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Kicking and screaming, they can't give her medicine, so they have to tie her down. so it's working under adverse conditions with extremely ill people. >> dr. mary sue haber is a forensic psychologist and has worked in corrections for 35 years. >> there are less places for women to be treated after they leave here. and even if they are released and go to a hospital in a short-time treatment program, they come back. they sometimes commit crimes, deliberately, to get arrested because they don't have a place to sleep, they have not a meal to eat. and surviving on the streets is really tough. >> wh...

Years on armed robbery and kidnapping. so i decided to come to boot camp instead of facing 15 to 30 years. >> there is a criteria to come here and not all of them may meet that criteria. there's the physical aspect of it and psychological aspect and they must pass these tests in order to qualify to come here. >> age is also a criteria for acceptance into the program. all inmates must be between 14 and 28 years old. >> when you get somebody that's new to the system, somebody that is not familiar with prison life, you can still grab a hold of them before they get too deep. >> arch. >> officer al...

Get your head out of your tail there. >> aye-aye, sir. >> aye-aye, sir. >> aye-aye, sir. >> aye-aye, sir. >> 95% of the inmates enrolled in boot camp graduate from the program. and very few ever return to jail. >> 88% of our cadets do not come back to prison. 88% of them do make a turnaround. 88% of them do go on to be productive citizens of society. >> didn't think i could go as far as the instructors at this program perceive that we can go. >> you're not going to make a difference in everyone. we have platoons that roll in and out of here. 38 cadets to a platoon. you're not going to change 3...

Society. >> left, left. left, right. >> while in the program, participants are no longer considered inmates, they are cadets. >> the biggest shock to the cadets when they arrive is having to do something that somebody else tells them to do. drop your tray. ready, ready, ready. sit. >> on the street, you free to do anything you want to do. in boot camp, you got to ask for permission for any little thing you want to do. >> fix it in the tray. >> all right, sir. >> i say ready, ready, ready, eat! >> the first thing that hits them is we're in charge. we're going to tell them what to do, when to do...

Make the right decisions when you get out of here. >> me personally, i think the program's helped. every time i've come here, the program has helped me. i have seen brothers graduate and get geds here. i've seen brothers go to task programs and work release programs and stay out of trouble. it works. it works. it may not work for everybody, but it does work and my belief is that if it helps 1 or 2 out of 100, then that's still helping society. because that one or two gonna help somebody else that's gonna help somebody else. next on "lockup" -- >> fix it in the tray. >> rehabilitation through...