thank you. while april arnold volunteers to mentor women whose drug problems often coincide with jobs in the sex industry, sheree dean feels no need for such mentoring. nearing the end of a six-month sentence, she s anxious to get back home. my sister-in-law sent them to me. that s me and my daughter when i was pretty. what s the hard part about seeing this picture? i was so pretty. you have makeup and look pretty. in here you don t have nothing. no lotion, no makeup, no bronzer, no lip liner, nothing. because the jail doesn t allow inmates to purchase cosmetics, dean s makeup arsenal has been reduced to one simple tool. we break up the pencil and put the graphite in here and take it and wet it to put it on our eyes. i call it graphite black. while in jail, dean keeps her distance from other inmates and
being here you believe it because you have to believe it. i know it, yeah. nearing the end of a six-month sentence in the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida, sheree dean says she s ready to give up her former life of drug use and prostitution. i m over this. i realize if i keep doing the [ bleep ] that i m doing i will keep coming back here. i don t want to be one of those people that keep walking through the doors. oh, didn t you just leave? especially those people who come in here that are detoxing and strung out. i used to be that person. it s embarrassing, it s humiliating. i never, ever want to be that person again. deputy lori garcia is concerned dean refused the court s offer of a drug program. she chosen not to be enrolled in a drug program but she should be. she has to be educated on what brought her here.
a decade. the 25 years that i have, i ll be 53 when i get out. i don t have any kids. i don t have a family like that. so i would at least want to get out with enough time to have at least a family. that s my whole goal. it wouldn t be flores first experience with starting over. seven years ago he served 2 1/2 years in prison for grand theft auto. but that was just one more chapter in a life that s proven worthy of a novel, one in which his youth was robbed from him and might have led him down a very dark path. coming up it was like this demonic seed that was planted in my son s soul. the horrific event that changed both jason flores and his mother forever. and sheree dean reveals a morbid fascination. some people like baseball and football. i like serial killers. this? get up! get up! get up! get up!
i had nice cars, nice house. i had big $10,000 rims on my car. i had a rolex. all my jeans were, like, true religion. but the lifestyle eventually led to the problems that brought dean to jail. started with ecstasy. then i started doing pills and then coke. when you do more pills you start to get tired and need the coke to bring you back up. i felt like without that i wasn t going to make any money. dean met most of her clients through her job at the strip club. all the guys i see are rich people. i stick with high-end guys. a guy asked me, he s like, what do you think about when you re doing this? i m thinking about what i m going to spend the money on. some of dean s past customers have continued to send her money while she s in jail. who wrote you that? my customer, randy. hi, my pretty lady. i hope my princess is okay. you ll always be my little princess. i have been thinking about you. i want to let you know i love and miss you and hope you re okay. hope to see you
doing robberies. sometimes they listen, sometimes they don t. i m planting the seed. they are listening eventually. i wish i had somebody when i was in my addiction like that. april, i want to be like you one day. i want to be clean and sober. i want to help people like me. i know you can do it. thank you. you have to make the hard decision, though. you have to stick through it. sheree dean says she s also committed to staying out of jail, though she rejected help from other inmates or staff. but during her six-month stay here she has corresponded with several people on the outside including past clients and her 6-year-old daughter. now she s decided to solicit a new pen pal. dear charles. hello. i m sure you get all kinds of letters from all kinds of people for whatever reasons. i like to think i m a little different. dean has written a letter to charles manson in hopes of starting a friendship.