. >> still samolovich says being a mother in prison is difficult. >> translator: the truth is, it reallys heartbreaking. you look outside the window, you see even a tree, a car, noises that you are used to. they're not here. you are isolated. it's really, really painful. really. >> samolovich was one month pregnant when she committed the crime that led to her four-year sentence for assault with a deadly weapon. she stabbed a young woman, her former roommate, in the neck and face during a heated argument about an ex-boyfriend. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> translator: i don't have the strength to explain it really. it's long. it's complicated. in short, it was a case of jealousy. >> this is not her first involvement with prison. she was conceived in a russian prison during a conjugal visit between her parents. >> translator: my father was addicted to drugs all his life. and his whole life from the age of 12, he goes out, goes in, goes out, goes in, and when my mother gave birth, she was visiting him. her water broke. and when they went to the hospital, they let my father out of priso