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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. it just comes from my imagination. just whatever i imagine, i can put on the paper. >> an inmate with incredible artistic abilities is charged with a terrible and tragic crime. while another inmate's seeming obsession with jail food causes problems. >> he's hungry. he doesn't see anything but the food. whatever's in his way, he will try to go through to get to it. >> and -- >> we both kind of agreed on this open relationship type of deal. >> um-hum.
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>> swinging. >> an unconventional marriage ends in a deadly act. >> when that boy left that gun, it became reality. you smelled the gun powder, you see what you have actually done. wichita is the largest city in kansas, but many who live here see it not as a metropolitan center, but as a river town. and on the banks of the arkansas river is the city's best-known landmark. the 44-foot tall keeper of the plains was created by a native american artist to honor the spirit of his people. but when there's trouble on the plains, it often gets sorted out
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downtown at the sedgwick county jail. most of the 1150 men and women incarcerated here are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. while the inmate population is usually near or at capacity, the same cannot be said for the staff. >> we have a staff shortage here that we haven't seen before, and now everybody's having to work a ton of overtime. we're really trying to figure out how to combat that problem right now. it's not a glamorous job. lot of folks have no idea what you do in here and the only time they do know something has occurred is because somebody got in trouble. they never know the good stuff that you do every day. >> sheriff jeff easter has dozens of job openings inside the jail. >> we graduated 25 recruits two weeks ago. that was for 67 openings. 67 openings is almost a whole shift. the deputies are strained beyond
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belief. i'm seeing them go to other jobs, sam's and walmart and those type of things because the pay's a little better, the benefits are a little better. that's when we go okay, what do we have to do to retain folks. insurance benefits is an issue i hear all the time. so those are things from my end i have got to start talking with commissioners and stuff so we can hopefully hire more people and retain them. >> sheriff easter has even expanded the range of jobs available to inmate workers or trustees. >> sedgwick county jail. >> such as answering the phones. >> we do not have anybody by that last name in our facility. how do you spell the last name? >> the trustees have limited information about other inmates but can look up pending charges. >> you said pierre, p-i-e-r-r-e? okay. well, i do see on our system he still is down in booking. it shows on the computer that he
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was booked at 11:13 p.m. and that's when he first got here. all righty. yep. you're welcome. you too. bye. whoa. >> what? >> her son's booked on first degree murder. came in last night. >> soon after, pierre washington was formally charged with first degree murder. he has pled not guilty but acknowledges shooting his wife to death and then calling 911 to report it. >> i told them what occurred and accepted my fate. i was arrested immediately and actually while i was on the phone making the call, before the 911 call was finished, they were already there. dropped the phone, put my hands up and dropped to my knees and they took me in. never been in trouble before. never been arrested.
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this is a first for me. i didn't picture any of this. i pictured a long happy marriage. just raising my family. taking care of my family. being there for them. >> washington says his wife's involvement with another man became too much to bear. >> she said you know, i really like david, i feel like he's a person that's going to be in my life for a very long time. it crushed me because i knew what it meant immediately. my eyes swelled up with tears and i felt like i had lost her. like even before i physically took her i felt like i had already lost her. >> washington's mother asked a private defense attorney, sara swain, to meet with her son. >> i have had contact with his family, who has given me a very interesting version of events of what led up to the day when this allegedly happened, where he killed his wife and then reported that to the police. >> though she has not yet been
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retained, swain agreed to meet with washington a few days after he was charged. >> i would like for you to tell me if you feel comfortable doing that, tell me a little bit about right at the very end and honestly, i don't even know how much of that you remember. >> to begin, my wife and i been married for seven years. been together ten. we got two children together. we have been through a lot together. >> washington says the relationship began to decline so he and his wife decided to try something new. >> we both kind of agreed on this open relationship type of deal. like swinging or -- yeah. this would just be for fun and it was supposed to actually help our marriage grow stronger in a sense. you know, the basic rules were we are still a husband and wife, you know. we are going to put each other first. we're not going to spend too much time with these other people. it will just be purely for
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entertainment, you know. >> it seems like a really terrible idea. >> yeah. i was told that but i felt like, i mean, we were together, we were ten years strong. i felt like we can make it work. >> so what i'm trying to do in my own head is take what you're telling me and reconcile that with the fact that she's dead and you called 911 to report her being dead. >> washington says he and his late wife diana became involved with joanna and david bean, but that the relationship between diana and david became more intense when david separated from joanna. >> when she asked me if david could stay with us, i kind of envisioned this. i didn't want it to come true but i envisioned he want -- he was going to come stay with us but it wasn't going to be a temporary thing. he was going to try to make it more than temporary. he was going to try to overstay his welcome. he was going to try to move in on my wife. the woman i married, it wasn't
