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The best solution is to simply separate the women for the duration of their stays. 69-year-old angeline lizzarago says she once punched and kicked a younger inmate who was trying to intimidate her, but now says yoga is far more effective than violence when it comes to surviving jail. >> we get up at 3:00 in the morning. i make up my bed and then i pray and i do yoga for an hour and a half to two hours. >> lizzarago is nearing the end of a 2 1/2 year stay at santa rita for her part in a mortgage scam. along with quieting her mind, she's also busied her hands. >> since i was about 12 years old, ...

At the santa rita jail near oakland, 18-year-old laney markert has just been assigned to a general population housing unit. she was arrested a few hours earlier and charged with drug possession. >> take any one that's open. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> her bunk is right next to a more seasoned inmate, taryn stout-barstow, who quickly points out the housing unit's social divide. >> it's not that bad in here. >> i hope not. >> we call this right here piedmont. this is the good side of the pod. over there is east oakland.

Years here, not convicted of a crime but just waiting for their cases to work their way through the courts. other inmates might only spend a few nights in jail before they are released back home. such was the case for 18-year-old laney markert, who had been arrested at her high school and charged with drug possession. >> i have never been in this kind of trouble before, so it's new and i don't like it. >> so inmate lany markert until last night around midnight. you're released on your own recognizance. you sign it, saying you understand that, you've been told that. that way if you don't show, ...

Inside oakland's santa rita jail, cyrico robinson is a popular inmate. there is a distinction between him and his rapper persona, rico tha kidd. >> i can create another person called rico tha kidd who's not insecure. he can talk to the ladies. he can go to the club, do all of this. rico, cyrioco, he's laid back, he's scared to approach the women. >> thanks to a newspaper article that documented his struggles, rico tha kidd is well known. >> is that fan mail? >> fan mail. females. i got a whole bunch of them, man. i've only been here for six months. i get fan mail because, like, a lot of people...