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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 grandville
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avenue, thrown down the stairs in my underwear in my bra and the snow. >> she was once a school secretary and mother before crack and prostitution turned her world upside down. >> every time i lay down and fall asleep, i dream about crack. >> another inmate is caught off guard and viciously assaulted. >> most cake is dry, you know, not very moist like that at the bottom of it. i know something went right with the cake, said i think i'm going to have to do something about this. >> straddling the grand river, grand rapids combines the amenities of a sophisticated
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city with small town charm and natural beauty. forbes magazine calls it the best city in america to raise a family. even the best families face problems. a few miles from downtown is the kent county jail. >> people ask me all the time when i'm out there in the world, who you got in jail. i always tell them well, we've got your family members, your neighbors, your co-workers. >> on any given day, about a thousand men and women are incarcerated here. >> i want you guys on your bunks. time for head count. i need your id. >> while some are convicted, most are only accused of crimes and awaiting trial or the resolution of their case zbls you've got the people standing behind you in line at the grocery store, people handing the food out at the drive through, those are the people we have in jail. >> a life in the sack. >> a few years earlier may have been a surprise to local residents to see brandy knight inside the jail.
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they might have remembered her as a popular secretary at a nearby elementary school. >> many of the people that knew me from school, if any of them would see me now they would know something is seriously wrong. two years ago i started smoking crack and i resigned from my job and lost both my daughters, started living on the streets using crack. >> knight is charged with possession of narcotics. she pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. she says her problems began with a pain pill addiction that escalated when her youngest decided to live with her father zblchlt she wanted a father. i couldn't deny her that. i said you can go live with your dad. from that point on, it became
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empty. my older daughter was involved in high school sports, wasn't home. and i would work. my little one was gone. didn't have any purpose. i sat down and never left that life. >> that night led to the streets of grand rapids. >> division is a street for prostitution. i did walk the streets prostitution wise. there's a lot of money. that's basically what a lot of girls do, they make like $1200 a day. i spent everything i got on drugs. it was different than anything i ever imagined my life would be. >> knight's crack addiction led to multiple arrests in grand rapids. >> somebody asked me the question one time do you love your daughters or do you love crack more. and i sat there and i had to
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think about it. i mean, i didn't have to think about it, i know, but i said i would have to say i love crack more, as horrible as that is. otherwise i would be home with a daughter on each side of me, watching popcorn and watching a blockbuster movie. instead i am in this ratty hotel in the bathroom, smoking crack in front of the mirror. there isn't anywhere else i would rather be. >> while brandy knight might have once blended in in family friendly grand rapids, brian is the first to admit he doesn't. >> i can be your best friend. same time, if you cross me, do me wrong, i can be your worst enemy. >> looking at the tattoos, i about a blew back. you don't see many with tattoos like that. >> he looks ex-centric. hard to tell what this person might be like. >> never in a million years if i
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saw brian on the street would i approach him for any reason under the sun. >> usually you meet me, they look at me, they're like there's something wrong with that guy. really i just love tattoos. i just love tattoos. i think they're awesome. >> he got one that's a crown on his head. turns into a bandanna. >> it was the worst pain of my life. he would hit here, my leg would start twitching because of the nerves. >> he says his criminal career began at age 14 selling crack, got the crown and many other tattoos during his prison turn for assault and battery. he was on the street four months before he was arrested again as part of a crime ring.
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that stole tvs from motor homes. he says he's innocent but pled guilty to larceny from a vehicle. >> if i go to trial with my tattoos and past crimes being on parole, if i lose, then i'm going back to prison. >> instead, he was sentenced to one year at the kent county jail. he says now, he's finally motivated to go straight. >> it's nice to see your wife if it is just a picture. it helps with the day. >> prior to the latest arrest, he married a friend from childhood. >> no one makes me feel like elena does. i want to do more with myself. she makes me want to be better. she makes me want to be a man and take care of her and her parents were kind of iffy about me. they know of me and my friends when i was younger. one of my friends stole her parent's car and sold it for crack. >> he says things got better
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when they saw how he cared for elena's 2-year-old daughter. >> i took care of her, changed here, feed her, get her dressed, give her a bath at nighttime, play with her. they were shocked. they were like your whole persona changes when you are with her. a lot of people are amazed. they look at me and expect me to be a complete [ bleep ]. i'm not. >> he writes regularly to elena who lives two hours away in detroit. >> i do little things like that. she likes to get pictures from me. anything makes her happy. >> it's love. >> it is, right? >> coming up, elena pays a visit and delivers a message. >> i don't want to deal with this all the time. it's not the life i want for me or my daughter. >> a piece of cake leads to a bloody assault. brandee nyp's life on the streets hits home for the family
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inside grand rapids kent county jail, technology is just one tool deputies use to maintain the peace. like neighborhood beat cops, they employ old fashioned leg work called block checks. >> we are looking to see if anybody is up to no good, basically, see if there's contraband being messed with, that kind of thing. we are looking at everything, make sure inmates aren't bunching up into a certain area. something going on in that area. >> guys, step back. >> normally, an area is really loud and it's really quiet all of a sudden, something is going on.
