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The best solution is to simply separate the women for the duration of their stays. 69-year-old angeline lizzarago says she once punched and kicked a younger inmate who was trying to intimidate her, but now says yoga is far more effective than violence when it comes to surviving jail. >> we get up at 3:00 in the morning. i make up my bed and then i pray and i do yoga for an hour and a half to two hours. >> lizzarago is nearing the end of a 2 1/2 year stay at santa rita for her part in a mortgage ...

At the santa rita jail near oakland, 18-year-old laney markert has just been assigned to a general population housing unit. she was arrested a few hours earlier and charged with drug possession. >> take any one thats open. >> thank you. >> youre welcome. >> her bunk is right next to a more seasoned inmate, taryn stout-barstow, who quickly points out the housing units social divide. >> its not that bad in here. >> i hope not. >> we call this right here piedmont. this is the good side of the pod. ...

Years here, not convicted of a crime but just waiting for their cases to work their way through the courts. other inmates might only spend a few nights in jail before they are released back home. such was the case for 18-year-old laney markert, who had been arrested at her high school and charged with drug possession. >> i have never been in this kind of trouble before, so its new and i dont like it. >> so inmate lany markert until last night around midnight. youre released on your own recogniza...

Inside oaklands santa rita jail, cyrico robinson is a popular inmate. there is a distinction between him and his rapper persona, rico tha kidd. >> i can create another person called rico tha kidd whos not insecure. he can talk to the ladies. he can go to the club, do all of this. rico, cyrioco, hes laid back, hes scared to approach the women. >> thanks to a newspaper article that documented his struggles, rico tha kidd is well known. >> is that fan mail? >> fan mail. females. i got a whole bunch...