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her anymore. she said she was falling for him. it was a shock to me because i didn't want to split up with her. >> washington says diana was on the phone with david bean when he shot her. as a result, bean might have been called to testify in the case but just two days ago, only six days after diana's death, david bean died in a traffic accident. >> very, very interesting developments. >> from what i saw on the news and from what my mother told me, it was a semi on the shoulder that had broken down, had his flashers on and the cones down. plowed right into it. died instantly. >> my job is to take all the information that you have given me and to start looking for all of the pieces of evidence that the police didn't bother looking at because this is certainly one of those cases where it may not
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be a question of who did it but it's definitely going to be a question of why that person did it. and all of those factors will play into our defense, okay? there's a lot of work to be done. this is like step one of ten million steps that we have, and this is mission impossible, right? we have nothing to lose. you have nothing to lose by us doing everything we can. you know what you're looking at. if we get anything less than you convicted of premeditated first degree murder, that's a victory. >> coming up, pierre washington gets a visit from his mother. >> i think he temporarily went insane from the possession of the devil taking over his whole body, mind and soul. >> and --
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all right, gentlemen, at this time i'm going to [ inaudible ]. have a seat at the table and i will begin chow service. >> inmates at the sedgwick county jail in wichita are like inmates in most jails when it comes to their opinions of the food. >> they feed you the same amount of food they feed a 9-year-old in elementary school, they feed grown men and it just doesn't work. >> she hates the chicken here. it's like gummy, chewy. nancy calls it fancy feast. like the cat food. >> alpo? >> nine times out of ten it got beans in it. they bean us to death. they love giving us beans. >> deputy wiesner, however, holds a different opinion. to him the meals are a nice
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employment perk. >> it's one of the best trays. i don't know, it's like chili or something. >> you don't know what you're eating? >> no. >> but it's good? >> yeah. i think they're good. lot of other deputies would say no, but simple, so i like simple. it fills me up because i don't eat before i come to work and i eat here and it holds me over until after work. so it's not that bad. >> while meal distribution is usually a routine procedure three times per day, it has turned into high drama for adrian sonic zongker. surveillance cameras capture a deputy trying to restrain him after he tried to grab trays off the food cart. this isn't the first time zongker has caused problems. >> possession of contraband, criminal threat, batteries. mattress, he had a bowel movement on the tray, he was drawing on the walls. he's on ad seg, administrative segregation because of his
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continuous behavioral issues. >> as an ad-seg inmate, he is confined to his cell 23 hours a day and has lost most of his privileges. >> a lot of his stuff stems around food. we kind of know if there's chow trays out or something out he's going to act out or it could be if something's wrong with his food or if he believes something's wrong with his food, a piece of bread isn't quite right or it took 15 minutes longer to get there than he thought it should, he'll start to act out. he will tell you it's for payback. that's what you get for -- because this is how i'm being treated, this is what you get. >> got any more, adrian? >> if it's up to me [ inaudible ]. it's stupid, irrational but to me, i know two wrongs don't make
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a right. >> he's been in and out of jail during the past couple years on conviction of criminal use of a weapon and various parole violations. he recently pled guilty to assault and battery and is awaiting sentencing. they reveal surveillance footage of his latest rules violation inside the jail. >> the inmate is being served breakfast this morning and the deputy is about to open his door to serve him his styrofoam tray. he gives him his styrofoam tray and thinks it's all good and all of a sudden zongker comes out to get extra food. >> he's obviously going for the trays. he tries to stop him so he doesn't get hold of one as a weapon. >> he's taken to the floor as a deputy also slips in the process. once the deputy gets up, zongker takes more food trays and goes in his cell. >> the sole deputy assigned to the unit decides not to engage
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zongker any further and instead calls for backup. >> at that point, adrian goes back in his room and you can wait for additional people, for a safer environment, to go get the rest of the stuff. >> because the threat's no longer there. he's got the food trays. he's inside. once they come in, they can actually clean this mess up and take control from there. >> part of it is causing issues for us and part of it is he wants the food. you're in an environment where you don't have a whole lot of things but food is one thing he can do that with, and once he gets it, now he's already gone through the hassle so he's going to eat the food. >> once he knows they are coming to his door he will speed up and get a little faster. now he thinks they're coming in to get this food so he will start licking and eating everything he can eat. >> now he dumped everything into the styrofoam tray, the one he thinks we're not going to take. the ones we are more worried about are the hard plastic trays that are going to be more apt to be used as a weapon. he's smart enough, he dumps everything off of those trays and is now licking them clean. >> he's giving the brown trays back. >> tosses them to the door. because that's what we're after.
