. >> cindy johnson has been clean for some time. a graduate of the excel program, cindy discovered her drug problem only after it was too late. >> i am here on a first degree murder charge. i've been here seven years. i was a housewife. i have four children out there. i got into the pain pills. i got involved with an older man that was giving me his pills for sexual favors. and it just got really deep. i broke it off with him. and it got bad. we got into a big fight. i went over there with a bat and hit him in the head with it. that's my little boy, skylin, with his sister, kristin. when i came to prison, my baby boy was only a year and a half old. it was devastating because i didn't -- it wasn't planned. i didn't realize what i was doing. >> although cindy won't see the parole board for another seven years, she has made things right with her children. >> my girls are older now. they can drive up and see me. my youngest son, now 9 years old. i just talked to him yesterday on the phone. he's just doing really good. i have a good rela