Librarians usually. I havent found many of them yet. It can be worse for the sex offender. I was burned with hot water out of a hot pot with baby oil and hair grease. Thats a permanent scar forever. Most of the prisons we profile on lockup are maximum security prisons. I mean, these are hardcore places with gang members, rapists, murderers. Every once in a while we come across a fish out of water story, the guy next door, the neighbor. Where you ask the question, how did this guy end up here . This is California State Prison, corcoran. A maximum security prison that has housed some of the nations most infamous criminals including Charles Manson and the founder of the mexican mafia. Despite its reputation, violence doesnt come naturally to everyone at corcoran. I dont see myself as being like many of the people here. What i saw the longer i was here is there really is a thin line between them and me. Before he was an inmate, stefan parro was a librarian. Im here basically because im an alcoholic and ive done a lot of drugs, too. Drugs are part of my story. Parros drug use resulted in a sixyear sentence for crimes including burglary. At that time i had been married not very long. My wife was pregnant. The fact i couldnt stop drinking and i couldnt stop using, it was difficult to deal with the shame and guilt of all that. Parro and his wife eventually separated, but he landed in prison for breaking into her home and stealing her credit cards to pay for drugs. I readily admitted to it. That was one of the problems in my defense. I had no defense. I said, yeah, i did go in and take the credit cards. The reason i took the credit cards because wisely enough my wife canceled mine. Stefan parro was a very relatable guy to most of us who were filming lockup. He was a welleducated man and he expressed himself so eloquently and so succinctly. I think he was a cautionary tale because his crimes were committed because of his substance abuse. And most of us know people who have similar issues. But there was stefan trying to navigate through an extremely violent world. I had an idea i would never end up in prison. That i was somehow exempt. Im not saying i was an exemplary citizen by any means. I had no idea it could get this bad. And thats what i [ buzzing noise ] in the middle of interviewing stefan the alarm went off. The protocol at the prison is all inmates have to get down on their stomachs and all staff and other personnel remain standing. False alarm. It was a little sad, actually, watching stefan on the ground because we were in the midst of having this great conversation almost and he started to think of himself, i think, as a regular guy, back out on the street and suddenly it was very clear, no, hes an inmate and he has to get down on the ground like all the other inmates, get dirty, until he is told he can get back up. How long did it take you to get used to doing that . Well, when i was in jamestown i got a lot of practice. The yard goes down a lot on that. So glad that happened for you guys. So i had made a little joke with him because i could feel his embarrassment and i wanted to just try to lighten it up a little bit. Did you arrange for that, stefan . Cant say that i did. All right. That was a lot of fun. Okay. Where was i . Parro went on to tell us that in order to survive in corcoran he had to understand corcoran. You know, at the beginning, when i was facing the 41 months i thought how in the hell am i going to make it . I didnt see myself as being a part of this community. It is a community. No matter how dysfunctional it is. No matter how bizarre and asinine and ridiculous and stupid. It is very stupid. Theres a lot of rules here that are enforced by inmates. Many of those inmateenforced rules revolve around racial politics. A lot of people here have affiliation with gangs. They ask me who i run with . I run with teachers and librarians usually. When i find them, i will run with them. I havent found too many of them yet. Parro must also deal with racial politics in his prison job as a housing clerk. I got a message you called over here. Usually i come in in the morning, see who paroled, if there have been any rollups in the last 24 hours and beds open. I got 109 up, 242 up. Those are open since yesterday. I kind of look at those and see who we have waiting and place them. It is a bit of a puzzle because we have to house according to their ethnicity, gang affiliation and medical needs. Stefan had a job that afforded him a certain amount of information about the various inmates on the yard, so he really had to walk a tightrope between doing his job correctly and appeasing the various inmate groups on the yard, particularly the white group. Naturally, your own people have expectations of you that are greater than somebody else on the yard of different races and affiliations. So if you have information, you do go to your people first. The clerks in the past i know have had a lot of runins, have been beat up for things theyve done, for things they have not done, things they have said. My boss asks me all the time, three or four times a week, kind of jokingly, but not really, hey, i see you didnt get beat up today. I say to him, you know, that really isnt that funny. But i said the other day you know that upsets me when you say that because it could happen. Thank you. But parro has seen his share of violence at corcoran. When he arrived, he was determined to avoid trouble, but he was told by other inmates he would eventually be tested and if he didnt fight back his time here would be a lot worse. So i fought. And that was pretty much the first fight ive ever been in in my life. I couldnt walk very well for about three or four