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>> she was kind of in a jam herseland she wanted us to try to help her. you know, we can put a word in to the d.a. and to the jury. >> reporter: that was enough to get cooperation from her? >> right. >> reporter: the objective was simple, get dawn talking, wran gel from her something that at least sounded like a confession. ellis and boyd fitted the cell mate with a digital recorder no bigger than a matchbox. and on a friday afternoon, as an unsuspecting dawn was looking over her case file, her cellmate walked in looking for an incriminating tid bit. what she got instead was the whole sickenin...

Instead of just stuck inside the housing units. >> take care of yourself. >> thank you. i hope i won't come back. >> i hope you won't come back, too. >> nieves once lived for a short time in georgia. he says now he would like to return there. >> a lot of trees. fresh air. it's different from california. california is fast, fast, fast, fast, fast. and georgia is calm, slow. day by day. >> change has arrived for john mcfarland as well. it's been two weeks since his former friend and cell mate laila arguetta has been released. ♪ he is now housed with a friend from the streets, cardia fitzpatric...

>> am i shining bright? >> you are shining bright. baby. >> am i shining bright like a diamond? >> shining bright. shining bright. >> or by finding a friend, like laila arguetta did with his cell mate john mcfarland. >> he is very open minded. he's a young individual. he has a lot of experience from the streets. >> but now the two have had a falling out. >> he made a statement that we don't have to speak. we're just two inmates in a cell. >> so you're not talking to each other? >> no. >> and it is kind of, you know, tormenting -- it's mentally torture. >> arguetta would not say what caused the...

>> starting at age 18, arguetta has had numerous days at santa rita, robbery, prostitution, drug possession and parole violations. >> i sell my beauty. >> you sell your beauty? >> i sell my beauty. >> that's another word for prostitution. >>rguea found a nfidant in his new cell mate, john mcfarland. >> i know to ask for what i want in a very seductive way. >> how do you do that? >> it depend. it depends on the individual when they pull up, what kind of car they're driving. >> pretend i am pulling up in a buick. >> i'm going to run from you. pretend you are in a mercedes-benz. >> mercedes. >> y...

Throat. you know what i mean? he was there when he went to the hospital, you know what i mean? >> javier moscedo, also a serrano, is nieves' cell mate. his presence during the interview is required by the gang. their policy is to have a monitor whenever one of them speaks to the media. >> you know, the basic stuff. just stuff you can't say. you know. like the lifestyle, you know. prison politics, jail politics, it stays with us. it doesn't go nowhere. >> the gang life has led to more serious implications in nieves' life, such as his mobility, he doest regret. >> i don't regret it. i don't regr...