three months earlier, pamala speckin was convicted of dui for the fifth time in ten years. today she goes to court to hear her sentence. my guidelines are still 7 to 23 months. i m expecting that judge trusok will go in the middle and give me 15 months. the worst that can happen is he can max me out to five years if he wants. he s the judge. watch your head. this is one of the worst parts. getting in a cage in a van. it s not normal. and it smells in there. filth. bye, guys. coming up it blew my mind away. i hyperventilated. i had to sit down. i couldn t breathe. pamala speckin s judge delivers her sentence. then
while arguments and fights do break out among female inmates, pamala would agree with captain demery s description. when it comes to her own housing unit. it s like one big family in there. we all talk to each other, eat together. we help each other out, the ones in need. we support each other. somebody s upset, we re all right there. thank you. trace these on paper. and then i tear them out so that they have that ridged look. and then i color the outside in whatever colors i want. and then i put them on the back of an envelope and use deodorant, and you color it off and it makes it smell pretty, and it s going to look pretty when it s done. speckin has taken on the role of teacher today showing other inmates how to make decorative jailhouse stationery. don t do that on your envelope. look at what you re doing to your envelope. the role of nurturer is one she says she s familiar with. i love having a home. i love my husband. i love my kids.
and i hope my husband and i are still together. i hate to lose him over my mistakes. speckin will soon leave the jail on a state prison transport bus to begin her sentence. but dustin paul will still be here a while. how do i describe myself? i m a mother [ bleep ]. that s how i would describe myself. over the past five months paul has been trying to leave the jail through his own ill-fated escape attempts. i know there s no way i ll get out of here. that s not going to happen. i was really just upset i was in jail. you know? that was my way of saying, [ bleep ] you pretty much. escape can carry up to a ten-year prison sentence. but since the farthest paul ever got was the day room of his housing unit jail officials have not filed criminal charges. instead they ve kept him locked up in segregation. my beard represents how long i ve been here.
how do i describe myself? i m a mother [ bleep ]. that s how i would describe myself. over the past five months paul has been trying to leave the jail through his own ill-fated escape attempts. i know there s no way i ll get out of here. that s not going to happen. i was really just upset i was in jail. you know? that was just my way of saying [ bleep ] you pretty much. escape can carry up to a ten-year prison sentence. but since the farthest paul ever got was the day room of his housing unit jail officials have not filed criminal charges. instead they ve kept him locked up in segregation. my beard represents how long i ve been here. how long my hair is, that s how long i ve been down here. but lately paul has ceased his escape attempts and given himself a new look. because of his good behavior, jail officials have moved him to a less restrictive housing unit. everybody thought that
pamala speckin, a married mother of three children, has just gotten back from court where a judge handed down his sentence on her most recent drunk driving conviction. i was going in there thinking i might get at most 15 months. it s my fifth drunk driving. the judge pretty much lectured me, you know, and he was right. i could kill somebody or kill myself, and that s what i really got to think about. you know, i m a threat to the community. if i m on the roads. and he gave me three to five years in prison. the sentence is final. and speckin must now wait for her transfer to the state s only female prison, about 2.5 hours from grand rapids. it blew my mind away. i hyperventilated. i had to sit down. i couldn t breathe. i felt like the whole world was just ending. my 4-year-old, i m going to miss her first day of school.