that is this t. for this edition of "caught on camera." ♪ a horrific slashing. >> i didn't even see the razor in his hand he did is so fast. >> married 21 years almost. twin boys. >> a case of road rage results in a murder charge for a software engineer. >> life was good. >> now, after two years in jail the jury will decide if he must

go to prison for life. >> 57% of my body was burned. >> cooking a designer drug leads to tragic results for a young woman. >> a spark lit and it blew up the apartment and we were all inside. >> reminded me of some robots going around and picking things up. >> the jail's robotic workforce. >> a lot of inmates personally ask us are they a coffin. alameda county is a largely aflew went area east of san francisco. its largest city is oakland. though it has many good neighborhoods it was ranked by forbes magazine as america's

third most dangerous city due to crime. 30 miles outside the city is the enormous santa rita jail. it is where anyone arrested and charged with a serious offense might very well find themselves on an extended stay. the majority of the 3,000 men and women incarcerated here are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. some are convicted and serving short sentences or awaiting transfer to state prison such as the case for phillip wheat. once an aspiring rapper who was recently convicted of murder. >> look around me. how did i go from five star hotels, room service to an 8 by 10 cell. people's bathrooms at home is bigger than where i'm living. >> i don't want. ♪ i don't want to die like this ♪ ♪ i don't want to cry like

this ♪ ♪ tell me why i am like this >> after serving a six year prison sentence in indiana for drug dealing white moved to indiana for a fresh start and made inroads in the rap scene. >> ♪ wish i was in school again with no books and backpacks ♪ >> but you his dreams of star dom ended after he fatally stabbed his 44-year-old girlfriend 12 times. ♪ show on a big screen ♪ now, i'm looked in a cell ♪ how can the lord forget me ♪ don't cry >> he was living with his girl trend and her four children. on the night of the murder he and his girlfriend were at a rap show where white was performing. >> crowd was loving me and females was loving me and i'm chit chatting and the person i was involved with left and left me at the club. when i returned home that night my stuff was packed.

one thing led to another arguments and accusations about who i was with at the club and she was in a rage. >> according to news reports the victim's children heard their mother yelling for white to get out of her bedroom. they discovered her body in bed the next morning. white did not share details of what happened, he says he acted in self-defense. >> it was my life or the next person's life and once i realized what happened it was too late. >> but the jury disagreed. he now awaits transfer to california's know torous san quentin state prison. just 40 miles west of santa rita. until he leaves he will be in the jail's most restrictive high security housing unit for an alleged act of violence that occurred two months earlier. this time the victim was another inmate robert haines. >> cut my face. i couldn't believe it.

>> just upset, man. surprised, man. >> charged with pimping, pandering and human trafficking to which he has plead not guilty he says he haded a friendly relationship with white. >> he was cool enough. i didn't really have no problem with him until that day. until the day he lost a bet. >> according to haines, white lost the a bet with him over a football game. the wager was two one dollar containers of instant noodle soup from the jail commissary. >> he didn't want to give it up and when did he was tripping. i started mouthing him back and next thing you know he come holler at me in the cell. >> he says when stepped inside the cell white lunged at them. >> sliced me in my face. crazy. i didn't even see the cell in his hand, did is so fast.

guess he know how to use these. >> deppy bounds says it was most likely extracted from the plastic razor inmates use for shaving. >> usually they toss a down the toilet. >> haines was rushed to a local hospital for treatment. >> he doesn't remember how much stitches he received but was relieved to have healed as well as he has. >> stitched me up real good and i heal like wolverine. >> white denies any involvement in the slashing. >> i seen blood on the ground and the deputies saying go to your cell, you know, dude walking out the pod but other than that, you know, i'm in jail, i don't see nothing. >> everything point points to p white committing the assault. >> deputy bounds says haines and several other inmates

identify white. >> the district attorney ended up dropping the charges not because they felt that he was innocent of the crime but he was already here facing a murder charge. it doesn't make sense to file another charge on the guy which is just going to keep him in county jail for a longer period of time and use up more taxpayer money. when you always have a conviction on the guy. >> safety first. >> a lifer. >> ain't got nothing to lose. if i would have known that i wouldn't have never stepped in the cell. i didn't even know that, though. >> coming up. >> i used to be charging 500 or 700 for 20 songs. >> another inmate risks doing business with phillip white. >> i just said quit driving like a blankety blank and he cut me an angry exchange for drivers results in death tore one and a possible life sentence for the other. [ dad ] in that driveway

