due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. america's prisons, dangerous, often deadly. there are 2 million people doing time. every day is a battle to survive and to maintain order. >> down on your feet. down. >> among the nation's most notorious institutions, san quentin state prison. our cameras spent months documenting life on the inside. where gangs, drugs and sheer boredom make up a violent mix. this is "lockup san quentin: extended stay."

>> probably next to an inmate's release date, visits are the most important things in their lives. keeping in touch with their loved ones. >> i don't like coming here but i have to so i can see him. >> for some, visits are rare moments of intimacy. and for others, a business transaction. >> a lot of drugs come in through the visiting room. a lot of drugs. >> you don't want to be here, man. the hustler -- with the money in one hand. it came out the other.

>> make sure someone else does it, it will be different. >> i know. i know. >> everybody hates prison. society hates prison. it's part of life. i've got to accept the things i put myself in. i can't try to be rebellious and hate the people that lock these doors on me every day. that's part of their job. they're making money. i have to respect that. yeah, i hate prison. i hate the cards i was dealt but i dealt them myself. i got to accept it. that's going to make it easier on me to do time. that's my only downfall is drugs. if i stay out of drugs, i won't be here. >> due to frequent relapses, george, now 36, has been in and out of prison since the age of 17.

>> they know when i start getting high, they know i'm gone. my mom knows. you have to go. i know, mom, i'll be gone. that means i go on the run. once you're so far into an addiction or using drugs, you can't stop. the only way you can stop is doing time, getting locked up, getting taken away from it. if you have a pocket full of dope, you're in the fast lane, the only way to stop is to get into a wreck. you have to condition your mined to go without those things. if you like drinking coffee, you have to learn to do without. if you try to get something you ain't got, you're just making your life frustrating. in here, you have to learn to do without a lot of things. >> for more than 600 days, george has shared the 6 x 10 cell. >> i'm not even chewing this soup. i'm hungry. >> to escape the constraints of prison, george seeks comfort in photos of life on the outside. >> before i went on the run, this was the real george. this is the person i like to be. someone that's real, someone that cares about other people. someone that tries to make a difference in my neighborhood. i don't want to see my nephews getting drunk, getting high, running around the neighborhood, getting involved in gang violence. i'm proud of my nephew. he just graduated high school. this is the person i went and picked up and took him in a

stolen car to give him an example of the criminal activity i was doing. i talked to him about my downfalls in life. i told him i didn't want him to be a part of that. i told him to graduate high school, possibly get into the military, get a job, stay grounded. you know, do good in life, which he's doing. it's something i wanted to do and i didn't do. i wanted to graduate high school. i didn't, you know. to this day, sometimes i lie and say i'm a graduate and i'm not. he's breaking some of the barriers that put me behind these walls. by him graduating, he's the only boy in my family that's graduated high school. that's a good thing. >> jason burton constantly deals

with the destructive nature of drug addiction which affects nearly 80% of the prison population. >> i come in here and see all the addicts and seeing all -- how screwed up lives get because of the drugs makes me ashamed to even say that i was a drug dealer. really. i was trying to raise money for my latest movie. >> what does it take to make art? >> i made some bad choices. this was going to be my biggest project ever. this was going to be the movie. the full-length feature, 90 minutes. i wanted to shoot on super 16 instead of digital. film cost a little more money so i had to kind of push it. i pushed the envelope.

you know, i got a little wrapped up in the money too, you know. when the money started coming, my original purpose got sidetracked a little bit. i was selling drugs. i had like about 58 eight balls, which is about $6,000, $7,000, maybe. i wasn't used to having large amounts of money. you know, that quick. i couldn't -- i mean, i couldn't stop. and then all of a sudden, my whole life crumbled. and i lost the school i was going to. lost -- i lost a lot because of it. because of those choices. i got four years. my first time in prison. last time in prison. >> jason is luckier than most. with the conjugal visit with his wife soon approaching and the release date a mere two weeks away. >> you won't get a chance like this again. we have a dog program. we care for dogs. a bike program here. i'm always reminded of where i

could be. every month and a half i'll get a visit. my wife comes to see me. that really shows like the character in someone. when you're put through those low points. you always have people there when you're up. when you're really down, you know, to the curb, is when, you know, your true friends and your true family kind of shine through. and she was one of those that stuck with me. next on "lockup: extended stay." jason and his wife are reunited one last time behind bars. and some visitors who come to san quentin find themselves staying much longer than originally planned. >> this is tar heroin. this was found in the possession of a visitor. a second inmate had actually coerced this inmate and his female visitor into doing this by threat of death. copd makes it hard to breathe,

