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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> yo, listen. move from the table for real. >> a female inmate known for fighting finds love with ang alleged leader. >> he came out with a stack of paper. >> staff must now prepare for their jailhouse wedding.
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>> shortest wedding you've ever seen. >> he must choose between his crime family and real family. stretching across the eastern half of long island, new york, suffolk county is best known for the exclusive beachfront villages known as the hampton. the more working class town is riverhead and the one destination nobody flocks to, the suffolk county jail.
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one of two jails run by the suffolk county sheriff's office, the riverhead facility houses 750 male and female inmates. >> see the bottom of your feet, the other one, okay. >> most are currently charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. and few are more closely monitored by staff than terrence magee. he faces charges including second degree murder, robbery and assault. to which he has pled not guilty. >> terrence mickey is a high ranking member of the bloods gang. he's no joke. he's been incarcerated most of his life. he's way up there on the food chain. >> several weeks earlier he was transferred from new york city's rikers island jail. >> he had a bunch of charges, assaulting other inmates,
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assaulting staff and definitely has a following, a lot of people under him that will do whatever he tells them to do. they have to do it or otherwise they'll be in trouble. by sending him out here it strips him of his power and he's more isolated. >> records indicate that the two-hour drive from rikers to suffolk was not without incident. >> i'm like, yo, where am i going? they said you're going far, suit up. when i turn around it was fight time and we started fighting. they whooped me out. hog tied me and drove me to suffolk county. i've been a hostage ever since. this was my career. i wanted to wear red flag and bang for my gang since i was like this. that's the honest to god truth. i never -- it sounds so stupid
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now but i never wanted to do nothing else. i'm living my dream. this is what your dream was when i grew up. >> investigator month is with the internal security unit keeping close tabs on influential gang members like mickey is part of his job. >> he comes from the city and grew up in the projects. when he was banging at 10, 11, to me he's like the real deal. this kid has been living it. since he came out here he feels helpless because he's so far from a from home. people from the city won't come out here. most in his area in the hood they've never been out of long island or past exit 49 never mind here. >> mickey says in spite of the distance his wife is more than willing to visit but has been hindered by a bureaucracy. >> on the website it says you are allowed to come in with a u.s. or foreign passport and any other state identification. my wife last a foreign passport.
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it's 2 1/2 hours on that train, no visit. >> investigators month says that was an administrative error and plans to fix it but that's not his only motivation. >> my advantage of talking to him and keeping a rapport with him he has that ability and capability to pretty much turn up the whole jail. if he balks at other bloods they have to go what he says so, you know, like he was doing in rikers, he can do it here too. >> have a seat. relax. i'm telling you i'll make it possible for you to get the visit. if she's having problems for her to call security officers and they will personally escort her in. you seem like you're a little tense today. your legs are moving. >> it's a hurtful thing -- it's like upsetting so when you get mad -- >> you start taking things out on the wrong things now. >> not no more.