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unlike most large urban jails located in the heart of downtown, santa rita is nestled among foothills some 30 miles away from the tough oakland streets where most of its inmates were take noon custody. mornings here often begin shrouded in pacific coast fog and then something else that makes the place unique slowly breaks through injuries the jail's robotic workforce. >> a lot of inmates will look at them and the first thing they ask is are they a coffin. >> when i first saw that, it actually scared me. i thought they was shipping bodies out of here and he thought i was going to get killed up in here or something. >> i don't know what it was injuries i thought it was something for the inmates to mess with. >> reminded me of star wars like robots going around picking things up. >> most people call them robots.

but technically they are automatically guided vehicles or agv. >> they deliver food and supplies and clothing and linens to the housing units. a half mile fence to fence so it would take a lot of inmate labor and deputies to supervise the inmates to transport the items to out knit to the robots do it for us. they are the only facility that i know that actually has this kind of system. it runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. >> the agvs utilize a wire guided navigation system built into two miles of track running between all of the jailhousing units and service areas. a series of sensors and infrared signals guides them to presize locations where carts are awaiting transfer to and from the units. once in position beneath the guards the agv gently lifts it off the ground and takes it

away. they are powered by nickel mad me yum batteries. >> they get a charge and go out for one service around the jail and then return to the battery area for a quick charge, usually about three minutes and it is ready to go. we deliver about 12,000 meals a day. a custom design designed specifically for the sheriff's department and they are designed in this shape so they food underneath the food carts. >> this is how the meals are brought to us. >> some inmates even foresee a day when robots might just replace other common fixtures at the jail. >> pretty soon they will have robots popping us out for pod time. no mortemties, just straight robots. >> and that will help fix the budget. >> deputy, see your job going the way of a robot? >> i don't think so. >> the silly son valley only 40 miles to the southwest not everyone in santa rita is awed by the agvs. >> i wouldn't classify them as robots. i would classify them as

pushers. they push carts from point a to point b. not a big deal. it is not gps technology. kind of robby the robot. i'm from a tech industry so i have seen google earth gps driven vans drive around with no drives in them. kind of a no comparison. >> before his arrest, cort holbrook worked as a software engineer and couldn't imagine spending two years in santa rita much less two years in prison. >> married 21 years almost. twin boys. life was good.

that all changed one afternoon two years earlier when holbrook was driving to the oakland suburb where he lives. >> i was going to pick up this pair of glasses at my optometrist in the middle of town and that evening had a nice dinner with the boys. it was their birthday. >> he had an angry exchange with another driver. >> i didn't have a road rage or cut anybody off or anything like that. saiding is to somebody out a window, i sit quit driving like a blankety blank and he just cut me off and this individual flared and about pursued me and i pulled over in the parking lot to headache a 911 call and he got out of his vehicle and beat the hell out of me. >> according to police reports, both men got out of their vehicles and argued before holbrook was punched twice in the face and knock to the ground. >> me attacker was not going to settle for less than his pound of flesh and one thing led to

another. >> but the other driver's girlfriend watching from inside their car, hole broo hole holbe man twice in the chest and slashed the rear tire of the man's car believe so he could not flee. he called 911. despite the flat tire the other man drove to an emergency room where he died three hours later. >> i don't know that i could have done anything different to protect my life in that parking lot on that day than what i did because i had to make a choice and that choice is now what i have to live with. >> hole brook later learned the man was a convicted felon who had recently been released from prison. he says he acted in self-defense but was charged with first-degree murder. he plead not guilty and will soon begin a jury trial. >> i think i have done what any normal human being would do if

they were put in the same situation. everyone wants to survive. people inherently need to defend theirselves and i had to go home to my life at the end of the day and one day i hope to do that. coming up,. >> i have been preparing mentally for the worst. which obviously going to prison. >> after two years in jail, cort holbrook's murder trial begins. and. >> all scar. >> a young woman is forever scared when the manufacture of a designer drug leads to a fatal explosion. alert.

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this is nature valley. nature at its most delicious. for most santa rita jail inmates their stay here is full of uncertainty as they await the verdicts or plea deals that could set them free or send them to prison. robert haines has just gotten word about his future. he will soon transfer to state prison. >> it is going to be my first

time. first and last. kind of scary at first. you know all the prison stories i have heard and i got to do what i got to do now. can't be that bad. >> he recently accepted a plea deal from which his charges of pimping and pandering were dropped but he did plead guilty to human trafficking and was sentenced to three years. he will take with him a permanent reminder of santa rita and an attack which he alleges is by convicted murderer phillip white. >> cut my face. it was super wide like it was nasty. >> if nothing else, his misfortune provided a learning experience for his young cell mate. >> that is scared for life. that ain't going no where injury was like man, what happened and how it happened and he told me how it happened and made me think differently how approach people and everything. never know if is a dude is a lifer or not. got to talk to him about it.