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>> then he starts using his hands and you can see the speed at which he's working. >> backup deputies arrive but there's little they can do at this point other than collect the plastic trays from his cell. since zongker is already in administrative segregation, there are no further sanctions they can take against him. >> if he's in here doing something he could possibly hurt himself or has a weapon or is doing something, you can make that assessment of we need to go in right now. but in this case, all he's doing is sitting there eating trays and there's no need to rush in. they have the opportunity right now, you can see somebody's at his door and you can start talking to him and hopefully get him to just pass the stuff back out the door to you without ever having to go in. >> there's no need to do anything also to him. he's already locked down. you can't get locked down any more than he's already locked down. that's it. >> adult day care is not a first time inmate pierre washington describes the jail. >> here i am, this regular guy, no tattoos.
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it's easy to see by looking at me, like this is a foreign land to me. >> this can be quite a shock. he's going to be surrounded by people that sadly, this is their lives. this is what they know. the term being institutionalized, that's not just a made-up term. that's the truth. there are people that literally know nothing other than the criminal justice system. >> it has been two weeks since washington was charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of his wife. if convicted, he faces a sentence of 25 to life. washington says the last two weeks are helping him prepare for the worst. >> just learning how to get adjusted and you know, making forks because it's hard to eat. you ever try to eat noodles with a spoon or apples with a spoon, it's a little difficult if you can't stab it. forks will save all that. cups, it's very important to stay hydrated. your body is 70% water and you lose a lot during the day.
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what i do is guesstimated these are six ounce cups. i drink about 120 ounces a day which is the equivalent to a one gallon jug. i calculated i have to fill up at least 20 of these six ounce cups to equal that. every morning i will fill them up, line them up and throughout the day, chug them. there is so much bravado and masculinity here, i came out of my cell without my shirt on to let the guys know i'm a man, too. you're not going to push me around. i can handle myself. i'm new to this world but i can swing with the best of them. >> washington says it was a different kind of swinging that led him to kill his wife, diana. they became involved with another couple, joanna and david bean. washington says he feared his wife was going to leave him for david, who died in a traffic accident a few days after washington's arrest. on the night of the shooting, washington drove his wife to a local park.
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>> we got into a heated argument. she pulled out her phone and called david. i felt at that point she had lost any feeling for me and she was calling him to come confront me. i was angry. i couldn't believe she was doing this. and just everything just reached a point, you know. it was all very fast. i don't even know if i looked down the sight. i just pointed and pulled. >> according to police, diana was shot seven times. >> it was like a dream, you know. but when that bullet left that gun it became reality. you smelled the gun powder. you see what you have actually done. my mind was racing. i didn't know what to do. got back in the car and just drove. >> diana's body was still in the vehicle when washington drove away. >> kept the gun just for protection. the weapon that was supposed to protect my family, my wife and
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my children, was used to kill my wife. it's funny, in an instant how one decision can just affect so many lives. >> washington drove to a friend's house, where he called 911 and reported the shooting. he then waited outside for police to arrest him. his mother recently sent him a memorial card from his wife's funeral service. >> i won't see that smiling face again. i do miss her. i still love her. i could never give anybody my heart like that. like i don't know, whatever happens to me from here on out, whoever i meet, if i meet somebody else or whatever, whathave you, they'll never get my heart the way she got it, you know. i'm destined to be this cold shell of a human. >> coming up -- >> i just started, i draw what i'm dreaming or what i imagine. that's when i started evolving. i went to another level.
