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Something, we might have did that instead of doing what we did to get here. >> at the end of her 10 year sentence, marlene hopes to open a nail shop of her own. >> i'm hoping it will give me a normal life, where i don't have to look over my shoulder and wonder am i coming back. i don't think anybody really thinks about coming to prison and having to stay here. but it's the choices in life that we make that bring us here, hopefully i don't make that same mistake and come back. >> i came in in my very early 20s, i'm pushing in my 40s now, sentence was 15 to life. >> christy camp was convicted of...

Those programs. has to be ready to say "i need to change who i am and how i live." >> to help give inmate as marketable skill upon release, valley state has 15 vocational programs. from welding, to landscaping, to cosmetology. inmate marlene used to be a drug dealer. >> outside world i ran a lot from the law. sold drugs to get by, you know. it was easy money, instead of i didn't really know too much of doing anything except running the street. and when they came here, they asked me what are you interested in? i said nails, hair. they put knee this program. so it's good. a lot of us that's here...