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>> reporter: matt decided to test her by tugging on her heartstrings. >> mr. matt would ask me to bring stuff in for mr. sweat so that he would have food or something. >> reporter: astonishingly, joyce responded and agreed. she says she found herself at home baking tasty treats and brought them to the prison for sweat. >> reporter: does that break prison rules? >> it actually does. >> reporter: what did you bring him? >> cookies, brownies. you know, stuff like that. >> pretending that you were bringing them in for yourself? >> yes. >> did you ever tell your husband that you were doing any of t...

Heartstrings. >> mr. matt would ask me to bring stuff in for mr. sweat so that he would have food or something. >> reporter: astonishingly, joyce responded and agreed. she says she found herself at home baking tasty treats and brought them to the prison for sweat. >> reporter: does that break prison rules? >> it actually does. >> reporter: what did you bring him? >> cookies, brownies. you know, stuff like that. >> reporter: pretending that you were bringin' them in for yourself? >> yes. >> reporter: did you ever tell your husband that you were doing any of this? >> he didn't know a lot of what...

Personal needs. the challenge is just as big for women as it is for men. when we arrived at the tennessee prison for women, we found that meeting personal needs had led to a dilemma for mary beth. >> they done wrote me up. >> what? >> what for? >> look, it says that they found a glove in two trash cans and a tampon. they're trying to say i had -- >> sexual activity of any sort is against prison rules. and even though she's allowed to have the individual items she was caught with, she was written up for how they were assembled, or at least partially assembled. >> i'm pleading not guilty because...

The challenge is just as big for women as it is for men. when we arrived at the tennessee prison for women, we found that meeting personal needs had led to a dilemma for mary beth. >> they done wrote me up. >> what? >> what for? >> look, it says that they found a glove in two trash cans and a tampon. they're trying to say i had -- >> sexual activity of any sort is against prison rules. and even though she's allowed to have the individual items she

On any given day at the limon correctional facility, inmates are caught violating prison rules. >> bring your two officers over, please, to unit two. >> most of these violations never disrupt the daily routine. but today, one has not only rocked the prison, it sent shockwaves through the state's entire department of corrections. >> yesterday morning, the segregation staff did a strip search on the segregation corridor and found a large quantity of heroin and cocaine that the inmate was apparently smuggling to a distribution point to be distributed to the inmate population. >> what we did is we...