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due to mature subject matter viewer discretion is advised. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> with more than 130 prior stays. >> he's been coming in here for a long time so everybody knowses randy hudson. a well-known inmate is back in jail. >> he's the nicest guy in the world when he's sober and when he's drunk he can be such an a-hole. alcohol drives a former marine to violence. >> i hit him once and knocked him to the ground and i hopped on and started raining them down
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on him. >> and the victim is his father. >> he's a 20-year-old trained marine, what can i do to stop him? if he wants to hurt me he can hurt me. >> this is the best unit in jail. >> this is the best house in the jail. >> life in the one wing of the jail that inmates consider prime real estate. >> we teasingly call this the hamptons. >> one will be expelled for good. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ grand rapids, michigan, ranks highly in most quality of life categories, but the occupants of a fenced-in brick fortress near downtown might disagree. this is the kent county jail. temporary home to about a thousand men and women most of whom are accused of crimes and are awaiting trial at the
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resolution of the cases. >> i can't do anything that i want to when i want to. i have to ask everybody. i hate asking for anything. >> food sucks. there ain't no sugar coating it. the food sucks. >> don't ever come here. >> one of the jail's minimum security housing units. >> we teasingly call this the hamptons because they're up here with no cells. they have freedom of movement. as long as they listen and that's kind of their punishment is the thought of having to go live behind doors again. >> most of the inmates in there are pretty compliant. they're easy going and a lot of them are in there for minor crimes. so we really don't have to stay on them that much. >> but you do still have to supervise it. >> i call it h2-awesome. it's pretty nice. you have more freedom. you have a microwave, two flat screen tvs we can watch. we have the pull-up bar and
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stuff for working out. >> this is the best unit in jail. >> this is the penthouse of the jail. >> it's still jail. you are locked in one room 100% of the time. >> sean and brandon arrived in the hamptons two months earlier shortly after his arrest. it was a night he says he remembers little of. >> i was blacked out drunk. so i don't even remember having that photo taken. every single time i've ever gotten in trouble has been directly related to alcohol. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i don't control how much alcohol i drink and then i black out and then i go crazy. >> denbraven says on the day of his arrest he had about 15 shots of whiskey before heading to his grandmother's house where he was living. >> now i'm not controlling my actions anymore and now i'm running on pure alcohol, bakley and i just walked into my
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grandma's house just being stupid and she got scared and, like, went to call my dad and i took the phone away and smashed it on the ground and she ran in her room and locked me out and called my dad and he came over and he was holding on to me or something i think -- i think. i hit him once and knocked him to the ground and i hopped on and started raining them down on him like crazy -- like a maniac, basically. >> the police report captures the brutal extent of the assault. denbraven punched his father more than 20 times, leaving him bleeding from the nose and ear and in need of medical treatment. he bit his mother on the arm. when police arrived he resisted arrest, shouted be on 16ities and only complied when the arresting officer drew his taser. >> it's like jekyll and hyde and there is the angel sean and the mean devil one with the horns. he comes out when i get too drunk. >> when denbraven pled guilty to aggravated domestic violence and
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is awaiting senting. this isn't the first time his drinking led to violence and time at the kent county jail. two months earlier he was arrested and later convicted of domestic violence and sentenced to 30 days. that time the victim was his 18-year-old cyster. >> apparently my sister came to my room and she was mad at me for shoulding and i was hammered so i grabbed her by the throat and, like, threw her across my room apparently. the next thing i knew i was getting put in handcuffs. >> this is what happens. this is what happens. eat your vegetables and go to school. >> i've been so caught up in, like, hanging out with my friends and being stupid and doing drugs that i lose sight of what i should be doing in my life. >> denbraven says the forced sobriety that comes with incarceration along with living in h2a has helped him become himself again. >> h2a. >> i try to be everyone's friend. for the most part i try to give
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everybody a chance no matter who they are. >> can i have your juice? >> yeah, you can have my juice. >> that's the first time you've given me anything. >> he gave you a friendship. >> i didn't ask for that. >> one of his newest friends is shaquille washington. >> it was weird for me at first because i'm just a country boy out in the boonies, you know? i've never been around flamboyantly gay people. >> i'm gay. gay as hell. since i came out of my mom i was a diva in diapers. what was your first thought when you saw me? >> i was overwhelmed, i was, like, whoa! that is so much gayness right in front of me. just right in front of me, but, it just -- just because i had never experienced it before. >> to each his own. i like girls. i like vaginas. he doesn't. he likes penises. who am i to tell him he can't like penises? >> everybody likes me. i can't explain anything else,