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the goal of the sedgwick county jail in wichita is to remove any object that could be used to harm others. that includes pencils. but they have an alternative. >> the whole point of a pencil is to sharpen it. kind of makes it an easy go-to weapon. with a rubber pencil, no matter how sharp you can get it, it's a rubber pencil. >> if i try to stab you it's going to bend. some people that are artists can actually draw really well with these things. i don't understand how. i have a hard time writing with them, much less drawing anything, but yeah. >> the pencils have done nothing to deter luis alvarado from pursuing his passion. >> i have never seen anyone draw like him. he's like professional. like real detailed. he sits there with the pencil
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and saves the littlest stuff. >> what are you working on now? thnchlgts this is a dream i had. i'm trying to sketch it out before it fades away. a lot of detail. >> yeah. >> it will be interesting to see if they still had the colored pencils what it would look like. >> man. >> alvarado's family mailed him some copies of his paintings at home. he says he's self-taught and started drawing at the age of 2. >> i would draw what i'm dreaming or what i imagine. that's when i started evolving. i just went to another level. >> my inspiration really just comes from my imagination, whatever i imagine i can put on the paper. it was weird. i got eaten by this beast or something. i ended up becoming the beast. i could feel everything. the bones were crushing, the flesh was tearing. it was nasty, man.
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>> that's how vivid it was. >> yeah. >> some of the stuff is kind of creepy. i have never seen anything like that. especially him thinking of off the top of his head. it's not something he's seen and then drew it. he's coming up with it on his own. >> from a rubber pencil to turn something out like that it's just phenomenal. he's probably one of the best i've seen. >> alvarado's drawings and quiet nature is in contrast to the crime he's accused of committing. he's charged with capital murder for allegedly shooting his twin brother and his brother's wife. he had been living with his brother and sister-in-law in the apartment where the bodies were discovered by the twins' father. authorities determined 21 shots had been fired at close range from an ak-47 assault rifle left at the scene.
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if found guilty, alvarado could face the death penalty. he says his art takes him to a better place. >> it's like a window i can escape through it, you know? the time flies by. i really escape this realm, you know? i'm happy either way. i'm happy. >> happy? >> because there's so much more. this is just the beginning. the paintings i did was nothing, you know? i'm trying to work on paintings that are just as big as a wall, because my imagination is so big. and the thing about it, i could add, like, for example, let's say this is a big canvas. i could start adding meadow. if this is meadow. or feathers. i could add real feathers. >> even finer detail into there, yep. >> like i'll just, you know, man. it would make it look so real, like it's really coming out. like 3d, you know? >> while alvarado won't talk about his case, he says if prison is in his future, he will
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most likely have access to better art supplies and that would be enough. >> i can't wait to get to prison. i'm ready to paint this and show the world this is real. just man. i can't wait. i'm excited. coming up -- >> put your knees up to your chest. >> new troubles for adrian zongk zongker. and pierre washington gets a visit from his mother and from the other woman in his life. >> thank you for coming to see me. >> of course.
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out of new orleans tonight, 28 people are injured after a suspected drunk driver plowed into a crowd of people during a mardi gras parade. among the injured is a 3-year-old and a police officer. no injuries are believed to be life threatening. one person is in custody. >> strong message about not
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drinking and driving, about making smart decisions. we will continue to follow the story and bring you updates as they develop. now back to "lock up." each night near the arkansas river in wichita is illuminated by a dramatic ring of fire. surrounding the city's iconic keeper of the plains sculpture. but it's a very different sort of drama inside the nearby sedgwick county jail. deputies rushed into admin segregation, backup to an inmate disturbance. the inmate is one they're all familiar with. adrian zongker. >> put your knees to your chest. i'm standing you up. jail surveillance footage captured the start of the incident as zongker is escorted
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by two deputies into a court hearing. he lunges for a styrofoam tray on a food cart before he was restrained. >> went for a cart with a bunch of hard trays on it that in the past we took away from him because we know he'll use it as a weapon. so they have to take that as a real threat anytime he's within reach of those trays. those are all potential weapons. >> zongker, who is awaiting sentencing on charges of aggravated assault and battery, is taken to the jail's medical clinic to be checked for injuries. standard procedure following any use of force. but zongker has a different concern. >> your ribs hurt? >> this is stupid. i just want to [ bleep ] man. [ bleep ]. i'm hungry. >> all right, you're good. >> he's hungry. and that's his biggest thing. he doesn't see anything but the food. whatever is in his way, he'll try to go through to get to it.
