Probably next to an inmates release date, visits are the most important things in their lives. Keeping in touch with their loved ones. I dont like coming here, but i have to so i can see him. For some, visits are rare moments of intimacy. And for others, a business transaction. A lot of drugs come in through the visiting room. A lot of drugs. You dont want to be here, man. And then the hustle just like the bona fide, hustler with the web and then with the two hands, like you said. The money. Money in one hand, dice coming out the other. Its going to be hard. Make sure that i do it, though, because if someone else does it, its going to be different. No, i know. Everybody hates prison. Society hates prison. Its part of life. Ive got to accept the things i put myself in. I cant try to be rebellious and hate the people that lock these doors on me every day. Thats part of their job. Theyre making money. You know what i mean . And ive got to respect that, but yeah, i hate prison. I hate the cards i was dealt but i dealt them myself. So ive got to accept it and thats going to make it easier on me to do time, by accepting my consequences behind the behavior i do when im using drugs. Because thats my only downfall is drugs. If i stay out of drugs, i wont be here. Due to frequent relapses, george, now 36, has been in and out of prison since the age of 17. They know when i start getting high, they know im gone. My mom knows. You have to go. I know, mom, ill be gone. You know. That means i go on the run. Once youre so far into an addiction or using drugs, you cant stop. The only way you can stop is doing time, getting locked up, getting taken away from it. Because once youre involved in and youve got a pocket full of dope and money and youre living the fast life, the only way you stop is if you get into a wreck. Youve got to condition your mind to do without those things. Its like, if you like Drinking Coffee and you aint got it, youve got to learn to do without. If you try to get something you aint got, then youre just making your life frustrating. In here, youve got to learn to do without a lot of things. For more than 600 days, george has shared this six by ten cell. Im not even chewing this soup. Im hungry. To escape the constraints of prison, george seeks comfort in photos of his life on the outside. Before i went on the run, this was the real george. This is the person i like to be. Someone thats real, someone that cares about other people. Someone that tries to make a difference in my neighborhood. I dont like to see my nephews getting drunk, getting high, running around the neighborhood getting involved in gang violence. Im really proud of my nephew. He just graduated high school. This is the person i went and picked up and took him in a stolen car to give him an example of the criminal activity i was doing. I talked to him about my downfalls in life. I told him i didnt want him to be a part of that. I told him to graduate high school, maybe possibly get into the military, get a job, stay grounded, you know, and just do good in life, which hes doing. Thats something i wanted to do and i didnt do. I wanted to graduate high school. I didnt, you know. To this day, sometimes i lie and say im a graduate and im not. So, hes great moving some of the barriers that put me behind these walls. By him graduating, hes probably the only boy in my family thats graduated high school. Thats a good thing. Jason burton constantly deals with the destructive nature of drug addiction which affects nearly 80 of the prison population. Ill come in here, and seeing all the addicts and seeing all, how screwed up lives get because of the drugs makes me ashamed to even say that i was a drug dealer. Really. I was trying to raise money for my latest movie. What does it take to make art . I made some bad choices. This was going to be my biggest project ever. This was going to be the movie. The fulllength feature, 90 minutes. I wanted to shoot on super 16 instead of digital. Film cost a little more money so i had to kind of push it. I pushed the envelope. You know, i got a little wrapped up in the money too, you know. When the money started coming, my original purpose got sidetracked a little bit. I was selling drugs. I had like about 58 eight balls, which is about 6,000, 7,000, maybe. I wasnt used to having large amounts of money, you know, that quick. I couldnt i mean, i couldnt stop. And then all of a sudden, my whole life crumbled, and i lost the school i was going to and, you know, i lost a lot because of it, because of those choices. I got four years. My first time in prison and last time in prison. Jason is luckier than most. With the conjugal visit with his wife soon approaching and the release date a mere two weeks away. You wont get a chance like this again. We have a dog program. We care for dogs. A bike program here. Im always reminded of where i could be. Every month and a half ill get a visit. My wife comes to see me. That really shows like the character in someone. When youre put through those low points, you know. You always have people there when youre up, but when youre really down, you know, to the curb, is when your true friends and your true family kind of shine through, and she was one of those that stuck with me. Next on lockup extended stay, jason and his wife are reunited one last time behind bars, and some visitors who come to san quentin find themselves staying much longer than originally planned. This is tar heroin. This was found in the possession a visitor. A second inmate had actually coerced this inmate and his female visitor into doing this by threat of death. It never questions the tasks at hand. But this year, theres a more thrilling path to follow. father kids. Change of plans vo defy the laws of human nature. At the summer of audi sales event get exceptional offers now oh, come on. Flo dont worry. 