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they are sending signals. >> sometimes there is no warning. surveillance cameras captured an inmate-on-inmate attack. a deputy takes control of the situation and separates the men. >> should be all locked down. yep. that inmate is a little bit bloody there. it kicked off during the meal time. >> zachary and antoine. >> we responded to a fight. he was punched numerous times with a cut inside his lip. >> they are going to clean him up and evaluate his injuries. if he requires internal stitching, they can't do it here. he will have to be taken to the hospital. the other was taken to the segregation unit. desegregation unit. >> they'll investigate to see if it was a fight or assault. >> the deputy up there talked to other inmates, reviewed the camera to see what all happened.
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>> one of the witnesses was a trustee, an inmate maintenance worker. >> the dude was grabbing water. he walked up behind him, don't touch my food. don't touch my food. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] dude never hit him back, though. he just stood there. blood there. blood there. i have to get bleach and clean this up and scrub. every day you get something like this. it's entertaining. i have to deal with the aftermath. >> after their initial treatment, jail medical staff decide to send harvey to the hospital. >> he's going to get checked out by a doctor and probably get a couple stitches in his lip. >> as for the fight, harvey says he doesn't know what prompted it. >> came out of my cell, sat down, made a cup of coffee. came back and he started hitting
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me. i don't know what i did. >> do you know him? >> i traded him a piece of cake. i don't even talk to him. >> inmates often trade food. the small dessert cake is one of the more popular items. harvey chose the wrong person to trade with. >> i believe there was urine at the bottom. most cake is dry, not very moist like that at the bottom. so i believe there was urine. i know something wasn't right with the cake. i said, you know, i think i have to do something about this. >> i think mr. gill is possibly a little paranoid. i just feel it was his paranoia that caused him to react the way he did. >> gill who was recently convicted of manufacturing and delivering narcotics had similar issues in the past. >> every day, i was told by the inmates or trustees in the pod, as soon as he receives his carton of drink, he throws it in
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the trash. >> see how hard it is to open that? i am going to give you what's in here right now. that's it. saliva. spit. juice. >> whether the fight was a result of gill's belief his cake was tampered with or something else will be up to staff to determine. lieutenant newman and sergeant thorn begin by reviewing the tape. >> okay. the suspect is walking across d room and the victim is walking toward him. unexpectedly the suspect begins to punch the victim repeatedly. >> doesn't look like that guy threw any punches at all. >> looks like an assault. >> absolutely. gill throws every strike. gill just catches him off guard and just -- >> i don't see harvey throw any punches, may have put his hands
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grand rapids, michigan described as america's most family friendly city. but brandee nyp, a former school secretary, lost custody of her two daughters after she fell into a life of crack addiction and prostitution on the city's division street. >> my daughters haven't seen me yet. i haven't seen my youngest daughter in a year and a half. >> nyp's 12-year-old lives with her father, and her 17-year-old lives with nyp's mother and father. nyp is in jail awaiting trial on drug possession charges. >> i'm happy where i'm at, just being sober each day. it's a great stride for me.
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smoking crack every single day for two-and-a-half years, all day, all night, is totally different than being awake and having normal energy. >> nyp has decided to apply for the sober living unit, a 90 day treatment program she hopes will help her remain sober when she's out of jail. >> it is important to get in the sober living program for the coping issues. i have a lot of dreams. every time that i lay down, fall asleep, i dream about crack. to whom it may concern. i am a 36-year-old young woman who spent the last two years battling with a crack addiction. i was writing to ask if you could consider me for sober living. i am having some issues coping. it is the education, how to get over the guilt and the shame, how to work through those feelings with your family. thank you for your attention in this matter, sincerely, brandee nyp. it is just important how to start out the structure of just
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a normal daily life. >> her next step is to contact people that most desperately want to see her off drugs, her parents. hi, mom. it is still very hard for me that -- what i put my family through, and how i hurt them with my drug addiction. >> what's the matter? nothing. huh? nothing. how about you? she said well, i heard you choking up crying, you know, everything all right, and i said yes, you know, you know why i was in here, she said yes. are you sad? you sound like you're crying or you just got up? oh.