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other than me being the queen of the universe. >> i think people like me, love me because i'm so honest and i'm cutthroat. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i run the kingdom by myself. >> i'm like a little chester. >> i'm an ace. >> while washington seemingly reigns over the hamptons he admits he has trouble with his emotions. >> you guys are losers. >> every emotion leads to angry. when i'm sad i get angry. when i'm mad i get angry. everything just leads to anger. >> washington's anger has led to three domestic charges within the last year. >> the first time i got a domestic violence charge my ex angered me and i hit him in the mouth with my granny's cane and when the cops came my grandma
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said i hit her as well. >> washington pled guilty to both charges of domestic violence and was placed on probation shortly after his arrest. six months later he was back in jail for a third domestic violence charge. this time the alleged victim was his mother. he says it was all a misunderstanding. so he's pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. >> my mom said i'm ininnocent and my mom isn't going to lie for me. >> time in the hamptons is not as hard as he thought it it would be. >> being in the hamptons it makes me so i don't want to go anywhere else. so that restrains my thoughts so i calm myself down. >> still, the jail version of the hamptons is a far cry from the real thing. washington shares the unit with 62 other men. >> i've never smelled such strong, musty smells outside of jail like these men are musty, their breath stinks horribly. you can't smell someone's breath until you're face-to-face with
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them, but their breath travels. like, i walk into a cloud of breath. like, it's horrible. i'll be walking past a group of people and i smell breath and they fart all of the time and they have no manners. they were born not raised. he's a breath of fresh air and he knows him from the local clubs. >> that's the kicker. >> i had silver, like, dusk ois booty shorts on and a white tank top and white gogo boots. >> we're both gay and that makes me feel more comfortable around him unlike everyone else who is straight. >> i did the whole catwalk and the pole and i killed the stage. i killed it. >> i'll bet you did. >> davis' good times have been frequently interrupted by stays at kent county. he has prior convictions for larceny and breaking and entering and has been re-arrested several times on
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various parole violations. davis recently pled guilty to two new counts of larceny and is now awaiting sentencing. >> i can't wait to get out of here. >> girl, don't remind me. >> you have less days than i do. >> that's because you're a criminal. >> no. i'm innocent. >> you're a habitual offender. >> that was last year. >> new year, new you. >> that's what they say. new year, new you. >> jamal davis says good-bye to the hamptons and hello to another part of the jail. >> this is the projects. >> and later, you want to say hi to your mom? >> yeah. sure. let me talk to you. >> love you. >> love you, too, dad. >> sean denbraven gets a visit from home. but at xerox we've embraced a new role.
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♪ ♪ all right, guys. time for chow. we're doing a door break. if you want to eat make sure you come out. >> inside grand rapids kent
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county jail most inmates live in traditional two-person cells. while they're allowed to spend most of the day and early evening hours in the day room or rec areas with others, it's still more confining than doing time in the minimum security men's unit, h2a also known as the hamptons. >> go back to your day room. >> there are no cells in the hamptons, but that added sense of freedom comes with higher expectations for good conduct. >> they know what the expectations are and to be honest, at any given time you'll have 90 to 95% of the guys and maybe up to 5% of guys think they want to do it their way, and we either get them back on the page or we get them off. >> jamal davis has just lost his spot in the hamptons and is now in a considerably less desirable local. disciplinary segregation or more commonly known as the hole. >> in the hole it's a whole different story. this is the the projects. ♪ ♪
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♪ >> i can't watch tv. i can't drink coffee. i can't play cards. down here really sucks and i messed up a good thing. >> davis is awaiting sentencing for larceny or stealing personal property. his expulsion from the hamptons resulted after several mornings in which he and his friend shaquille washington slept past the mandatory 7:30 wake-up time. >> during the day, the inmates are not allowed to get under the covers. we've had a problem with inmates staying up through the night because they've slept all day and they interfere with other inmates and prevent them from going to sleep, making noise. >> we're the only ones who sleep in like that every day so he just got tired of it. >> jamal tends to do what shaquille does. they both act a little childish. they stick together quite a bit. i decided that day that one of them was going to move.