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everything's related to drugs. one way or another, it has to deal with drugs. that's the downfall. >> drugs have always played a big huge factor in prisons. that will never change. >> next 10:30 appointment, please. how are you, dear? >> hanging in there. >> all right. it's nonstop from 7:30 to 2:00. we're processing family members, friends into the institution to see incarcerated inmates. interaction with the family and friends is vital to their

release. good morning, dear. i respect them for what they -- what they're doing. not just giving up on -- on the guy, you know. saying, you know what, he's made his bed, he's going to lay in it. i'm moving on to somebody else. because what can he do for me while he's locked up? nothing. so it's all on her. so you got to respect these women for going through what they do. >> despite elaborate security measures, visitors continue to find ingenious ways to smuggle a variety of contraband into the prison system. >> we have found contraband such as black tar, cocaine, marijuana, tobacco, alcohol. these women can hide that stuff where you will not see it. and a metal detector will not pick it up. it's prison and these guys are pros at doing this stuff to get it in.

they want it and a lot of it comes through the visiting rooms, unfortunately. where they have contact with people from the outside who have access to that. >> i was working h unit visiting which is a dormitory setting, contact visit. there was an inmate in there that tried to smuggle in some cocaine. he had it in two balloons. what he did is his visitor brought it in. he had to use the restroom. he went to the restroom. he pushed it up inside his rectum. as i was doing his search, i stripped him down, i had him bend at the waist and spread his cheeks. at that time, i seen an item that was yellow. i addressed the inmate, do you have anything hidden up inside you? no. i'm going to ask you one more time. do you? no. at that time, i have already seen what i seen. i cannot force him to take it out. so what i did is i have him get dressed back up, i taped his pants with duct tape, cuffed him

up. the reason i taped his pants with duct tape it is so if he pushed it out and dropped it in the holding cage, it would still be in his pants. so he was brought from that strip, he was put in a holding cell and put on potty watch, where a day later, the balloons came out. they were found. >> if caught smuggling drugs, a visitor could end up doing time in a prison, much like the one they're visiting. many smugglers are actually victims. acting out of fear in response to threats from prison gangs. >> they will prey on a weak individual and force that individual to have their visitor bring in drugs because they're not suspected. but they're told that your visitor is going to be visited by somebody, they're going to give them something, and they have to bring it in. and they won't tell the inmate that they'll do something to him, they'll tell them, we'll do something to your loved one. >> this is tar heroin.

this was found in the possession of a visitor. she was bringing it in to her fiance. she had this wrapped up in the plastic packaging here and then that was wrapped in a balloon or two and had it concealed in her vagina before -- obviously before she came into the processing area. either a balloon or a condom is the usual way of packaging it. >> what they'll do, once they clear here and get to the visiting room, they'll go straight to the bathroom. they'll pull this stuff out. they'll hide it on their clothing somewhere. then they'll go over to the vending machine. they may buy popcorn or m & ms. open up the m & ms and stick that balloon in there. or they'll stick it inside the popcorn. as the inmate is having his visit he's enjoying his food, he's eating it. he swallows it. he goes back to his unit. he drinks a little bit of shampoo. vomits. throws it back up. >> a second inmate had actually coerced this inmate and his female visitor into doing this by threat of death.

this guy, this inmate, was kind of a fringe gang member and was using his connections to get this guy who was getting regular visits from his girlfriend to bring drugs in, or that was it for him. so she was regularly bringing it in. she was actually -- she had a good job. never -- no criminal record at all. and, you know, had fallen in love with this inmate. well, i mean, before he came to prison. you know, he came to prison, got himself into some trouble. next thing you know she's running heroin in for him. ♪ i'm gonna tell you something i'm the one that caught your eye ♪ snows struggles with my body and my soul ♪ >> most visitors are community people who have loved ones in prison.