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yeah. oh, okay. did dad talk to an attorney or anything? my only plan this time is having my parents pick me up and maybe going home with them right off the get go and seeing which programs or having them bring me straight to a program. >> nyp's parents home is 40 miles and a world apart from kent county jail. while it might seem an ideal place in which to recover, nyp's mother jamie, raising her teenage daughter, says that's no longer an option. >> i want her to go somewhere but i don't know what i would do with her because, you know, we have her children to think about and you can't have that going on. >> any time i have gotten out of here, i have been using crack within an hour of leaving here, so i have no positive past of
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even making it whatsoever. >> during one of nyp's earlier stays at the house, jamie experienced a painful insight into her daughter's life on the streets. she had a towel on, had gotten out of the shower, i saw a circle on top of her buttocks, you know, on your back side. and i go honey, what is that on your back side there? she said oh, it's okay, mom, i got stabbed by a screwdriver one time. and i said oh. you hurt my heart bad. i just can't imagine, i just can't imagine. she always seemed to be a very happy and amazing kid. she always was on top of things. very independent, very motivated. very adventurous. that's how i would describe her, very adventurous, very outgoing, very social.
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you get so angry sometimes you literally say i hate this person. if i saw her, i could just wind one up and i'd just pop her. and then i think well, what good does that do, you know? to heck with it. let it go. keep living your life because all's it's doing is aging us, you know? it's not really how we had things, you don't have a baby and you don't raise your children to become drug addicts. you just don't do that. then i'll say have you had enough of this roller coaster ride, ready to get off this merry go round? yes, mom, i'm ready. and i think we're right on track
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and everything caves in again. >> i've been wanting to get off the streets, and i have every opportunity in the world. i have a big support system, i have a wonderful family. it's never the right time to go. i keep looking for the perfect ending and there's not going to be a perfect ending. i'll be dead before there's a perfect ending. coming up. >> when i first got to the car, thought he was a trick. he was an older white man, most of the gentlemen on division are older white men and they have money. >> brandee nyp gets a visit from a man she met on the streets. and deputy looks for more on the cake controversy. >> he says the bottom of the cake was moist.
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>> i have seen no issue with him since he has been here. really a decent guy. >> his good behavior and demeanor helped him earn a coveted job. >> i am the police bitch. i clean, i pass food. i do anything they ask me to do. >> trustees don't get paid, but spend more time out of their cells, often get an extra meal or two. >> been working out, lost weight, lost probably 15 pounds. doing this a week, probably gained back seven, eight, all i do, i get cakes. i will take the cakes and what not. then all through the day, just eating cakes. every morning, i am like i can't eat this. we had coffee cakes. some of the best cake we get. of course i am going to eat it. you put it in front of me, i am
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going to eat it. i am a natural fat kid. i like cake. >> the popularity of the jail cake recently led to problems between zachary harvey and antoine gill. >> going down the stairs. >> after speaking with roommates, they had a transaction where gill gave harvey coffee for cake. somehow that led to gill assaulting harvey. we will have a deputy interview the inmates. >> mr. gill. >> focus, man. >> the surveillance footage left no questions about who started the fight, gill will have a hearing to explain himself. if he is convincing, may talk his way out of segregation. >> like to ask you a couple questions. some of the guys sitting at the table with harvey said harvey was going to trade a piece of cake to you for another item? >> i gave him some coffee. he told me he would give me two cakes in return. i thought that could be cool. >> did he pick it up and hand it to you? >> he didn't hand it to me.
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i grabbed it myself. >> you reached over and picked it up. >> he was like there's a cake there. as i picked it up, those cakes are dry. this cake was really soggy at the bottom of it. you know. i believe by me being so immune to it, i can't smell it no more, it might have been urine up under it. i could be wrong, but i am pretty much right. >> want to give you a possible explanation. when they stack the trays up, some of the food is hot, some is cold. when the trays are stacked on each other, they're insulated, heat and cold creates condensation. it is possible there was condensation on the bottom where the piece of cake was, that's possible how it could have become soggy. just a theory. >> some staff describe gill as paranoid. he was deemed competent by the
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courts, and was also examined by the jail's mental health staff. >> as far as we're concerned, he has some behavior problems, institutional problems that we've noticed that have been obstruction to the jail. >> deputy arts must presented gill's allegations about the cake. he is serving six months for assault with a deadly weapon. >> i was messing around, hit a kid in the face with a bb gun. i am a horrible shot with any kind of weapon. >> he said there was a piece of the corner missing or something. >> that's how i got the cake. it was crumbled a little. >> we all know when the cake is put on the trays with other food, things get broke, and he also said that the bottom of the cake was moist and he thought that it was tampered with and possibly urine on it. >> i didn't touch the cake at all. i didn't do it. and i just gave it to him.
