the revolving door. >> i see her. >> i've known brenda brewer since i have worked in the jail. i think we started coming here at the same time. you running the show in here? >> i try to keep them on their toes. >> i appreciate that. >> i guess this is her second family, if you will. and this is what has become her life. >> how many times would you say you've been arrested here in fairfax county? >> i'd say 100 -- about 160-some times. i have a real bad, bad record. that's all my whole record is. shoplifting, that's all. >> brewer is charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property with intent to sell. >> somebody cheating or something because i ain't got nothing. >> she says she plans to plead guilty and hope for the best. >> she's got a 4. >> hit. >> and though her record involves a variety of convictions, she still says shoplifting is the anchor of her criminal life. >> i wear a girdle, and i make my own skirts. the girdle come all the way down to my ankle and i would put stuff in there and i come out of store. you can't tell i've got nothing on me. sometimes i ha

can say is she's in trouble. >>> at the fairfax county adult detention center, arepeat offender, brenda breweres come over the years. the latest to leave is sabrina monahan, having completed a short stint for drug possession. before she left, she was submitted to a drug test after brewer told staff she'd been trading commissary snacks for prescription drugs. while she passed the test and was,on rated, brewer admits to having dealt her own medication in the past. >> it all depends on the type of medicine they give me, and if it make me high i'll go out there and see a white girl like to get high, and sell my medicine to her. uh-huh. >> supporting her drug habit on the outside is what had led to brewer's 30-year-long revolving door relationship with the jail. >> my pattern is to get out of here, go out there and steal, smoke crack and dope. that's the first thing i look for. get my a girl, put on a skirt and go shopping. that's my routine of getting out of prison to do. and i don't want to go back to that. >> the odds are stacked against her. brewer recently dropped out of the jail's ged program

. >> brenda brewer has been in and out of the jail over the past 30 years and says she doesn't want toter whine about her problems. >> we playing cards, and i ain't going to hear [ bleep ]. she want us to baby her. you broke the law, so evidently you broke the law to get here. i'm not going to baby you. you tell me something, i'm going to take it like it is. i don't care when they say -- you got egg, beat it. >> i know miss brenda, she's old. i respect older people. but like she really struck a nerve. [ bleep ] >> put an egg in that shoe and beat it. ♪ beat it beat it ♪ >> got bad news. why the [ bleep ] would you do all that? >> come on. don't sweat it. who -- >> i just want to be heard. i want to be understood. i want to be listened to for once. one time. and you don't get that here. all you do is get punished, punished, punished. >> coming up, jasmine slaughter is forced to leave the housing unit. >> clayborn of like, "you're making it worse for yourself." i don't care anymore. >> running up the steps crying, "it's on now." >> you pled not guilty to fighting. i'm finding you guilty.