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you could watch out. i hit him in his jaw. he fell on the ground. i got on top of him. >> the convict finds the jail officer chance for revenge. >> i remember telling him, you remember me? you remember me? >> when mommy gets home, are you going to live with mommy or live with grammy? >> a former stripper fears losing her daughter. >> i need to go before my mom runs away with my kid or
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something. >> it's a taste of tampa behind bars. >> close your eyes and eat it. make the best of it. when it comes to good time, tampa florida has a lot to offer. just outside downtown is a grim reminder of how good times can go bad. the hillsboro county jail has two jails four miles from each other. they house close to 4,000 inmates combined. most men and women have recently been arrested and not convicted of a crime but a waiting trial for settlement. some inmates have been convicted
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but serving short sentences, usually less than two years. either way, this is no vacation. >> this is by no stretch some kind of spa. you're here for a reason. you have to make the best of a bad situation when you can. >> 31-year-old sherea dean is serving the last 30 days of a six month sentence for a cocaine possession. she says she developed the addiction from a lifestyle working in strip clubs and prostitution. >> i started off being a topless stripper. i was like i would never dance nude or do that. then i started dancing nude and meeting customers for money. it's a whole lifestyle. i always worked at high end clubs and dealt with high end
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people who had a lot of money. i had nice cars and nice house. had a rolex. all jeans were true religion. >> the lifestyle eventually led to problems that brought dean to jail. >> started ecstasy and then started pills and coke. when you do pills you start to get tired. then you need the coke to bring you back up. i felt without that i wasn't going to make money. >> dean met most clients through her job at the strip club. >> all guys i see are rich people. i would stick with high end guys. >> a guy asked what do you think about when you're doing this? i think about what i'm going to spend the money on. >> dean's past customers continued to send her money in jail. >> my customer randy. hi my pretty lady. you'll always be my princess. i've been thinking about you. i love and miss you and hope you're okay.
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hope to see you and we'll have fun soon. love you. >> how much money did he send you? >> like a hundred every couple of weeks. he's a lonely guy. we talk and i act like i care about all the stuff he has to say. they don't know nothing about me. i'm there to fulfill your fantasy and leave. i don't care about you, your wife, your dog or nothing else. i care about how much money you've got and that's it. some have talents. some sing and dance. i can hustle men for money. that's the only thing i've ever been good at. >> at the men's jail confinement unit jason flores knows about tampa's thriving strip club industry. >> there's a lot of strip clubs. a lot of chicks come from all over from out of town come here
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just to dance. >> when you asked me about my ideal chick, that is her. see, she doesn't have inhibitions. that's a stripper. i respect a dancer who's got a mean hustle. some girls don't have the hustle. others they can talk you out of your jeans and shirt and have you walk to your car in your boxers. >> flores isn't likely to meet his ideal woman any time soon. >> he's been temporarily transferred from state prison to hillsborough county to appeal his case. >> a 25 year sentence. anyone with a 20 year sentence or over gets confinement. while they're running through the court system, we don't want our training population to be a
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training ground for criminals. >> flores received the sentence in part of a deal he pled guilty to multiple felonies, home invasion robbery and two counts of attempted murder. >> i had to take a plea bargain. my co-defendants were going to testify against me saying yeah, he played this role in the crime. >> according to prosecutors, flores and two co-defendants broke into a tampa home with the intention of stealing prescription drugs. they alleged they were masked and shot one of the home's occupants and injured two others. the co-defendants were prepared to testify flores was the man with the gun. >> they said it all revolved around me, if it wasn't for me it wouldn't have happened. >> flores hopes the appeal will reduce the sentence by at least
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a decade. >> the 25 years i have, i'll be 53 when i get out. i don't have kid or a family. so i would at least want to get out with time to have at least a family. that's my whole goal. >> it wouldn't be flores first experience starting over. seven years ago he served two and a half years in prison for grand theft auto. that was one chapter in his life proven worthy of a novel. one in his childhood that let him down a dark path. >> a demonic scene planted in his soul. >> the horrific event that changed jason flores and his mother forever. sherea gives a morbid obsession. >> i like serial killers. ♪
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for those inmate at the hillsborough county jail in tampa who have been convicted of a crime, coming to terms with the past may be the difference of making it on the outside or not. >> how you doing today? april arnold decided to do that four years ago during her last stay. back then she was known as one of the better known revolving door inmates. >> i've been jailed 43 times. cocaine, crack, marijuana, possession, paall that. >> possession of cocaine is the most severe charge. she's really young there. back in that time i didn't know her but heard lots of stories. this is where it gets hard.
