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>> the noose around his neck. >> i gang member makes a des pray cry for help. >> i need someone to talk to. >> there is currently only four inmates housed in this pod that normally houses 32 inmates. >> completely isolated from other inmates, maricopa's four most dangerous women form a notorious sisterhood. >> rude dude with the attitude.
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>> these are the worst in maricopa county. >> the stuff downstairs quit. they are the shot callers down there. you get them out there and stuff calms down for a while. >> these inmates have committed violent actings in the jail or have been identified as ging members and like all inmates, some are awaiting trial while others have been convicted and are appealing their voter verdicts or sentences. they are isolated in stark cells 23 hours a day and get one hour in an empty room with a sky light located right next door to the cells. >> our rec is the same size as our cell and you are going from to another to walk in circles. that's the live n solitary confineme confinement. no cellmates and no card games or chess. that's life. >> without the distraction of television, radio, or a cellmate, even the most hardened
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criminals can break under the pressure. >> that's the primary reason every 25 minutes is to check on the inmates to make sure they are safe. they are at greater risk to themselves than anything else. thoughts get into their heads if they receive bad conversation from home or something, it can be despair. >> they don't understand. i'm losing my mind! >> 25-year-old manuel martinez, a self-proclaimed gang member being held on forgery charges has reached the end of his rope. >> during a routine security walk, he was attempting to hang
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himself and we pulled him out. the next step we move to psych and he stays for evaluation and ends upcoming back. >> you have to watch out because it can be a set up. they want to you come in and they are ready to take an officer out. >> step out. to your left. left foot or right foot up. either one. >> he was here on all fours with a noose around his neck crying and crying for his girlfriend. as soon as we started to open the door and come in, he got up and flushed the noose in there. >> i just need someone to talk to. >> he was doing fine throughout the day. no inclination that he had
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problems. just like that, down. >> it wasn't so much hanging b you the strangulation. it's hard for them to hang because there is nowhere to swing from. they strangle themselves. >> martinez will be on suicide watch and moved to a padded safe cell where he will be held pending evaluation from the jail's psychiatric staff. >> all the way up. face the door. relax, all right? just relax, all right? relax. we got you. >> just relax. >> staff suspect martinez's break down is due in pooart to problems with his fiance. >> he was saying her name and he
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has written her name all over the place and it was written, michelle, michelle, michelle. the guys miss their girls or wives back home. >> in martinez's case, the expressions of love take on a considerably more desperate tone. >> get him down here now. the last chance he can hurd himself by slamming his head on the walls. for now we will leave him be and check on him every so often and see if he's all right. >> mr. martinez, put your hand inside. same with this one. i need you to hand me your boxer shorts there. >> except for padded walls, the safe cell is even more empty than the high security cell. >> we take everything away.
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anything they can use to hurt themselves. we leave them with a suicide blanket. basically it would be more difficult for them to use that to hurt themselves. >> while the safe cell is meant to protect martinez from himself, four of the most dangerous women at maricopa had been isolated in the special pod of high security cells to protect staff and other inmates from them. >> there is currently only four inmates that are housed in this pod that normally houses the 32 inmates. >> prior to entering the pod, maricopa county detention officers made sure we were aware of security protocols. including the evacuation plan. >> while we are in there, there will be two officers present and myself, i will be there with the
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tazer drawn. we will keep the door to our back. if there is problems, the camera man will have to fall back and the staff and myself will form an ark to protect the camera crew and attack them out of the pod and security door. >> these women do not get this classification because they went to bible study. they have caused serious crimes. i sometimes think people don't take female offenders as serious as they do the males, but these women tend to run things. they can manipulate everybody. >> angela simpson is one of the four women assigned to adam 100. >> simpson i think is very scary individual. she is probably the only one in there that i take every precaution in the world to make sure my staff and myself are
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safe. >> i heard they said i was possessed by the devil. i think that's hilarious. that's beautiful. >> i told my kid when is they were babies they saw a guy behind circle k and i told them that's how cops grow. i didn't know that they would try to grow a cop. that wasn't my intention. >> she has a true gang-type mentality. no cop is say good cop. she will stare you down sometimes and you get the hair on the back of your neck standing up. >> i asked god a lot to spontaneously combust officers. >> where does that come from? >> where does it come from? >> the hatred of cops. >> that's not something i will discuss. >> she illustrates hatred of law enforcement in her drawings.
