due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ >> all inmate deaths in the department of correction are investigates. >> uninmate meets an untimely demise. >> prison isn't what it used to be. the ex-to the extortion game. >> a convicted murderer breaks down the way of prison while a new fresh faced inmate learns

about them. >> this is a man's word, not a child's world. >> within five minutes of arriving at the dormitory, the secret service arrives to interview him about a possible threatening letter to the president. >> an inmate, mails a death threat to the white house and carries out a shocking act. we hand personal cameras to some of the inmates to express intimate feelings in the privacy of their cells. >> put us in cage like animals. >> approximately 135,000 incarcerated in the state of florida, that's staggering. that is staggering.

that is staggering. approximately 65 major institutions in the state of florida, that's major institutions. it's not counting all of the work camps and work releases. and the county jails are overflowing with people right now. there is people waiting to come to prison. every day, the reception center, five day is a week, buses coming in and out from the county jails. >> 30 miles away from pensacola, in the small town of milton on the florida panhandle lies a compound that's never on the itinerary of local tour buses. ♪ but once a week another bus, one nobody willingly arrives, passes through the gates of the santa rosa correctional institution, florida's toughest maximum security prison. >> we get between 40 to 70 inmates a week, by school-sized buses that are secure.

>> get your shirts tucked in. get your i.d.s out. >> we get intakes from all over the state of florida. they can be new inmates coming in through the reception center or inmates coming from other institutions that their level, custody levels change. >> watch your step. bottom step. >> they'll come unthrough our bay. we'll have their property with them. we'll identify them as they come off the bus. then drop their property. and we'll go through their property individually. >> frying >> frying to do this as expediently as possible and making sure there are no weapons or shank that can be used against us or themselves. something as simple as a soup, it has the little metal flavoring. toothpaste. make sure there is nothing. to make a shank out of.

just trying to be thorough. >> hey, come on. you're up. >> every inmate that comes to us from santa rosa gets a haircut. unfortunately, they can't have their own individuality. so we try to make them as vanilla as possible. we take their photo, their i.d., we want a clear look of their face. in case something should ever happen. one would get away from us. you know they would, be able to be readily identified by that photo. >> thank you. >> have a good one. >> paul bennett, a transfer to santa rosa from another state prison is just starting the check-in process. and his search might take longer than most. >> oh, they search. it doesn't bother me though

because i feel safe in knowing that they search. you know, so in case i come in contact with another inmate i am quite sure that person don't have a weapon or, you know? >> why are you in a wheelchair? >> i got shot in north carolina, i was a paraplegic, i know. this helmet, i'm epileptic. you know, which i have grand mal seizures. so, i wear the helmet to protect my head. because the built is still llet my head. >> he is two months away cup pleating his sentence for burglary and grand theft. neither that or the fact he is in a wheelchair will deter officers from scrutinizing him as much as any other inmate. >> you need any help doing that. or can you get it yourself? >> while bennett undergoes a strip search all his possessions including his helmet and

wheelchaireare. thoroughly searched. they discover a book of revelation include more than one revelation. >> i notice he had some pornography he had quite some time. you can tell because he laminated it and stick it inside the book. >> they found some pornography. >> uh-huh. >> that they took out. >> oh those was in the book. i know about those. i know about those. i got them in confinement. i am not in denial. i ain't going to lie. i am too old to lie. yes, ma'am, that's true. that's true, ma'am. they took them out. they didn't, did they throw them away or something. >> i think they take them away. >> yeah, they do that. they confiscate stuff like that. >> to bennett the loss of his pornography seems to be a metaphor for his life. >> i lose pieces of myself.

sometime i see pieces of myself, just, just going away. in prison. and i am wondering, how am i going to get it back? you know it's like -- it's just -- it any just going away. it's like i just scan not get it back. >> while bennett's first day at santa rosa is off to a rough start, staff believe inmate, anthony chrisato is struggling with leaving the prison. >> the inmate doesn't have much time is afraid to go out in the community. he probably does not have any place to go, perhaps, or family. so it is kind of scary. >> chrisato nearing the end of a five year sentence for grand theft auto. housed in the close management unit. high security wing for inmates who have proven unmanageable in general population. recently his behavior has grown more erratic.