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i was the only one in the pod talking to him, being polite to him. >> i appreciate your cooperation. i'm sorry that you were assaulted the way you were. some people just are not nice people. >> yeah. >> following the hearings, harvey was cleared of any wrongdoing, and gill received 15 days in disciplinary segregation. brandee nyp steered clear of problems with other inmates. as she awaits drug charges, she's grateful the jail kept her off crack. she admits the drug that cost her so much still tugs at her. >> the whole thing for me is seeing it come through the glass, through the pipe. like breaking off the rock and putting it on top of the glass, then melting it down all the way, if it is good crack, it will melt all the way 'til you can't see it any more. you know, the whole ritual.
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then holding the glass up to your mouth and just breathing it in. and watching it go through the glass is what i have been more addicted to than the drug, than the high. >> nyp need go no further than her bunk for another reminder of her life on the outside, a friend just across the street. >> i put my name up here. not supposed to. i put my name up here, and lives in front of that building here, and he saw me, kept looking around, looked up, saw my name. so then we were waving back and forth. >> tom hawkins occasionally puts money on her inmate account to buy goods from the jail commissary. he makes regular visits. >> my relationship with tom is just a friendship, just i met him walking down the road actually. >> the road was division street. nyp was working as a prostitute on it.
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hawkins picked her up. >> when i first jumped in the car, thought he was a trick. most of the gentlemen on division are older white men, you know, and they have money. it was nothing like that. and we know that, and that's okay, but i am sure the perception is of that. >> i am what you call an empty nester. i am by myself. my family has always been ones willing to take somebody in that needed some help. i would like to see her straighten out her life, and if i could be part of the thing that helps her do this, great. how you been? >> i been good, how are you? >> you tried getting a hold of me the other day and you never called back. >> you know if i don't call or something, that means i'm locked in my cell. >> yeah. >> you can write me though. >> i can what? >> you can write me a letter. >> yeah. >> right from across the street!
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>> yeah. >> i ate all my commissary already, so i have to wait until friday. i am so hungry. >> there's a lot of hope for her if she chooses to do something about it. she has only been out there a couple years now, so she remembers a very good life. >> is there anything quick you need done. >> no, i'm good. you said you were going to put $20 in. i appreciate that. thank you. a certain person would try to manipulate him or take advantage of him and i haven't done so. i think that's why our friendship has continued to be so good. i love you. >> i love you, too. i'll set up appointment for next monday. personally i think she's right where she needs to be and get into a program here instead of getting out of here and i'm sure she will just go right back to what she's doing. >> nyp applied for the 90 day sober living unit, but the program director rob steele has
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bad news. >> we have limited resources, we can't take everybody that wants it, and so we target the sentenced people we know are being released directly back in the community at the end of that period. we want to make sure you have enough time to complete the program and we want to catch you at your tail end of your sentence. >> okay. >> so you walk out of here in that recovery mode, hopefully continue that. >> right. >> i don't know your whole history. i know your criminal history and i did notice that you're arrests have taken place the last couple years. seemingly you were a normal person with a normal life until the addiction hit, obviously very powerful and has taken over. >> yes. >> you have a pretty good support system. >> very good support system. >> which is a key element. if people behind you are there to help support you and you're focused, i think you can do it, people do it. it really comes down to -- >> me. >> you.