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>> he was asking us about, do we want to stay there or everything like that and i told him, i don't care. >> jamal said it with attitude. he said it with sass. his tone was very pointed and it was disrespectful so the c.o. was, like, well pack it up. >> deputy green decided that davis would be moved out, but only to another general population housing unit. the move to the hole would come a short time later. >> in the process of getting him moved he refused, didn't want to pack his stuff up. >> i was bitchy, let's put it that way. so i went back and got under my covers and i lay completely back down, but davis refusing orders, deputy green requested backup to help with the move. >> so i was, just being like, i'll just make a scene. how about that? i started to fight back. >> it wasn't much of a fight. deputies swarmed davis and raised his cuffed wrists above his head preventing further
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resistance. >> you want to get control of them to stop them from escalating their resistance. these officers have the arms over your shoulder and that would be a wrist lock, basically. he's just holding it there at this point, but you can apply pressure for compliance. he's caused a couple of problems and they're not giving him any more chances to do that. davis is placed in a holding cell where his bad behavior continued. >> once they left and took the handcuffs off me i was still pissed off and tried to flood the toilet, wet my mattress and they didn't like that so they put the handcuffs back on me. >> he was next moved to a camera cell where inmates could be observed 24/7, but that didn't deter him either. >> once he was placed in the camera cell using toothpaste as an adhesive, he covered the camera with a piece of paper. once the officers noticed that he'd covered up the camera, the officers went over and told him to remove the paper and he removes the paper, but there's still quite a bit of toothpaste still on the camera lens so they
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have him get a rag and clean the lens off further so we can better observe the actions in that cell. >> due to his behavior, davis' classification was changed from minimum to medium security. >> i now have a camera in my face 24/7 and they watch and record every move i do. if i would do it again, i would just move. >> davis also misses his friend. shaquille washington. >> i miss my bitch. we've known each other for, like, three years. >> washington, however, doesn't seem to share the same feelings. upon. >> i don't really know too much about him other than what i've seen and what i've seen isn't somebody who i would be best friends with. >> washington has moved on and reunited with another friend from the outside, jalani andrews.
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>> why do you do that, bro? >> he's really cool. i respect him. he's not a judgemental person at all. i would say he's my straight best friend. >> i just woke up. >> why did you wake me up? did you touch my feet again? >> i know shaquille since seventh grade. he's cool as hell. he's got a good heart. i'm proud to say that's my gay best friend. >> he is serving a sentence for carrying marijuana and carrying a concealed weapon. >> when people have guns that's when they have balls. ♪ ♪ >> the dude was, like, hey, bro. i have a strap do you want to buy it? what kind of strap? it was a 40. it was the most beautifulest gun i've seen in my life. >> the gun might have beenful boo, but it was also hot. >> when i got arrested and my
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lawyer said you know you have a dea agent's gun? no, i didn't. the only thing i didn't get in trouble was i didn't scratch the serial numbers off and there wasn't nothing in the chamber. if he'd done any of those things andrews could have been facing a stiff sentence in federal prison instead of a couple of months in the hamptons. >> it's a wake-up call. i am the youngest person on this pod. i'm 18 years old in this h2a [ bleep ]. it's the best part to be in, but that doesn't matter. i'm still in jail at the end of the day. >> at least in the hamptons there's always the possibility of something breaking out. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ coming up -- >> go out there and do what you say you're going to do. if i see you back in here for a
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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> inside the housing unit known as the hamptons in the kent county jail, sean denbraven brings a bit of country to the city. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i wrote a country song called rednecks. that was the first song i ever wrote and i think it turned out all right. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> explosion of redneck. loving the country, you know. loving hunting, fishing, four-wheeling, big trucks, country music and all that in
