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Than dwell on the past. she enrolled in the jail's ged program to give her high school equivalency degree and will soon take her certification test. >> it means i can get a legitimate job. someone can hire me because they have an education. they see i don't have a high school diploma, i don't have a ged and that shakes them. >> if you know what the prefix and the suffix means you can take the words. >> she's helped me a lot. i like to quit and say i'm done and move the book to the side and start doodling. she don't let me quit. >> i'm like a mother figure. i found it my responsibility to encou...

>> i do think there's something out here that god wants me to do and that's to publish that book. because there's some stuff in that book that will make the world cry that happened to me back in the day that i never said anything about. 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...

For. go get me a girl, put on a skirt and go shoplifting. that's my routine of getting out of prison to do. 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. b...

That's my routine of getting out of prison to do. 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. selling it...

Back in the day that i never said anything about. 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. >...