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I was raped. and i was able to get up and walk away. i guess you don't get over it, but you just don't think about it. and i think that's why i stayed with drugs. because all of that blocked it all out. but i don't want to do this no more. i don't want to steal no more. >> how are you guys doing? okay? >> brewer acknowledges that in her younger days, she wasn't interested in programs offered by the jail to help inmates stay out. but now at age 62, she wants to take advantage of the ged program and get a certificate of high school equivalency. >> if i said find the difference of your age and my...

And i don't want to go back to that. >> but the odds are stacked against her. brewer recently dropped out of the jail's ged program. and she says she will soon enter a guilty plea on all the current charges. she could face up to six years in prison. and brewer says, in her case, that's not all bad. >> when i'm in prison i make a killing. always getting something. when i come -- like when i come back this time, they say [ bleep ]. brenda's back so we going to have us us some contraband. because that's what i'm used to going to prison. stealing and selling it to the girls down there. >> 22-year-...

Being a better person. and i don't care what i have to go through to become a better person. >> you can't divide these. >> a step towards that goal for stein has been to volunteer as the tutor for the jail's ged program. >> even though there is a decimal place there you can tell -- >> at first it was something to do and passed the time. but it really helps and makes me feel better at the end of the day that i helped someone achieve something. >> hold on. don't say nothing. carry the eight. >> he is benefitting by being here when society says "you are kind of useless. you are just a criminal." ...

>> you guys, listen up for one minute. i'm going to call you up one by one. when i call you up, bring all your property up here to me. >> i got a whole bunch of mail. i got a whole bunch of old clothes and stuff from the ged program. >> mr. stein, come on up, partner. all right. this stuff -- all right. >> now when you get up there, they're going to go through everything again. >> okay. >> when you get upstairs, let them do their thing. all right? that's their deal up there. hang on to your bag. step up to the window. that's all we're doing down here. >> hang out here. the ride's going to be h...

And i don't care what i have to go through to become a better person. >> you can't divide these. >> a step towards that goal for stein has been to volunteer as the tutor for the jail's ged program. >> even though there is a decimal place there you can tell -- >> at first it was something to do and passed the time. but it really helps and makes me feel better at the end of the day they helped someone achieve something. >> hold on. don't say nothing. carry the eight. >> he is benefitting by being here when society says "you are kind of useless. you are just a criminal." and yet we work with them...