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one package. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> that's the redneck. >> i love that song. it's catchy. it's annoying as [ bleep ], but it's really, really catchy. it's probably one of the most catchiest songs i ever heard. >> you ain't got no liquor or nothing. >> sean denbraven is currently awaiting sentencing for raining 20 or more punches down on his father and biting his mother after losinging control of himself and drinking shots of whiskey. >> the judge i have will probably send me to rehab. i'm hoping that he releases me from jail and lets me just go to rehab myself because i'm going to be a little upset if he makes me stay in jail and wait for them to come pick me up because that's going to be a bummer. >> for now, younger inmates in the hamptons like denbraven,
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shaquille washington and henderson might benefit from the experiences of robert and christopher. >> they came to jail before then mates were born. >> now that you have a chance to change your life and you get to start all over again issue use it, you know? >> i don't want to be at mcdonald's and flipping burgers. i don't care if i have to clean up [ bleep ]. i'm going to do it. >> you think about more things. think about the things you're about to do before you do them now. >> exactly! >> me and some of the older guys we try to talk to them and let them know. this is no place to be, let them look at me and see that, you know, you could very well be me if you don't change your ways now. >> we do the things we do because we want to do them. ye want to go out and drink or smoke weed, whatever, that's because we want to do them. we ain't got to do them. we want to do them. it's the choices that i made to continue in the life of crime as i was continuing i get the same
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results no matter which direction i went, i still got the same results and i didn't want to see them go through the same thing. >> i've only been here, like, 70 days now and i've seen six or seven people come in to jail, leave, and come back to jail. >> and you watch people come back. i watched you come back twice and for the same exact thing. >> for the same thing. >> let's not make it no third time. you've got to take the first step and go out there and do what you say you're going to do. if i see you in here for a third time i'm going to [ bleep ] up. >> that will not be necessary. >> for every action there is a reaction. we try to instill that in them because a lot of the things they're going through, us older guys, we've been through it. >> what's your plans? >> my plans when i get out is to get a job, go to school and get an education and live my life free of bull [ bleep ]. >> whose bull [ bleep ]? >> everybody's bull [ bleep ]. >> i have a horrible temper that
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gets me into a lot of trouble. >> people learn from their mistakes and stuff. when a person's going through something, it's up to him to continue to go through it. now you can look back and say you heyed it through the storm. >> i can point you in the direction, you know? it's up to you to go that way. and shaquille, he wants to change, you know? when you can recognize when you're wrong and admit when you made fault then that's just a step forward. >> ten days later shaquille washington would have another opportunity to make it on the outside. the domestic violence charge in which he allegedly assaulted his mother was dropped, and he was released from jail. >> first thing's first is get a job. you know, take some courses at the community college. my future is very bright. it's very, very bright. coming up -- he'll come in just losing his mind and he'll come in start yelling and he knows me by first name, randy! >> i'm not proud of it. this is what can happen to your
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i'm melissa rehberger. here's what's happening. president obama paid tribute to the nation's war dead by laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. pope francis wrapped up his mideast pilgrimage after a visit to the rock shrine. rescuers are looking for three men believed to be trapped in a mudslide. a rain-soaked ridge collapsed and slid for three miles. back to "lock up." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ ♪ ♪ one big step back. >> about 26,000 men and women are booked in the grand rapids
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kent county jail every year. >> since they often arrive in booking, fresh from a crime scene or in various stages of intoxicati intoxication, the jail needs to quickly gather information about their pasts. that's accomplished with the tough touch of a finger of aye an identification device. >> that will run through the victim of anybody who has ever been here and it will make a match with them. >> not a single deputy at the kent county jail needs technology to identify randy hudson. >> he's what we would call a regular here, frequent flier. he currently holds the record for bookends in kent county jail. hudson has been coming to the jail since the late 1970s. >> i've been arrested like 162 times in michigan. >> hudson's been booked into the kent county jail alone more than 130 times. >> i'm very popular at kent county jail. >> hi, randy. how are you things going? things going all right?
