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>> jennie brown is 21 and serving six to eight months for trafficking cocaine and breaking and entering. >> this is where i hand out the supplies, brushes, shampoo/conditioner, grease, spreads, curlers, perm rods. whenever they bring it back, i check it, to make sure there is no hair is in the brushes and make sure everythings sanitized and clean. >> many inmates see the cosmo program as a chance to not only better their lives but the lives of their children. >> lance and darion, my 6-year-old a...

And entering. >> this is where i hand out the supplies, brushes, shampoo/conditioner, grease, spreads, curlers, perm rods. whenever they bring it back, i check it, to make sure there is no hair is in the brushes and make sure everythings sanitized and clean. >> many inmates see the cosmo program as a chance to not only better their lives but the lives of their children. >> lance and darion, my 6-year-old and my 2-year-old. >> thats why im here, so i can legally provide what they need. >> its wha...

Spreads, curlers, perm rods. whenever they bring it back, i check it, to make sure there is no hair is in the brushes and make sure everythings sanitized and clean. >> many inmates see the cosmo program as a chance to not only better their lives but the lives of their children. >> lance and darion, my 6-year-old and my 2-year-old. >> thats why im here, so i can legally provide what they need. >> its what you make it. with every situation, its just what you put into it, you get out of it. you put...

Trafficking cocaine and breaking and entering. >> this is where i hand out the supplies, brushes, shampoo/conditioner, grease, spreads, curlers, perm rods. whenever they bring it back, i check it, to make sure there is no hair is in the brushes and make sure everythings sanitized and clean. >> many inmates see the cosmo program as a chance to not only better their lives but the lives of their children. >> lance and darion, my 6-year-old and my 2-year-old. >> thats why im here, so i can legally p...

6-year-old and my 2-year-old. >> thats why im here, so i can legally provide what they need. >> its what you make it. with every situation, its just what you put into it, you get out of it. you put nothing in, you get nothing out. >> although many of the inmates here have committed violent crimes in the past, the relaxed atmosphere in cosmo allows security officers like sergeant ericka estis to let down their guard. >> i feel comfortable with her doing my hair. i mean, its just like if you go ou...

Serving six to eight months for trafficking cocaine and breaking and entering. >> this is where i hand out the supplies, brushes, shampoo/conditioner, grease, spreads, curlers, perm rods. whenever they bring it back, i check it, to make sure there is no hair is in the brushes and make sure its all sanitized and clean. >> many inmates see the cosmo program as a chance to not only better their lives but the lives of their children. >> lance and darion, my 6-year-old an my 2-year-old. >> thats why ...

Been incarcerated, so thats already three strikes against me. but i think i could actually have another chance to become someone, to be something. i would always turn my client away from the mirror so that shes surprised when she see that transformation. >> shampoo and conditioner, please. >> jennie brown is 21 and serving six to eight months for trafficking cocaine and breaking and entering. >> this is where i hand out the supplies, brushes, shampoo/conditioner, grease, spreads, curlers, perm r...

>> lance and darion, my 6-year-old an my 2-year-old. >> thats why im here, so i can legally provide what they need. >> its what you make it. whatever situation, its just what you put into it, you get out of it. you put nothing in, you get nothing out. >> although many of the inmates here have committed violent crimes in the past, the relaxed atmosphere in cosmo allows the security officers like sergeant ericka estis, to let down their guard. >> i feel comfortable with her doing my hair. i mean, ...

Ericka estis, to let down their guard. >> i feel comfortable with her doing my hair. i mean, its just like if you go out and in the free world getting your hair done, youre taking a chance with somebody doing your hair. >> ladies, i need for you to return your shears, please. >> but at the end of the day, these hairstylists are still convicted criminals. and any sense of freedom is short-lived. >> being in prison, its going to keep me out of trouble, i know. cause i dont want to come back. i don...

Its all sanitized and clean. >> many inmates see the cosmo program as a chance to not only better their lives but the lives of their children. >> lance and darion, my 6-year-old an my 2-year-old. thats why im here, so i can legally provide what they need. >> its what you make it. whatever situation, its just what you put into it, you get out of it. you put nothing in, you get nothing out. >> although many of the inmates here have committed violent crimes in the past, the relaxed atmosphere in co...