>> his weapon of choice. >> that is what people will be using right there. that is what we use for cutting food and stuff and people use to cut up people. >> while some inmates might leave jail with scars others bring them in from the. >> when i first saw inmate electiony hudson i wasn't terribly shocked. i grew up with somebody burned in a housefire and had is similar injuries. >> the first thing i thought about when i seen lexie was her burns. it looked like it hurt. i didn't know what happened. >> you get some people that ask you what happened or just stare at you. people don't know how you to deal with somebody who is different and i'm different. >> lexie h hutson is scared over half of her body. the cause of those cars is what landed her in jail blankety. >> my boyfriend and his friend

were trying to make hash oil and a spark lit and blew up the apartment and we were all inside. >> in all the explosions when it comes to drug or drug making in houses or buildings it is usually meth. we are starting to see a new thing trying to extract hash oil from marijuana. the next thing you know, boom, explosion. we are starting to see that now. >> the explosion occurred inside the apartment hutson and her boyfriend shared with his mother. >> all i heard was my boyfriend yelling and then i felt like a really, really hot sensation everywhere and i started screaming. the ambulance showed up. they put wet cloths everywhere to stop the burning. it felt like basically i was being stabbed with needles on the inside of my body everywhere like a million

needles. they put me on a gurney and took us to the helicopter and then i woke up like a month later. >> hutson abouts boyfriend evan is also badly burned. but their friend got the worst of the blast. >> i didn't get to see what he looked like but i red it was really bad. he was returned like 90% of his body. >> the friend died nine days later and hutson and avil avile charged with the murder. avila received she years for involuntary manslaughter and was sent to prison. hutson is serving one year at santa rita for accessory to jen voluntary manslaughter but says she is still haunted by her friend's death. >> he left. he's gone. and to know that i didn't stop them from doing it or i had a part in it, it is -- i feel really guilty because he lost h his life.

its' hard. >> after the explosion, hutson endured three painful months of recovery in the hospital. >> 57% of my body was burned. i was wearing a tank top and basketball shorts no shoes so i didn't -- but i was the fartherrest away from like ground zero. >> she underwent numerous procedures including a take tracheotomy to help her breathe and nine skin graft. >> my fingers were burned down to the bone. i didn't have enough skin so they put pigskin on my pinky and then just before they were going to amputate they saw a microscopic little bit of skin that was growing and it growing so they grafted the whole thing. >> other parts were helped with a piece of cadaver skin. >> and your skin grows underneath it and they he can

take it off. >> this isn't actually grafting it is all my skin. so it is kind of cool. >> eyenically hutson sees her time at santa rita as an invaluable time of recovery. she gets daily lessons on how to accept her new appearance where fact. >> you have to deal with people why do you look like that and what is going on with your neck. >> a sigh enproject. she's awesome. i love look at all of the grafts and the scars and i like, it is so cool. >> remember when you were grabbing my elbow, yes. >> she has a lot of skin and i told her that her nose looks lycophore did i krueger and she hates me for that. >> but i love. >> because she has a cindy lou

nose. >> it took me awhile to get used to it and it it is hard to come to that conclusion because i didn't look like this before. >> coming up. >> counting this money. >> add a little swag in there and slow it down. >> counting this money and getting me. >> phillip white goes into the mentoring business and cort holbrook receives mentoring from a cell mate. >> he has good perspective on life. >> some people prayed to god and i prayed to john gatti. [ phil ] when you have joint pain and stiffness...

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injured after a bus crash in indianapolis. most were teenager from a local baptist church. back to "lockup." i need the upper doors shut. >> on a typical weekday shift at the santa rita jail it takes about 275 employees ranging from civilian workers to sworn deputies and captains to manage the facility and its 3,000 inmate. the housing units and outdoor rec. yards are usually full of activity but there is a whole other world of partially underground tunnels and service areas that stay just as active. >> the tack tunnel system which connect the maximum security yard to the medium and minimum security guard. we have the kitchen, our laundry and our aa supplys.