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>> when i hear randy hudson's name i think back 20-something years ago when i started and he's been coming here a long time and everybody knows randy hudson. >> i've been here 24 years and he's been coming here five years longer than i've been here. i can't think of a year that he has not come to jail. >> i was 1 years old when he first started coming here. >> my reputation right now is that i'm the most arrested person in king county. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is what can happen to your life if you don't make positives choices. >> hudson says most of his arrests and convictions have stemmed from drugs, alcohol and vapor inhalation or sniffing substances like glue or paint. >> the first time i was in jail it was for intoxication of vapors and i was 18 and ever
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since then i've been arrested for open container, assault and battery, contempt of court, trespassing, possession of marijuana, open intoxication of vapors, third offense drunk driving, 30 years later still the same thing. i'm a grown man, you know? i know better, but -- >> whenever he is booked into the jail, hudson is almost always intoxicated and deputies say he can be a handful. >> he'll come in just losing his mind and he'll come in and start yelling. he knows me by first name, randy! randy and he goes on and on and on. he's the nicest guy in the world when he's sober and when he is drunk he can be such an a-hole. it just drives you crazy. ♪ ♪ >> within two or three days he usually is off and he mellows right out and he's not a problem. he's a model inmate. >> come right here. >> hudson's current charge is more serious than most of his others. he's pled guilty to felonious
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assault and is awaiting sentencing. he admits to striking a man with his belt, but says it was in self-defense. >> i had walked down to the store to get a couple more beers. the victim that i hit with the belt was coming out of the store and we sort of bumped each other and he pushed me. i pushed him back and that's when he hit me with his fist and he hit me with the beer can. i grabbed my belt and i hit him a couple of times and i went out to the parking lot and i called the police and told them i was just assaulted. the ambulance came and i was bloodied up, but i ended up going to the hospital and getting stitches and all of that so on my way of the hospital they come and arrest me for felonious assault. >> he has a prior felonious assault for which he has served prison. now he's eligible for more than a decade in prison. >> my record in my past is a strike against me. i'm not a bad person. i have problems in my life like
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everybody else does, you know. i'm pretty confident that, you know, it will work out. >> over in h2 a, the minimum security men's unit also known as the hamptons, sean denbraven's history with alcohol has started him down a dangerous road as well. >> what did they say? three months of rehab or something? >> i don't know. it didn't have a time on there. >> denbraven has pled guilty to aggravated domestic violence and is awaiting sentencing. in a drunken rage he bit his mother and pummeled his father with more than 20 punches to his head and face. >> i didn't drink every day or nothing. i was just a binge drinker and when i did drink i would drink too much and get into all sort of shenanigans. denbraven has received the recommendation put forth by the prosecution. they're calling for him to go to an inpatient rehabilitation rather than prison, but denbraven is not happy from the news. >> i don't want to go from being
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from locked in jail to being locked in another place which is hard core for me. i'm not a heroin addict and i don't smoke crystal meth and i just drink too much alcohol once in a while. >> today denbraven has a visit from two of his victims and his biggest supporters. >> this is his second time being arrested and it's mainly cycled around alcohol, alcohol abuse, a little drug abuse and getting out of control and getting in trouble. >> glen and kathleen denbraven are still dealing with the violence inflicted upon them by sean. >> furniture tipping over, lamps breaking. >> it was very traumatic. it's, like, this is not happening. this is not my life. he screamed at us. i hate you, i'm going kill you and he doesn't remember any of that. >> no. he's a 20-year-old trained marine. what can i do to stop him? if he wants to hurt me, he can hurt me. >> when sober, his father is the
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last person he would want to hurt. >> my dad is like my buddy. he's my dad and my friend at the same time. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing all right. hanging in there. just got a few more days. >> final countdown. >> yes, the final countdown. yep, for sure. >> another four days. >> i'm just really sick of being here, you know? >> i'm kind of sick of you being there, too. >> get me out of this place. >> well, it's not up to me. >> i'm pretty sure i'll have to go to rehab. >> that's what it's looking like. >> coming here and visiting him every week has got en route een over the last few months, but it's still pretty difficult. some days we don't want to go, but we should. we need to. it's tough to deal with sometimes. ♪ ♪ >> dad gets emotional easy, not that i don't, too, but it's been hard on the whole family. we never dreamed this would ever happen to us that one of our children, you know, would go off the deep end and would end up in jail. >> you want to say hi to your
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mom? >> yeah. sure. all right. i love you. >> i love you, too, dad. >> what's up? >> what's up? what's up? >> nothing. i just really don't want to, like, have to go to rehab. >> i know. >> that sucks. i've been in jail for three months. i kind of figured out by now that i don't want to [ bleep ] around when i get out of here. >> you have to do whatever the judge says? >> oh, really, is that how it works? >> what else am i supposed to say? >> i don't want to live at some stupid rehab place. i want to be able to go home. >> think you'll have fun anyway. >>. you're high. >> you must be stoned out of your mind. >> no, mom. you've never been incarcerated for five minutes in your life and i have no idea what you're talking about. >> i don't presume to. >> you're acting like you do right now. yeah. >> so i don't know what else to
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tell you. >> okay. here comes daddy. >> i love you, mo m. >> i love you, too. >> i see you getting agitated talking to your mom. >> i've been in jail for three months. i've pretty much figured out, like, i don't want to mess around and be a jack ass when i get out of here. >> right. >> he's expecting us to take him back home and i don't think our family can handle it right now. he needs to show us that he's going to get rehab and do some of these things on his own and show us in good faith that he's changed. >> you know i'm really sorry for everything that happened, you know? >> i do. >> for why i'm here, you know? >> yeah. we just -- >> we just want to move on and make sure it never happens again. >> it won't being dude, trust me. i'll be the first 21-year-old in the history of the universe not to get hammered on his 21st birthday. >> well that would be good. >> i'll sit down and drink coffee with you all night long.
