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>> reporter: for these ladies, messing up never looked so good. linsey davis, abc news, new york. >> youll still put a lump of coal -- you wouldnt put a lump of coal in their stocking, would you? >> i think they sounded great. harmonious joy. >> thats because youre tone deaf, as well. >> that is very true. i think they sounded lovely. somebody call the grammy committee.

And began returning to mentor other women. >> i just give support to women that just feel hopeless, that feel lost. i bring a lot of hope to these women and to the people i meet. hey, julie, how are you? >> julie vaughn is serving time for offering to commit prostitution and has prior convictions of trespassing, petty theft and possessing drug paraphernalia. >> im 36 now. since i was 19 until now, going back and forth, trying to get clean, messing up and using again, trying to get clean. i can r...

>> i just give support to women that just feel hopeless, that feel lost. i bring a lot of hope to these women and to the people i meet. hey, julie, how are you? >> julie vaughn is serving time for offering to commit prostitution and has prior convictions of trespassing, petty theft and possessing drug paraphernalia. >> im 36 now. since i was 19 until now, going back and forth, trying to get clean, messing up and using again, trying to get clean. i can remember a time when i looked down on people...

There are real professionals but you have to reevaluate, there are 45,000 public in there after 9/11. we have military guys and ladies coming back. use them. loop under the house. then i would not care but you are going to get rid of them and the union will say no. then we will have more of a problem. >>eric: what are they looking for? more money? more job security or the ability not to be fired? >>guest: the last part. the ability not to be fired for messing up. now with a union behind them, yo...

5,000 inmates with an average stay of just under 22 years. these inmates have plenty of time to get involved with violence. >> the smallest indiscretion could kick off a straight war. >> hand-to-hand transactions of dope, weapons, whatever. >> there have been more than 350 stabbings since the prison opened its doors in 1988. >> i enjoy hurting people. >> they dont play games here. >> bottom line, its easy to get into corcoran. >> i do armed robberies, whatever i have to do to support my drug hab...

New york. susan married this man, john amos. they had a lot in common. they were both volunteering with inner city youth and both recovering from alcohol and drug abuse. >> my past came to visit me again after rehab. my brothers wanted me to go see these detectives. so i went down to new jersey. i braved it out. my husband was right there with me. >> susan had to relive that painful night all over again. >> we put her at ease, that listen, its okay to talk with us. >> but when susan started tell...

That just feel hopeless, that feel lost. i bring a lot of hope to these women and to the people i meet. hey, julie, how are you? >> julie vaughn is serving time and has prior convictions of trespassing and drug paraphernalia. >> im 36 now. since i was 19 until now, going back and forth, trying to get clean, messing up and using again, trying to get clean. i can remember a time when i looked down on people who smoked crack because i was only snorting coke. i looked down on hookers because i was o...

Night what made my dad keep coming back to this prison, you know? so now that im 18, i like people to come to me and tell me what made him keep coming back, messing up and doing time, for what? and he could try to be a model. >> you woods? >> yes, sir. >> in my block, you dont really see what my day went try or how it is until you went to the real prison. >> aurulious woods will spend the next three years inside the plainfield correctional facility, alongside 1,600 adult offenders in an open-dor...

>> youre a four? >> what are you in four. >> messing up. >> hey, its like that sometimes. >> what can you do, though? help yourself out, help me out. nothing? >> cant sing or dance, brother. >> its always the same song from us, except their response is a little different, depending on where theyre at on their lives. >> whats up? >> whats going on in here, man? >> where? >> in this county, sir. >> i have civilian clothes on. i havent been in the county yet. >> this is receiving. where you from? >...

Four years ago, she got off drugs and began returning to mentor other women. >> i just give support to women that just feel hopeless, that feel lost. i bring a lot of hope to these women and to the people i meet. hey, julie, how are you? >> julie vaughn is serving time and has prior convictions of trespassing and drug paraphernalia. >> im 36 now. since i was 19 until now, going back and forth, trying to get clean, messing up and using again, trying to get clean. i can remember a time when i look...