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>> you don't need any more charges. you know every action causes a reaction. >> one more charge they're going to put my lights out. >> you're out in suffolk county. we don't play -- >> suffering county. >> most inmates call it that and suffolk county don't play. >> at the end of the day i'm thankful for what you're doing. >> okay, i understand that and that's my job to keep officers safe and believe it or not keep you safe while you're here too. >> thank you. >> so i always talk to him and i try to help him to keep him a little more calmer so he don't go off and cause problems or god forbid hurt an officer. >> that's crazy. you're going to lose. >> but mickey says he has no thoughts of causing trouble. he is convinced his second degree murder charge will not hold up but expects to do prison time for an assault. now at age 30 with a family to
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support he says he's looking at life beyond the bloods. >> right there. >> there's no pinching behind this. there's no like did your 20 years and pinching, gold watch, you did god. they don't care about you. they're not fracture almost i. no package from no homies. i never got no money order from no homies. i was that misliked kid that wanted to be like this person so bad that i would do anything they tell me to do. >> what does a 10-year-old do in a gang? >> whatever he's told. that is the truth. >> what did you do as a 10-year-old? >> whatever i was told. >> coming up -- >> i've been shot. i've been stabbed. it ain't even worth it. >> tyerance counsels some
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out on eastern island new york, the jail system first opened in 1966. >> jailhouse. >> this is jailhouse uno. >> while there have been additions and upgrades, riverhead's maximum security units are throwbacks to steel bars and cramped quarters known as linear tiers. >> this is a linear tier that consists of 20 cells. inmates share one common area known as the day area. i'm currently walking in what's called the catwalk or the officers walk. under normal circumstances an officer would never enter the
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day area unless accompanied by a superviso supervisor. >> since officers usually only tour these every 15 to 30 minutes they depend on tier reps to help out. >> tier reps inspect to make sure they're kept clean and the tier rep will make sure they have the proper amount of meals and distribute them to the inmates on the tier. >> hot turkey. >> there are tier reps in the women's wing of the jail, as well. >> yo, listen, if you got it move on for real. this is getting pathetic. i'm out of here. >> aiesha figueroa takes her role seriously. >> standing all over the food. that's not what you do. get away from the food, grab the tray and keeping moving. that's it. you don't have to be watching. ridiculous. if you let somebody do that you're letting them run all over you. if i'm going to control something i'll control it. i have an anger issue.
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if you disrespect me you open up a can of worms, i'm going to close them. >> is all the trays up? >> she helps control everything that goes on here. because they know she doesn't mess around so i don't want to say intimidation but i guess you could say they're intimidated. >> get the garbage back. >> she lets you know off the bat she has no problem with our hands and, you know, throwing down. she's pretty aggressive. when i first met her i was terrified. >> even though she's a little girl she has a lot of spunk and doesn't take any crap from investigators. >> investigator santa cruz says figueroa's first few months in jail were marked by violence. >> had some rough edges in the beginning, had a lot of fights. a lot of times she didn't like somebody telling her what to do.
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>> i got into between 35, 40 fights. been caught for like ten. >> figueroa acknowledges anger led to the arrest that brought her here. >> they said i shot at the gas station attendant. it wasn't that. i did shoot at him though allegedly. >> originally charged with robbery she pled guilty to criminal possession of a firearm. her plea deal resulted in a four-year sentence and figueroa is now awaiting transfer to state prison. >> any bullett hit him? >> no. >> did you steal any money ask. >> no. i don't need nobody money. >> it's not just figueroa's temper that put her on the radar of the jail's investigative unit. it has to do with her relationship to another inmate, the man she recently agreed to
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marry. >> chris colbert, aka polo. he wears nothing but polo shirts is one of the highest ranking blood gang members we have incarcera incarcerated. >> are you gang affiliated. >> that's what they say. they tell me a lot of things i disagree with. i think this is pretty much based on my younger years being incarcerated and having a different outlook on life compared to now in my older age so maybe i'm being penalized for things i did 15, 0 years ago. >> when you ask him if he's a high ranking blood he says what does the paperwork say? >> chris and figueroa have applied to be married. with credit for time served and good behavior figueroa will likely only serve a year or so in prison. colbert, however, faces a more