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so if there's a deputy standing there, he'll go through you. >> after he's cleared by medical, zongker is returned to his cell. >> we're going to take you out of cuffs. don't act out. we're going to have to check on it. as far as i can tell, it looked like it was scattered all over the floor down there. >> do i still have to go to court? >> you still have to go to court. >> he says he has aspergers syndrome. which is on the autism spectrum, characterized by difficulties in social interactions. as an administrative segregation inmate, any time zongker is moved he must be shackled at the ankles and escorted by two deputies. but now officials have decided to add another layer of security. >> he is just a constant management issue. and now he's going to be handcuffed so that he can't reach out and grab anything as we're walking.
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so that was kind of a new thing for him. as he evolves with what he's doing, we evolve with the restrictions to kind of keep up with that. >> first-time inmate pierre washington has considerably more privileges within the jail. today he is in the law library preparing for a preliminary hearing on his upcoming murder trial. though he pled not guilty he admits shooting his wife to death. >> just doing some research. just getting familiar with the laws and statutes of the state and seeing what options i'm going to have. >> his family determined they could not afford to retain private defense attorney sara swain. >> for a case such as mine, attorneys aren't cheap. so i just went ahead and applied for a court appointed attorney. >> people say bad things about court-appointed attorneys, but i know that i have the best attorney and the best judge. the judge of us all. i let go and let god. >> washington says his mother plays a big part in helping him maintain his faith and that her
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visits keep him going. >> she's here every week like clock work. that gives me hope. it's good to see and hear news from the outside and see how my mom is doing. >> how are you feeling about court tomorrow? you feeling pretty good? >> i'm confident. >> just a little nervous? you confident? this means something but it don't, you know what time saying? this is the preliminary when they charge you with their first offense and they have trial. they're not just going to go bam right into the thing. >> i've been confident since day one. i'm nervous, but i know it's going to be all right. >> you know who got the final say, god got the final say. jesus christ got the final say about all of this. i don't care what the prosecutor, the judge, nobody say. it's all up to him. he know that you a good person and you have a good heart. you just made a mistake. i personally think his life spiralled out of control when he stopped going to church. stopped reading his bible'. started affiliated with certain types of people.
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who looks on krags craigslist for people to have sex with. you had something dark in your life. that's the devil. that mistake don't have to follow you your entire life. you know what i'm saying? have faith in the lord and god will put you through this. he knows what type of person you are. i know what type of person you are and i know you don't belong in no place like this. i think he temporarily went insane. i do. from the possession of the devil taking over his whole body, mind and soul. and the hurt and the pain and the anger. you know, because he wanted her back. he said i want to come home, i want my family back. >> washington's mother hopes to take advantage of a jail program that allows computer visits from home so that washington's 8 and 6-year-old daughters can also see him. >> i want to see my daddy's face, that's what she said. with the little cheeks. yeah, she said she want to see your face. >> i'm looking forward to seeing them. >> they want to see your face.
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anything you want me to tell anybody? >> yeah, just tell everybody i miss them and i love them and just keep praying for me. and we're going to get through this. >> i will see you tomorrow at 4:00. i'm going to be praying for you, okay? >> washington never told his mother about the problems in his marriage or the decision to become involved with another couple. she found out from one of his wife's relatives after the shooting. >> i bet you if i had i would have known it would have never went down. my parenting skills was tough. i was on him all the time. all the time. that's why maybe he felt scared, threatened to tell me what was going on. because he knew i was going to say hell to the no. that's wrong, pierre. you shouldn't be doing that. it angers me. it disgusts me. my son know from right to wrong and he know in god's eyes that's wrong. i got the daily bread on his wife so you can read that. and that's all you can do, sweetheart, that's all you can do. you not only broke the law, but you broke the law with god. thou shall not kill, adultery.
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you went down the list of all the commandments. you not only have to prove your innocence to your peers but you have to make it up to the man upstairs because he's got the final say with your destiny is going to be in life. >> washington says biblical stories convince him that he can be forgiven by god. >> he understood there were sinners. we're not perfect. and jacob took multiple wives, you know? only supposed to be one man and one woman. yet god blessed him. he had two wives, two concubines and multiple children but god still blessed him. >> i'll see you tomorrow. love you. >> coming up -- >> man, you like steph curry with the shot. but the artist, real clutch time, bro. as soon as you go up, you know it's going to be money. >> luis alvarado continues to settle in. possibly hears from the other side.
