visitation is because it's better than having contact visits. we don't have to worry about contraband entering or exiting the building. it's for the protection of the officers as well as the inmate. >> i get visits from my fiancee. and i also talk on the phone. i mean, it's good to hear a different voice compared to the voices that you hear all day. all you hear is men's voices. when you hear something soft it makes you feel good. it really does get you drunk, like we say. it gets you drunk. oh, man, it feels good to hear this. once you get off the phone, oh, man, i'm back in this world again. >> today, nathaniel wilkins' sister tracy burgess has arrived for a visit. but she's not here to see her brother. rather, she is visiting her fiance, wilkins' committee-defendant, michael jones. both men are charged in a double murder case. >> it is tough having too come visit him every saturday ask sunday, it is. because i never thought i'd see him back here for something that he has not done.
>> i told you not to pick it up yet. now we've only got 19:34. >> you look good. >> i look anything but good. >> i saw the kids wednesday. >> you saw the kids? >> yeah. >> they think i'm on the road. they don't think -- >> i know. i told them you was on the road. you know the oldest catch on quite quickly than the other ones. >> i'm ready to get home, man. i'm around a bunch of neighbors, man. >> i told you at the end of the day you've also got to thank everybody you get in here. >> investigators have not released the evidence they have against jones and wilkins but their arrest came soon after a reward was offered and a witness stepped forward. burgess says she believes in their innocence. but is still angry that they were ever in a position to be accused. >> between mike and my brother, it's like, why are you guys here? why did you all fool with the wrong people to get here? who did you all socialize with?
forever. it don't matter about me being innocent. go ahead, man, just go on with your life, move on. she wasn't having that, know what i mean? she ain't going to have that. she's a rider. >> burgess says it's too painful for her to visit her brother. even these weekly visits with jones are getting difficult. >> it's hard on me. because now i'm helping raising his kids. and also helping with bills and everything that he left. and i have no job so i'm trying to do the best i can with what i got. and it just feels like everything is being taken away from me slowly. >> laurie dowda says she has known hard times and suffering too. but now only days from transferring to prison to start a one-year sentence for second-degree burglary, she realizes coming to jail might be the start of a brighter future. >> ladies, whoever's in ged, let's go!