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>> i'm going have one beer. >> i'm going have one beer. >> we'll see. i'm going to have one beer. >> all right. we're almost done. >> well, i love you. thank you for coming and i'll see you wednesday. >> we'll see you soon. >> all right. bye. >> i can forgive him for what happened, but to say it will never happen again, the first time he got out of jail we bailed him out and yeah, i'm never going to drink again. i'm never going to do this stuff again. jail sucks, i spent two weeks there. month and a half later he's back in for a three-month stretch because he did the same thing before. i want to believe you, but i'd have to be a fool to blind trust you again. >> coming up, a hamptons inmate goes tree. >> i feel like a peacock that wants to fly. >> he's not a bad kid, but hence the kid part. >> i'm nauseous every once in a while. sean denbraven prepares to be
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before dawn, most of the inmates at the kent county jail is still asleep, jalani andrews is wide awake and on his way to say good-bye to sean denbraven. >> i'm leaving, bro. >> i love you, bro. >> love you, too, bro. >> andrews has completed his 75-day sentence for marijuana possession and carrying a concealed weapon and is now headed home. >>. >> first thing i do when i get home is i'm going to take a shower and a bath and i'll take another shower and another bath and i'll take another shower. >> as andrews goes through the
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exit process, a former resident has arrived to pick him up, shaquille washington. >> you take care of those who take care of you. while i was locked up in here he always looked out for me. so he didn't have nobody to pick him up and my best friend shaquille is a man of his word and he came and got me. i feel like a bird that wants to ply. or a peacock that wants to fly or ostrich that wants to swim. i feel like a rock that can walk. high five! >> jamal davis who is currently in segregation after refusing orders to leave the hamptons won't be celebrating freedom any time soon. he has just been sentenced to state prison for a term of one to four years on two counts of larceny. >> i am really worried about going to prison. prison is really unpredictable. >> can you open 32? >> today. deputy james is checking in on
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davis who at 19 years old has never been to prison. >> so the minimum time you're going to do is what? a year? >> you're not going to go to maximum security, you know that, don't you? just roll with it and see where it takes you. don't over think this and everybody sits there and worries and worries and worries and you don't do yourself any good doing that anyway. >> while you're there if you can take any classes or do anything while you're in the prison system do it. do whatever you can, you know, to help you out and when you get out you'll have her education. do what you can while you're locked up. >> he just wanted to talk to somebody. i guess it helped him out and he had someone to bounce something off of. all right upon. take it easy. >> bye. >> it meant a lot because that's all i wanted and i can just see when he was talking to me that he was trying to help. >> sean denbraven's time is most likely coming to an end as well.
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he's being sentenced for biting his mother and assaulting his father. >> i got my court hairdo. >> he forgot to shave. >> i forgot to shave, but i think i'll probably survive, but, yeah, and the mean old deputy wouldn't give him his razor because he missed last call. >> it's my fault, because i wasn't on the ball. >> denbraven has developed a rapport with deputy early. >> he's not a bad kid, but hence the kid part. >> i'm obnoxious every once in a while, and hopefully after today i won't be here at all ever again. >> i hope i never see you again. >> fingers crossed. >> maybe at the quickie mart. >> we're just like tom bodet. we'll leave the light on for you. >> denbraven has twice been arrested for assaulting family members.