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>> i could feel some energy that came by. i felt like it was my twin brother, and he said that he was okay. >> and -- >> we all met for sexual purposes and became friends. their kids came to my house every weekend. we hung out together during the week. >> the other survivor of a tragic foursome. introducing flonase sensimist. more complete allergy relief in a gentle mist you may not even notice. using unique mistpro technology, new flonase sensimist delivers a gentle mist to help block six key inflammatory substances that cause your symptoms. most allergy pills only block one. and six is greater than one. break through your allergies. new flonase sensimist. ♪
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'. inside wichita's sedgwick county jail, luis alvarado spends most of his time drawing pictures despite the lack of resources. specifically bendable pencils and erasers he buys from the commissary. >> i sharpen them more. i get them very sharp so i can
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do real thin lines. >> alvarado wraps his flexible pencils in magazine pages to make them sturdier. >> just can't wait to get my hands on a paint brush and paint and canvas. i'm ready to just, you know, go. >> alvarado knows he could be headed to prison, possibly for the rest of his life. or even to the execution chamber if he's found guilty of having murdered his twin brother and his brother's wife. he will not discuss the case, but says that he has recently felt his brother's presence. >> i was in my cell. i was kind of awake and in my sleep. but i felt like, you know, i could feel some energy that came by. and i felt like it was my twin brother, and he said that he was okay. i could feel it was him. i woke up kind of crying and teary. but i felt his energy and stuff. >> that's a 30-second picasso.
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>> it looks like malcolm x. >> as he awaits trial, alvarado has been able to make the equivalent of a living inside jail. by exchanging art work for commissary snacks purchased by other inmates. >> he don't take soups. he's more of a sweet type of guy. honey buns and cookies and snickers, stuff like that. >> today, alvarado is work on a portrait of terrell parker. >> you're like steph curry with the shot. a real artist. clutch-time, bro. as soon as you go up, you know it's going to be money. every time. does it help when you know, like, bone structure? >> yeah, it's like the geometry. and everybody has a different shape. yeah, it helps. it helps. >> what was like the first thing you ever drew? >> i remember.
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i used to watch "the transformers" [ bleep ] the main dude, he's like a truck? >> optimus. >> i remember drawing a lot of him. >> have you ever done any portraits of females? >> yeah. yeah, i have. >> have you ever done a portrait of a female naked, though? like naked in front of you? >> no, man. i would like to do that, though, [ bleep ]. >> that's some "titanic" type [ bleep ]. >> i like how you gave him more credit for his dreads, man. >> yeah, it happens. >> when he drew you, he had to down size your head, though. >> is that right? >> that dude is funny. >> alvarado's portrait of parker appears to be more valuable to him than the few honey buns he paid for it. >> it's real priceless. i feel like i owe him more than
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i can give him on commissary, you know. not a lot of people could actually paint, get every angle. he killed it. he deserves an award for that. >> alvarado is uncertain about what lies ahead for him. but he knows it boils down to three options. >> it's either freedom or prison. i already, you know, got on which land. i already know how i'm going to take it if i do get convicted or not, you know what i'm saying. >> hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. >> this life is not forever. we're going to end up dying. we're all going to die. that's where i'm at right now. i come from the land of dreams. that's where i'm going to go back. coming up -- >> can't change the past, you know? >> let's focus on the future and make it better. >> yeah, that's all i can do.