weeks. I had black eyes for about six weeks. I thought it was hell. And it was. You eventually just start living. You start doing all these activities. You wash your clothes. You make the ritual of having coffee just like you did out there, you know . You dont have the option to go to starbucks. You get folgers out of the canteen and make whatever you can make. I think one of the interesting things that i kind of woke up to was that thats what life is. Here or elsewhere. So you better get something out of it. So if i can actually enjoy making coffee here in corcoran surrounded by a lot of loud people and a lot of other discomforts, then im going to come out a lot better for it when i get out of there. If im going to live through this, and i have a son, so i better live through this, i have to do something. No matter how different it is you reach down and find mettle you didnt know you had. Thats what prison is all about really. Its finding strength you never thought you had. Coming up i went up to the bars and splash. They hit me with baby oil and hair grease, got on my arm, got all over my stomach. It burnt my back, too. A sex offender learns that one personality trait can lead to big trouble. One of the problems and issues that i had was talking a lot. Excessive talking. Going on and on a lot of times. Fast. And brake too hard. With feedback to help you drive safer. Giving you the power to actually lower your cost. Unfortunately, it cant do anything about that. Now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . You wouldnt accept from any one else. Why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. Flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. Most pills only block one. Flonase. Hi, do you have a travel card . We do the discover it® miles card. Earn unlimited 1. 5 miles on every purchase, plus well match your miles at the end of your first year. Youll match my miles . 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What is your nickname . Bozo. Bozo the clown. Yeah. Why . Why . I dont know. I think it is because i didnt have any hair. One day i was having a conversation with whitlow. He had told me he had one time worked in a circus and that was his favorite job which was kind of ironic considering his nickname is bozo and the wild laugh he had. Just out of nowhere you would hear him. Just, you know, hahaha. Other than his hairline douglas bozo whitlow had little in common with his namesake and his crime was no laughing matter. When we met him he was in his 13th year of a 65year sentence for rape and criminal confinement. When he saw his scars, it was evident is status as a sex offender made his time anything but a circus. I was burned with baby oil and hair grease. It got all over my arm. It burned my stomach. It burned my back, too. I healed up pretty good but thats a permanent scar. Whitlow claimed to not know who exactly attacked him, but he offered multiple possibilities for why it happened. Whitlow constantly changed his story about what happened and why he was attacked. At one point he told us he was actually defending a nurse who was the actual intended victim of this attack. Someone threatened a gun, nurse [ bleep ] it, and so i didnt want the nurse hurt. I said throw it on me. Another time he told us it was an accident that it occurred. At one point he admitted that somebody purposely tried to hurt him. I walked up to the bars because i thought someone said bozo. Thats what the guys call me. I went up to the bars and splash they hit me with baby oil and hair grease and broke my arm off. I didnt see the person who did it, right . There were too many there was a lot of prisoners out, so i didnt see who it was. Im not the type that would tattletale on somebody anyway. Right . Whitlow acknowledged what might be his biggest problem in prison. Most of it, the biggest percentage is how much i talk around the guys. One of the problems, issues i had was talking a lot. Excessive talking without you know, going on and on a lot of times. Not only was whitlow a sex offender, he was a sex offender that constantly talked about his crime and even his current behavior which was disturbing. He talked about it to anybody who would listen. And this provoked the other inmates, in effect, to attack him. What did you feel . I know its a stupid question, but what did you remember feeling . It was very painful. It was a lot of pain. It is nothing like the pain i went through for the false charge for why im in here for the last 13 years. Whitlow was also insistent that he was not a rapist, but just an exhibitionist. At times, though, he seemed unsure, himself. How many exposures . I dont know. I was charged, i think, its been a long time ago, i think three or four or eight misdemeanors of this same thing. It looked like i showed a pattern that i was trying to stop women then i raped this female. But no, i did not. I learned my lesson to respect women and not be doing that. A christian now, i know i couldnt be necking a woman unless i was married. Whitlow had recent writeups for exposing himself, not for anybody he was married to, but prisoners. I gave up. I have to do 50 years for a rape charge i didnt do. I was mad about that. Wouldnt anybody . Anyone out there seeing this he intended to blame other people for his problems, but the fact of the matter was he was exposing himself to nurses and to people and then he would talk about it, which in a way, its an affront to most inmates. The exposures, i know for a fact, that were forced upon me, forcing me to be in my cell nude in rtu without clothing. Every unit my clothes were either stolen or getting lost. The problem is starting to be fixed. Im proud of staff here. It