>> i cut myself when i get lonely, depressed. and get mad. it releases pain. when i see blood it just give me a -- a good relief. it's like smoking a cigarette. >> cruzado treated for bipolar disorder but not classified as a mentally ill inmate says prison do's not adequately treat people like him. >> people you, know who have a -- a serious mental disorder, you know. it should be -- there should be some where for us. prison shouldn't be the solution. you know. this is not no rehabilitation. this is punishment to me. you know what i'm saying. prison is not supposed to be punishment. it is supposed to be rehabilitation. i didn't learn nothing from prison. sorry to say that. i didn't learn nothing from

prison. all i learned from prison was be more aggressive towards the officer, more disrespectful to law enforcement, that's all i learned. i learned how to curse more. you know what i am saying? i learned how to be angry more. i learned how to [ bleep ] cut myself more. >> during his time at santa rosa. cruzado, engaged in another form of self def strustructive disor. he issued death threats to public officials. >> i told him, [ bleep ] i will get out next year, i am going to kill him. i am going to go to court and kill him. >> why? >> all the pain that i went through. he didn't have to give me no five years. he is not a fair judge. >> cruzado hasn't only threatened his judge. >> inmate cruzado, three months ago within five minutes off rifg, the secret service arrive to interview him about a

possible threatening letter he made to the president. >> i told them that when i get out i will kill him. i told obama that, i wrote obama three letters already. telling obama i will kill him. >> we do monitor the mail, the inmates receive, and send out. though when you think on, the fact that we have got close to 3,000 inmates in our institution it's hard to catch aefevery let that comes and goes. luckily the president has people check the mail for him. they intercepted it. secret service came and spoke with him about it. awe whault d >> what did the secret service ask you? >> are you mr. anthony cruzado. yes, i am mr. anthony cruzado. did you write this letter to the president? yes, i did. i was scared. i denied. i told them i wrote it. i told them i would not kill the president >> were you serious with the threats? >> you think i an going to write him just to write him a letter,

that's it. you know? i know i can be facing more time. but, you know -- they're serious. >> minutes later, cruzado retracted his threat. >> i think i am talking about of anger. talking out my anger. because, you know -- i get out, i don't think i'm going to react on the stuff that i wrote to -- >> ten minutes ago you told me you definitely were going to do it. >> i don't think so. i mean -- i don't think so. >> coming up -- >> you can imagine officers and nursing, seeing that for the first time is pretty bizarre. >> anthony cruzado carries out a horrifying act of vif lense ole himself. >> who threatened the young brother? and i got upset. one thing led to another. and the dude is dead in the woods, stabbed 21 times. >> a convicted murderer breaks

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>> only the strong survive. survival of the fittest. why i work out physically and mentally. i am a survivor. that's the definition. survival to me is much more than simply trying to sustain this life through breathing and thinking. one must fight every day not to be forced by social pressures to live under false pretenses. survival is an act of keeping one's identity alive, not being conformed to what your environment wants you to be. >> i want that wall. i want that ball. >> florida's santa rosa correctional institution is a

maximum security prison housing many of state's most violent inmates. awe call in and cuff up. >> inmates consider aid threat to security are housed in the close management. >> the worst of the worst offenders we have at santa rosa, staff the here do an outstanding job of maintaining that population. >> depending on the severity of their violations close management inmates are allowed a limited number of hours outside their cell per week. >> when they let us out of cell, three, four times a week. i am playing for some stamps. anything works for money. >> at santa rosa, a simple game of spades serve is a purpose. prison issued playing cards are like nothing you find on the street. >> the only card they sell. dead people, homicides. missing people, that's all they sell. it's a cold cases.

we hope that some of the inmates may see the cards and know something about the case where they can help solve the case and put the family at rest. >> you ever see anybody you know in there? >> no. i've did i still wouldn't say, i would say no. >> why is that? >> these are dead people. that's, somebody playing for. unsolved homicide. >> when we gave jesse a personal camera to use in the privacy of his cell, he explained why he wouldn't help solve any of the cold cases even if he could. >> would i want a homicide to be solved? i feel ambivalent to that type of question for the simple fact being incarcerated for some one snitching to a certain extent, i hate snitching, so i wouldn't want a hop simicide solved to b from that aspect. i feel sorry for the family.