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>> here's one for my brother. it's from the pigs in a blanket series. don't you love it? >> you mist see that it makes things contentious with the officers. >> of course not. >> it's not conducive to a good rapport between and you the officers. >> i think it is. we know what we are. they know what they are. it's not a problem. >> you don't think that's insulting to them or slightly threatening? >> no. can i show you 1 that is? >> maybe it could be threatening, but i didn't mean it that way. this was my first officer down picture. that would be rude, but not really. i might make a kid's book for the baby gangsters coming up. . >> simpson can face the death penalty for first-degree murder
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and kidnapping. >> anything i can do to help is my pleasure. >> it was your pleasure when you committed this murder? >> that's kind of [ bleep ] up. i don't know what my lawyer would say if i answer that straight out. yes, it was. yeah. >> the charred dismembered remains of the victim who authorities state was not an informant were discovered in a trash can. he had been stabbed 50 times and showed other signs of torture. though simpson entered a not guilty plea in court, she openly describes her actions to us. >> ripped his teeth out. that's my favorite. >> hour did do you that? >> with needle-nosed pliars. kind of ripped. >> what made you think of that? >> what made me think of it? prior tooth pain. pretty agonizing. i thought maybe i could distribute that.
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>> the victim also had a three-inch nail driven into his head. >> she is the one in this whole jail that creeps me out for a better word. she just -- you don't know what she will do. >> thank you, miss simpson. >> coming up -- the unofficial leader of the adam 100 pod speaks out. >> they swear i will run the show or something like that. >> later, the nation's only female chain gang takes on a solemn task. for you today ? we gave people right off the street a script and had them read it. no, sorry, i can't help you with that. i'm not authorized to access that transaction. that's not in our policy. i will transfer you now. my supervisor is currently not available. would you like to hold ? that department is currently closed. have i helped you with everything you needed ? if your bank doesn't give you knowledgeable customer service 24/7, you need an ally. ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense.
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management. they are in this pod segregated for a reason much they have to stay on your toes when we were around them. >> the final factor to isolate four women in a unit large enough for 32 came after one of them attacked another inmate. the attacker was cynthia. >> she is extremely violent. she severely assaulted that inmate to the point she needed facial reconstructively surgery. that's what we do now. >> i beat the crab out of her for disrespecting me. >> i went out there and beat her as in the cell and dragged her in the middle of the hall and start beating her and said if she wanted to talk to me, i would beat her head in the floor. >> you can never prepare yourself for something that
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brutal. we had fights, but that is close to the top. it was very violent and the young lady in question that was injured looked to be passed out at the last few kicks. she could not defend herself. it was very bad. >> we are going to check the lock. >> because she got to her victim by blocking her lock with magazine pages, they follow a strict protocol before entering her cell. first they cuff her up. then instruct her to lie down on your bed. >> lay down face first. >> only then do they enter the cell and conduct a thorough inspection to make sure nothing is blocking the lock. >> you will see what i'm looking for. what you are feeling in there now is fire retardant material. i'm checking up here. i'm making sure the lock is still in working order and it is. i will close it. >> she facing up to a 15-year
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sentence on charges of aggravated assault after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend. >> i had a rough childhood. that's all i could say. my dad passed away when i was younger and he was in prison most of the time that i had to take care of my brothers and sisters and grow up fast. i didn't have a childhood. i was not there to have a cinderella crown. i had to grow up and feed my family because my mom was not taking her responsibility. >> the girl you got in a fight with, why did you get in a fight? >> she was making comments about raping kids and sick comments. just making comments about kids and about just disgusting stuff. she started calling us all racist names in the pod. she was snitching to the cops and lying at the same time right in front of me. i just had it. >> she gave an assortment of reasons for the attack, jail
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officials say she left out the real one. >> other inmates greatly influence her. she wants to be other people's puppet. i'm sure whose puppet she is in the housing she is located at. >> it is believed she attacked to impress another inmate. rosie trevino. >> she drug the inmate to the front of her cell and then assaulted her there. our thought is possibly that maybe it was done on trevino's order. >> they swear up and down that i run the show or something like that. it's nothing like that, you know? >> she has a lot of clout. i'm not sure how she continues to keep this high level of clout since she has been here so long. the basic thought is she will nol not leave because of her charges. >> rude dude with the attitude. that's what they call me.