>> silently making their way through the tunnels are 24 automated guided vehicles or agvs. around here they are more commonly referred to as robots. they transport thousands of meals, tons of laundry and countless supplies throughout the jail facility that is a half a mile in length and a quarter mile in width. while the system appears futuristic, it is actually more than two decades old. and was nearly doomed from the beginning. >> the company that installed the system went bankrupt after they installed it here at santa rita jail so we went ahead and hired on some of their engineers and maintenance people and all of the parts and everything we need to keep the robots going 24 hours a day. once in awhile they break down but our guys repair them. we have what key call the barn where the robots go to charge and get repaired and we get them back online as soon as

possible. >> this is kind of a dinosaur in the industry. have to troubleshoot a lot. a lot of times electronics don't failout right. they get glitchy and it has had 22 years to get glitchy. >> bruce adams runs the onsite repair shot. >> the mechanical aspect is solid. we have parts for that. it is basically the electronics that are obsolete. they don't make them any more. we are doing constant maintenance. this is a brutal environment for electronics you can hear them bumping and grinding down the guide path. take a beating but keep on doing the job. >> since they each weigh best to stayt is boast stay out of your path. >> you have o be very aware of your surroundings because they can be dangerous and you don't

want to get caught in between these things. >> the dangers posed by the agvs pale in comparison to those posed by some of its inmates. phillip white was recently give and 26 year to life sentence for the murder of his girlfriend. as he awaits his transfer to prison, white is in the jail's disciplinary segregation unit where inmates are only allowed out of their cells one hour at a time and only one at a time. an aspiring rapper on the outside he says he usually spends his hour teaching other inmates how to rap. ♪ counting this money and ain't getting ♪ >> add a little swag and slow it down. counting this money and. >> don't do it fast. do it slow. add a little swag. ♪ counting this money and getting this ♪ >> i teach them how to goes. some dudes even go as far as having their women record it over the phone and once they go home they know how the song

goss. >> keep practice. slow it down. don't try to go fast. once you go slow and learn it go fast and add your own little swag. >> he said he also ghost writes raps for other inmates but that comes with a price. he arranges for them to deposit money in the jail debit account. >> that was $380. >> what do you think? >> this was ten songs. that was 50. that was like five songs. >> i sell them anywhere from 20 songs for $500 or a thousand. just depends on how long i got to put into it. i usually be charging 500 or 700 for 20 songs. you know, i know you are only trying to get a couple of songs until you get the feel of is to i ain't going to tax you. >> c.j. johnson is one of the newest buyer hes. >> me and him been knowing each other for a few years.

you know, $50. i appreciate it. he doing me a favor, you though. >> going to put the money on my books or do a commissariry order. >> but doing business with white could carry risk. he is in segregation for allegedly slicing the face of haines after losing a bet over two cups of soup. white says he doesn't know how haines got slashed but he didn't appeal the jail's decision. >> they said i had a couple of fights antidepressants once you get found guilty this is where they house you anyways. i knew i was going to get moved here soon regardless. when my name got brought up i was surprised. i really was. >> the white is due to leave for prison any time but he won't know when until the day arrives. >> we don't want the inmates knowing when they will be going to prison. it is mainly a security issue. we don't want them knowing they will be on a bus at a certain

morning and if there was an attempt to escape we don't want people to know what time they will be on a bus headed to a certain destination. >> cards kind of stacked up against me going to prison in california. you know, i'm a country boy. my worst fear is being put in a situation again where i got to protect me. you know, you put a person in a cage full of wolfs either one of two things. either the prey report predator and i can't be the prey so. >> cort holbrook could also be boarding a bus for prison if a jury finds him guilty of a road rage murder. he says he came out on the losing end of a fist fight and then stabbed a man in self-defense. >> that is how i'm here not because i'm a bad person or a violent person. because i'm not. i'm here because of a very bad situation that in my opinion didn't have a winning scenario.

not with the individual that wanted to do me damage. >> holbrook, a former software engineer is married with twin sons. he spent two years at santa rita waiting for his trial to get underway. >> two years is is a long time to wait so see if you are really guilty of a crime, you know what i mean. kind of greats on you after awhile. an individual like myself stands out pretty plainly. i don't have a swagger like an inmate or convict. i think i'm well spoken. i'm quiet. i don't put myself out there in people's faces typically. i don't cause problems. >> holbrook is a different breed compared to most of the other guys in there. he looks out of place but he has adapted and he has kind of got to know how everything works and what is going on with, you know, the politics of the pod and everything. >> learned he is a better card play. that is for sure.