but a hate snitches. >> he says prosecutors convicted the wrong men in the murder case that sent hip and his brother to prison. he got 45 years. >> they say that dude threatened my younger brother and i got upset and one thing led to another and dude is dead in the woods, stabbed 21 times. kozlowski says he is not guilty of murder but admits to violence behind bars. he was brought to santa rosa's close management unit after he assaulted an inmate another pris prison. >> my biggest challenge is dealing with inmates as well as officers that run their mouth a lot. it gets me angry.

but i don't like to show my anger the i have been trying to work on it. through meditation and, seeking other things. but it is hard. kind of hard. can't be a sheep among wolves, you know what i'm saying. >> kozlowski decided instead to be a wolf in sheep's clothing especially when it comes to new inmates. >> you get new people in prison, they're kind of scared. so send your home boy, to step down on him. what you do is you intervene. and he is all right. leave him alone. so now he owes you. he feels gratitude towards you. so suddenly you put him in debt to you. so when he gets money, at the can teen window, initially if you do it right you don't ask nothing. >> kozlowski says the inmate will volunteer extortion payments out of appreciation to his new protector. >> i'm going to the window you. need some food. bring me back two honey buns, a

couple soups. >> if you do it right they will feel it but feel more like prisons. prison ain't like it used to be. the extortion game and making them feel tlentd thhreatened. that's out window. they'll snitch on you. you have to use finesse these days. >> when finesse works it is an effective weapon in his arsenal. when it fails, old school violence is the backup plan. >> my hands are up, i'm pretty fast. scars? recently. two months ago. >> still, kozlowski says he would prefer not to resort to violence. for that he has the his celly, tafari cook. >> he know as but a gang. we see eye to eye. >> cook serving six years for armed robbery. >> they labeled me a troublemaker every prison i go to. i get in trouble. they transfer me.

>> what kind of trouble. >> extorting people. charging people rent to live in the dorm. >> what happens if they don't pay? >> it might be a violent situation. >> at your hands? >> at my hand? dpendz. depend. sometimes if i think i can get away with it. mostly -- >> let me see your knuckles. >> oh, i don't got no cuts on my knuckles. >> what do you use? >> oh, i really don't, i really don't fight like that. i, i use weapons. i will put on combination lock on the belt. and i assault them with it. this one dude in particular, he was paying rent. then he didn't want to pay rent anymore. so, i pretended like everything was straight. and i wanted to talk to him. i end up asaassaulting him. he ran out of the room with one of the shoes on. his shirt rip off, his head with

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>> oh, yeah. >> there is a predator/prey relationship among the 2800 inmates serving time in florida's santa rosa correctional institution. predators often extort weaker inmates. a practice very familiar to jesse kozlowski and his cellmate, tafari coke. >> as soon as they come in they get their money receipt, they let us know how much money they got. we will make out a list for half of what they got or depending on what type of person they is we'll take everything. >> since cash is banned in prison, the payout tip uktypica comes as commissary goods which

inmates purchase from debit accounts funded by friend and family. >> my fifth cup of coffee today. >> collin mccaffrey, the type of new inmate that could be the prime target for predatory extortionists. >> whatever they gave you they want something back want you to do favors. you get caught up in it that's how you get into fights. because they expect something from you. yeah, whether it is sexual or not. i have to remind myself every day. this is prison. people are doing a lot of time. mccaffrey is known by other inmates in the housing dorm, jit, short for jitterbug, prison term for a young, naive inmate. >> i come from a good family.

where i went wrong, i can't tell you right now. i am thinging about it now where did i go wrong. shame is all i can think about. i am ashamed. can't show that in here. >> why not? >> they'll eat you alive. >> but mccaffrey has made two friends in the dormitory style housing unit who he feels he can trust. 38-year-old jason piersol and 36-year-old matthew kemp. >> i think he is looking for a father figure and heap is hang with us. >> no, just joking. >> but, no, it's -- it's -- i vibe with them well. they're good people. these are good guys right here. we look out for each other. especially me being one of the youngest people in the compound they look out for me. >> when you see somebody who is 21 in here, what goes through your mind? >> what the hell are they doing?

what are they doing in here? wouldn't want to see one of my kids in here. i have an 18-year-old daughter. i think about stuff look that >> why are you here now? >> an assault charge. >> how many times have you been to prison? >> twice. >> beth times on assault. >> i have been in prison since 18. >> so you know what he is going sflu. >> well it was so long ago for me i don't really remember. i remember being in prison. >> i have come to learn the older people you hang out with, the better. because you don't want to play any games in here. this is a man's world. not a child's world. >> coming up. >> he is kind of scared, afraid -- >> frightened. >> one of collin mccaffrey's protectors, reveals a secret. >> asked me in the dorm what i was here for i would give you a bs story. >> the medical examiner has done the autopsy and all the case under investigation at this point. >> an unexpected death of an inmate. ♪

