go back, so i got in trouble for bringing it back. >> either way, inmates are pro hibited to cell phones. >> to have access at a phone at any time where you can contact someone on the street to authorize a hit, or you can contact someone on the street to

try to facilitate bringing drugs in the system? it becomes a major issue if it gets in the hands more sophisticated. >> the violation not only cost him his job, but his place in the workers barracks. probably the most desirable housing unit in the entire jail system. he has been transferred three miles away, to the county central jail facility. >> he was moved out of the trustee barracks, in a more secure dorm, c-12 at the main jail. >> this place sucks. being locked up behind these bars is a whole new lifestyle. just hearing the door open and clink and the keys and slamming, it's brighter here, musty here, a lot worse. people come and go. easy to catch stuff it's dirty. little more dangerous, people are having different cases. i was with people drinking and driving, that type of stuff, not

really hard stuff, but people fighting life and people snap easily in here, there is a lot of small tempers and fights over small stuff. so the tv, that is why i stay on my rack and do my time, keep my head down for real this time, not get caught up in any trouble. >> coming up, a tearful promise from a mother, to put her marine son before drugs. >> i don't want to miss any more time with you. i want you to come home next time i want to be home.

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paula rivas gets rec time at

orange county jail california. she usual lly spends it alone punching the basketball. >> i'm a fighter. i use my fists. i used to go to the boxing gym out there. you have to be solid as a rock in here, nobody wants to see nobody cry in here, first thing we tell them, don't cry. don't shed a tear. man up. >> face the glass. >> it has been very hard for me. >> rivas spent most of the ten years on drug related charges. while here, her son lorenzo has been serving as a marine in afghanistan. >> i don't want him to be hurt or injured in any way. he's seen a lot, i know he has. he's lost a few friends, i know that. >> today, lorenzo is not only safe, but home from his

deployment. he has just arrived with his grandmother for a visit. >> i haven't seen her in nine months. to see my mom in jail is hard on me. seems like she is always gone, me being over there in afghanistan, my mom being here is one of the worst things ever. she hasn't always been there for me. it's a void in my life. i got one letter. i read it 10, 15 times. she told me i was proud of me. i always tried looking the best, dressing nice, joined the marine corps for her, trying to get her to be proud of me for once. if she would stay out of tlubl she was proud of her son and not go back to jail, just for me once. but it seems like she always goes back to her life, she chooses her life over me, that has been the hardest part.

>> i love you, baby. i worry so much. sit down. how are you? >> i'm good, how are you? >> i'm sorry i'm not there. >> it's okay. >> when are you going overseas again? >> i don't know. >> you don't know? >> no. >> i see it on the news all the time, things are happening over there and you see the newspapers and stuff and i worry about you so much. >> i'm fine. >> i'm almost out of here and i'll go to a program, top one, which i need structure, and i'll be home after that, after the

program. i'll get a job, and do what i have to do, to make things right, stop messing around, you know? >> yeah. >> i'm tired of this life. i'm tired. >> i'm tired of it, too. >> i know you are. i know you're tired with this is it, man. i don't want to miss any more time with you. i want you to come home next time i'll be home. i promise you, i'm not going to break it this time. you're the best thing i've ever done. you are. you didn't follow in my foot steps, which is good i'm so proud. i'm so proud. >> i miss you. >> i miss you too. i want to hug you and hold you, tell you that it's going to be all right, you know? i'm going to be okay and i don't

want to miss any more of your life, son. i just want you to know this is the last time i will be in the case. i have the best son to go home to, i know. i am so grateful, i feel like a load lifted off my chest. >> i feel a lot better seeing my mom. made me feel great she told me she was proud of me. makes me feel like accomplished, she tells me she feels proud of me. you can never hear it enough from her. she wants to prove to me, make me believe it will be the last time coming here to see her. she promised to actually be a mother to me. >> my son is my number one priority right now, not me. my priority was me, selfish, he's my priority from now on. i used to tell him that, not just going to tell him, i'm

going to do it. i'll show him. this is the beginning of a new life. a better life for me and him. >> no, no, no, no. oh, no, no. ♪ i'm going to make you sing like tina turner, then i'll murder you. >> things are looking up for mark gonzales as well. >> this here space, anybody who knows how to play space as been to jail or is an old man. >> mom taught me how to play. >> mom taught me, too. mom and pops. >> though he is now in a more restrictive housing unit with inmates accused of more serious crimes, he's made some new friends.