is continuing to be corrected. We would try to conduct an interview and he would just keep going. The manner in which he spoke and conducted himself, it was draining. It was absolutely draining. It was hard to keep him focused. You see i was dressed for yous when you came. I dont have any other clothes in here. You see there is no sheet. I got one blanket. I dont have any clothes. That is not something im worried about because the lord, in his word, says we dont have to worry about clothes, hell worry about that for me. I just do the best i can and thats what ill do. I know theres i wouldnt disrespect you like that. I love you. Coming up when i was arrested he took me down to my jail where i had worked. An excop lands in one of americas toughest prisons. Im the old school, and its very difficult. Very, very difficult. Theyre completely different people, thats why they need customized Car Insurance from liberty mutual. 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When we met arman tiano at California State Prison corcoran he was recovering from a shoulder surgery. That didnt help ease the pain of being here after a 26year career in Law Enforcement. I worked in the patrol division, narcotics bureau, protective bureau, personnel training in the jails. I was promoted to lieutenant in 1984. What happened . What sent you here . Good question. After retiring, tiano and a group of friends started a charitable foundation. They raised over 3 million in donations, but then questions arose about where the money actually went. To make a long story short, the judge said all the money was raised was fraud even though we could show we gave away 70,000 to Little League teams, hospitals, christmas drives, thanksgiving, Easter Basket drives, no, its all fraud in money. So, because it is all fraud, the 3. 5 million is all income and by the way, you owe several million tax on that. After donating 70,000 out of the 3. 5 million raised, tiano was sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement. It is one of those things in the beginning it seems surreal and as you go through it you start to devise ways to cope or go crazy, you know . Ive its no secret. Im not ashamed to say, ive thought of killing myself, you know, in the beginning. I didnt know if i could get through this. When i was arrested they took me down to my jail, you know, where i worked. I have guys that were working for me putting handcuffs on me and they felt terrible. I mean, i had one guy telling me its like putting handcuffs on my brother. The jury that convicted tiano believed he used the Million Dollars he raised to live a life of luxury purchasing houses, boats and sports cars. It is a different life for tiano today. You have a table there. You have four walls that are cement. You have cement floor. No paint. Stainless steel toilet. You have to use a restroom where you have to eat. There are two people. Most of the time. You have to go to the restroom here. Everything is just so i wasnt brought up that way. You know, im from the old school. And its very difficult. Very, very difficult. Not only was he former Law Enforcement, he still carried himself like a cop and here he was incarcerated in a pretty hardcore prison. I could see he really hadnt come to terms with the fact he was once a Law Enforcement agent and now he was an inmate. He still obviously struggled with that fact. He was lucky. He was put in a protective custody unit because otherwise he would be in grave danger. I wouldnt probably last five minutes on the mainline. Why . Well, they dont like cops. You know, or excops. Tiano says if nothing else, his experience here has helped him see the people he used to arrest in a new light. I have been dealing with these people for many, many years. And you know, theres a lot of them that arent, i mean, you know, theres a perception, unfortunately, by the majority of our society that everybody in prison is really a bad person. And thats not the case. My heart aches for some of these youngsters you see come in here. 21, 22 years old that are facing life sentences because of a stupid mistake. I mean, you just wonder how is this 22yearold kid going to get through to age 65, 70, 75, 80 . This is it. Theres no more than this. This is all there is for him. You cant help but have some empathy for that guy. How is your shoulder doing today . It is a little sore. I got it out of sling to try to get it gets too stiff if i leave it in there all the time. For all these years, for 26 years in Law Enforcement, i have a very good friend of mine that is a retired captain. We write. I was telling him, its like that whole point in my life has been for naught. They took my retirement badge, my retirement i. D. Card. I used to win medals at the police olympics. Those are gone. It guts you is what it does. It just guts you. You try and hold that in as best you can, but theres times when it just kind of oozes its way out. Youre looking for new bandaids, you know . Everything was great. You know . I was happy. During our brief time with arman the arman tiano, state records only listed his fraud and embezzlement convictions. Later we learned this was not the first time he was incarcerated. Prior to his fraud trial, he was convicted of molesting two teenage female relatives. He received a year in county jail and five years probation, a surprisingly light sentence for the disgraced police officer. Prosecutors had asked for 15 years to life. Coming up we believe you may have been a victim of a battery. Trying to find out what happened. I want to tell them what happened. A former gang member gives Correctional Officers the silent treatment. 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