inside wichita s sedgwick county jail, inmates are not allowed contact visits with their families or friends. but inside each housing unit are video visitation stations that they can sign up for in 20 or 30-minute-long sessions. their visitors can either speak to them from similar stations located outside the secured portion of the jail, or from their own homes with the proper internet connection. tell my daughter i said i love her. being locked up, the single most important thing is outside mail or these visits. today, manda lynch has a visit scheduled with her girlfriend, leah greenfield, who is seven months pregnant and like lynch, struggled with meth addiction.
you ever take to work shoes and underwear? i said, well, i don t know. that s a really good question. and she said, what do you do at work, mom? i think i sell these. she s like, those don t look like anyone would want to buy those shoes. those look very worn. and i was like god. i was busted. i hung up the heels. butcher s flair for the dramatic is known in and out of jail. eric wolfe, currently incarcerated in one of orange county men s units, is a friend of butcher s from the streets. everyone loves to hang out with her. she s just a lot of fun. and honestly, if you were ever in a situation where you were going to end up getting in a fight, she d probably be the one to throw the first punch. she s one of the girls who takes everything to the extreme, and when she runs, she runs until she gets busted. then she ends back in prison. and when she gets out, she does it all over again. a meth addiction has proven to be butcher s biggest nemesis, and it has kept her revolving throu
someone and maybe on their sad day they can let out a tear. these walls have seen a lot of tears. so in effect these walls do talk? they definitely talk if they re not washed away. when i first started here four years ago i never would expect to see some phenomenal artwork you see here. you do see some good stuff. they re in county custody. they re drawing on walls. they re not supposed to do that. they know that. what are you doing? nothing. you know you re not supposed to draw on the walls, right. yeah. it s a nice picture. but can you do me one favor? take it off? put it on paper. okay. that way you can actually keep it. yeah, all right. okay. since drugs had landed per in jail numerous times and taken a toll on her health, those events pale in comparison to what happened six years earlier. from what i ve seen, meth addiction is a particularly virulent addiction. it had ruined her life on so many levels. it put her in a lifestyle that
because i came in when i came in i was pretty strung out on drugs. so i m excited to gain some weight. how big do you want your butt to get? show us on the wall. not too much bigger. maybe maybe i m going to say she was in jail on charges of possession of methamphetamines and larceny. though she pled not guilty, she admits to a life-threatening meth addiction. other drawings in her cell symbolized more heartaches. i m drawing a moon and star and a girl who s kind of, i don t know, reaching for it but can t quite grasp it. she s crying. she s got a tear coming from her eye. when my dad was in prison, he told me to look at the moon and to know that we were both looking at the same moon and that would kind of connect us. so it kind of has some meaning to it. hopefully i can leave this for
when shooting lockup you see multiple sides of many inmates. and you know, often people use comedy and jokes as a defense mechanism. but really deep down inside they really want to get something off their chests. they have issues just like everyone else. such was the case with desiree stalbird, an inmate we met at san antonio s bear county jail. drugs led her to a variety of crimes. and frequent stays. my meth addiction is what got my kids taken away. i love the feel of making dope. i love selling drugs. it s like when i cook a batch, make a batch of dope, to me, it gives me like when a person has a baby for the first time, the feeling s like, wow.