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You know, i respect them for what theyre doing, not just giving up on the guy, you know what, saying you know what, hes made his bed, hes going to lay in it, im moving on to someone else, because what can he do for me when hes locked up . So as its all on her. So youve got to respect these women for going through what they do. Despite elaborate security measures, visitors continue to find ingenious ways to smuggle a variety of contraband into the prison system. We have found contraband such as black tar, cocaine, marijuana, tobacco, alcohol. These women can hide that stuff where you will not see it. And a metal detector will not pick it up. Its prison and these guys are pros at doing this stuff to get it in. They want it and a lot of it comes through the visiting rooms, unfortunately, where they have contact with people from the outside who have access to that. I was working visiting which is a dormitory setting, contact visits. There was an inmate in there that tried to smuggle in some cocaine. He had it in two balloons. What he did is his visitor brought it in. He had to use the restroom. He went to the restroom. He pushed it up inside his rectum. As i was doing his search, i stripped him down. I had him bend at the waist and spread his cheeks. At that time, i seen an item that was yellow inside. I addressed the inmate, do you have anything hidden up inside you . No. Im going to ask you one more time. Do you . No. So, at that time, i had already seen what i seen. I cannot force him to take it out, so what i did is i have him get dressed back up, i taped his pants with duct tape, cuffed him up. The reason i taped his pants up with duct tape is so if he pushed it out and dropped it as i was escorting him to a holding cage, it would still be in his pants. So, he was brought from that stripout area. He was put in a holding cell and put on potty watch, where a day later, the balloons came out. They were found. If caught smuggling drugs, a visitor could end up doing time in a prison, much like the one theyre visiting. Many smugglers are actually victims acting out of fear in response to threats from prison gangs. They will prey on a weak individual and force that individual to have their visitor bring in drugs because theyre not suspected. But theyre told that your visitor is going to be visited by somebody, theyre going to give them something, and they have to bring it in. And they wont tell the inmate that theyll do something to him, theyll tell them, well do something to your loved one. This is tar heroin. This was found in the possession of a visitor. She was bringing it in to her fiance. She had this wrapped up in the Plastic Packaging here and then that was wrapped in a balloon or two and had it concealed in her vagina before, obviously, before she came into the processing area. Either a balloon or a condom is the usual way of packaging it. What theyll do, once they clear here and get to the visiting room, theyll go straight to the bathroom. Theyll pull this stuff out. Theyll hide it on their clothing somewhere. And then theyll go over to the vending machine. They may buy popcorn or m ms. Theyll open up the m ms and stick that balloon in there, or theyll stick it inside the popcorn. As the inmate is having their visit, hes enjoying his food, he swallows it. He goes back to his unit. He drinks a little bit of shampoo, vomits, throws it back up. A second inmate had actually coerced this inmate and his female visitor into doing this by the threat of death on this guy. This inmate was kind of a fringe gang member and was using his connections to get this guy who was getting regular visits from his girlfriend to bring drugs in or that was it for him. So, she was regularly bringing it in. She actually, she had a good job, no criminal record at all, and had fallen in love with this inmate well, i mean, before he came to prison, and he came to prison, got himself into some trouble, and next thing you know, shes running heroin in for him. Constantly act as if they want to kill up their own kind blind leads the blind, but im going to tell you something struggled with my body, my soul and my mind most visitors are Community People who have loved ones in prison. You know, you have a few that will come in here and try to undermine the system. Most of them are just like you and i, just ordinary folks. No matter how much contraband is stopped at the gates, plenty is making it through to inmates who will stop at nothing to get their fix. Isu came in here about a week and a half ago, we did a heroin bust and marijuana, found 11. 61 grams of heroin. Im used to like two or three, so this was a big bust. Plus, he had some marijuana, and somehow, he had a cell phone. These guys are slick. Its a neverending problem. And these guys are addicted to heroin, et cetera. It will always be a problem. There is no real rehabilitation going on in this place. Youre just going to come in and youre going to get out, and whatever happens in between is really on yourself. Come on, frankie coming up on lockup extended stay, see how some inmates find opportunities for intimacy in prison. If i didnt have these visits here with you, rachel, if i didnt have these visits, i dont know if our whole marriage would have lasted this long. It wouldnt, huh . If you have moderate to thsevere rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. Ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion. Humira can help stop the clock. Prescribed for 15 years, humira targets and blocks a source of inflammation that contributes to joint pain and irreversible damage. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections. 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We have a condominium available to these inmates. They have to be a mainline inmate with a release date. Its like a little apartment room. Theyve got like a stove, refrigerator, all that stuff. So, your loved ones get to bring you your food and you just get to, you get to be with your loved one. I cant even explain to you how great it is. I look forward to it. He looks forward to it. Put in a request just the second we leave this visit, hell put in for the next one so we make sure we get it every month. Its just something to look forward to. Its the only time that we can have or that weve had together alone, you know, in years. So its just its incredible. While conjugal visits offer freedom to the inmates, to officers they can often be a chance to smuggle contraband into the prison. Follow the process. Theres a lot of rules and regulations and things that you have to follow. I know what to expect. I mean, im going to do what i have to do to come see him, so if that means having to do all these crazy things, its worth it just to be able to see him, so, get used to it. Im looking for contraband. Anything thats not authorized. Drugs. I need to make sure that everything is approved. Everything has to be vendor sealed and it has to have recognizable labels on here. So, this is allowed. No cans are allowed. They are allowed to bring in a plastic container and ive got to transfer this in. It has to be brand new, because then we know it hasnt been tampered with. If its open, it could be anything in here. This could be alcohol or something flammable. So it has to be brand new. It is very extensive, but theyre willing to do that so see their loved ones. To be able just to sleep next to your spouse is just, oh, its the greatest, you know. Just being able to put your arm over her, or you know, talk, watch tv together, just being together for those its not even really two days. Its just under, but man, its just, you forget for a second where youre at. It gets lonely, you know . You dont have i cant just pick up the phone and call him and tell him, you know, about my day or if, you know, i need to talk to someone. Its its really hard. But its almost over. And hopefully, well never have to do this again, and i wouldnt wish this on anybody in the world to have to go through this. Its really hard. I got married in here, which was, like, we were seeing each other outside, but we werent planning on getting married at the time, you know. I was down a couple of years before we decided to get married, but shes, shes a trouper and she stuck with me. So, when is he paroled . 16 days hes getting out. I know youre happy. Im so happy. I never thought this day would come. Oh, my god. So does he have plans or is he going to school or a job lined up . Hes going to work. They have a family business. A laundry. Hes going to go there. Going to kind of get settled. Hes going to go to school after hes working for a little bit and gets set up with his parole and what not. Thats nice. If he has a plan, hell do well. He has a good family and a lot of support. Once you leave an environment like this you really do need good support. So thats great. So what are you going to do not seeing me . No offense, but i would love to not see you. I dont want to see this place ever again. Yes sorry, honey. Hi, gorgeous. Man, ive been sweating in there so bad. Okay. Heres your wife. It means everything to us. And im just happy that this is going to be the last one, and then he gets to come home and i get to have this every day, so, like it used to be. If i didnt have these visits here with you, rachel, if i didnt have these visits, i dont know if our whole marriage would have lasted this long. It wouldnt, huh . I dont think so. Just these two days something to look forward to. Something to look forward to. Something to break up to hold each other. To be able to catch up and talk about everything that we cant talk about on a 15minute phone call. 15minute phone call, you got the guy interrupting. 120 seconds remaining. You have 60 seconds. Your call is being recorded. Its like, all right, thats the third guy in the conversation, okay. So, to catch up, to just be, like, how we were when were together, when were here, its like we were never apart. Babe, to a beautiful twoday vacation. And 16 days left until you come home. Thats right. Cheers to that. Cheers. I love you. I love you, too. Next on lockup extended stay, a relationship tormented by drugs struggles to survive through noncontact visits. Hes been in prison almost since he was 17. You know, he doesnt mean to go back. The five years weve been together, hes only went back twice, so thats not that bad. Here i go again on my own goin down the only road ive ever known like a drifter i was born to walk alone . Barb you left me hangin on the high harmony there. 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