thank you. >> but parro has seen his share of violence at corcoran. when he arrived, he was determined to avoid trouble, but he was told by other inmates he would eventually be tested and if he didn't fight back his time here would be a lot worse. >> so i fought. and that was pretty much the first fight i've ever been in in my life. i couldn't walk very well for about three or four weeks. i had black eyes for about six weeks. i thought it was hell. and it was. you eventually just start living. you start doing all these activities. you wash your clothes. you make the ritual of having coffee just like you did out there, you know? you don't have the option to go to starbucks. you get folgers out of the canteen and make whatever you can make. i think one of the interesting things that i kind of woke up to was that that's what life is. here or elsewhere. so you better get something out of it. so if i can actually enjoy making coffee here in corcoran surrounded by a lot of loud people and a lot of other discomforts, then i'm going to come out a lot better f

i couldn't stop using, it was very difficult to deal with the shame and the guilt of all that. >> parro and his wife eventually separated, but he landed in prison for breaking into her home and stealing her credit cards to pay for drugs. >> i readily admitted to it. that was one of the problems in my defense is i had no defense. i said yeah, i did go in, take those credit cards and the reason i took the credit cards is wisely enough my wife canceled mine. >> stefan paaro was a very relatable guy to most of us who are filming "lockup." he was a well educated man and he expressed himself so eloquently. and so succinctly. i think he was a cautionary tale because his crimes were committed because of his substance abuse and i think most of us probably know people who have similar issues. but there was stefan, trying to navigate through an extremely violent world. >> i had an idea that i would never end up in prison, that i was somehow exempt. i'm not saying i was an exemplary citizen but i had no idea that it could get this bad. that's what i -- [ whistle ] >> in the middle of interviewing s