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the face starts to change. this is probably where she was sentenced to some time, serious time. this is where we start to see the hard april. >> i would fight the officers. there were at least a dozen can tell you how many times they've handcuffed me to the bed, maced me, fought me. >> she came to jail being a complete and total disruption all the time. >> i just didn't care. i wanted to get back out to finish getting high again. >> every time i'd come, all those times i'd say god get me out of jail, i'll never do it again. i'd get and out come back. >> during arnold's last jail term four years ago, she received tragic news. >> my sister passed. she was 31, and she had a heart attack from smoking crack. she had -- her life was nowhere
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near out of control. she never prostituted. she still had her kids, juggled life. she just had a heart attack. at that point i prayed the same prayer, god, get me out of here. this time it just felt different. >> she said i'm never coming back. we hear it a lot, but she meant it. her eyes whaled with tears. she said you'll see me again, but it won't be in orange. >> good afternoon. i work along with the ministry called created. >> the next time i saw her she was in civilian clothing walking in with a badge as a mentor to witness. >> i started prostituting and heavy drugs at age of 18. from 18 to age of 31 i was in and out of this jail. >> i met other girls on the street. i started doing robberies and burglaries and home invasions and robbing the guys.
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i would get in their car and pick pocket them. they would never know. i became one of the world's famous pick pocketed. i could pick pocket with my toe. >> you have to be tired and ready to stop. so many decisions you have to make. you guys can change. i don't care if you feel there's no hope out there, there's no hope for your life, that you suck or whatever. you don't. you can change. >> we love having her come back and having her mentor. we utilize her as a tool to get females through the programs and hopefully get a handful to turn out like her. >> i want to thank you guys for having me here. i'm looking forward to getting to know anyone that would like to get to know us. thank you. >> it's good to see you always. >> yes. i'll be back next week.
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you know i will. >> it will be a pleasure. >> thank you. >> while april arnold volunteers to mentor to women who's sentences is the sex industry. sherea is anxious to get back home. >> my sister-in-law sent it to me. that's me and my daughter when i was pretty. >> what's the hard part about seeing this. >> because i was so pretty. you have makeup and look pretty. here you don't have nothing. no lotion, makeup, bronzer, lip liner, nothing. >> because the jail daunt lou inmates to purchase cosmetic, dean's makeup has been reduced to one simple tool. >> we break up the pencil and put graphite in here. we take it and wet it and put it on our eyes. i call it graphite black. >> while in jail, dean keeps her distance from other inmates and
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has not made other friends. there's one criminal element she's drawn to. >> some like football and baseball. i like serial killers. anybody that can do what they do, i think it's cool. they're really secure and confident people and like i want to be confident and be able to control people like that. i think violence and all that stuff, i think it's hot. i would definitely be part of their fan club. i want to write them. i want serial killers to write me. >> the person who most often writes dean is her 6-year-old daughter. >> dear mommy, i love you more than the animals in the world and stars in the sky. i love you so much. you're so special to me. you're so beautiful to me. you're so fun to make arts and crafts with. i miss you so much. hope you come home soon. you're the bestest person to play with.
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look in the back for the picture. that's me and her. i'm assuming that's a zebra. she's completely opposite of me. she's good, loves school, listens to country music. i feel she deserves a better mom than me. she's such a good girl. >> what comes to mind when you read that letter? >> just how sweet she is. makes me feel special, makes me feel good -- then makes me feel bad that i should be there with her. >> raina is in the care of sherea's mother. that's a major source of conflict for her. >> my mom treats her like she's her kid. she does things i would never do. she kind of pisses me off. she takes the role of being a mom not a grandma. >> i see next to the picture of your daughter you have your
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helter skelter book. >> yeah, is that weird. he grabbed us by our necks, held us on the ground and started choking us. >> the horrific crime that changed jason. >> he wraps his arms around my leg and said mommy, somebody raped me. yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. good. i hate surprises. surprise! at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card and see your fico® credit score.