>> you know, you have a few that will come in here and try to undermine the system. but most of them are -- are just -- just like you and i. just ordinary folks. >> no matter how much contraband is stopped at the gates, plenty is making it through to inmates who will stop at nothing to get their fix. >> isu came in here about a week and a half ago, we did a heroin bust and marijuana, found 11.61 grams of heroin. i'm used to like 2 or 3. so this was a big bust. plus he had some marijuana. and somehow he had a cell phone. these guys are slick. it's a never-ending problem. and these guys are addicted to heroin, et cetera. it will always be a problem. >> there is no real rehabilitation going on in this place. you just got to come in and get out. whatever happens in between is really on yourself. coming up on "lockup: extended stay." see how some inmates find opportunities for intimacy in prison. >> if i didn't have these visits here with you, rachel, if i didn't have these visits, i don't know if our whole marriage would have lasted this long. >> it wouldn't, huh?

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how are you, dear? all right. the conjugal visit's where the immediate family -- wife, mother, father, children -- can come and spend basically 48 hours here at the institution. we have a condominium available to these inmates. they have to be main line inmates with a release date. >> it's like a little apartment room. they got like a stove. refrigerator. all that stuff. so your loved ones get to bring your food and it just gets -- you get to be with your loved one. >> i can't even explain to you how great it is. i look forward to it. he looks forward to it. put in a request just the second

we leave this visit, he'll put in for the next one so we make sure we get every one. it's just something to look forward to. it's the only time that we can have or that we've had together alone, you know, in years. so it's just -- it's incredible. >> while conjugal visits offer freedom to the inmates, to officers they can often be a chance to smuggle contraband into the prison. >> follow the process. there's a lot of rules and regulations and things that you have to follow. i know what to expect. i'm going to do what i have to do to come see him. if that means having to do all these crazy things, it's worth it, just to be able to see him. you get used to it. >> i'm looking for contraband. anything that's not authorized. drugs. i need to make sure that

everything is approved. everything has to be vendor sealed and it has to have recognizable labels on here. this is allowed. no cans are allowed. they are allowed to bring in a plastic container and i've got to transfer this in. it has to be brand new. because then we know it hasn't been tampered with. if it's open, it could be anything in here. this could be alcohol or something flammable. so it has to be brand new. it is very expensive but they're willing to do that to see their loved ones. >> to be able to sleep next to your spouse is just -- oh, it's the greatest. just being able to put your arm over her, you know, talk, watch tv together. just being together for those -- it's not even really two days. it's just under. but man. it's just -- you forget for a second where you're at. >> gets lonely. you know.

you don't have -- i can't just pick up the phone and call him and tell him, you know, about my day. or if, you know, i need to talk to someone. it's -- it's really hard. but it's almost over. hopefully we'll never have to do this again. and i wouldn't wish this on anybody in the world to have to go through this. it's really hard. >> i got married in here. which was -- which was like -- we were seeing each other outside. but we weren't planning on getting married at the time. you know. i was down a couple of years before we decided to get married.

but she was -- she's a trouper, and she stuck with me. >> so when is he paroling? >> 16 days. >> i know you're happy. >> i'm so happy. i never thought this day would come. oh, my god. >> so does he have plans or going to school or job lined up? >> he's going to work. they have a family business. a laundry. he's going to go there. going to kind of get settled. he's going to go to school after he's working for a little bit and gets set up with his parole and whatnot. >> he has a master plan. he'll do well. >> he'll do well. he has a good family and a lot of support. >> once you leave an environment like this you really do need good support. so that's great. so what are you going to do not seeing me? >> no offense, but i would love

