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taken to his role as a father. >> i like being a stepfather. i like helping them with things, taking them places, buying them things. >> he does for them like he does me. it's more like his own kids. >> thanks, babe, for cooking dinner. >> thanks, mom. coming up, jody tye makes a major recommitment. >> all right, kenny tye, you better like this [ bleep ]. >> and more with paul komyatti and the slagle brothers. >> tell me if that ain't a work of ard. ♪ those who have served our nation
like a death and the other half of me feels like a birth. >> jody has brought her friend amanda, along, for emotional support. >> kind of feels like closing a lid on a casket. >> better you than me. i'm tired, i guess. i don't even know how to describe this. never felt like this before. no, it ain't the tattoo. i think my heart's more broken than anything. so out with the old, on with the new. >> wup. i field frild jody's tattoo transformation is complete.
pap. >> ronnie tye, also a veteran of the indiana state prison, is equally optimistic about his future with his new girl friend nicky. though his relationship has only one thing in common that he had with his ex-wife, because i really do love nicky. -- nicky because i don. >> but he lots to cover up before i ever get another one. he has names on him everywhere. and a portrait that needs to be covered. but he hasn't done that yet. so -- >> but i'm going to. >> like ronnie, jody is also ready to move on by altering her tattoos. >> mom, listen.
started to change and go down to the worst. >> the couple separated and then divorced a long time later. when you get. >> men find women to take advantage of them. >> but jody believed ronnie was not one of those men and that the love she tard with him, was genuine. specif if i wouldn't have married her, the money would have stopped. >> is this a common thing for guys inside to marry women? >> well, i'm not going to run it for everybody. >> i did it, that's why i
didn didn't. >> he had enered prisoner as a 22-year-old bachelor but prompted it as. >> we were there when ronnie married jody. while they exchanged rings at the wedding, they had chosen a more permanent symbol of commitment. >> he tattooed my portrait on him and i was released june 4th of twit and then things just
wake up and i thought i was still there. when i did open my eyes, i fement like i was in heaven because i could get up and do what i wanted to. >> being a free man wasn't the only change ronnie had to adapt to. he had entered prison as a 21-year-old bachelor but left a 32-year-old newly wed. >> will you have this woman to thy wedded wife to live together after the holeyest sta eses ese matrimony -- >> yes. >> we were there when ronnie married jody. they had chosen a more permanent symbol of commitment prior to their nuptials. >> he tattooed my portrait on him. i tattooed my whole leg and it was like our little bond. he was released june 4th of 2009. i picked him up. it was wonderful. he was the husband any woman would dream of, you know. he pampered me. he spoiled me, and then things
>> i say you get taken care of very well here, don't you, granny? >> ronnie says he's taken to his role as father. >> i like helping them with things, taking them places, buying them things. >> he does for them like he does me. it's more like his own kids. >> thanks, babe, for cooking dinner. >> you're welcome. >> thanks, mom. >> there's more in here. >> sure feels good to eat real food. >> real pig. >> it's cow. >> thank you for cooking the pig. coming up, jody tye makes a major recommitment. and more with paul komyatti and the slagle brothers. msnbc now.
>> i like being a stepfather. i mean, i like helping them with things, taking them places, buying them things. >> like he does for them like he does me. it's more like his own kids. >> thanks, baby, for cooking dinner. >> you're welcome. >> thanks mom. thanks, mom. >> sure feels good to eat real food. >> real pig. >> it's cow. >> thank you for cooking the pig. >> mom. coming up, jody tye makes a major recommitment. >> all right, kenny tye, you better like this [ bleep ]. >> and more with paul and the slagle brothers. >> tell me that isn't a work of art. i mean, seriously. ♪ tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty ♪ ♪ tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty ♪ ♪ tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty ♪ [ mom ] hi, there.
her leg she's going to have to cut her leg off because that's awful big to cover up. >> i'm putting kenny over ronnie. she says does that mean kenny is going to be my son-in-law? i do believe he might. i don't know, mom. i'm -- i don't know. i don't see a future, but, you know, kenny is obviously better than ronnie. >> while jody was excited about covering the ronnie tattoo on her leg, she discovered it would be harder than she had thought it would be. >> i'm getting ready to cover up ronnie tye's name and when i put it there, i swore i would never, ever get rid of it because i thought it was forever. this is the end. it's over. i feel weird. it's like i feel like half of me feels like a death and the other half of me feels like a birth. >> let's go. >> jody has brought her friend,
>> many of the stories we cover on "lockup" involve not only the lives of inmates but of their families. and sometimes we're there when new families are being formed. such was the case with ronnie tye, who was nearing the end of an 11-year sentence for burglary at indiana state prison when we met him and his fiancee, jody. >> i want to get married october 7. >> that will work. october the 7th. >> ronnie has been out of prison for more than a year now. >> my last day of prison, i was anxious, i was ready to go, get out thereof. when they hollered tye, let's go, i ran. >> he told us it took some time to adjust to life after "lock up." >> there's been a few times i