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Spread the cheeks apart. upper lip up. lower lip down. look, please. >> authorities must ensure that inmates are not attempting to pass contraband to the outside. >> turn back around. squat, cough. all right, go ahead and get dressed. >> meanwhile the bonds family has to pass through security as well. though it was nearly a three-hour drive to get here, jerry bonds sr. feels it is worth it. >> when a person is down you really have to be there for them. so what we try to, relay back to jerry is t...

Controlled substance was later dropped. but she admitting to having taken what she thought was crystal meth. >> i was having like night terrors and i didnt want to sleep and everything. it was [ bleep ]ed up. i was starting to think that people were possessing my and my sons body. it wasnt crystal meth, ill tell you that. it was bad news. i was trying to tell the cops, and you know how they say the truth will set you free? no, the truth be getting you in trouble. they got my son taken and got me...

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 we made laney markert until last night around midnight. youre released on your own recognizance. you sign it, saying you understand that, youve been told that, if you dont show, a judge puts a warrant out for your arrest for not showing up to court. i wouldnt say inmate markert is scar...

You know, shes got a lot of kids. shes got three sons and we all in jail. and im the youngest. so, you know, it hurts her. ive never been to prison. hopefully i make the best of it, you know? i made the best of it here. >> taryn stout-barstow has made the best of her 90 days at santa rita as well. >> im really happy with the results here at the santa rita jail. we have good stuff going on. >> stout-barstow was convicted of child endangerment after police found her acting erratically at an electr...

Meth. >> i was having like night terrors and i didnt want to sleep and everything. it was [ bleeped ] up. i was starting to think that people were possessing my and my sons body. it wasnt crystal meth, ill tell you that. it was bad news. i was trying to tell the cops, and you know how they say the truth will set you free? no, the truth be getting you in trouble. they got my son taken and got me locked up. >> stout-barstow says her drug use began a couple of years earlier, and now shes not only i...

Converting stout-barstow into nicki. now she only has access to it in her cosmetology class. but back at her bunk, she makes due with the things she is allowed to have. >> this is my little makeup case ill be using. to make the cover-up, i use coffee, lotion, and baby powder, and mix it all together with a little bit of tooth paste. tooth paste is like multi-purpose here. pencils, do the eye shadow thing. this is tooth paste and pencil lids and put it all together in this empty mascara thing. th...

Possession. >> i have never been in this kind of trouble before, so its new and i dont like it. >> so we made laney markert until last night around midnight. youre released on your own recognizance. you sign it, saying you understand that, youve been told that, if you dont show, a judge puts a warrant out for your arrest for not showing up to court. i wouldnt say inmate markert is scared straight. she didnt even spend one night in jail. she will need real help. >> whats your name? >> laney? >> n...

You know? i made the best of it here. >> taryn stout-barstow has made the best of her 90 days at santa rita as well. >> im really happy with the results here at the santa rita jail. we have good stuff going on. >> stout-barstow was convicted of child endangerment after police found her acting erratically at an electronics store with her 6-year-old son in tow. before jail, stout-barstow worked as a stripper, whose stage name was nicki. >> i actually started out when i was 17 in alaska, dancing. s...

Its santa rita pretty and thats all that matters, right? >> but not everyone in the housing unit is as welcoming as stout-barstow. just a few bunks down, summer payne, serving a one-year sentence for petty theft, doesnt have much tolerance for the other end of the unit. >> they go home in 7 to 14 days. theyre not doing real time. were sitting here doing real time, pushing real weight, pushing real stuff on the streets. >> this is the penitentiary here. >> shes been up here like seven, eight mont...

Markert, jail is something completely new. >> ive never been to jail. ive never been to juvenile hall. driving here was probably the longest drive and walking in, just having people look at me, just made me uncomfortable and i just felt like dirty in a way. it was very scary. i was -- i cant stop crying. ive never been in this kind of trouble before, so its new and i dont like it. >> markert was just arrested at her high school and charged with drug possession. she has yet to enter a plea. >> i ...