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. i want to be like you one day. 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
you leave here? go to cosmetology school and graduate. dean says she will open a beauty school after her release. first she has to raise the money which she plans to do by temporarily returning to her old job as a stripper. you worry about getting hired? i gained 40 pounds. i weighed like 140 pounds. i m 170 something. i m big. you have to be in shape. looks are everything. the job where you have to be a beautiful person. like, i know if you go and go on a cooking diet, you ll lose all of it in a week. that s the worst thing in the world. that would be, like, my only worry, is to do drugs again to get skinnier. in the meantime, dean practices her future career on other inmates. but in jail, resources are few. hairspray would be great. gel would be great. mousse would be great. eyeliner would be wonderful. the reality is you get
[ applause ] it s good to see you always. yes. i ll be back next week. you know i will. it will be a pleasure. 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. here you don t have nothing. no lotion, no makeup, no bronzer, no lip liner, nothing. because the jail doesn t allow the inmates to purchase cosmetics, dean s makeup arsenal has been reduced to 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.
reduce his sentence by at least 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 spent 2 1/2 years in prison for grand theft auto. but that was just one more chapter in a life worthy of a novel, one in which his youth was robbed from him and might have led him down a 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.
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 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 walking through the doors. oh, didn t you just leave? there are people who come in here 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. the deputy lori garcia is concerned dean refused the court s offer of a drug program. she chose not to be enrolled in a drug program but she should be. she has to be educated on what brought her here. that is one that is not quite ready yet, and she might come back. what are you going to do when