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Converting stout-barstow into nicki. now she only has access to it in her cosmetology class. but back at her bunk, she makes due with the things she is allowed to have. >> this is my little makeup case i'll be using. to make the cover-up, i use coffee, lotion, and baby powder, and mix it all together with a little bit of tooth paste. tooth paste is like multi-purpose here. pencils, do the eye shadow thing. this is tooth paste and pencil lids and put it all together in this empty mascara thing. this is a mascara applicator, but usually i just use my pencil. somebody gave me an empty one. with t...

Possession. >> i have never been in this kind of trouble before, so it's new and i don't like it. >> so we made laney 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, if you don't show, a judge puts a warrant out for your arrest for not showing up to court. i wouldn't say inmate markert is scared straight. she didn't even spend one night in jail. she will need real help. >> what's your name? >> laney? >> nice to meet you. >> you too. >> in the hours markert spent in jail, she became friends with ...

You know? i made the best of it here. >> taryn stout-barstow has made the best of her 90 days at santa rita as well. >> i'm really happy with the results here at the santa rita jail. we have good stuff going on. >> stout-barstow was convicted of child endangerment after police found her acting erratically at an electronics store with her 6-year-old son in tow. before jail, stout-barstow worked as a stripper, whose stage name was nicki. >> i actually started out when i was 17 in alaska, dancing. stripping, actually. whatever. >> she says one of her tattoos earned her extra tips. >> that bottom ...

It's santa rita pretty and that's all that matters, right? >> but not everyone in the housing unit is as welcoming as stout-barstow. just a few bunks down, summer payne, serving a one-year sentence for petty theft, doesn't have much tolerance for the other end of the unit. >> they go home in 7 to 14 days. they're not doing real time. we're sitting here doing real time, pushing real weight, pushing real stuff on the streets. >> this is the penitentiary here. >> she's been up here like seven, eight months. she's not going home until october. 12 months. you feel me? real time in county jail. not ...

Markert, jail is something completely new. >> i've never been to jail. i've never been to juvenile hall. driving here was probably the longest drive and walking in, just having people look at me, just made me uncomfortable and i just felt like dirty in a way. it was very scary. i was -- i can't stop crying. i've never been in this kind of trouble before, so it's new and i don't like it. >> markert was just arrested at her high school and charged with drug possession. she has yet to enter a plea. >> i have been using drugs since my freshman year, so for about four years and before it was just w...