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>> coming up. >> they reduced my bond. >> brandee nyp has a chance to leave jail, but has a questionable history with the man who might bail her out. >> tell the truth, why did he stab you and break your ribs? >> because he was upset with me. >> really? >> brian's wife pays a visit. dor lobster toppers event! 4 delicious entrees topped with sweet, succulent maine lobster starting at just $15.99! like savory new wood-grilled shrimp topped with maine lobster in a citrus hollandaise... or the new ultimate: lobster-topped lobster -- 3 split maine lobster tails topped with maine lobster in a creamy white wine sauce! four choices, for a limited time, starting at just $15.99! everything's better with lobster! come in now, and sea food differently. everything's better with lobster! here you go. good catch! alright, now for the best part. ooh, let's get those in the bowl. these are way too good to waste, right? share what you love with who you love. kellogg's frosted flakes®
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brian wants to look his best. his wife of six months, elena is about to make a drive from detroit to see him. >> i miss her. it has been hard being locked up. in the end, she's the only one i wanted, all i think of. i promised her i wouldn't get in trouble. doing my best to stay out of trouble. >> it is easy to get in trouble, hard to get out of it. >> ain't that the truth though. >> my wife just likes it buzzed. i'm already married, ain't got nobody to impress. happy wife, happy life. took me awhile to learn that one. >> while he looks forward to seeing his wife, brandee nyp has bigger news. she just returned from court where the judge lowered her bond by $5,000. nyp hopes her friend, tom hawkins, might be able to bail her out. >> yeah, they came and got me
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for court, said nyp, get up, you're going to court, i didn't know it. i went to kentwood today. >> oh, what happened? >> they reduced my bond. it's -- one is 5,000, 10%, 500. they reduced the other one to 1,000. >> yeah, i don't have money right now, i told you that. >> you don't? >> no, i got a tax thing going on right now. >> i know that. like okay, so you can't help me out. if somebody brings you the money, can you get me out? >> if somebody brought me money, yeah. >> do you think you could help get me out today and i could give you the money back so we don't have to deal with all that? >> i don't have the money. i'm really tight. >> okay, okay.
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>> okay. >> so remember the gentleman who stopped at your house before? i'm probably going to call him, ask him if he can come over, bring you the money. can you call him right now for me, let him know? >> yeah. then i'm going to call you back. okay. love you. tom is broke right now. tom won't have money for about a month. >> nyp's plan is to have another friend from the streets bring the money to hawkins. >> babe, bring $1500 to tom so he can come bail me out. reason being, he won't come down here, put his id and go through all that, and he is also responsible if i am on bond if something happens. tom is willing to make himself responsible. >> coincidentally, one of nyp's new friends in jail, lisa rush, knows the man nyp asked to put up her bond. >> you not going to have to pay him no money back? >> no, no. >> you sure? >> it has been like that, no, nothing like that, no.
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uh-uh. >> are you sure? >> i swear. >> if you do, don't do it. >> bonded me out before for 1200. i have never done that ever. i've never worked for him like that. uh-uh. i don't even -- i never even -- nothing. >> i heard you said it earlier, you was like i am going to have to work for the whole day. >> i said it, the whole -- you know what i mean, i would give him money back, but i don't have to. it doesn't matter either way. >> brandee, i think you're not being truthful right now, he's going to make you pay him that money back. he going to do something, try to do something. let me ask you this, tell the truth. >> why did he stomp you and break your ribs. >> he stabbed me and break my ribs because he was upset with me. >> about what? >> just flipped, his sister was
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in the hospital and i was on a binge for awhile, like he has done a lot for me. like he's not like my dope boy or some pimp that i work for. he is a lot more than that. that's why i hold him in such high regards. yes, we did have an altercation one time, but he has saved me on the streets. i will ask that man to carry my casket, for real, he is a hero to me. he is a hero. and i admire him. he saved me from being raped. he saved me, i got beat up grandville avenue, thrown down the stairs in my bra and underwear in the snow, i looked over, his car happened to be there and he picked me up, brought me to the hospital. >> that's how you met? >> no, i knew him before i smoked crack. he did every single thing he could to not ever have me get out of the car and go walk division or do something with my body for drugs, everything he could. contacted my parents, contacted my kids, sent them pictures. he did everything.
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>> that was good. >> everything. >> that's good. >> the series of events that happened later was after a couple year relationship and i'm being stupid, drugged out, running the streets, walking division, making poor choices, killing myself. >> for real. >> using myself and he knew, he knows i am better than that, so it got him frustrated. he doesn't know how to deal with his anger so well, that's when he put his hands on me. >> a few days later, the bond was paid. who paid it is a matter of confidentiality. but brandee nyp, still facing charges, was released from kent county jail and back on the streets. coming up. >> we were married about two months, then he got locked up and he has been here ever since. >> we spent more time me being in jail than we did me being
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at home, and that's pathetic. >> brian sees his wife. and we learn what became of brandee nyp. helps reduce the risk of heart disease. keep heart-healthy. live long. eat the 100% goodness of post shredded wheat. doctors recommend it. and it feels like your lifeate revolves around your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira adalimumab. humira has been proven to work for adults who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief, and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer, have happened. blood, liver and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure have occurred.