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adrian zonker was headed to court when he lunged for a food tray and was taken to the ground by deputies. today, zonker is once again due in court. but this time the deputies have a different plan. they have placed him in a holding cell before inmate workers have begun pushing food carts into the housing units. and before zonker leaves for court, they bring him his lunch. >> what time is it now? >> almost 12:00. 11:45. all right? >> all right. hey, did they get two slices of bread or just one? >> based on what? everything matched. all right? >> i have a deal with adrian zonker when i work for him. i say if you're good for me, i respect you and do the favor. i give him two drinks and match
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his tray with everybody else's just to make sure he doesn't feel like he's being left out or anything like that. showed him his tray, and tell him it's exactly like everybody else's tray in the kitchen. i gave him two cups because he was extremely pleasant for me and we don't have any other issues. i don't think he's here to make his life any worse or make anyone else's life worse. he's just trying to be a person and when he's hungry, he's hungry, and he wants more food. if you don't have money on your books and you can't go to commissary and you can't go to the cupboard for a snack, three meals a day just doesn't cut it. >> was it good? okay, thank you. >> pierre washington says when he and his wife diana chose to open their marriage and swap partners with another couple, it was supposed to only be for fun. but washington says when diana became too involved with the other husband, david bean, he feared he was losing her. following a heated argument, washington says he snapped and shot his wife to death. six days later, david bean died in a car accident, leaving
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behind his wife, joanna. five weeks after her husband's death, joanna bean says she is still mourning him and still cares for pierre washington. she visits him regularly. >> we all met for sexual purposes and became friends. their kids came to my house every weekend. we hung out together during the week. diane and i did stuff together. we were friends. he's an amazing guy. he loved his wife and his kids. that's all he wanted. >> hey. >> hey, how are you? >> i'm good. how are you? >> i'm great. even better now. just been 44 days now. and -- yeah. >> it's been that long? >> it's been that long. >> man. >> yeah. >> joanna says she is still trying to understand what led washington to snap. >> he was a nice, gentle person. he was never one to just overreact. obviously he did it, but for
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what reason he snapped, that's what people had to realize. something else had to happen in that van. she had to do something or say something to him to push him over the edge. i told my husband, it was his fault, it was their fault. she pushed him. >> just the waiting game you know? >> the wait needs to be over. how are you really doing? >> i'm missing my kids. missing my family. missing you. >> i miss you, too. >> that's like the hardest part, really. wishing i could go back and redo that day. you know? >> [ bleep ] the day. the whole month. >> just dwelling on everything. >> joanna says the agreements the two couples made were not adhered to by diana and david. >> it was all supposed to be out in the open and nobody seeing each other without their spouse knowing. there was never supposed to be any secrets between any of us. they were infatuated with each other.
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they just gravitated toward each other. they were more alike, more similar. it was obvious it was more than just what it was supposed to be. >> there were rules, you know? she just kind of lost of touch with it. got to the point where i don't even see her anymore. >> i wish it never would have happened. because none of this would have been happening. if we would have never met, my husband could have never went in there and destroyed their marriage, then everything would be different today. but it's not. this is how it is and this is what we have to live with now. >> can't change the past, you know? >> just focus on the future. make it better. >> yeah, that's all i can do. just go forward. >> i'm here. >> i made a promise to myself. >> what was that? >> that i wouldn't let this place change me. >> when you come out, i need you to be the same person. >> yeah, i'm going to be the same. i'm still the same. even around here, smiling. >> somebody needs to smile. >> how are you holding up? >> most days i'm okay. i know it sounds weird. but like -- happy, sad, angry, relieved.
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confused. 100%. >> as shocked as she was about diana's death, joanna says hearing about her husband david's death six days later was nothing short of stunning. >> i was at home with his sister, we were watching tv, saw the news about an accident. didn't think nothing of it. went to sleep. and at 2:40 in the morning, the state troopers came to my house. saying he was in an accident, didn't make it. he was speeding and he was high. and the smell of alcohol. so that was it. >> i know, it's tough. >> okay, enough of that. >> yeah. >> because i don't want to cry. >> yeah. i don't want to see you cry.
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but thank you. >> you're welcome, babe. >> thank you for coming to see me. >> of course. i'll always be here. i mean, i love him, i care about him. he's my friend. i'm going to do anything i can to help him. >> this is real life, so. >> right. >> yes. >> i can almost touch you. >> almost. >> my hand's too little. >> almost. >> it's a friendship love. i care about him. i don't want to see him down or out. i want to make sure he's okay. >> i love you, babe. >> i love you too. bye.
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a convicted thief continues his stealing ways inside the jail. >> he snuck behind the deputy's desk and stole his chew. lord knows what happened to it after that. >> a former law enforcement officer turned meth addict is now serving time with and growing closer to her dealer. >> you know when you go to prison, i don't want you to leave until i leave. >> she also has a girlfriend on the outside, who is about to

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