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uncertain future. he's charged with second degree murder and has pled not guilty. >> i'm waiting to prove my innocence. hopefully i'm acquitted and get out. >> you're facing what kind of time if not committed? >> forever. >> forever. >> forever. >> if he's not found innocent, have you thought about that? >> absolutely. but it's not going to change my mind of me wanting to marry him. nobody's promised tomorrow. >> the couple has only known each other for three months, a mutual friend told him about figueroa. >> he was very intelligent, knowledgeable, smart and it caught my eye so i wrote him back and we just started going back and forth. >> in that time we wroten over 50 plus letters. >> he writes a lot. i write a lot too but not as much. get people to make me cute envelopes. >> a lot of times in the street
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when you meet someone everything is so fast and instantaneous you don't get to talk about a lot of the deep issues because you're so focused on the physical when in jail you don't really have the physical, you know, you don't have the car, you don't have the money, you don't have the clothes, et cetera, et cetera. so you wind up not putting up with that front. you just be yourself. >> i'm saying you met her up here. i met mines in the city but it's better because you know what makes it better you fell in love with her mind before anything else. it's like -- it's way better. >> colbert's neighbor is tyerance mickey. >> who ever thought we'd kick that off and meet the woman of my dreams. you know what i'm saying. >> oh. my wrist. >> up. >> three years earlier colbert like mickey was also transferred to suffolk county from new york's rikers island jail due to
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the power he held over the bloods gang. >> can't do them all. burnt out. >> the information we have, they're both supposedly equal in two different sets. who's higher a general in the marines or general in the army. >> i don't really know why but they say that i've some type of influence over other prisoners so they decided to send me out here. >> came out here with a stack of paperwork that thick. he was caught shackle belly chained, mittens on because he can literally take his fingers point to another individual and send those bloods on that person or just rile it up. he's hard core. >> coming up -- >> when she leaves it's going to be like a house of cards. she's going to crumble and all hell will break loose the. >> jail decides to relocate aisha figueroa. and later -- >> we'll have a wedding. >> staff peep for a high security marriage ceremony. >> no bobby pins allowed in the
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♪ look at this. >> way. >> inside the suffolk county jail on long island. aisha figueroa is awaiting transfer to prison where she will serve four years for criminal possession of a firearm. she admits to shooting at a gas station attendant but says the robbery conviction was unjustified. >> no robbery. just me having an altercation with someone. >> you don't got no nags in your cell because i got to put my stuff in a big bag. >> now jail officials have decided to move figueroa to a new housing unit out of concern that she might have a fight with another inmate. >> when she leaves it's going to be like a house of cards. it's just going to crumble because everybody will go back to doing whatever they want to do and all hell is going to break out. >> i see you later. >> oh, my god. >> inmate figueroa is a popular
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inmate amongst her peers. but as far as maintaining order authorized to solve problems, there's no validity to that. that's our job and we do that job well. >> i can't believe it. >> figueroa is being moved because she has a keep separate order with another inmate about to be transferred to the unit. keep separates require known enemies to be housed in different parts of the jail. >> it's all right. it's all right. we'll see you later. >> the new inmate is alleged to stabbed one of figueroa's cousins but since she already has keep separates in other jails they have no choice but to move her here. >> she's coming from nowhere. she gets no love. >> she might as well kiss her ass good-bye. >> she might as well hide. >> figueroa will be moved from the tiers to a less restrictive unit known as a pod. they hold up to 60 inmates but are newer, more spacious and
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have no bars. >> i don't like it. i rather be in because the more you be out the more drama there's going to be and i have zero tolerance for drama. >> see y'all later. >> figueroa's fiance chris colbert is housed in the men's wing of the jail next door to tyerance mickey. >> it's like now you can't eat anything without worrying about your life. >> according to jail officials, both men are high ranking members of the bloods gang but lately their conversations reflect other concerns. >> you know, you just got to be careful what you put into your body these days. >> i hope i don't die from this food. >> maybe one day you'll be like me vegetarian. >> i don't think so. i just won't eat beef. >> leave the soy alone too. the soy took me from 185 to 245 pounds because it has fitow estrogen in it which turns men
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to females. >> it turns men into females. huh-uh. i aptsz going to do that. >> mickey says soy is not a typical topic of discussion among his gang where he is better known as his nickname. >> bugatti, fast lifestyle. just part of who i am. >> so is that your dream car? >> i would love to have a car like that but i can't drive that car. i can't drive any car. >> why? >> i been in jail my whole life. even time i was out there. i know how to drive straight. i don't know how to turn. i swear. you looking at me, i swear to god. >> mickey says not learning to drive was but one of many losses he suffered as a gang member. >> he's got to try to move forward. i'm 30 years old. i have nothing to show for 30 years.