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>> she has been here for more than six years. due to the complexities in her murder case. if she is convicted, she will eventually transfer to a maximum security state prison. >> she seems to just have some pull over the inmates and they tend to do for her whatever she says. >> trevino now joins simpson as one of the women assigned to adam 100. >> i'm with my peoples here. i'm with my family. they went through mad extreme to separate us and we are all together again. >> the fourth member of adam 100 is norma lopez. >> the crime is fantastic. she didn't do it. she was just there, but -- yeah. 45 straight in the face at a cop. you lose through diet and exercise, alli can help you lose one more by blocking some of the fat you eat. let's fight fat with alli. ♪
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described as a suicide attempt, maricopa county inmate manuel martinez has undergone a psychological evaluation and paded from a safe cell back to his own cell in the high security unit. >> you are having a rough day. >> real rough. >> is this your girl? >> just a lot of family problems and i was trying to get a call in and they were not hearing me. i was trying to basically letting them know i was going through things and to give me a five minute call or not even five minutes. a couple of minutes. they were not hearing me. >> his anguish was so intense he took to expressing it on the cell wall. he said he believed his former gang was about to harm his fiance and he was desperate to warn her. >> the gang squad went in and did a sweep on my neighborhood on the gang on the streets. because i'm in jail, they think i cut me a deal to turn in a
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couple of my homeys on the streets so i can get out. they made threats towards my girl. everybody knew where my old lady lived. >> the next day he was allowed to contact his fiance, but said the experience deepened his resolve to give up gang life. >> my whole life i have been doing this. the longest i stay on the streets is three months. i know everybody who is anybody on the streets. not one of them put money on my books or send me a postcard or visit or call my old lady when she was struggling and ask if she needs gas money. you know what i mean? it's overrated. straight up. very overrated. everybody is afraid of the last part of their name. mafia. the mexican part, once you say mafia everybody shivers. i don't give a [ bleep ]. they don't pay my bills. straight up.
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they don't do nothing for me except hurt me. >> martinez's denunciation of his gang might cast him a as loner, norma lopez just joined a notorious sisterhood. she is the newest member of the adam 100 pod. a secluded unit for four of the most dangerous women in the maricopa jail system. >> i might look all sweet and innocent and stuff, but when it comes down to it, i can be tough if i have to be. >> lopez was placed in adam 100 after a violent assault on another inmate. >> i don't think i have ever really lost a fight. like lost where i can say yeah, she got me. >> she is also considered a high security risk to staff because her alleged crime involved the
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shooting death of a phoenix police officer, attempting to arrest her and her boyfriend. >> it was a check cashing scam gone bad. >> lopez distracted the officer, giving her boyfriend the opportunity to shoot him. >> in the state of arizona, if you are committing a felony when a murder happens, you get charged with it too. >> the murder hit close to home. the victim was a former detention officer here. >> he was more than an officer for me and a lot of people. he was a good friend. a very, very good friend. young. young kids. he had a lot of friends here. there was anger there. i don't like her. i don't hate her. she's an inmate and i'm an officer and i will be professional in my duties. i will not treat her any differently than any other inmate. i prefer not to work with her because in my opinion she has no remorse of what she did.
