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Support worker with personal experience of addiction, homelessness and the criminal justice system. thank you for joining us, mark and kelly. market, what do you think about the fact that targets will be set for the first time to keep out drugs under these proposals? —— mark, what you think? i am a little bit bewildered really about how a white paper comes out to talk really about how a white paper comes out to tal ., really about how a white paper comes out to tal . ., really about how a white paper comes out to tal . ., out to talk about... linking drug use and addiction _ out to talk ab...

Put this on record. i don't know what they talking about. >> one member of the trio, robert, has been at limon for three years and has been out of the closet for most of that time. >> i'm gay. it's something that i didn't really want to be known ins prison environment but i was involved with a guy here and things as they were, the guys found out obviously. there's so much gay activity going on in the prison environment that it's just amazing because some of the guys that detest the gay lifestyle the most are the ones that sneak in my house or ask me to fool around with them. but ultimately on ...

They're part of a sanctioned rescue program like the one at indiana state prison. >> introduce me to your friend. >> this is cletus. he's 16 months old. they said we can adopt cats from the humane society, so i adopted this one. >> benjamin ritchie was in for a pretty horrendous crime. he's on death row. death row is a very dark, depressing place. but when he started playing with his cat, cletus, there's some kind of bonding. there's a display of affection that you would never normally see in a prison environment. >> you wouldn't believe what a cat would do. i'm not a cat person to begin with,...

Prison inmate. >> you seem awful happy and perky. >> i am always happy and perky. >> but when we met him at the limon correctional facility in colorado, he was serving life without parole for murder. drake was convicted when he was 17. tens year later, he has his boyish looks and an adolescent appetite. >> some of the things i miss the most are peanut butter cap'n crunch. i miss gum. it's such a small thing, but you don't really realize how much you miss it until you haven't had it for 11 years. >> if i hadn't known adam's crime, i would never have guessed it was murder. adam drake had a very ...

With that. just for the record, i don't know what they're talking about. >> one member of the trio, robert burzee has been at limon for three years and has been out of the closet for most of that time. >> i'm gay, and i didn't want it to be known, but i was involved with a guy here. and things as they were, the guys found out, obviously. there's somewhat gay activity going on in the prison environment, that it's just amazing, because some of the guys that detest the gay lifestyle the most are the ones that sneak in my house or ask them to fool around with them. but ultimately on the yard or wh...