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i don't know how to drive. i don't have no [ bleep ] high school diploma. i have nothing to show for 30 years on this earth. >> in the tier next to him is a group of minor inmates also gang affiliated. mickey says he tries to steer them in a different direction. >> i been shot, been stabbed. most of my beef is with my own gang and it ain't even worth it. it's cool in the beginning. it's something thaw think that you want until you want the opposite side of the gun. you know? >> in a bad neighborhood. >> it's not your neighborhood because people that live in your neighborhood get jobs and do appropriate [ bleep ]. it's you. >> i hate everything about gangs. i hate gang members. >> yeah, but this is a good experience for me. >> this is good experience here? >> yeah, because if we want to come here we'd still be doing the same [ bleep ]. >> and you're going to go home and do the same [ bleep ]. >> all day long i comb my hair
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on my face. what are you doing? i'm thinking. i think about [ bleep ] reliving the shots. being 17 you just preparing yourself to destroy yourself. if you want to destroy yourself, i'm happy for you. be destructive. >> his advice is not only for these inmates but all potential gang members. >> we destroyed ourself, man. so if you want to destroy yourself, more power to you. i'm not going to say don't join blood because i'm miserable so a miserable person loves company. join me. >> coming up -- >> it makes it a little human again. >> tyerance and mickey pay a visit to the one spot in jail that feels like home. >> have barbara shop one, barbara shop two, we have barber shop three right here, babe.
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condition after injuring his leg in a bike crash. he was flown to geneva being monitored. it happened in eastern france near the swiss border. he did not lose consciousness. condolences are pouring in after the death of vice president biden's son boe. he passed away saturday after a recurrence of brain cancer. now it's back to "lockup." inmates at the suffolk county jail say the best part of their day is the one hour they are allowed on the outdoor recreation yard.
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one bad path can be a reminder this is no city park. >> the reason he was here to keep people in and asked if the reason why he's sharp, does it stay sharp being outside. as can you tell by the basketballs, in the wire behind me, yes, it does. these are there either by an errant toss up into the razor wire and goes right through them. they're stuff. it's definitely effective. you never lose sight of where you are. i still can't do what i want to do. i still can't live my life. >> chris colbert says he spent too many years in yards like this one. >> my birthday is tomorrow, i'm getting old. >> how many birthdays have you spent incarcerate sfwld definitely over ten birthdays. maybe even closer to 15. terrible. it's a bad thing. that's reality. you know, you get caught up in
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certain things in the street. my younger years this is where i found myself, fortunately for me i found myself here in my older years. no more, though. once i get out of here, no more. >> charged with second degree murder, colbert faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison if he's convicted but that hasn't stopped him from getting engaged to another inmate in the jail. aisha figueroa was recently transferred to a new housing unit against her wishes. >> more women, girls, whatever you want to call it. it's catty but it's nice. >> oh my god. >> like you would think it's more like a school down here instead of a jail. not saying i want to live in a jail a horrible life but it's just catty [ bleep ]. so i just stay locked in so i won't get in no trouble. >> can you update me what's going on with your marriage to chris? >> yes, good stuff is going on. everything is moving fast, faster than what we thought it would move, you know.
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but some people helped. >> figueroa down. we got to -- >> investigators santa cruz and mons have helped them expedite it. >> like the gang -- >> we've never done this. you know, because chris is who he is like i say we keep a tight rein on him and that's how i'm getting involved in it. you know what i'm saying. he's not your average inmate. >> colbert is considered a high ranking member of the bloods gang as is his neighbor, tyerance mickey. they share something else in common, as well. seven years earlier mickey was also married in jail at rikers island. >> i know their relationship can work and people thinking it's not possible, but it really is possible because i met my wife literally a month prior to me being arrested, you know, and we been together ever since.