not seeing you. i don't want to see this place ever again. >> yes! >> sorry. >> hi, virgil. >> what's up, ms. brooks? man, i've been sweating in there so bad. okay. >> here's your wife. >> it means everything to us. i'm just happy that this will be the last one. and he gets to come home and i get to have this every day. like it used to be. >> if i didn't have these visits here with you, rachel, if i didn't have these visits, i

don't know if our whole marriage would have lasted this long. >> it wouldn't, huh? >> i don't think so. just these two days -- >> something to look forward to. >> something to look forward to. something to break up -- >> to hold each other. to be able to catch up and talk about everything that we can't talk about on a 15-minute phone call. >> 15-minute phone call, you got the guy interrupting. >> 120 seconds. you have 60 seconds. >> your call is being recorded. it's like, all right, that's the third guy in the conversation, okay. >> to catch up. to just be like how we were when we're together, when we're here it's like we were never apart. >> babe, to a beautiful two-day vacation. >> and 16 days left until you come home. >> that's right. >> cheers to that. >> cheers. >> i love you. >> i love you, too. next on "lockup: extended stay." a relationship tormented by drugs struggles to survive

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>> i'll tell you what it's all about. it's who controls the cell. that's why i started my own country. my name's father flanigan is the god squad. flaniganistan, this stands for freedom, liberty and national intelligence. here we go. >> angel rodriguez has little human contact and spends his time expressing his inner anguish through art.

>> she represents the queen and i represent the king. it's the bible stuff, god says you're going to be kings and queens in the new system of things. in my letters i tell her she's my queen and she tells me i'm her king. that represents that. i mean, my girl. you know what i mean? it's something i pray for. that's what the prayers are for. and it goes with is scripture. psalms 37:4, if you find your delight in god he'll give you the desires of the heart. and that's what she is. she's one of my desires. and being that i'm in here, my hope's based upon all that. if i didn't have that hope things would be tore up. that's what the drawing represents, my hope. >> it's not easy being in love with a prisoner. you know, i think because i'm a strong woman, i'm a strong person, that's what, you know, makes me deal with all this drama. love will make you do the most stupidest things. but it's worth it.

if that person loves you back, it's worth it. i think he's worth it. >> i'm into drugs, i'm in the fast lane. yvonne's not. i mean, she's got a big heart. she let the home boys who didn't have a place come to her house. that's how i met her. >> before me and him hooked up together he was telling me about his life. he had a drug problem before. he never wanted to go back to it, you know. i'm like, okay, i can deal with that, you know. then he started hanging out with the wrong crew, with the wrong people. and that's what, i guess he started getting tempted. and that's how it started. >> good, good. >> where's the little man today? >> he's at his aunt's house. >> good for him. >> yes. >> anything in your pockets? >> just my key. >> just your key? all right. you enjoy your visit. have a good day. >> i will. >> noncontact visits are usually inmates that are just arrived or inmates that are on disciplinary housing units for various reasons, whether it be gang related or they're under

protective custody. these inmates are required to be behind glass. and they -- basically they're speaking over intercom speakers. >> i don't like being here. it's like -- ugh. i don't like being here. but i have no choice. i have to be here because my man's here, my baby's here. >> i tried everything. i tried heroin first time in prison. first time i ever tried that was in prison because everybody else was. started doing coke. ecstasy. i stopped doing that because the aids thing came out. that scared me right there. i backed up on that. plus being in prison, it's a little life saver when you're in the fast lane because you get these breaks from being out there. it brings your mind back and you can focus a little bit and reflect on what you're doing out there. when you get out you change a little bit, you know what i mean? you struggle to change a little bit. but it's hard. >> you know, he doesn't mean to go back. he just -- things happen sometimes in life. he's been in prison since he was 17, juvenile hall.