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jail food rarely earns praise from critics. the hillsborough county jail in tampa has 3,000 confirmed in the confines. >> food is crappy. >> food is horrible. >> food is like just enough to get you by. >> i think that the food tastes reasonably good. >> desite the complaints t man in charge of the jail's kitchen takes pride. >> we have a 28 day cycle menu
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that has a variety for inmates. this is our breakfast meal tomorrow. it has a biscuit, bo loah loann serial. we have to make sure we're serving nutritious meals. the goal is for them to leave in better health than they came here. >> last name bunk number. >> our last menu design we decided to make this a heart held think menu. it's the only jail in florida that i know that does a heart healthy menu. >> one of the inmate workers in the kitchen john powers was a chef before he was brought to hillsborough on grand theft charges. she's reached a verdict on kitchen's menus.
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>> i do critique it. they could have used more salt here, more garlic. i know they have a budget. you take it in stride. close your eye, eat it, and make the best of hit. >> pizza, steak and cheese sandwiches and ice cream. >> in prison compared to this, it's no comparison. there's chicken in here. it's not real good chicken. >> jason flores has temporarily transferred from the state prison to the jail in order to appeal his sentence for attempted murder. >> in prison it's another world. it's a society where there's drugs, prostitution by male inmates, tattoos. anything you want in prison you can get. it's another world. >> a world different from the one in which flores was raised.
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>> my real dad was a cop, step dad was a cop. we had a good life. always in sport, football, baseball, popular in school, good grades. >> when flores was 11 years old, his world was shattered by a vicious attack. >> me and my best friend were riding our bikes and there was a guy that was waiting at the bus stop. he convinced us to use our bikes to to take him somewhere. we ended up going through a short cut supposedly which was a cut through by some woods. that's when he turned violent and that's when he grabbed both of us by our necks, held us on the ground and started choking us. from that point on that's when the molestation took part. >> flores' mother judy vividly remembers the moment jason came
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home. >> he wooalks up, looks up at m and says mommy, somebody raped me. that was the worst thing that had ever happened to me in my life. >> it was devastating. it was extremely traumatic because after this happened it's like my innocence was gone. >> he dropped out of football. jason stopped playing baseball. jason didn't want to go to school. there was no more kisses good night, no more hugs. jason started sleeping with weapons in his room. he'd sleep with baseball bats. his whole life changed. >> when someone found out about it, i would cut them out of my life. i knew they knew. i wouldn't want to associated with them. >> flores says it wasn't long before he joined a gang and began using drugs. he paid for his habit by stealing cars and breaking into homes. >> there was a demonic seed that
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was planted in my son's soul. >> flores was able to identify the attacker. he was convicted and incarcerated for attacking flores and three other young boys. core net says that wasn't the end of his nightmare. >> kevin got 17 years and only served six. he got released. when he got released i followed him everywhere he went. >> some mothers are going to fight for their kids until the day they die. my mother is one that's going to fight until she dies. >> she tracked kevin and reported him for activities. he had a stolen car and pornography on his computer, a violation of parole. this time he was sentenced. >> there's more sex offender out
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there. core net started two non profits, one to counsel victims and the other to put sex offenders in prison. >> i've had 21 over the years locked up. you know how many kids i saved? that's a lot. the advocacy deepened his wounds. >> it was something i wanted to forget about it. my mother wouldn't let it rest. my mother was on the news all the time and on shows and stuff. i friends knew my mother. i used to tell them that wasn't me, it was my brother. it's taken me a long time to accept it, to be able to talk about it. >> despite his shame over the publicity, flores says his mother used it to get him help. her public appeals had several appeals for rpeople to help him
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>> when you're a victim of something, whether physical, sexual, verbal, when you live a life of so much trauma throughout your life growing up, if someone don't victimize you, you victimize yourself. i've been my own worse enemy. he finally re-established a positive relationship with his mother. now core net is less vocal about her son when she works with victims or their families. >> it's not about me or jason anymore. our damage is done. there's nothing that's going to fix what we have. we're broken. i've put it together best i can with super glue. i have to move on. >> while flores says the shame he felt over his case going public helped lead him to crime,