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>> ready? >> mickey and colbert whose wedding is now two days away have been cleared to visit one part of the jail nearly as popular as the yard. the barber shop. >> looks good. i like that. >> its different. >> except for that gray hair in the front. >> the barbers are also inmates with prior experience in the outside. they are selected by officer bryant who strives to make the barber shop something special. >> i try to do duplicate the same atmosphere that we would find in the street at any other barber shop. >> where you get the dye for old men? >> yeah, you need some of that. >> just try to keep the fellows at ease. to have something to get off their chest and talk about, they would talk with me or the homeys that are in here. you know, that's what it's all about. the nature of the barber shop is if you ever saw "barber shop 1,"
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"barber shop 2." right here is "barber shop 3," baby. >> it makes me feel a little human again because your head be looking all wicked but it still don't be going home, you know, getting a haircut in the street. i know, chris he is getting his hair cut because he wants to look good because he's getting married. >> congratulations. >> congratulation. >> some of the best relationships come from the hardest scenarios. i got married here in '96. >> yeah. >> in this jail. >> in this jail in '96 i got married. >> i got married in jail in '97. we was together a short while before i was locked up and facing a lot of time and when she came to visit i proposed to her on the visit in front of everybody and she was like, you serious? i'm dead serious and my whole life i been trying to do right by her but i got caught up with this stupid ass gang stuff.
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>> know when you get married, it's forever. you know, that is how i see it >> that's like a blessing. >> it is a blessing. >> you know what i mean? >> it's a blessing. >> figueroa and colbert met through a mutual friend and began writing each other. >> we are only supposed to defend our religion, our property and our honor. >> they only recently saw each other in person after taking an interest in the religion of islam and attending coed services in the jail chapel. >> i'm actually not muslim. i'm a guest which attend. >> you do have some services where the females and the males are allowed to attend together, but you don't have any type of physical contact. >> it was in one of those muslim services that colbert made an n unconventional proposal to figueroa from across the room. jail officials allowed us to interview the two of them
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together. >> service can't really -- i could sit next to her and talk to her like this or get down on my knee, the traditional way of how people do stuff. >> that's how you did it? >> yep. that's how he did it? >> i'm like five rows ahead of her. >> that's how he did it. >> with people in between. >> yep. >> and your response? >> i was like, i'm a step ahead of you. >> why get married? >> because i want to spend the rest of my life with him. he understands him and we have a connection. it's just simple. and he looks good. >> thank you. >> if things don't go right in chris' case -- >> i'm going to ride the wheels offer. i'm going to be there for him. it's simple. >> coming up, under heavy security, tyerance mickey
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tyerance mickey is housed in suffolk county because he was considered too powerful a gang leader at rikers island, the massive jail that serves the city. for mickey, today's court date was a life changer. he has just signed a plea deal and has been sentenced. >> i got ten flat. ten years ain't that bad. i should have got more, but i felt my lawyer did his job. ten years. i got four in. i'll be home in 4 1/2. >> ready? >> like many plea deals, mickey's might appear confusing. he pled guilty to charges of first degree assault, second degree robbery, and criminal possession of a weapon. mickey also pled guilty to second degree murder which carries a maximum sentence of 25 years to life, but he was only sentenced to 10 years with credit for the four he's spent in jail awaiting the resolution of these charges. he believes he received the lighter sentence because he
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could prove that he was not guilty of murder that the politics of plea bargaining sometimes means admitting to something you didn't do. >> so you pled guilty to murder? >> that don't mean you're guilty. i pled guilty because they forced me to trial and everything else. i would have beat the murder, but i'm not going to beat no assault. victim come in and say, he did it. oh, he did it. you know what i mean? >> now, with all charges resolved, mickey will soon transfer to prison. he says in the meantime, he's focused on keeping his family together and dealing with the misery of jail. >> see the toilet is like an everyday reminder of how much your life is in the [ bleep ], because your life is in the [ bleep ] every day, you got to live between two [ bleep ] and he might be taking a [ bleep ] and right now, and he's finished, and he might have to take a [ bleep ] right after that, so you smell two different kind of [ bleep ] and he's a vegetarian, so his might smell green and his [ bleep ] might smell red.