it's hard for him. it's hard for these men to go back in and out. that's all that they know. but he did pretty good. the five years we've been together, he's only went back twice. so that's not that bad. you know? >> in this relationship, she don't want no drugs because her old man was on drugs and he was cheateding on her and all that, she said. she says just don't cheat and no drugs. she wanted god and relationship. i agreed upon that. i didn't keep my word to her. i broke my part. i was only with her five days and i got put in violation in prison. and i didn't hear from her because the mail's slow here. a month slow. when i finally did hear from her, she told me she was pregnant. so i feel that helped me keep her in my life, you know what i mean? so she stuck with me. >> despite their rocky beginnings, angel and yvonne seem capable of overlooking all obstacles. >> i guess i tried to commit a domestic violence but i didn't. >> doesn't make sense to me. either he hit the person or he

didn't. >> to me it's like i'm on my way to the store, i'm going to the store. then i change my mind. i have money in my pocket. i grab the door handle, i'm not going to the store. that's an attempted going to the store. that's the only way i can explain. i didn't do nothing. i argued with her. >> we're arguing about his ex-girlfriend who has a daughter from him. i had heard rumors he was messing around on me. so i was really hurt, upset. i would never think he would do that. come to find it was a lie. then we started arguing in the streets. he was on drugs really bad. he was on meth. and that stuff really makes you go cuckoo and wacko. >> she got me pissed off so i turned around and told her, "i did sleep with this girl. she does this better than you, she does that better than you." i don't want you no more. she screamed, pulled herself by her hair and took off running. so i leave my son in the stroller on the sidewalk and i take after yvonne. i run after her, i catch her in front of the parole office. i'm trying to go, babe, i'm sorry, i didn't mean that. >> i pushed him. he sort of grabbed me and told me he's sorry, that that was a lie. he was just trying to convince me.

>> i'm looking at the parole office. i'm like, this close. i'm looking in the windows, "baby, you're going to get me in trouble, you know what i mean? police are going to come." i've got dope in my pocket. i've got a warrant. right? i'm high as hell. right? i'm trying to calm her down. >> i guess because we were arguing hard, attacking each other verbally. and the cops came. >> so i just backed -- started backing up. yvonne's standing over there. "come on, let's get out of here." i walked because i left my son up the street. i went and grabbed my son and i took off. i left yvonne there. the police were coming. i was going to hide my drugs. know what i mean? take my son out of the area. i took off. police started coming around. i left my son with some youngsters behind a fence. that's the house i was going to. which they ended up leaving him there, too. i got charged with that too. a misdemeanor. child endangerment. because i left my son in the stroller, right? >> they looked at his record and his background, looked at his i.d., they said, oh, no, you're coming with us.

so they looked at him that he was some monster because of his background. and then when i got home, i lay and i looked at my little angel, oh my god, his daddy's gone, you know. >> with a successful appeal to his case unlikely, angel and his girlfriend must suffer his ten-year sentence together. >> what keeps me close to him is by me visiting him, keep him company by writing to him, visiting him. i have no problem with that. i can do -- i won't ever get tired of it. >> if she stays with me, seven years is a long time. plus she probably blames herself too, you know. more than she's willing to admit to me. i'm older and my desire now is to change. when i was younger i didn't care. i had my son. i had my family. i got a woman who loves me and i got my boy. i got my daughters i got to try to get back, too. all these things, my head's clear, i'm focusing on them. you know what i mean? and i'm blessed. i really am. i just overlooked all that. coming up on "lockup:

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take it home! >> attention, donnor cos! >> [ bleep ]. >> that was our greeting. >> to battle overcrowding, officer cavagnolo's donnor unit houses inmates meant to be segregated from the general population within feet of main line inmates. >> we have in this unit 2 1/2 tiers of administrative segregation and the bottom half is a reception center. makes it really difficult for us. because inmates from the bottom half of the unit, they have access to a lot of the different parts of the institution. then our challenge we have in administrative segregation is the inmates make fish lines, tie a weight to it and they'll pass