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i'm telling you, [ bleep ] your heart, man. people not getting letters. people can't call their family. [ bleep ] hard. y'all listening. remember your loved ones, man. >> whoim a lengthy prison sentence can represent a black home that consumes years of life, some inmates insist the experience motivates them. to become better people. >> i want to be a better man. the opportunity, i can be a better criminal. that's not me. i want to be a better man. a better father. i want to be a better son. i want to be a better member of society. >> paul bennett just arrived at santa rosa correctional institution from another florida prison. he did so in a wheelchair and with a bullet still lodged in his head. along with other health problems. >> i have grand mal seizures.

>> just one week later, bennett was found dead in his cell. though there were no signs of foul play, the prison began an investigation. >> all inmate deaths in the florida department of corrections are investigated by our inspector general's office and reviewed by florida department of law enforcement to ensure there is no foul play. the medical examiner currently has done the autopsy. all the case is under investigation this time. so i can't review any more details about inmate bennett at this time. >> as the investigation into bennett's death proceeds, life for santa rosa's other 2,800 inmates continues on. >> well, good morning. still here at lovely santa rosa. main unit. here in -- in milton, florida. this is not exactly the best place in the world to be. so i would advise anyone out

there coming in -- i know i have a lot of regrets. the food here is, horrible. so is the daily schedule. it's pretty boring. i work unlaundry here, five days a week. monday through friday. sewing machine operator. nothing too glamorous about it. >> santa rosa's laundry plant is a sea of blues and whites. sheets and blankets. about 60 loads of laundry gets washed, dried and folded here every workday. the inmates who shoulder the burden, put in eight hours. just like a job in outside. and should one of them every tire of the job, there are plenty of others eager to replace them. >> i get about 70 to 80 work requestize want to work in the laundry a week. of course we are only authorized 1. it is a high low coveted job and position here in santa rosa. they're not getting paid.

they get game time for their pay. they like working here. a good atmosphere the a good environment. we attempt to recycle 100% we have. if a uniform goes bad. we will make belts out of it. we will make whatever is required. >> inmate johnny brewster serving three years for cocaine possession lends his formidable sewing skills to the recycling effort. >> some times i get teased by them, by these guys here. right now, i am making belts from pant leg material. as you see we start off by joining the two pieces. usually i make one large spool across, approximately 2 lly 35 every two to three days. making approximately, 10 to 12 belts a day. i learned to sew approximately 20 years ago from my mother.

she asked me one day if i want to learn to sew. i said boys aren't supposed to sew. girls are supposed to sew. she said don't give me that nonsense and sat me down on the sewing machine and started teaching me everything she pretty much knew. i an doing pretty much what i look to do. it keeps me out of trouble. and i try not to ever take that for granted. after all this is prison. i mean -- >> brewster lives in a dofrmerm. an open population dorm, that gives hum a smaim a small corne prison to call home. >> this area, which is probably smaller than a cell. the fact that bed are so close. back here starts the next bed so. two men have to share this space right here. top bunk. has the the footlocker. bottom bunk has a locker up here against the wall. >> you have a window? >> such a a lovely view too.

i can see the cm dorms out there. as you know, i work in laundry. i see some of the clothing that goes to there. i repair some of the clothing that goes to them. so, i can imagine how they have it back here. i know i definitely would never like to be in cm. >> cm is the close manage mentd uniit where some of the most problematic inmates in the entire state of florida are housed. >> keep it quiet, you understand. no talking. >> among them is anthony cruzado. whose most recent problems involved sending death threats to the president and cutting himself. now he has taken things to a new level. and we warn you, what you are about to hear is graphic and disturbing. >> we heard kicking on the door the i went ahead and i come in the wing. i went to his door and he was standing there and he had blood on him. and i look down and he said, look. i look down and he had his testicle out of his scrotum.