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you know what i'm saying? it's crazy. i like the toilet flushing because you need that reminder constantly, this is not cool. my daughter's meeting me right now. i ain't going to lie. it's back to school time. my wife need me. >> the visit. >> big boy. >> today, after the resolution of a bureaucratic snag that prevented visiting, mickey's wife gisele and two of her five children have made the trek from the bronx to long island for their first visit in four months. >> it's not easy dealing with him being in here, he can't help out dealing with the kids. they want him there to help them. he's not there. >> so why do you do it? >> because i love him. when we got married, we said till death do us part. and that's exactly what's going to happen. >> too big, man.
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>> too big? >> i'm going to wear it for you. >> since the jail allows physical contact with visitors, inmates must put on coveralls to prevent them from smuggling contraband back to their cells. >> he's a really sweet guy, very lovable. he been a great dad. if they going through a problem, he knows about it. and he don't want them to go down the same road that he went down. >> come on. give me some love. >> nobody has been in trouble, nothing. the oldest graduated from high school. they've been good. >> so how is school? first day. >> i met two people. but it's a freshman -- >> i bet you met people. >> some girl in my class. >> they good people or -- >> yeah. it's girls. >> what kind of people are they? >> regular girls. >> they're not troublemakers? >> no. >> moments later, the
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conversation turns to mickey's future. he will soon be transferred to prison in upstate new york. >> what are you going to do when you get out of jail? >> i don't know. >> yes, you do. >> yes, you do. >> you made promises. >> like what? listen to me. i'm not going to lie to you. tell you stories. but i promise you, i'm not going up there with a tough guy attitude because i don't want to be tough no more. when i get out, my main objective is to try to be a better father and husband to my family. no more gang [ bleep ] coming from my family like that. you know? but in all reality, it's not going to be easy. >> it shouldn't be no really trouble for you to get into. >> well, i do get in trouble, but that's done now. i did get in trouble because of my people i was around. but i can't blame them every time i got in trouble. i know me trying to live up to a
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name got me in most of the trouble i was in. my main problem was trying to make a name for my gang. you understand? it ain't worth it no more. >> i just don't want to be in this situation again. >> you will never have to go through this again. i give you my word. and if i do, you can step off. >> so just stay out of trouble. >> you know we love you and we're going to be there for you. but now it's up to you. not you coming home and coming back to jail. we gonna get that clear because we're getting old. >> i want you to stop fighting, stay out of the streets, and be always there when i'm in college and visit home. >> all of those things is easy to do. and i'm going to do them. i promise. >> making a lot of promises here. >> don't worry about it. you have my word and a promise. >> i just want this time when he
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come out, he stay out. the future, i'm just going to wait for him to do his time, and when he come home, we'll figure out how to stay out. >> i love you. >> i love you, too. >> okay. >> for me to stay out of trouble, you have to change people, places, and things. when you stay away from certain people and the places that trapped you before, the things that you did is not going to be repetitive, it's not going to happen again. coming up -- >> i brought something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. >> a traditional ceremony in a nontraditional setting.
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inside the suffolk county jail -- >> 31, 32. >> it's a busier day than usual. for at least one corrections
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officer.for at least one correc officer. >> we're going to have a wedding day, supposedly. i am the wedding coordinator here at the jail. my co-workers immediate add a little ad lib and call me the wedding planner. i don't really plan weddings, i just make it happen. >> officer mcdonald oversees about 20 weddings a year in jail and will be called into action today for aisha figueroa and chris colbert. >> i'm about to get married in about an hour. beautiful thing right there. now, i have been getting the third degree from my fellows here, playing with me a little bit. other than that, i'm good. i'm ready. no nervousness, no apprehension. none of that. >> very nervous. i been in here for awhile. maybe a whole week, trying to get myself relaxed. but it's just didn't work. it's not working. it's just horrible. i'm too nervous.
