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Stay" shoot, our production team spends months inside a single prison or jail. they interview close to a hundred inmates and staff in that period. everyone has a story and some of the inmates are unforgettable. it is surprising to run into one of them a few years later in another facility. >> hello, everybody its me the stone. i guess you people have seen me once before in michigan city, and now im down here at wabash. >> few inmates have ever made more of a lasting impression on us than james s...

Prison or jail. they interview close to 100 inmates and staff in that period. everybody has a story. and some of the inmates we meet in prison are truly unforgettable. so it was really surprising for us to run into one of those inmates a few years later in another facility. >> hello, everybody. its me, the stone. i guess you people probably seen me once before at michigan city. now im down here at wabash. >> few inmates have ever made more of a lasting impression on us than james stone. we first...

the former governor haley barbour. before leaving office he gave 14 pardons including a murderer. in an exclusive interview with cnn, eps hes sorry and has found god and changed his life. he worked in the governors office as part of a prison program for three years and talked with the governor he said every day. >> reporter: your pardon, as you probably know by now, has triggered a lot of outrage. not just yours, of course. but the pardons of other prisoners. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: ...

Their enemies, dont associate them. heres the chance to see how sincere you are in debriefing and wanting to change your life. >> for some inmates sny is freedom. the iyp is a small taste of whats to come. after over a decade in the shu, inmate angel chaves looks forward to a more interactive prison program. >> i feel like i got let down by the familia. the situation was, i was doing time for the familia. ive asked for assistance. im not going to specify what assistance. i asked for assistance t...

>> thats okay. thats okay. hey, caden, are you going to smile for mommiy theres a smile. smile. >> theres women in the chump that still have the heart for little ones even though my baby is 13 so we enjoy him and hes special and it gives us the time to have a little one around and that kind of thing and get to know jennifer and be an encouragement to her as well. >> terry learned about the prison program from karen rowmore who always felt something for inmates. >> i just felt led to get involved...

>> one of the saddest things i think we film in "lockup" is the case where a pregnant inmate has to decide what to do with her baby. at tennessee prison for women they have this wonderful and unique program through their chapel where families of the community care for the babies of these inmates until the women were released from prison. >> terry haygood has been raising jennifers son caden since he was born. >> hi. >> isnt he cute? hes gotten big. >> hi. >> thats okay. thats okay. hey, caden, a...

>> it was education. the judge ordered me to get a ged as a condition of my release. then i left and went to college. there were no thugs in college, and then i was able to obtain a productive skill, of course, as a lawyer, and then later as a judge. but it was as a result of an education. thats why i emphasize that. >> larry: now youre giving back, trying to help young men from lives of crimes. the prison program is called prison empowerment education and respect. lets see this in action. watch...

>> both, jails and prisons. >> larry: how did you not end up a criminal? >> well, unfortunately, a street youth and getting involved in the jail as a criminal, i cannot deny that. >> larry: you didnt end up one. >> how did it overcome that? >> it was education. the judge ordered me to get a ged as a condition of my release. then i left and went to college. there were no thugs in college, and then i was able to obtain a productive skill, of course, as a lawyer, and then later as a judge. but it w...

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