i ordered him to submit to hammer, and he cuffed up. we took him to medical staff. >> staff believe that he peeled off the casing of a battery and used that to cut himself. he was treated at a local hospital. after returning to prison. cruzado underwent three days of psychological evaluation. >> you can imagine, officers, nursing, seeing that for the first time is pretty bizarre. so, naturally people are going to think this guy must be crazy. but with regard to other things that he has done, like writing letters or threatening officials, or whatever, i think this is really just to gain some attention. he really does not have a place to go at, as far as he says. and i think this is one way that he just wants to remain in prison. he has everything he need here. and i think he is scared to go back into the community. >> why dpid you cut your

testicle? -- why did you cut your testicle? >> something that i had to do. >> what's going through your head when you are doing that? >> a lot of things -- my family. just stress. >> what are you stressing abut specifically? is there stug thomething that triggered this? >> me going home. >> that was a first for us when he was in here. first for me too. after seeing stuff after -- after almost 16 years it's like nothing really surprises you anymore. it's like, okay. >> coming up -- so, mr. cruzado, let's talk about how you are doing? >> anthony cruzado discusses his life plan on the outside and his goal of being a private investigator. >> what about the issue of carrying a gun? ving money on ca. he told me the secret to his car setup. first he adjusts...

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life at the santa rosa correctional institution in florida is marked by instances of sheer terror and long spells of sheer monotony. as any one of the inmate kitchen workers can attest to. >> 1,3 of these, twice a day. it gets old. >> 1,402. >> 1,402. >> we are making 2,700 biscuits a day to feed the compound. i use six to 12 biscuits every time i bach them if i am hungry. ♪ >> i actually work in the room. but every day, he calls me up here to work on the line because

he need help. >> kitchen work has proven beneficial for 21-year-old collin mccaffrey serving 15 months. >> i enjoy it. you eat well. it is a job. it makes time go fast. i haven't worked this hard in a long time. it is the longest i ever kept a job, seriously. i got a lot, a lot of good people looking out for me you. think, sometimes they want to put down a young person. it is not even like that they really look out for me and stuff. >> one of those friends is biscuit maker, jason piersol. >> he is kind of scared. >> horribly frightened. >> just joking. >> wendy is my mother. >> piersol, a good guy. one of my good friend that will look out for me. >> i try to talk care of the kid, you know, keep him out of

trouble. help him make some better decision like i have learned to do. he has only got a little bit of time left. he will be out of here in a couple more months. which is good. he ties youis too young. too young. >> while piersol may act as a father figure to mccaffrey, the crime that brought him to prison cost hip his relationship with his own child. he admitted when he first met him he wasn't honest about the crime. >> you asked me in the dorm what i was here for. i gave you a bs story. people were around. haven't taken into my confidence so to speak. >> how many times have you been to prison? >> twice. >> both times on assault. >> my friend and family know my history. and i'm any just not -- you know, i'm done putting up fronts and facades. i lived too many years like that. i'm incarcerated in florida for failure to register an e-mail address by a sex offender. and that stems from a charge

that i had up in new york statutory rape charge where i slept with a teenage girl. there are some people in here that have done some really bad things, to very young children, things like that. i'm not in that category. i'm not a predator if i am labeled as a sex offender. but i don't live my life as a sex offender. i have made some mistakes like everybody else in here. fell in love with somebody and just, you know made some bad choices. >> how old was this young lady and how old were you? >> she was 14. i was 33 at the time. like i said you can't help who you fall in love with and how you feel about people. some people as they say are old souls and things like that. a very intelligent young woman, young lady. >> piersol's freedom wasn't the own thing he lost when the relationship was discovered. >> how did you know this girl? >> a friend of the family.

>> okay. >> yeah. she was my daughter's best friend, actually. >> does your daughter still speak to you? >> not since that day. >> at santa rosa, piersol is hardly alone when it comes to dealing with hardship. inmate anthony cruzado recently found himself at a new emotional low, as well. he startled staff when he use aid battery casing to cut open his scrotum. >> this environment is stressful they resort to these behaviors partly out of revenge or manipulation or complete utter frustration. and that's their way of coping. how are you doing? okay, mr. cruzado. >> the mental health specialist has recently taken on cruzado's case and is counseling him as his release draws near. mr. cruzado let's talk about how you are doing, not how you were