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>> i'm the most recently married guy around here, so i know a little bit about weddings and engagements. my engagement in particular, i like to do things dramatic so i dressed up as a dog and my wife was dressed up as a cat, and i proposed to her at a dog park. it went perfect. let's see. >> today's ceremony will be considerably more drab. the guest list is limited to two people from the outside to serve as witnesses. but that's not the only limitation. >> it's a pretty cold wedding. there's no white doves. there's no rice being thrown. there's no flowers. they don't get to give any gifts. whoever the person from the outside is, they get to bring the wedding rings, and we inspect the box they're in for safety and security, and that's all they're really allowed to bring in. when it comes time to, you may kiss the bride, it's a quick kiss and a hug, and that's it. then everybody has to go back to where they came from. it's the shortest wedding you ever saw. yeah. all right. thank you.
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all right, bye. okay. she's on her way. the town clerk is going to come, and two witnesses to the wedding, aisha's mother and sister, and i'm going to run them through the x-ray metal detector and give them passions. >> i'm aisha's mother and i have to show support for her because i am her mother. >> they have visited before and they're familiar with our practices of going through the metal detector and securing contraband and not bringing things in the building. >> i brought something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. this is an old bracelet of mine that i had for a very long time. then i had new earrings. and she can borrow this. and this is something blue. >> are you figueroa's family? >> yes. >> oh, hi, how are you? i'm neil mcdonald. you have been here before for visits, right? >> yes. >> just as in a visit,
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we have to stick to the same thing. i'm going to give you a locker. you can get rid of metal and jewelry, and no cell phones, cameras. >> no earrings? >> no, no jewelry inside. not in the jail. >> we can put it in the same. >> yeah. we'll just both use number three. >> you got rid of all your metal, all your julia louis-dreyfus >> we can't bring the old, new, borrowed and blue? >> the only thing allowed in is the wedding bands she told me you would have. >> i'm about to leave that. >> step through the machine, we're going to put your shoes there and you're going to step through the metal detector. >> any other metal we're not thinking about. hair pins or anything. >> i got bobby pins. >> no bobby pins allowed in the building. you're welcome to use the locker to lock up any more metal you have. >> while this is the first jail wedding for aisha's family, it's also a first for the town clerk. >> i had done a little bit of research after we spoke because you had made me aware that this also has a maximum security section of this facility. >> oh, its maximum. >> i was really unaware of that.
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and i -- you know, it's a little bit of an eye opener. >> you're going to be safe. we have a lot of highly trained professionals. we're on camera at all the times around the building, we're being watched. don't worry about it. you'll be fine. >> yes, appreciate that. >> you're welcome. >> it's part of the bra. >> no metal in the building. our visiting brochure says no underwire. inside it's a dangerous instrument. we've had to send people to the hospital with underwire through their necks so it ain't happening today. >> a short time later, the metal concerns are alleviated. and officer mcdonald escorts the group into the jail. >> come on in. >> after a brief introduction between the groom and his new in-laws, colbert and figueroa have a rare moment of physical contact. >> okay. time to start. >> we are gathered together here in the presence of this company to join this man and this woman
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in the bond of matrimony. christopher, will you have this woman as your wedded wife, to live together in the ordinances in the state of matrimony? >> i do. >> aisha, will you have this man as your wedded husband? >> i do. >> time for the rings. >> okay. >> you're going to repeat after me. with this ring -- >> with this ring. >> i thee wed. >> i thee wed. >> place the ring, please. >> and you're going to do the same. with this ring -- >> with this ring. >> i thee wed. >> i thee wed. and place the ring. now join hands. >> in accordance with the authority vested in my by the law of the state of new york, pronounce you husband and wife you may kiss the bride. >> yay. >> this concludes our service. >> okay. >> all right. mom, love you. >> i love you, too. >> i love you. >> i love you.
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>> all right, back to the housing unit. step out the door. >> i hope to be seeing you soon too. >> feel good. i'm a married man now. it was a good kiss. you know, she has nice lips. can't wait to kiss her again. i got the ring right here. looking real good on the finger. wish we could have had a honeymoon. it's unfortunate that we'll be separated from each other, but just got to deal with it as it comes. >> i was so nervous. i was just speechless. loss for words. and afterward, i felt so great. i felt like i'm a wife now. that's special.
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