strong, you have to be put down as far as you can go. you have to pushed to the limit that you can be pushed and to see if that s going to destroy or if you re going to rise above that and become better because of it. that is the true test of a man. serving time for drug dealing may not be what you expect for a battle-tested marine with a seemingly bright future. but inside the jail, he s not the only inmate who appeared to live a dual life. they want to kill me. if i was to go to prison, i have to go to administrative segregation, because if i went to general population, they would kill me.
what are you going to do with the pickles, may i ask? too hot for me. caliente. morgan also earned the respect of other inmates as well as compensation in the form of commissary goods by providing skilled services not often found in prison. among other things, he s a tailor. now stand up here on the chair. i ain t getting on my knees, honey. you got me twisted. i m not getting on my knees. you do it any other time. [ bleep ] none of the straight inmates were embarrassed to be seen with peaches. and that was also unusual in a general population setting. for a gay man in prison. it s like disney land. you just don t know what ride to get on. my family goes, are you ready to come home? i said yeah i m ready to come home i just haven t earned my mickey mouse ears yet. so a couple more years and i ve got my mickey mouse ears and i m out the door. uh-huh. and i m taking all the rides with me. i ll go ahead and fill out the paperwork and have you sign it.
morgan also held a prison job as an inmate advocate. a sort of amateur lawyer for inmates facing sanctions for rule violations. on this i m going to try to get you suspended sanctions. while morgan lived in the minimum security level two section of the penitentiary of new mexico, he was awaiting transfer to an even less restrictive level one prison, commonly known as the farm. i told them, it s like disney land. oh, i m going to disney land. go find a ride. the farm is a lot more freedom. it s four-foot fences. you know, you re pretty much on your own will. you do what you want to do, you know. it s all trust that you build up. peaches was told he had six months to stay disciplinary free in order to go to a lower level facility. that seemed pretty easy to do since he was so well acclimated in that prison. morgan! but adherence to the convict
i am still learning life because i didn t know life. i m 30 years old, just learning how to drive. but you know what, i m doing it. i m learning it. there s a lot of girls in here that don t know how. and i m going to school, and i have dreams now, and i can help people. that s what i want to do. coming up. hi, boys. peaches was one of those inmates that stands out in your mind years after you leave a prison. he s very flamboyant. very forthright. very honest. one inmate s independence is put to the test by the convict code.
we also met his father, william jones sr., who had turned him in to authorities after he burglarized his home. we had a lot of problems with him as a child. and i had just had enough. i mean literally had had enough. i know me going to prison messed him up a lot. because he feels like it s his fault. and it s not. if i wasn t doing the things i was doing i would have never went. i lived for two years blaming myself for it, because of the amount of time that he got for stealing stuff that he did. and then i realized one day that if i wouldn t have stopped him it could have escalated into maybe breaking into somebody s house that had a gun. and maybe not having him at all. i still feel bad about it to this day. but i think i made the right choice for him and for me. we also met jones mother, angie spurlock. this has been the best week