doing since you cut yourself some time back. so how are you doing? >> i been doing all right. >> you feel more stable now? >> yeah. >> i glad to hear that. >> don't know how long it will last. lasting a month and a half now. >> you continue to learn self reliance. that's going to be the trick, the key. he was relatively maladjusted and unstable when i first began to see him. but he has the made a lot of progress. and, progress and credit go to the inmate's willingness to overcome their own anxieties, depressions, insecurities. >> so what are you going to do when you get out? >> i'm studying to become a private investigator. so, when i get off -- this criminal charges and i can get my license, stuff like that. i can get a license for a private investigator. >> have you looked into that yet? >> uh-huh. >> okay. is there anything to prevent you

from doing it? will your -- >> you just can't obtain a license once you come out as a felon. but you get your rights restored you can get your license. >> what about the issue of carrying a gun? >> yeah. you have to be not a felon. >> so is that going to be a problem for a private investigator? >> no. >> because it is my own businessment ibusines business. i'm not working for a firm. >> you can still carry a gun? >> no, no. you can't. >> so you are going to be the kind of investigating that doesn't require. >> a gun.good. >> coming up -- >> i long for liberty, to explode from the burning of cocaine to the point where my lungs are ready to collapse. yet i am still finding myself trying to get, get more money for the cocaine. >> johnny brewster describes life at rock bottom. i tried it and my body felt so right, for a change.

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>> they got people out there that love them. a lot of us start ate young age. we know we did dirt. we know [ bleep ] up. act like civilized human beings. put us in cages like animals. you believe that [ bleep ]. you ain't got to. come live in [ bleep ] and find out. >> jesse kozlow ski has been at santa rosa correctional for the

last two years. both he and his cellmate, tafari coke have admitted to using a combination of finesse and violence to extort other inmates. now the two friends have been separated after coke was heard making a threat. >> they was listening to my phone call. i was telling my cousin why i can't see him because i [ bleep ] nobody else. and they thought it was a future reference when i was talking about the past. >> they were concerned you were actually going to beat somebody up? >> yes, ma'am. >> you guys are pretty close? >> [ bleep ] happened all the time. can't get too attached to people. they come and go. i got a lot of time. >> kozlowski has shifted his focus to a more productive pursuit. he has just gotten a job as a house man in the closed

management unit. >> pass out food. make sure everybody gets food, drinks. pass out laundry. make sure everybody, behind the door get what they need. >> certain other jobs such as those in the sewing room are only given to the most trust worthy inmates. but even they are carefully monitored. >> our scissors and seam rippers are a required tool. checked out daily in the morning. each individual signs out on a log and uses it in the daily job. everything is signed out. we ensure it is back in. that goes for the little needles too. we have inventory on the little needles. all needles kaccounted for. until everything is accounted for, nobody goes home. >> tape right over the edge here. this is going to be the, the fly panel is what this is going to be. inmate johnny brewster is one of the sewing rooms most

experienced. these days he needs a little extra help to lay down a straight stitch. >> i have to ask you where did you get those glasses. the glass do's not look like the prison issue. >> well they are not. these glasses are a favor from because in fact i have trouble seeing to be able to eye the needlen't i leave them here. i cannot take them to the dorm. they're for use here the i have to turn them into the office before i go back into the dorm. >> have trouble seeing. have to do small stuff like tlegd and a threading all that. i loan them or let them sign out these with me. you got to see to sew. >> brewster's real problems run deeper than just poor eyesight and hatch written the history of his life up to and including his stay in santa rosa. >> i seem not to be able to got a grip on my addiction.

i have been allowing the addiction to basically beat me all this time. i need to stop this pattern. it has been going on for way too long. >> brewster has had a decade's long addiction to crack cocaine. >> i feel that i hit rock bottom about four years ago. it was pretty cold. and i found myself around 2:00 in the morning running around trying to panhandle. there wasn't too many people out because it was into cold. and my feet were hurting really bad, walking so much. i would walk some times, two, three days at a time. my feet are on fire. my knees are hurting. my back is hurting. my lungs are literally about to explode from the burning of the crack cocaine that is in my lungs to the point where my lung is almost ready to collapse. and i am still, find myself trying to, to get a, get more

money for, for the cocaine. it's rock bottom right there. that's about as low as i think i could go. >> for you. before you. break into a house. before you steal something. whatever the case may be. drugs, trafficking. whatever the case may be. this could wind up being your view. you could be staring out of your cell, out your window. this could be what you see. if you decide to come to prison. i wouldn't recommend it. i wouldn't recommend it.