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he'll receive inpatient rehabilitation. many inmates would consider themselves lucky but not denbraven. >> i am an alcoholic and i do have a drinking problem. so, yeah, it probably will help me in the long run, it's just i don't want to do it. >> are you both getting sentenced today? >> yeah. >> i believe so. >> what's going to happen to you? >> i'm here for probation violation. >> i'll give you sound advice, when you go in there, be respectful to the judge. >> absolutely. i've got the politeness down to a science. let me give you another tidbit of advice. don't talk, just listen. >> that's another thing i was planning on doing. >> a little bit, i don't want to go spend another three months living at a rehab facility, you know? i want to go home and be with my family. >> can you turn around for me, please? >> yes, i can. >> raise your hands.
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>> all right. on your knees. >> it's kind of degrading, really, being all shackled up like this like an animal. shotgun. i skaul shotgun! >> coming up -- cheeseburgers, french fries, shrimp. boiled eggs with toast. i don't have that no more. >> randy hudson regardless a bygone era and sean denbraven faces a new world. >> get on out. >> where are we going? >> that's quite a bright t-shirt. >> i know. that's quite the outfit. and now angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects
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a lot has changed since randy hudson has been coming here and the changes are for the better. >> you can smoke in here and back then, you would sit in your cell and you'd get to smoke a cigarette. you can't do that no more. cheeseburgers, french fries, shrimp. boiled eggs with toast. we don't have that no more. >> hudson has had more than 130 stays at the kent county jail and all of his arrests in one way or another have been rooted in drug and alcohol addiction. >> how are you doing, randy? >> okay. >> haven't seen you in a week. >> i've been hanging in there. >> i've known officer dan ever since i've been working here. i was 17, 18 when i came in here. >> i need to get a girl that's a little older, you know? i want to settle down a the bit, you know? >> you need someone to put you on a leash and a tether to slow you down?
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>> there you go. yeah. >> i have a feeling i'll retire and he won't. he'll keep coming back. >> take it easy. >> a few days later, hudson learned that he will not be returning to the jail any time soon. his judge has given him a you can start planning things, you know. >> hudson will soon be transferred to state prison. he had well over 100 jail stays. this will be his fourth prison term. >> i call these really dark days, you know, because my past always seems to haunt me. it never goes away, you know. so i guess the best thing you could do is don't come back to jail or prison, choose the better way of life, you know, stay away from guns, alcohol, whatever keeps making you come
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back. >> straight in against the wall. >> shawn is 33 years younger than hudson, but has seen alcohol lead to two convictions for domestic violence. his first victim was his sister. now he has just been sentenced for the second charge in which he assaulted his parents. >> so pretty much went as well as it could be. i'm getting released. got three years of probation, got $2390.58 of fines, and it says i got to go to rehab and not be a jack ass for three years. >> you have to change out. >> this is the room. this is the room. >> and the paperwork. >> he will trade in his jail uniform for the clothes he was wearing the night of his arrest. >> all right. we'll step out so he can change. >> those clothes are his
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pajamas. >> all right. let's get on out. which way? >> that's quite a bright t-shirt. >> i am sure that's my dad's blood probably. >> from what? >> from when i beat his face in. >> why would you do a thing like that. >> because i was blacked out drunk going ham on the universe. >> well, all right. we'll go this way. >> all right. been a crappy three months. it sucks. i really don't want to come back to jail. i pretty much figured out that i don't want to go out and drink and like be stupid. >> you have one release, door four. in we go. >> i think i've grown up a bit, i realized i was still holding on to that high school party mentality. since i been in jail, i realized i did it already, get a job, stop being a jack ass, maybe try to do something with my life.
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that's my dad and my mom there, and it is delicious out here. it just tastes so good. >> i can park wherever i want. >> i'm not telling you not to. good to see you, dad. >> group hug. >> we feel relieved. we got what we were hoping for, no more jail time, he is just sentenced to probation and to go through rehab. you know, he's excited about putting his life back together, we're excited about him putting his life back together, so it is a big relief to be going the next step.
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>> i can be your best friend. at the same time, if you cross me, do me wrong, i can be your worst inmate. >> an inmate with a record since age 14 comes to terms with his past and his present. >> i am not coming back. >> pretty sure i heard that last time. >> i got beat up on

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