you activate with the hair grease and it turns black. doesn't hurt me. i've been doing it for the last ten years. like real eyeliner. nobody can make it as black as me, though. >> during those ten years she's been in and out of suffolk county on a variety of petty charges that she claims were fuelled by her long-standing drug addiction. currently she's serving a year for prostitution. the time has been made easier by the presence of her good friend valerie minacapelli. but few things in jail are permanent. minacapelli was released a few days ago. >> you go! >> i miss valerie very much. i called her monday night. she said she was doing okay. she answered the phone, a collect call from me. i talked to her mom. they were doing good. she's so happy that her daughter was home. >> it won't be long before archer can join her friend and she vows it will be the last she'll see of the suffolk county jail. >> i'm getting released in five
they call me smiley, because i'm always smiling. i'm a nice person, but don't get in my personal space because it's going down. >> minacapelli proved her point just a few days after arriving in jail. she got into fight with another female inmate. >> she got a broken eye socket. i put her in the infirmary for eight days. time to go. >> the fight earned her a lengthy stay in the female segregation unit. she was released to general population a few weeks ago. >> you're a loser. despite her sometimes violent tendencies, she claims her numerous days in the suffolk county jail stem from her addiction to cocaine and heroin. >> when i was with my kids, i never did nothing. never did no drugs. did nothing. i was a stay-at-home mom. i was good, and then started racking up charges and doing drugs.
it was all downhill. >> she says she turned to prostitution to support her drug habit. her two children, ages 5 and 6, are now in the custody of their father. >> i do write to them. i don't get any mail back from them. i don't get to talk to them on the phone. my family talks to them. he won't let me talk to them on the phone in jail. >> despite the pain, minacapelli has found room for laughter in jail, particularly with her cellmate cindy archer. >> the first night i came in, we laughed the whole entire day. we were rolling. it was mad funny. >> yeah. i was against the wall slapping the wall, everything. i haven't laughed so hard in my life like that. >> like minacapelli, archer also struggled with addictions to heroin and cocaine. she's currently serving one year for prostitution. >> i was street walking. i would go there and you know,
due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> operation available support in the tower 2052. >> did you find him? >> yes. >> when valerie minacappelli entered boston's suffolk county jail, she not only hit it off with her cell mate, she got a little closer to her fiance. >> my fiance, who i've been with for 2 1/2 years, i couldn't wait to get up here and try to find him. >> minacapelli's fiance is housed in the men's unit on the other side of the jail. luckily enough, she has a perfect view of his cell window. >> 13 windows over on the bottom, he has a heart in the window. >> yep. >> in pink. >> as inmates, minacappelli and her fiance cannot write nor talk to each other on the phone. so now they use a different
put the hair grease on it and it activates and makes an eyeliner. you activate with the hair grease and it turns black. doesn't hurt me. i've been doing it for the last ten years. like real eyeliner. nobody can make it as black as me, though. >> during those ten years she's been in and out of suffolk county on a variety of petty charges that she claims were fuelled by her long-standing drug addiction. currently she's serving a year for prostitution. the time has been made easier by the presence of her good friend valerie minacapelli. but few things in jail are permanent. minacapelli was released a few days ago. >> you go! >> i miss valerie very much. i called her monday night. she said she was doing okay. she answered the phone, a collect call from me. i talked to her mom. they were doing good. she's so happy that her daughter was home. >> it won't be long before archer can join her friend and
>> when i was with my kids, i never did nothing. never did no drugs. did nothing. i was a stay-at-home mom. i was good, and then started racking up charges and doing drugs. it was all downhill. >> she says she turned to prostitution to support her drug habit. her two children, ages 5 and 6, are now in the custody of their father. >> i do write to them. i don't get any mail back from them. i don't get to talk to them on the phone. my family talks to them. he won't let me talk to them on the phone in jail. >> despite the pain, minacapelli has found room for laughter in jail, particularly with her cellmate cindy archer. >> the first day we came in, we laughed. the whole entire night. >> yeah, we did. >> so hard she was on the floor rolling. >> yeah. i was against the wall slapping the wall, everything. i haven't laughed so hard in my life like that. >> like minacapelli, archer also
>> i got in a fight with a girl. when they took me to the police station, they got rough with me so i fought back. i punched a lieutenant in the face. they gave me assault and battery on a lieutenant police officer. they call me smiley, because i'm always smiling. i'm a nice person, but don't get in my personal space because it's going down. >> minacapelli proved her point just a few days after arriving in jail. she got into fight with another female inmate. >> she got a broken eye socket. i put her in the infirmary for eight days. time to go. >> the fight earned her a lengthy stay in the female segregation unit. she was released to general population a few weeks ago. despite her sometimes violent tendencies, she claims her numerous days in the suffolk county jail stem from her addiction to cocaine and heroin.
see? eyeliner. >> makeup is considered jail contraband and inmates caught with it could receive a disciplinary write up. archer turned to an unusual source as a substitute. >> it's from the window, and you put the hair grease on it and it activates and makes an eyeliner. you activate with the hair grease and it turns black. doesn't hurt me. i've been doing it for the last ten years. like real eyeliner. nobody can make it as black as me, though. >> during those ten years she's been in and out of suffolk county on a variety of petty charges that she claims were fuelled by her long-standing drug addiction. currently she's serving a year for prostitution. the time has been made easier by the presence of her good friend valerie minacapelli. but few things in jail are permanent. minacapelli was released a few days ago. >> you go! >> i miss valerie very much. i called her monday night. she said she was doing okay. she answered the phone, a collect call from me. i talked to her mom. they were doing good. she's so happy that her daughter was home. >> it won't be long before archer can join her friend and she vows it will be the last she'll see of the suffolk county jail.
it was all downhill. >> she says she turned to prostitution to support her drug habit. her two children, ages 5 and 6, are now in the custody of their father. >> i do write to them. i don't get any mail back from them. i don't get to talk to them on the phone. my family talks to them. he won't let me talk to them on the phone in jail. >> despite the pain, minacapelli has found room for laughter in jail, particularly with her cellmate cindy archer. >> the first day we came in, we laughed. the whole entire night. >> yeah, we did. >> so hard she was on the floor rolling. >> yeah. i was against the wall slapping the wall, everything. i haven't laughed so hard in my life like that. >> like minacapelli, archer also struggled with addictions to heroin and cocaine. she's currently serving one year for prostitution. >> i was street walking. i would go there and you know, jump in the car, get the money.
>> operation available support in the tower 2052. >> did you find him? >> yes. >> when valerie minacappelli entered boston's suffolk county jail, she not only hit it off with her cell mate, she got a little closer to her fiance. >> my fiance, who i've been with for 2 1/2 years, i couldn't wait to get up here and try to find him. >> minacapelli's fiance is housed in the men's unit on the other side of the jail. luckily enough, she has a perfect view of his cell window. >> 13 windows over on the bottom, he has a heart in the window. >> yep. >> in pink. >> as inmates, minacappelli and her fiance cannot write nor talk to each other on the phone. so now they use a different method to communicate. inmates call it skywriting. >> you write the letters backwards. because it's like looking in the mirror for him.