>> helping holbrook adapt is his celly jeff who has spent more than 17 years incarcerated on a litany of burglary, theft and drug convictions and currently serving two years for burglary and theft as well. >> some people pray to god. i prayed to john gatti. >> one time i had to correct my mom she says man your friends are just bringing you down and i told her it is not them, it is me bringing them down. >> he is an okay celly. he has one through a lot and in the system for years and has a good perspective on life. he has been mentoring me. >> seems like a good guy. i mean as far as good can get in here you know what i mean. >> my celly is actually a breath of fresh air because his naivety in the field i find it

refreshing he is so knowledgeable in other areas of life. >> a little easier for me because i have been out there in that square barrel world doing pretty much that. >> he still seems rough around the edges when it comes to the environment but he knows enough to keep out of people's business. he knows you know, how to be decent, you know, because being decent is a problem, then it is a problem to be alive, you know what i mean. but to be decent he is not the going to encounter any issues. he is doing all right actually. >> you get what you give here. if you give respect you get respect typically. and that is how everyone has to live day by day here. you are a part of this system. breakfast at 3:00. lunch at noon. dinner at 3:00. and you do it again and again. kind of like groundhog day. >> there will soon be one major change to holbrook's routine and his future. his murder trial is about to begin.

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come on, ladys. >> the deppies who manag deputt difference in the male inmates and the female inmate, who make up 10% of the population. >> i like the female inmates. any bond up differently. the males have to puff their chest and have so much to prove. versus females they create families here. that helps them through the day and whatever helps them, they will take it. >> oh, boy. >> lexie hutson has not only made friends in the maximum security housing they have helped her through one of the toughest periods in her life. adjusting to the burns that have scared more than half of her body. >> you kind of build a friendship really quickly if you like the person. >> they couldn't have put two more people in here.

we are so different but i swear on different levels. >> we are like two peas in the pod. >> like two little kids in here sometimes. can't stop laughing. >> most of the people in max stay here for awhile so you can build connections with them and people always tell me i'm pretty in here which is kind of nice. it helps. >> hutson decorates her bunk with reminders of home. >> tooth paste on the back of the pictures is leak. >> and helps them stick because we are not allowe allowed to he or tape or none of that stuff. >> why do you put your picture there's. >> so lay down on look at them. when i lay back they are all up there. >> what is one of the best pictures of you from before. >> this one. it was me and my boyfriend before the accident. that is evan with his hair that he doesn't have any more. >> hutson and her boyfriend evan avilas were severely burned when they accidentally blue up the apartment. they were attempting to make a designer drug called hash oil.

a friend of theirs died in the explosion which led to a three year sentence for involuntary mandator for avilas and one year for accessory to involuntary manslaughter for hutson. >> i hated them the first couple of months. at the time that the accident had happened the couple days before i told him not to do it, the hash oil thing but my boyfriend didn't have a job and we had to make rent. >> through it all the couple managed to hold their relationship together. >> when gets out we plan on getting married. not sure exactly when but we know we are in love and we will be together when we get out and two years is a little time compared to the rest of our life. we have to move on because that is life and that is the same with regret or recentment or guilt. have to find a way to let it go and move on. >> cort would love nothing more than to let go and move on. when an argument with another

driver turned into a fight he says he sap stabbed the man in self-defense. after two years inside the jail his trial has gotten underway. the street clothes he is allowed to wear in court are painful reminder of all he has lost. >> these are my work clothes. this is what i look like out on the street. this is who i was. >> the judge in his case has not allowed cameras in the courtroom and holbrook has been advised not to discuss proceedings but he is bracing himself. >> i have been preparing mentally for the worst which is obviously going to prison. but i don't think anybody can truly prepare themselves 100% for what that is going to be like. >> every day after court

holbrook returns to his maximum security housing unit. >> to be in a maximum classification house you have is to have pretty serious charges or an extensive disciplinary history. with holbrook it is the first time but a serious charge so that is why he is placed in here. >> holbrook has been incarcerated for the two years leading up to his trial because he could not make the $3 million-bale set by the judge. he thinks one reason it was so high is because of the tatoos he acquired ten years earlier. >> i think these tatoos probably got me in the most trouble. that's life when you are bored, that is the cards that you are dealt during life. and there is a queen of hearts for my wife and a two of diamonds for my twin boys. four of clubs for niemann dogs and an ace for me. >> the skeleton. >> that represents life and

death. something that -- something common from myth logical times. >> that one probably got me in the most trouble. i have flaming skulls that are kind of in the genre of that type of i said, and yeah, they do have some bling here. so they were rich pirates. the d.a. at the time quickly seized upon how negative that particular tattoo looked and that i must be a violent person. and i can't be allowed to be in the community. i'm just too high of a risk. i guess the thought that ran through my mind was gee, this is the only thing they can come up with to set my bail was the nature of my tattoos or that i had tattoos? i'm a violent person for having tattoos. i'm just a danger to society. coming up, cort holbrook's jury returns its verdict. that's me... i made you something. ♪