>> i'm jake-dizzle. >> that is my body guard right there. that is wacky cam. ♪ damn man, feels like i can't afford it, man cannot get by, dancing in the background we get around in your town, i'm from atlanta, ♪ >> while gonzales made the most of his time at the central jail, few things in jail last forever. a couple days later, he was transferred back to theo lacy jail, assigned to a cell in one of the mods. the very place he wanted to avoid. >> i would probably never be in the mods, the mods is like way

inside like no sunlight, two-man cell, lock the door on you. >> that is where you see i guess the real serious -- >> um-hmm. >> that is somewhat disturbing. >> i don't know why they brought me over here, i liked it better over there. >> does your mom know you're here? >> she got on the phone with my lawyer, and i just talked to her again she said there is nothing they can do. >> on the bright side, gonzales says his new cell mate is helping him adjust to the change. >> he's great, we connected, which is good. especially if you're doing time together you want to learn, he's getting me in about god and jesus, got me a bible and do bible study every day. >> have you accepted jesus christ as your lord and personal savior? >> yes, i totally decided to let him fully in my life and got rid of all my since and blessed for everything i've done and what i have become.

>> that is the first part, you accepted. now is your time to grow let him work will you you and change you to become the person he wants you to be. coming up, mark gonzales makes a surprising discovery about his new cell mate. >> when i first found out it kind of took me off guard, i was like whoa, okay. a judge decides if paula rivas can leave jail. h thermaca. thermacare works differently. it's the only wrap with patented heat cells that penetrate deep to relax, soothe, and unlock tight muscles. for up to 16 hours of relief, try thermacare. ♪ [ male announcer ] offering four distinct driving modes and lexus' dynamic handling, the next generation of lexus will not be contained. the all-new 2013 lexus gs.

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jimmy torres is no stranger to the orange county jail. but even though he claims to be one of the nation's most prolific bank robbers, he says this time he's not guilty. and a judge has decided he will get a second chance to prove his innocence. he's granted torres a retrial. of his most recent bank robbery conviction. >> going to be a new trial now and everything will come out, the truth will come out.

>> torres's cell mate ryan abbey got good news at a recent court hearing, he was accepted in a rehab program, and a few weeks into it, has written to torres about life outside the orange county jail. >> i received two letters from ryan since he was gone. he goes hey jimmy, what's up. did some research on the mummy bandit thing for me, he says there is mummy bandits all over the place. that sobriety is great. people are are good at the house, and he mentioned also that he will help me with this project we have going, make some tee shirts, free the mummy bandit, itwasn'tme daum will be the website. keep positive, let me know when your next court date is. >> mark gonzales is adjusting not only to a new cell mate but a new cell where he's confined

most of the day. he eats his meals in his cell. it's not he is paranoid about the food but he is cautious. >> i'm washing my meat, this is boo boo meat, nastiest smelly meat. if i'm going to eat this, i'll eat it right. that is just me. some people like to eat it i see people washing their meat off. the water turns musty brown. >> gonzales has been get along with the new cell mate, alvin lovely. then he heard lovely was in jail awaiting trial on a murder trial. >> when i first found out about his charges, it took me off guard, i was like whoa, okay, new ways to play it

>> while gonzales' might be concerned, she can take comfort in knowing the orange county jail might have realigned his priorities. >> in my mug shot picture stuck my tongue out, spending 11 months, i learned how to become a man physically and mentally and have to go to rehab right after i get out is a big eye opener. i'll never come back i experienced all the things in my family had to go through the money spent, i never want to do this ever again.

i got my little calendar, written on the wall, says 22 pancakes left. every saturday we get pancakes. i got 22 left. mark it down every time. today is the 22nd. 22 pancakes left. >> paula rivas is hoping she won't eat another pancake. she is headed to court and hope as new plea bargain will set her free. >> my public defender told me everything is okay, but i can always go to court and maybe them not give me all the credit because i have two open cases. and one supposed to run concurrent with the other. but there is always that chance that it might not. i've seen it many times when girls, they are positive they'll get their credit time and come back devastated because the time wasn't run concurrent fully. if that happens, basically i'll end up going upstate for like

ten months. there is always that slim chance. >> ready for sentencing, is that correct? >> yes, your honor. >> ma'am, you are sentenced to state prison for a period of three years. defendant has krcredits of 550, total of 1100 you've done your time. you are not going to be transported to state prison, you have credit for time served. been a long time coming, you know that. i have a sense you will do it well. problem is you have no choice, you have to do it well. with your history, with your priors, if you don't do well you'll wind up back in prison and you have a son in the marine corps, pretty proud. >> i am. >> point is they can't do it for you, i know you're motivated, this believe it or not is the easy part. hard part is tonight when you get out, you've been in custody so long. i wish you well, good luck.

>> thank you. >> the judge's ruling is good news for rivas. he has decided due to the time she has already served in orange county, she can transfer to a drug rehabilitation program rather than prison. >> i remember when it wasn't this way, right? >> yep. >> with all my priors i went upstate. so this is something different, something new. and for me it's the last time i'm going to come back. >> i'm out of here. goodbye. >> roll it up. >> yes, ma'am. thank you, goodbye. good luck. >> as soon as i touched down down stairs, i'll call the program, do what i have to do for myself, my family. my son.