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Counselors. that's our job. so that entails working with survivors on a daily basis and helping them through their healing process. >> marcia and diane's background helps them deal with inmates who have the most taboo of crimes, but for brook, his secret may be keeping him safe. >> on the yard, everybody wears a mask and they hide most of their life from everybody else because there are so many predators out there. emotional predators, physical predators. if they see a weakness, they take advantage of it. and you never can tell on the yard who is a predator and who is not. so you don't tell th...

That's our job. so that entails working with survivors on a daily basis and helping them through their healing process. >> marcia and diane's background helps them deal with inmates who have the most taboo of crimes, but for brook, his secret may be keeping him safe. >> on the yard, everybody wears a mask and they hide most of their life from everybody else because there are so many predators out there. emotional predators, physical predators. if they see a weakness, they take advantage of it. and you never can tell on the yard who is a predator and who is not. so you don't tell them about you...

>> i think sometimes they try to protect us, and we don't see the reality of what it is here, and, yeah, this is a really hard place to be. >> administrative segregation is a prison within the prison. this area houses inmates who are under investigation, as well as inmates in protective custody who can't live with the general population. >> it's different than what i thought, in some ways, and it's also -- i don't know, it feels very -- it's a very oppressive feeling atmosphere. >> like the rest of the prison yard, the hole has its own social hierarchy. in here, it's harder to avoid becoming a...

Not their own. some of the inmates choose to participate in activities they would not consider on the yard. ron brook may be under pressure to blend in with the other white inmates. the order of the day is military style calisthenics. the privacy of this intense physical training is fiercely guarded, so we watch using the prison's closed-circuit camera system. brook is worried our cameras might attract unnecessary attention from the other inmates. he refuses to see marcia and diane, but agrees to speak with group facilitator mike brewer. brewer has worked in the prison system for almost 20 yea...

Not afraid to talk about his crime, but admitting to sexually assaulting his victim is risky. the members in the group have agreed to total confidentiality, but with a crime this taboo, he still runs the risk of having his story make its way to the yard. >> he was really armored. he was very apprehensive that his crime was -- especially the sexual aspect of it, in here is a touchy subject. guys who do that kind of thing, that was -- he showed a lot of trust in the group to have shared that with us. >> it's been three weeks since ronald brook admitted to