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she is kind of glorifying it. >> it's hard for me to express my feelings. only i and god knows what's in my heart. he knows if i'm remorseful. i don't mind if others don't see it. who does see it is the person that matters and that's all. >> while lopez may be considered a high security risk by staff, the crime has only elevated her status in the eyes of some of her pod mates. >> the crime is fantastic. she didn't do it, she was just there. >> angela said that she idolizes you for being involved in a crime where a cop was killed. >> did she? yeah. a lot of people don't like cops. especially inmates. >> coming up. >> since i have been here i found out two of my friends died it of heroin overdose. >> a female chain gang gets a
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here's what's happening. the obama administration is defending their health care and said the law was a response to a crisis. they are asking the court to uphold the individual mandate requiring americans to have health insurance. the navy rescued a fishing boat from pirates in the arabian sea. they responded to a distress call after leaving the gulf. a navy team detained the pirates and free the fishermen. back to lock up. >> get up, ladies.
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get dressed. no talking whatsoever. listen up for instructions left face. your chains. check your marks. all right, ladies. what's rule number one. >> i will be a model inmate. >> exactly right. that's what we will do all day and every day. march time. march. forward march. >> step, step, left, right, right, left. >> the crack of dawn brings a military-style drill to the population housing unit at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona. >> sound off, one, two, sound off. three, 4. >> going to get my life straight.
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and end up in intake. >> going to make it on the yard. >> [inaudible]. >> the nation's only female chain gang is preparing to make their way to a desolate field on the out skirts of the city. today's chain gang assignment is intended to do more than provide the count we free labor for a needed task. jail officials hope it will make a lasting impact on the young women, most of whom are serving short sentences for nonviolent crimes. >> all these people are indigent. no family and nobody to claim them. they only know their name and age. we were the last people who paid their dues and respects.
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>> 19-year-old courtney is currently serving six months on a drug trafficking charge. this is her first day on chain gang. >> this morning i woke up and found out we were doing the burials and i wasn't quite prepared. my dad told me about it because he seen it on tv about the chain gangs burying people. i didn't think as females we would be doing it. >> the side of the casket are handles. they are not handles. they are just decorations. you will be picking the body up. use the bottom of the box. if you don't top the participate in the services, that's up to you. you will stand there and show respect. any questions? >> no, sir. >> all right, ladies. listen up. for those of you who are knew to this, some are heavier than others. help each other out and shuffle
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your chaps. the last thing you want is to step on each other's chain and have an incident. you can participate. we will not make you do it, but it's your choice. lineup. pick up your chains if you have to. >> the burials are coordinated by a local catholic church and knights of columbus volunteers like tom martin. . >> we bury about 250 a year. we do what we can to represent the families because there is no family members here. >> we gather here to bury the body of james. bless the body of james and may his soul find his home with you in heaven. >> the county allows us 15 minutes per burial. we try to use up that 15 minutes. i think we do a pretty good job. >> for all who die alone without
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friends and family, the lord may comfort them. >> it's a shame. if you think you live with these people 82 years and there wasn't one soul here to see her go. you think if that was you. >> for an end to violence in the world. for all who are gathered here that the lord may answer them. we praise the lord. >> a lot of these inmates are here with drugs and prostitution. some have family and some don't. if they don't have family, that they are their family is heart breaking and they will get very emotional. >> let us sum it up. our father who art in heaven hallowed be thigh name. they will be done on earth as it is in heaven. ♪ amazing grace ♪ how sweet the sound
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♪ that saved a wrench like me >> since i have been here i found out two of my friends died of a heroin overdose. i have been in jail. i wasn't able to go to the funeral. >> you missed it? >> yeah. a lot of these people don't have families. it's sad. it's sad that us inmates had to do that and the families weren't there to do it. ♪ i once was lost but now am found ♪ ♪ was blind but now i see >> i think the singing can be improved. >> i used to be in a choir when i was younger, but i don't have that courage to go ahead and sing in front of everybody.
