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Now back to "lockup." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. 26-year-old deanna collins came to the bergen county jail on multiple charges of using fraudulent means to obtain and distribute prescription drugs. one of her worst fears, assignment to the maximum security unit, was realized. >> honestly, it's just what i heard when i was on the outside of maximum security prisons. just crazy girls who kill people. i heard horror stories about girls getting in fights just to keep their soap. >> but so far, it's been a different sort of experience. >> everybody is really, re...
This is going to be thorny. clinton dannemora prison has always been a very strange prison. a prison that has a lot of culture and tra diditions that aren't normal, modern prison policy. it just looks different from what most maximum security prisons look like. so as this scrutiny comes to bear, we know of two probes under way in addition to the criminal cases that are now happening with gene palmer and joyce mitchell. when you start turning over those rocks, i think it will make a lot of people uncomfortable. >> take us inside there, take our viewers inside there a little bit as you have been...
In most maximum security prisons, people convicted of sex-related populations are out casts and housed in protective custody to keep others from beating or killing them. >> these offenders rarely discuss the details of their crime and when they do, it can be tough to take. there is value to their stories. they are cautionary tales. >> we met tammy deeds at the tennessee prison for women. initially it wasn't her crime that caught our attention. it was her disability. >> what is it like being deaf in prison? >> oh, it's not fun. it's not. because you have a lot of bullies here. a lot of them mak...
We're not just going to roll up and go home because we live here and we work here and we care about the work and we care about doing it right. we all have the same goals to make the system safe and to make the community safe. together, we're building a better california. "lockup" has been documenting life in some of america's most hard-core maximum