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Prison doctor told her she was hiv positive, perhaps in an effort to make her list all of her sexual partners. the diagnosis was false. one of the things that kept her alive was twice weekly visits at only an hour each. over the course of years behind bars, knox says she became numb. and as the verdict drew near, she suffered from anxiety attacks. knox says she even contemplated suicide. >> you wind up in prison. what is prison like every day? >> your entire life is according to the prison's schedule at that point.

Hyperactive and you just want to stay up all night because you feel really good and then you start dipping. it could be five minutes and you go to another pole. >> $50 on the bag. >> you just -- you just -- i was like, man, i just wanna kill myself. this is ridiculous. and then oh, man, i'm glad i'm alive. but the lithium carbonate keeps you like this. >> our goal is to get people with mental illness out into general population, to have jobs, to go to school and to do everything that everybody else does here. so they're all throughout the facility. >> most of these guys are going to be returni...

Facility. >> most of these guys are going to be returning to the streets. not everyone is sent to prison with a life sentence. and with that in mind, i think i would feel safer and feel better about these people going back to the streets with the kind of skills that we can provide them, instead of just opening the doors when their sentence is done and hoping the best. >> there are successful graduates of the rtu program. terry mahler has 35 years left on his sentence for his sex offense crime. he was not able to function in general population. >> i've been diagnosed with clinical depression an...

Terry mahler has 35 years left on his sentence for his sex offense crime. he was not able to function in general population. >> i've been diagnosed with clinical depression and extreme stressful situations. i hear voices, noise-induced paranoia. anxiety attacks. sometimes when you get into a big crowd, you know, your mental illness seems to just explode. and it got to the point where i didn't want to live anymore. i just wanted to kill myself, you know, my mental illness was so bad. >> terry was transferred to the rtu, where he received treatment to help him cope with this stressful environmen...

Terry mahler has 35 years left on his sentence for his sex offense crime. he was not able to function in general population. >> i've been diagnosed with clinical depression and extreme stressful situations. i hear voices, noise-induced paranoia. anxiety attacks. sometimes when you get into a big crowd, you know, your mental illness seems to just explode. and it got to the point where i didn't want to live anymore. i just wanted to kill myself, you know, my mental illness was so bad. >> terry was transferred to the rtu, where he received treatment to help him cope with this stressful environmen...