kites or they pass weapon stock or razor blades from these units down below. so it's a constant battle with just controlling contraband and keep an eye on these inmates, keep them in order. you never know what you're going to get in here. you have to be prepared. just last week we had an inmate slashed from the second tier reception center and we just came off of lockdown from that. yesterday we had an inmate cut his wrists coming off the fifth tier. like i said we're five tiers high and we do not have suicide bars in here. one of the inmates came out in handcuffs and we're in an altercation and fighting for our lives up there. there's no recovery from a fifth tier drop. that's always in the back of your mind. it is a little creepy when you're walking up there. you've got to make sure you have a good partner with you and keep your hands on the escort and just be ready for anything in this unit. >> escort four one! >> since drugs inevitably surface within the prison, surprise cell searches are cos only chance to curb their movement. >> most of the time, if they sense there's going to be a cell search, the first thing they're going to do is flush any contraband they have. i'll get them in handcuffs. escort them down to the holding cage. strip them out in a well-lighted

area. then from there i'll conduct my body search up there and come back up and do my cell search. that's all we did right there. no way to flush contraband down there. if i get them in cuffs, i got them. right now we're going to conduct a cell search. you get low, i'll get the top. >> we have to conduct three cell searches per day. and before it was three per tier. now they want three per officer. so you got three officers, that's nine searches a day. we have to do it to control the contraband. if you're hitting nine cells a day really good you're going to cut down on the contraband. especially when we find razor blades. that's a weapon now. it could be in the form of a full shaving razor. it's administrative segregation. we know it came from downstairs. they fished it up here. could easily be broken down, that's a weapon. right here is a fish line. so he's using this to -- they

use this as a weight. and they'll send this off the tier to the lower tiers most likely where they're allowed to have razor blades, stuff like that. the inmate will attach a razor blade to this and fish it in. they've got a lot of line right here. they'll go down the tier, they'll go up, they'll go down, they'll go side to side. and this is how they pass contraband right here. we'll definitely take this. they know exactly how some of us do our jobs. so if they're going to sit there and they're going to be loud in their cells or be disrespectful, i'll walk down the tier, i may pay a visit to their cell, do a cell inspection, maybe find some contraband. they know when i go in, i'm not leaving until i find something. a lot of times they tear up the side of the mattress, try to hide stuff in there, think we won't get dirty and go in there. >> these cell searches yield contraband and vital gang-related information. >> what we found here, this is a little basic kite, doesn't have anything incriminating on it. it has an aka, danny boy, 44. when we go back we can take that

114 file, aka danny boy. they come up with any type of hit list or anything, or any type of gang activity with that name, we'll know exactly who it is. i've had lieutenants come in here and ask me certain nicknames, do i know who it is? i keep a notepad on me. i can flip it open. i look up danny boy. write his cc number down, his actual name. and where he was last housed at. he's not housed there anymore which he won't be in donner section after 21 days pass, they can actually go through control look up his cc number and find his proper housing. we do that all the time. just something small like this is vital for us. that's a kite right here. everything written on this side. but right there is danny boy. 4 donner 44. what's your stance on that? you affiliated? >> well, yeah. >> you are affiliated? >> yeah. >> who are you affiliated with? >> well, be honest with you, just about any white dude in here that will stand with me. >> okay, all right. when you go in your cell you're going to see some paperwork moved around, went through everything.

we found those kites. it wasn't a matter of disrespect or anything, we had to do what we had to do in your cell. when you get in, there just understand that. and that's it. like i said we're going to take copies of those kites, send them to the squad, make copies of addresses and get your addresses right back to you. >> okay. >> all right? okay, turn around. back out. doing these cell searches and we're coming up with a lot of contraband, a lot of information that they don't want us to have. we're heading them off. we don't ever know if our lives are in jeopardy until we find our name on a piece of paper and we get that information. we just keep plugging away and hope for the best. it's hit or miss up here. you might do ten searches and not find anything. then you might do a string of ten searches and find something in eight of the cells. so it just comes and goes. next on "lockup: extended stay." jason is scheduled for parole. but that doesn't mean he's free to go. >> before you guys go, you go, we're going to search you, right? if there's anything hot you're not going to go, we're going to

