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Now, this is what i call better-than-homemade, too. >> i feel like i'm a bum. but a lot of people like helping me out, the homeless guy out, and seeing people looking passed me and shaking their head and going, no, not today. you're just going to go drink it up with it. >> chris laforce says he has been chronically homeless for the past 20 years. >> and there's a lot of people that drive by and say jesus loves you, chris. it's kind of cool. i like that part. it makes me feel good. just talking to them or having a pretty girl smile at you is better than getting any money, you know. >> laforce i...

Public. so that's the good thing. >> he remembers the day one of his arrests made the local newspaper. >> that was the 856th arrest. the sacramento bee mentioned my name five times and said, yeah, you got her done. ♪ ♪ the pride of sacramento, heck ya. got to be pride of something. >> laforce has been homeless for nearly as long as his arrest record is old. his hundreds of mugshots represent convictions for crimes from everything from petty theft, possession of a controlled substance, trespassing, illegal camping, loitering with intent to buy drugs, and most recently, arson. a felony convi...

>> i was trashed, piece of wood. the gasoline and rubbing alcohol i couldn't drink the rubbing alcohol, so it started catching on fire and it goes boom. >> generally, the judges can sentence them to county jail, can mandate that they take classes, put them into treatment facilities. >> one option for sacramento county judges is called the serial inebriate program. sponsored by a medical center and other local agencies. it provides a 90-day in-patient detox program, specifically aimed at inmates like laforce. homeless men and women with an extraordinary number of arrests. laforce has left that ...

Rub a piece of hairnet off. got it all set up. ready to go. then i'll wrap it with the thread, get as tight as i can. the thread comes out of the underwear. this is the part that takes the longest right here. i'll do four and tie them all together. if you look on these real closely, you can see that it's actually four instead of eight and they're all just bent and it gives it that real look. the next part is the but and the body. i use coffee to color it, or colored pencils, if they want it colored. now i tie the body onto the legs. i try to go criss-cross, across, i'll just do a bit of everyt...

For booking and he was back within three hours, four hours, something like that. he's like, i'm back. yeah, you are, your bunk's still open. i've known him 15, 20 years. >> a good 15 years. >> i've run into him on the street a lot. >> gives me shoes when i ain't got shoes. always gives me something to eat. >> caught him one day, i went shopping for me and my nephew, got him some brand-new shoes. he jumped on the light rail, no shoes, no coat. he's not a bad guy. he needs a little help just like all of us. >> like laforce, clayton has also experienced many years of homelessness in sacramento. >...