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brian says he has seen worse places than kent county jail. >> cockroaches this [bleep] big. they look like they walking on 20 rims, they are leaning back when they run. >> today is a better day than most. >> miss my wife. love seeing my wife any time i can. i mean, help days go by. >> his wife elena just made the 150 mile drive from detroit for a 40 minute visit. >> married about two months, then he got locked up and he has been here ever since. >> i mean, she's had to go through it all.
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she's a strong woman. she breaks me down sometimes. she's the only person that can. she has a lot of power over me and nobody else does and she knows it. >> you're in number one. >> thank you. i am frustrated with brian for getting locked up. the last time when he got out of prison said he was done, he was not going back, wasn't going to do anything, and he is here. so -- >> how fast did you drive? >> fast because otherwise i was going to miss it. >> too fast? >> yeah. >> what is that you're wearing, necklace? i ain't ever seen that one. >> because you've been gone since january so i've acquired quite a few new things since january. >> 138 more days. >> man, that's a long time. >> i get out on your birthday, don't i? >> day before. >> yours is the 19th? >> you're lucky you're through a tv screen, let me tell you.
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>> i'm still scared to come home. you want me to get this removed still? >> please. >> please. >> i don't want to see that again. >> places will remove it for free since it is gang related. you have to google free gang tattoo removal. >> i have no problem looking that up for you. >> look it up and let me know. i miss you. i'm ready to come home. this jail [bleep] sucks. >> stop coming back. >> pretty sure i heard this last time. >> what last time? >> last time this happened, and the time before that, and the time before that. it is kind of hard to believe him when i heard it before and it wasn't true. kind of frustrating because we're getting to that age where i don't want to be dealing with this all the time, you know, this is kid stuff to me, and if he would like to make a life of it, it is not a life i want for me or my daughter.
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>> we spent more time me being in jail than we did me being out. and that's pathetic. i don't blame her. that's not life anybody would want. i love you. kiss the baby for me. >> love you. >> shake her a little bit. >> really? >> shake the baby. ha-ha-ha. >> you always got to be sarcastic. >> always got to be sarcastic, you know. ha-ha-ha. >> that's brian. you know, love him or leave him and i love him. >> all right, i love you, baby. >> all right, love you. >> love you. >> bye-bye. >> getting in trouble, there's no if, ands, buts, i can't. if i do, i'll lose my family. got to man up and change, stay home, take care of the family. >> prior to her release two months earlier, brandee nyp said she would like to return to her family as well, and put her crack addiction behind her, but
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those plans are on hold. >> brandee has been brought back on a bond violation, so the bonding agents are outside with her, appears she's in handcuffs now. we're waiting on a female officer to come in, conduct a pat down search and then we'll process her back into jail. >> hi. >> suzi. >> what's up. >> not going to run on us, right? >> no. come on. >> nyp was apprehended by her bondsman after missing a court date. >> using last night? >> no. >> four days clean. >> four days clean. >> you're clean? >> let me see your tongue. back there. >> nyp is fingerprinted, soon has another mugshot added to the file.
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>> look straight at the camera. that's good. >> are you high right now? >> no, no. i have been clean four days. yep. >> how do you feel about being -- >> fine, i was getting ready to turn myself in. i ka -- was prepared for it. it's all right. >> four days later, nyp is settled back in her old housing unit, seemingly more insightful about the choices she's made. >> i never realized it before, when i got out of here last time, i realized that you don't have any friends out there, and i always, you know, out of all those people and all the people you helped and all those people you hung out with and done all these things for, you don't have any friends at all, not one. and i also realize that for the
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first time in three years, i realize those people don't see me really for who i am, you know. when i look in the mirror, i see myself as who i am, who i was raised, how my parents raised me, what they taught me when i look at myself. but those people see you as somebody totally different. those people see you as a prostitute, you know, crack addict, who can use your weakness to their advantage, and that you're really that stupid, and really i'm not, i'm much more than that, and i never, ever thought that those people looked at me like that, and i never knew that before, so i just don't want that in my life any more.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. how do i describe myself? mother [ bleep ]. >> inmate tries to leave jail the hard way. >> shoots him with a taser, he goes down, 50,000 volts. >> went ahead and ordered a second -- i don't remember anything about that. >> convicted of her fifth drunk driving charge, a female inmate could lose everything. >> i wanted to tell you that you were a good wife are and a good

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