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Brushy mountain correctional complex serves as the initial intake center for new and returning prisoners throughout eastern tennessee. as many as 150 inmates per month arrive from county jail soon after sentencing. >> we might have a problem. >> whether they will stay at brushy mountain or be transferred to another state prison depends on the results of a classification process required of each inmate upon arrival. >> when we receive people from the county jail, we generally receive no records. we don't know who we've got, what they're capable of, whether or not they are going to need a lot of...

>> yeah, but i don't think they're any smaller. >> today some female inmates are headed to a public library to shovel snow. >> the classification process to get into the community program is very strict. you can't have escape charges, parole violations, you know, fighting while you're in here. >> the program's director heather mcneil has known archer for years. >> cindy archer i've known since 1991 when i first started. she's been in and out. she was in here with her mother in '91. we're almost working together, which is kind of scary. >> can we have a cigarette together? >> no, we cannot. >> ...

>> today some female inmates are headed to a public library to shovel snow. >> the classification process to get into the community program is very strict. you can't have escape charges, parole violations, you know, fighting while you're in here. >> the program's director heather mcneil has known archer for years. >> cindy archer i've known since 1991 when i first started. she's been in and out. she was in here with her mother in '91. we're almost working together, which is kind of scary. >> can we have a cigarette together? >> no, we cannot. >> oh, please. i'm kidding. i'm kidding. >> it's no...

How much time do i have? >> some inmates struggle with how to serve time, a problem steven robbins has mastered. >> art is my sanity and my salvation. i mean, that's what keeps me stable. this is all paint. this is not acrylics. you have to let this dry. that's how i do it. i don't try to put too much of a buildup on the paint because i want to control it. creativity, i got you, no problem. >> as one of the prison's more senior residents, robbins also sees himself as a bit of a father figure to some of the new inmates, as austin knight will soon discover. >> knight? >> yeah? >> ready to go? >>...

Brushy mountain correctional complex serves as the initial intake center for new and returning prisoners throughout eastern tennessee. as many as 150 inmates per month arrive from county jail soon after sentencing. >> we might have a problem. >> whether they will stay at brushy mountain or be transferred to another state prison depends on the results of a classification process required of each inmate upon arrival. >> when we receive people from the county jail, we generally receive no records. we don't know who we've got, what they're capable of, whether or not they are going to need a lot of...