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i didn't know all the words either. i just knew the first little thing. >> every night we have a girl named cece that sings amazing grace and heard her sing it. i remembered the words. >> he's really good. i said i need cece here. >> amazing grace ♪ ♪ how sweet the sound ♪ that saved a wrench like me ♪ i once was lost ♪ but now am found
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sisters to heart. >> sister! >> rosie trevino who faces a possible death sentence if convicted on her murder charge is considered the unofficial leader of adam 100. >> we laugh and smile and talk and chop it up. you hear us. we are about each other. if you disrespect us, it's just we are pet we disrespect. >> they may be sisters and happy now because this is new digs for them and a new playground and they are trying to see what games they can play, the luster wears off. >> there is loyalty in here. you got to be selective with your few. >> if one were to cross each other, i'm sure they would turn on each other instantly. there is nothing no jail that thick. >> one of the other adam 100 inmates, sing theory violently beat another inmate a few weeks ago and has not been allowed the
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hour a day of recreation outside her cell. until today. >> bear in mind if you screw this up, you go back to the bottom. we take everything and you have no day room access and you have to work your way up again. you need to keep your eye on the prize. if you pass stuff and if you are talking up against the doors and things like that, you will go back down to nothing. >> just because of the nature and the violence she had in the past while she is on her hour of day room access, we have to keep her in a very controlled setting. >> what are you doing? >> that's beautiful. >> that is so nice. that's beautiful. >> sister! >> she allowed to visit her three pod mates, but must say three feet away from the doors
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to prevent the passage of contraband. >> that's cute! >> she doesn't have much time left in adam 100. she recently accepted a plea in the aggravated assault case and will be transferred to state prison to begin a 2 1/2 year sentence. staff takes plenty of precaution whenever they deal with her. >> we are searching her cell and every time they are on an hour out, they get searched to make sure they didn't bring contraband or they didn't pass information. >> before long, contraband is found. inmates call this a fishing line. >> there is a lot of string there. there is probably enough to go from one end of the pod to another a couple of times around. they use it to move weapons from one cell or notes or things such as that. it looks harmless, if they are moving weapons back and forth,
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it could be a threat to the facility or one of the other inmates in here. she got off guidelines today. this would be enough to put her back. i may opt to put her back. >> he probably won't give me my hour. take my hour away. so it really don't matter today. go i got it today and you can't feel miserable for yourself. >> back at the jail facility, it's not been a good day for manuel martinez either. his lawyer got him a 4 1/2 year plea bargain, more time than he was expecting. the bad news doesn't end there. >> me and my girl broke up today. i started sensing that my girl gave up. she said let's go our separate ways. i said no [ bleep ] that. i invested too much. i gave you -- i had a little
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phone book i used to call it my ways to get in touch with them. in front of her when we got together i ripped it into two pieces and then i lit it on fire and i burned it and put it on the ground and i stepped on it and you turn it out. she goes i didn't ask you to do that. i said i am letting you know that i don't have those numbers again. i'm committing myself to just you. we are supposed to get married next week on the 15th. monday. if i had known this, i feel like a jackass. i am here with nobody. she's out there living her life all nonchalant and doing whatever. i'm in here. reading the "wall street journal" and "ok!" magazine. >> i told my lawyer let's do this quick. i want to get out.
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>> as a result, martinez will be sent to a state prison. since disavowing his gang, he knows there still may be trouble ahead. >> i would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. if they come, they better come hard and strong. everybody who knows me will say that because i'm not going to sit there and bow down. i don't bow down to nobody. >> he contemplates with neither his fiance or his gang. there is anger in the adam 100 pod all directed at one detention officer. >> what are a jerk! >> a jerk! >> as inmate cynthia was returning for a visit with her lawyer, she managed to slip her cuffs. she was quickly restrained again, officers removed certain possessions from her cell as a sanction. when she attempted to stop them, she put up a struggle and one of the officers tazed her.