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being here once is enough. >> believe it. you have to believe it. >> i know, yeah. >> at the end of the six month sentence in tampa florida, sherea dean says she's ready to give up her former life of drug use and prostitution. >> i'm over this. if i keep doing the [ bleep ] i'm doing, i'm going to keep coming back here. i don't want to be the person coming back through the doors. especially the person detoxing and strung out. it's embarrassing and humiliating. i never want to be that person again. >> deputy garcia is concerned she refused the court's offer for a drug program. >> she's chosen not to be in the program. she should be educated on what bought her here, what could
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change while she's here. that's probably one not quite ready yet. she might come back. >> what we going to do when we leave here? >> go to cosmetology school. >> dean says she'll open her own beauty school after released. first she has to raise the money which she'll do by returning to her job as a strip her. >> i gain sod much weight in here. i gained like 40 pounds. i'm big. you have to be in shape. you have to be a beautiful person. i know if you go on a cooking diet you'll lose all of it in a week. that's my only worry to do drugs again to get skinnier. >> in the meantime she practices her future career on inmates. in jail her resources are few.
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>> hair spray, mouse, gel would be great. eye liner would be wonderful. you get dee odd rant and hair grease. deodorant you can put it on your hands a hands and skrun ch it or put it down. people were saying ants were getting in their hair when they laid outside and stuff. >> she says her skills are in demand but she's selective on who she practices on. >> i don't want to be like these people. i suck. except for her, she's nice. there's a few nice people. basically everybody sucks. >> beauty is veiain. >> their stories are stupid. they have nothing to say except what they're going to go get
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high again and their loser boyfriends. they're just stupid. >> they say she's stuck up and crazy. >> i'm crazy. >> i think she's cool. >> other inmates in the unit aren't as taken by dean's charms. >> all i see about her is she's fake. i don't like anything about her. she gets under my skin. >> is that supposed to hurt my feelings? no. i could care less what these people think about me. i do not need these people to like me or think i'm cool or anything. these people are scum. she's like shaving her armpits with the the clippers people are supposed to cut their hair. it's disgusting. >> are you almost done with those? >> they think i'm like the biggest [ bleep ]. i would never associate in my entire life with these people in here. i don't want them to talk to me. i don't need them around me.
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i can't wait to get out of here. i want to eat real food, put on makeup go back to work, make money. i can't wait. i hate this place, hate these people. i've got to go. jason flores seems to get along with fellow inmates. >> you ain't keeping up. >> confinement inmates are in their cells 23 hours a day. flores says it doesn't bother him. >> i've done a lot of time in confinement. spent 13 months solid in prison. if you knew thousand do time, you use your environment and what you have to pastime the best way you can. without spending too much time in your head. >> flores is at the jail appealing his 25 year sentence
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for home invasion robbery and attempted murder. with so much on the line, this stay at hillsborough county may prove last traumatic than a prior stay years later. he came face to face with the inmate kevin, the same man that raped him when he was a young boy. >> it was actually in a holding area where everyone goes before they go to court. i seen the guy standing on the wall. i handed my daughter his folder to the guy next to me. i told him, make sure i get this back. >> let's see where he's at. >> flores' mother judy core net who dedicated most of her life to keeping kender in prison knew both were due in court that morning. >> one was in court at 9:00 and the other was in at 9:00. >> i was bouncing back and neither was in the courtroom. >> he was talking to the officer, the deputy. they were standing flection to
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each other having a conversation. i worked to the water fountain three feet behind them. i turned around from the water fountain and walked up right next to him. i got off on him nice. i hit him in his jaw. he fell on the ground. i got on top of him. the officer grabbed me from behind. it was like an out of body experience.stopped somebody in hallway and said could you find them. she came out with a smile on her face and said jason just beat the [ bleep ] out of kevin. >> i kept saying do you remember me? do you remember me? he was laying on the ground. i don't think he knew what i was saying. >> i'm wanting to say yea but how dare you jason do this? you're going to get another charge, get in trouble i was in a panic. >> i didn't want to wrestle with
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him. i wanted to break his jaw. i wanted to punch him. >> i think jason probably need had the. >> the world was lifted off my shoulders you know. i was in denial for so many years about dealing with it. i didn't have a problem, it was nothing. when this encounter happened, it was like all these emotions came back. it was really overwhelming. my lawyer intervened and told the detective there's no way you're going to prosecute my client. if we go in front of the jury, what jury is going to convict my client of any kind of aggression towards his attacker. so it went away. they didn't pursue it. >> flores says things could have been much worse. >> if the deputy wasn't there, he was done. i would have beat him, choked him, tried to break his neck. i would have killed him. i would have. i would have killed him without a thought on my mind and beat his corpse after he was dead.