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♪ there are certain daily routines at the santa rita jail like the slow-moving automated guided vehicles that make their way across jail gounds ferrying large quantities of food, laundry, and supplies to various housing units. inside those units it's a different story as 3,000 men and women find themselves dealing with the range of emotions that come with being an incarcerated inmate. lexie hudson says jail has been less about fear and anger than it has been about gratitude. >> this whole experience, not just the accident, jail, dealing with family members, has really made me wiser, i want to say. this has shown me to take the little things and the people around me not for granted. because they could be gone the next day. you know? and i've learned that there are

certain people in my life no matter what i'll do they're going to be here. >> hudson has also learned something about forgiveness, and there's probably been no better teacher than her boyfriend's mother. monique avilos lost everything when her son and hudson accidentally blew up her apartment while trying to manufacture a designer drug. >> it took place in my home. and i was at work. it was a normal day. just got up and went to work like normal. the kids were normal. everything was just normal. >> i see something in your pockets setting it off. belt, rings. >> monique returned home to find her street blocked off by a fleet of emergency vehicles, police and firefighters. >> the neighbors were crying. it was like they had seen a war scene. i couldn't even conceive what had happened. i would have no clue, not in a million years what happened. >> lexie hudson. >> because the damage was caused by criminal activity, monique's insurance policy would not reimburse her for her material losses. but monique is happy that she

still has her son and lexie, whom she regularly visits. >> you know, i'm just grateful to have them alive. that's it, period. everything else is replaceable. it's all just material stuff. >> oh, look how beautiful your hair looks. hi, my love. how are you? >> good. i like your earrings. >> oh, thanks. put a little jewelry on today. >> hi. >> hi. >> look at your hair. it's so pretty. >> thank you. >> how are you feeling? >> i'm okay. >> yeah? >> yeah. how are you? >> pretty good. >> though she is not yet married, hudson sees monique as a mother figure. >> my mother-in-law is a big strength in my life. oh, my gosh. she helps me smile, helps me remember to think positively. >> looking forward to getting out. >> i know, right? i'm excited. 25 days. >> is it 25 days and counting, huh? >> yeah. >> marking off the calendar. yay. can't wait. we're going to make life as normal as possible, right? >> yes. >> yeah. and we have to make sure that we keep you on track with the doctor.

>> that's one of the first things i'm going to do, is go see my doctor again because i missed a visit so i can get this back in the works, the aesthetic surgery. >> okay, good. i just want you to stay solid. i know you've already -- look at what you've been through. >> she looks really good. her spirits are really high. we're happy. because if she's strong she'll make my son strong. and it's going good. we're looking forward to her coming out and putting all this behind us. >> with her one-year sentence nearing an end, hudson's future is hopeful. the future is much less clear for the majority of inmates here who are still awaiting the resolution of their cases. the process can sometimes last years. >> inmates come back from court, sometimes they have a verdict and they've been sentenced to do many years in prison, and those inmates who get those long sentences, they're dealing with a lot of things emotionally. they're going to be taken away from their family, their friends, if they have children their children.

>> holbrook. >> it took nearly two years for cort holbrook's case to even make it to trial. charged with murder, the trial lasted eight days. his jury deliberated for two days. and just an hour ago they gave holbrook their verdict. >> the verdict was not guilty of murder, which is my original charge. but the jury found me guilty of voluntary manslaughter. my understanding is that the state of california believes that i took a human life unlawfully. whether that's under the guise of excessive force or without due cause. i was hopeful that it was going to be an acquittal. but i will go home. >> when? >> i don't know. that's up to the judge. >> holbrook could receive a sentence anywhere from 3 to 11

years in state prison. minus time he's already served in jail. he is due back in court for sentencing in two months. until then, he will continue life at santa rita. >> it's been a long road. there's a lot to get used to in here. i mean, i am surrounded by the criminal element. and that's not a lifestyle that i lived. i lived in a nice community, wholesome community. and things happened. you brush up against people in life, and unfortunately, that led to a death. over a simple verbal exchange. albeit there may have been a swear word here or there, something that you and i have seen many times, a cabbie flipping someone off, someone saying something turned into something very different.

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