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>> that [ bleep ] that just walked by, he tazed me. he tazed me for no reason. he had no reason to taze me. >> she will hold a grudge for quite a while. when i did bought my ticket, which in jail means she put a hit out on me. with these inmates i would take the threat seriously. they had the potential and means to do so. >> what happens next in this pod? do things simmer down? >> what happens next. that's a good question. i don't know what happens next. that's just -- that's for us to know and them to find out. we don't know. we're all opportunistic criminals where you can't really predict what opportunities are going to happen. >> i take it everybody's pissed off. >> we're not pissed. >> what are you? >> patient. coming up, one of the four
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plug into the savings you deserve with snapshot from progressive. as night falls on the maricopa county jail, rosie trevino appears despondent after returning from a long court hearing for her capital murder trial. >> she gets like that. she pushes people away. i call her sister and all you hear is -- we don't hear nothing. it just got quiet after that. >> trevino's co-defendant, also the father of her son, filed a motion that could reduce his sentence and make it harder for trevino to defend herself in her death penalty case. >> sister! sister! >> just didn't feel right. i have seen people trip that are
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facing the death penalty. but i've seen a lot more just regular weak bitches looking at a year try and kill theirself. >> later that's night that's exactly what trevino tried to do. when officers did a routine check on her cell, she was passed out. she had torn off a piece of her night gone and had tightened it around her neck. >> i could see her on a gurney. her face was already turning blue. so, yeah. >> the staff cut the cloth from her neck and successfully revived her. she was immediately transferred to medical. >> i'm glad they got here. she's got too much family that loves her. she doesn't need to leave like that. >> with trevino in the medical unit, the atom 100 pod is a very different place. >> with the three of them in there, apkaw, simpson and lopez,
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they are all relatively calm inmates. they don't deal with anything, they sleep all day. they sleep all night. when trevino was there, she would really provoke people into acting poorly. and that's just her nature. >> yeah, she kind of connects all of us here. so, yeah, it's been a little more quiet. >> but the pod isn't quiet for long. one week later, trevino was returned to her cell. >> i don't know what happened. i just flipped. i was like the state's going to kill me, i'm going to kill myself before they kill me, you know what i mean? >> while she claims to no longer be suicidal, her plans are nevertheless self-destructive. >> if i get the death penalty, i'm going way out. if i get life, i'm going way out. not that i say i'm going to hurt myself, but i know i'm going to pick up a few new cases. i'm just -- whatever comes my way.
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you you have the death penalty and you don't have nothing to win, nothing to lose, no more kind of attitude, what would you have? i'm done. so why not be done with it, you know what i mean? and if i get to the -- when i go to the joint i'm just going to have a party it's going to be about me and my bitches and that's it. >> soon after this interview, trevino would literally get a new lease on life. >> so i hear you're getting out of here, huh? really? i don't know what i'll do without you. >> after years of hearings and motions on her murder charge, she has accepted a plea bargain of 18 years for second-degree murder and will soon transfer to a state prison. >> it's been a long time with trevino. we've gone from violent, young, just amazingly angry individual to semi tranquil, i've accepted my fate kind of person. >> you look a lot better than you have in the past few months. you look like you have some more color, not so distant, not so angry.
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>> yeah. >> yeah. just her presence leaving the building it's going to be like elvis has left the building. for me it's going to be a lot of calm. i don't think it's ever going to be the way it was again. which i'm okay with that chapter closing. >> and that's not the only change coming to atom 100. >> are you ready for prison? have you been there before? >> no, i've never been there before. >> norma lopez has also reached a plea agreement on her murder charge. she's on her way to prison for a period of 22 years. >> so you're ready to go. ready to get out of here. you all going the same direction? >> yeah. >> yeah. so it will be a relocated party. >> we're going to party. we're going to party. >> that's what i'm saying, a relocated party, just be in a different spot. >> they'll be joining cynthia apkaw who reached an earlier plea agreement. >> all three of you going to the same house. new house but same people, huh? we have this whole group of people and we're going to be losing them all.
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it's going to be strange, you have those catch names, rosie at it's again or lopez. lopez was a common name. you didn't even have to say her first name. just lopez. okay, what's going on. so you don't know what to expect, huh? >> no. a lot more you can do. >> i agree. little more comfort of home, right? >> yeah. >> when all three are gone at once, i think it will be very quiet. >> angela simpson will soon be the only woman left on the once notorious atom 100 pod. >> so it will be an interesting dynamic of what's going to happen. will inmates try to take over their way? are there going to be others that are going to try to become rosie trevino? is simpson going to stand up and become the matriarch, so to speak, of the estrella jail? it will be empty. it will be empty nest syndrome, i think. we'll have to decide what to do with the a-100 pod now. i thin
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