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i still would have punished him and felt good about it. that's what would have happened if i got him by himself. i wouldn't be that lucky. god is not that good to me. coming up -- >> i think you're one [ bleep ] of a person to control the minds. >> sherea seeks a relationship with a killer. ♪ the billions of gallons of fuel that get us to work. ♪ we'd see all the electricity flowing through the devices that connect us and teach us. ♪ we'd see that almost 100% of medical plastics are made from oil and natural gas. ♪ and an industry that supports almost 10 million american jobs. life takes energy.
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40th birthday. four years ago she got off drugs and began returning to minister to women. >> people that feel hopeless and lost. i bring a lot of hope to women and people i meet. >> julie von is serving time for offering to commit prostitution and prior convictions for press passing, possession of drug pair fa nel la. >> messing up and trying to get clean. i remember a time i looked down on people that smoked crack. i looked down on hookers because i was only a dancer. every time i was out, i went a little below the line of morals. i truly believe there's nothing i can go below other than being dead. >> when is enough enough? you're going to get your throat cut or go to prison.
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>> aren't you tired? >> yes. >> i started 18 prostituting, smoking crack, robberies. sometimes they don't listen. sometimes they do. i'm planting the seed. they're listening eventually. i wish i had somebody when i was in my addiction like that. >> april i want to be like you one day, clean and sober. i want to help people like me. >> i know you can do it. >> thank you. >> you have to make the hard decision and stick through it. sherea dean is committed to staying out of jail though she's rejected help from other inmates or staff. during her six month stay, she's corresponded with several people on the outside including past clients and her 6-year-old daughter. now she's decided to solicit a new pen pal. >> dear charles. hello. i'm sure you get letters from all kinds of people for whatever
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reasons. i like to think i'm different. >> she's written to charles manson in hopes of starting a relationship. >> i think you're one [ bleep ] of a person to manipulate the minds of so many. that's a god to me. i know what he did is a crappy thing. you have to be a different kind of person. >> you ever thought about the victims in any of these cases? >> no. >> i'll keep this short and sweet. just to let you know there's someone on your side still thinking of you. i'm in the county now in a crappy bull [ bleep ] situation. i will be out soon and hope to keep in touch. >> do you think charles manson will write you back? >> probably not, but you never know. stranger things have happened. hopefully he'll write back and
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make my life. jason is fighting for his life or at least to get years off his conviction of attempted robbery and home invasion. >> i'm anxious. i'm not thinking about what's going to happen tomorrow or if anything is going to happen tomorrow. when tomorrow come, i'm going to court and hopefully i'm going to just hope. i hope something good happens. his mother judy core net has come for a visit along with family friend pam abby. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> where we at? >> f 15. >> all visitation at hillsborough county takes place through closed circuit television. flores and his mother are never allowed full contact.
