baby ashanti, stay strong. ray ray, stay strong. quaid, stay strong. i love you all. i'm trying to get back to my family. i've got a business on the streets. i can be making money. i own a candy truck, mobile candy truck selling coffee, candy, potato chips, white t-shirts. >> but when henry was arrested, he was in possession of more than just candy and t-shirts. >> i ended up in prison for 30 rocks of crack cocaine and 150 ecstasy pills. i'm currently serving 14 years for it. >> another thing that keeps me going is these right here, letters from my family. >> brushy mountain receives hundreds of letters a day addressed to inmates. but first every piece of mail is scanned for materials prohibited by the tennessee department of corrections. >> we've had panties come through. we've had letters with perfume and then pubic hair with body fluids. of course, they're allowed to have pictures. some pictures we do have to deny if it's nudity. >> it's real graphic. >> the officer found two nude pictures. >> a lady in columbia sent those. >> columbia. she writes some -- she's mis

that's the newest single from grammy award-winning singer-songwriter ashanti. >> from "braveheart." >a mom with the right mix of spirit, hospitality and swagger even when she's struggling, take a look. >> you know money has been tight. >> you pawned your grandmother's pels? >> we were out of cash. >> you could have used credit. >> no. i don't buy anything i can't pay for, you know that quincy. i never carry debt and i ain't starting now. >> you loved that necklace. >> look, i felt every piece of jewelry i owned to help keep us afloat. so long as we're together. >> look at you doing the right thing. >> look at you. >> you're always here with your mom who is such a huge, huge part of your career and that was her favorite show because she grew up in an army family. >> she was an army brat, my grandfather was in the army. so how crazy and small-world i'm ever ending up on a show like this. >> have you ever disappointed her? >> cute, cute. >> that's a good question. >> have you ever done something that she was just not proud of you? >> yeah. >> would you care to share? >> let me see, anyth

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. >>> tomorrow grammy winning singer ashanti is with us. >> and holly tucker. >>> ambush makeovers. >ssion is simple, to make you money. i'm here to level the playing field for all investors. there's always a bull market somewhere and i promise to help you find it. "mad money" starts now. hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends, i just want fewer days like today. my job is not just to entertain you, educate you, teach you, so you understand days like this. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. what the heck ticked off the market these last few days here? what is going on here? is it housing? is that why the dow plummeted, nasdaq tumbled 1.27%? >> the house of pain! >> let's talk about housing, because that's starting at the very beginning. like do, re, me in the "sound of music," it's a very good place to start. it is, indeed, at the fulcrum of what is crashing this market. first let's be clear, housing is the industry that ben bernanke the federal reserve chief has been targeting for growth the whole time he's been buying back bonds. it's

. >>> tomorrow grammy winning singer ashanti is with us. >> and holly tucker. >>> ambush makeovers. >mom went on strike? >> it looked like a tornado hit. >> swimming in junk. >> a messy lesson that will bring your family closer together. inspiring other women. plus parenting tips. >> we are not raising children. we're raising adults. >> it's mom appreciation day. we are giving every mom in the audience -- [captioned by national captioning institute] [cbs television distribution] a little about me. i'm recently married. i work with my wife on the show. and i'm learning to be a dad to two amazing kids in a blended family. i'm hosting the talk show because there's a lot to talk about.

actor singer ashanti is with us, tennis great, monica seles. >> she has a back that she's written. >>will sing to us and jo dee messina will be with us. >> see you at the d.a.r.t. event saturday night. jeff: every face is a mystery to her. >> i'll never remember your face zwhroofment she couldn't remember her own kids. >> i knew in my mind i only had a baby. jeff: the rare condition that keeps her from recognizing her own family. so it would shock you to know that your mom and dad are here in the front row. roll it. a little about me. i'm recently married. i work with my wife on the show. and i'm learning to be a dad to two amazing kids in a blended family. i'm hosting the talk show because there's a lot to talk about.

. >> sales shares a cell with another parent, ashanti henry. >> i am going to tell my family i love themgoing to try to come out of this madness soon. stay strong. ray, ray stay strong. stay strong. i love you you all. i'm trying to do my time and get on back to my family. i got a bess right now on the streets. coy be making money. i own a mobile candy truck selling coffee and candy and potato chips and white t-shirts. >> when was arrested he was in possession of more than candy and t-shirts. >> i ended up in prison for 30 rocks of crack cocaine and 150 pills. currently serving 14 years for it. >> another thing that keeps me going is these right here letters from my family. >> brushy mountain receives hundreds of letters a day addressed to inmates. but first every piece of mail is scanned for materials prohibited by the tennessee department of corrections. >> we had panties come through. we had letters with perfume and then pubic hair with body fluids. of course, they are allowed to have pictures. but some pictures we do have to deny if there is nudity. >> is is real graphic. >> nude pho

i was dreaming about ashanti and sleeping. >> i was sleeping and suddenly i heard the door pop and heard yelling, get down, get down. so i froze and they informed us to get out and backed up in the cells and backed up and cuffed us and brought us into the shower and proceeded to search the cell. >> well, if you run the flashlight through the back of the bottle, you will see if there's any sort of weapon or contraband. you seal see the outline or silhouette of a weapon. >> a lot of flushing going on in 107. >> the sound of flushing toilets leads officers to a stash of inmate-made wine or pruno. >> they make pruno. they grab apples and they let it ferment for a couple of days and smash them up, put them in the bag and put heat over it. a bunch of covers. they use a lot of blankets. it was under a lot of blankets in the corner, and they let it stay until it becomes sort of like wine. >> usually typically what happens if it's found in a cell in a common area where inmates have access to it, which is obviously anywhere in the cell, they will both be charged for the box of inmate-manufactured

. >>> tomorrow grammy winning singer ashanti is >>> at 11:00 a.m., we are stories.side a shopping cart. that bag, as you can see there, is now on the ground behind that gray barrier. this is near san juan mexico kan restaurant near st. james park. no word who the victim is. investigators are investigating the person was homeless. no arrests have been made. >> san jose announces the city's 22 kdom