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any inmate coming or going in the prison system comes through here first. on their way in they come from either county jails, or our own cdc buses from other prisons. they are processed here, inventory their property, search them, get them started on their way in prison time. when they're done with prison time, same thing on the way out. we search them, process the paperwork, make sure it's correct, out the door. that's all we do.

couple hundred a day. 100, 200 a day. before you guys go, when you go we're going to search you, right? if you have any letters for home boy, any [ bleep ] you're taking out, we're going to take it. okay? if it's your [ bleep ], okay. but if it's somebody else's, we're taking it from you. if this thing's hot you're not going to go, we're going to keep you here and write it up. if they have contraband, if it's serious contraband they won't make it out the door. they'll be violating before they leave and they'll stay in prison. i gave them a heads up that i'll search them so they'll get rid of all that crap. they try to mail letters home to their home boy. the mail here when they leave, everybody reads it. no top secret stuff. so they can't sneak it out, we think, and destroy it. what's up? >> i'll take your towel, man. no souvenirs. all right? i'll give you your state i.d. as a souvenir and your cdc number, how about that? will you be all right out there? when am i going to see you again? >> never. >> never? we've never had this

conversation before. right? >> yeah. >> from i know of these guys, i know they'll all come back. they'll all be back. lift your shirt up. they'll all come back here. a lot of them will. see you in a month. >> i need your full name, first and last name. >> jason charles. >> number? >> d-5728. >> the firefighter guy? i seen him around. yeah. he's 50/50, you know. he's got low level experience. out there at the firehouse is a really easy time. so, you know, it wasn't hard for him to come here. unless he really misses his family or something like that. good chance he won't come back. >> this is all your property, right? >> yes. >> anything in here you're not supposed to have i'll take from you. he's on parole. he's not a normal citizen. he's got a lot of rules and regulations he has to follow that we don't have to. he can come back pretty easy. so we'll see. you done this before, right?

>> no. your first time for a "v" number? how many years you doing that? four years? all right. do what your patrol agent says. check in the first day you can or you'll come right back. all right? just hang out right over there a minute. we'll do everybody else. >> i'm anxious. i'm excited. >> get in the van, guys. get in the van. no waving. get in the van and go home. >> no waving? >> you can wave at me when you come back. >> jason hopes to beat the odds and not be among the more than half of all inmates in california who return to prison after being released. which would make this his first and last visit to san quentin state prison. >> yeah! whoo!

>> the biggest punishment of this whole ordeal has been putting what i put my family through in this whole thing. just really -- having to sleep with that was -- the bars are one thing. but messing with them -- messing with my family so upset all the time. that's just been hell, torture. >> okay. put his stuff in the car. >> okay, i got some clothes, too. >> oh, man. >> come home, jason. >> okay, walk in the doors. >> welcome home. >> oh, my. this is so weird right now. >> is it weird? >> oh, wow. >> it's home. it's the same.

>> look at that. sliding door. you just open it whenever you want and go in there. wow. just -- it's beautiful. it's -- it's ten times more beautiful than what i remembered it being. oh, it feels so good to be here right now. it's going to take some time to get used to. there's so much like colors right now. i mean, just everything's so nice and it's clean. it's almost like i've been seeing it in black and white the last four years, you know. maybe just the color. everything is so -- so fresh. and like seems -- seems so -- seems so beautiful here. i love it. i got priorities right now. number one, parole officer. i need to meet him. have everything laid out to me. know what i can and can't do. pee for him.

then i'll let my shoulders down a little bit. relax. and next is job. right away. i even want to start today. but probably -- i don't know, maybe i'll ease in a little bit. that's what i -- i got to do it like right now. i got to go to the parole officer. i have like a countdown right now. there's traffic. there's all these other obstacles. i just can't take a chance. i want to get that done. because i have a small window of time to do that before they write the warrant out for my arrest. i got the greatest family and i can't wait to spend the rest of my life with them. and never be taken away from them again. and not do anything to put me in that situation where they'd have to take me. so, i mean, i got to -- you know, i got -- i know i can do it. now i just got to put my words into action. you know, make it happen. >> yeah! >> yeah, we know you can do it.