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their visit is are mixed emotio. >> cut it out. >> i know. i'm sorry. >> why are you crying? >> i started on the way here. >> because we have to work tomorrow and the stress. so tomorrow is just going in begging for mercy and hopefully they'll reduce your sentence or something. >> it doesn't really matter either way. i want them to knock off the time you know. if they don't, i've got to do the 25. whatever, i'll do it. ain't no big deal. >> what do you mean ain't no big deal? >> they've got to let me go eventually i'll be a 53-year-old stud when i get up. >> we're talking about picking up on our motorcycles all gray and old. i'll have somebody to drive beside me with my oxygen tank. >> hopefully the judge will make a decision, support us a little bit, see our side of everything
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and understand we're just a normal family. >> there's nothing normal about us. there's nothing normal about us. >> okay we're abnormally normal family. stay strong tomorrow. i'll do my best. we're down to 17, 16 seconds. i love you. >> i love you too. >> i'll see you tomorrow. just be strong. >> all right mom. i love you too. >> all right. bye. bye pam. love you too. >> bye. >> i would rather have freedom and not have to deal with none of this but because the situation is what it is, i can deal with it. it's hard for her. she sees me as her first born little boy. it's hard for her to see me in this situation. >> i just want him home. that's all. i want him to come home. i know it's not going to happen. i want him home for christmas, another birthday.
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in the care of dean's mother sandy. that's become a source of tension. >> my mom treats her like she's her kid. >> raina is my life, my joy like sherae. she's always been my daughter. >> she comes here every sunday when she comes here and brings my daughter. it pisses me off. she holds her and plays with her hair. i appreciate she helps me out. that's my daughter. i should be able to raise her the way i want to, not the way she wanted to. apparently she didn't do a great job raising me. look how good i turned out. >> i did the tough love with her. i told her you don't get off drugs, you're not welcome here no more. then five minutes later, it's like i'll help you. you have to want to have help.
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sherae realizes now because i won't let her have her daughter until she gets help. she's not going to ruin my granddaughter's life by being around drug addicts. raina loves it with us. i tell her mommy is getting out. you going to live with her? oh i don't want to live with mommy. i want her to live with me, with you and paw paw. >> i've done everything to get away from my mom. i feel like my mom won. she gets to raise my daughter now. >> hey pumpkin. she doesn't let nobody make decisions for their. i never want my daughter to go through the stuff i went through. >> you look like you've lost weight. >> i'm trying. >> you not eating that cruddy foot. >> i keep working out. >> i see it in your face. you have black stuff on your eyebrows? >> it's eye liner. >> where the heck do you get eye liner from?
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>> pencil. >> that's not good for you. >> i know. >> why you do it? >> because i'm stuck in this [ bleep ] hole. i have nothing better to do. hey boo. i can't see you. what's up with your hair? >> she had the window down. i had it nice, real straight. i didn't think about bringing the brush. are you singing to your mom again? >> what song are you singing pumpkin? >> i forgot the name. >> did you hear that gucci man song weirdo? >> no. >> we don't play that kind of music. we play country music. >> stop trying to coerce my daughter to being a country bump kin. >> i don't like county. >> you do. who's taylor swift. >> i like taylor swift, and that's it. >> eventually the conversation turns to the most troubling topic between the two women.
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>> what are you going to do when mommy gets home? >> i don't know. >> are you going to live with mommy or live with grammy? >> i don't know. >> you better know. that's not even a question. are you going to live with your mom wherever your mom goes? >> so, you all right? >> i guess. >> you've got one minute left. we'll be here next sunday. >> pumpkin, i love you. i miss you. bye pumpkin. >> who do you want to live with when your mom comes home? like who does that? >> your mommy loves you? >> yes. >> she does dumb stuff all the time. she wants to make me feel like i daughter loves her more or something. >> who loves you more though? >> umm.
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>> grammy. does grammy love you? >> yes. >> i can't think now i'm so pissed off. of course my daughter is going to live with me when i leave. this is why i don't get along with my mom. i'm sitting in jail. my daughter has never lived with anybody but me. she's going to tell me, who do you want to live with? that's like you put a baby in front of somebody and say who do you love more? you can't do that to kids. i've been here so long having one charge. it's ridiculous. i need to go before my mom runs away with my kid or something. this has been entirely too long of a stay. i need to leave.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> ms. quevas, do you want to explain to me why i should not put you in prison? >> i'm tired of getting high. >> and you weren't tired before when i gave you a five-year prison sentence before? >> a drug addicted mother asks a judge to keep her out of prison. >> tell my dude look for someone who has collateral. >> just brought in on drug charges, a young man attempts to make bail.
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