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Many inmates say that coming to jail made them reassess their lives. if not drastically overhaul them. we can never know with certainty how sincere those claims are. but when an inmate repudiates his gang, as 25-year-old daniel miramontes did, it adds credence to their story. >> i ran the streets. grew up in the streets. life in the streets. what you see is what the streets created. >> we met miramontes at the orange county jail. he said before coming here he was a member of a los angeles street gang and a meth addict. it seemed out of sorts with the young man who enjoyed reading novels and wr...

Lives. if not drastically overhaul them. we can never know with certainty how sincere those claims are. but when an inmate repudiates his gang, as 25-year-old daniel miramontes did, it adds credence to their story. >> i ran the streets. grew up in the streets. life in the streets. what you see is what the streets created. >> we met miramontes at the orange county jail. he said before coming here he was a member of a los angeles street gang and a meth addict. it seemed out of sorts with the young man who enjoyed reading novels and writing poetry. >> i like to read a lot. i like nicolas sparks. ...

You know, i never put my elbows on the table. >> really? >> of course. >> come prepared with stories. don't drink too much, don't become sloppy. >> come prepared with anecdotes? >> absolutely. >> no elbows on the table? >> no, it's not proper. >> i'm a total failure as a dining companion. what is that? >> what's that, you ask? an iconic of gastronomy? >> look at that sauce. holy crap. >> the devilishly difficult dish, a boneless wild hare, in a sauce of its own blood, a heaping of chocolate truffle, garnished with thick slaps of foie gras, seared directly on the cabin's wood stove. >> damn, lo...

>> the funnest part isn't the cutlery. it's just the spoon is absolutely gorgeous. fred has a wonderful collection of tableware. without getting snobby or elitist, the eating off of vintage tableware is one of the great joys of life. >> this is the interesting paradox of you guys. on the one hand, you aspire to run a democratic establishment, yet you are hopeless romantics when it comes to -- >> painful nostalgics. >> -- the art of living. what the -- sustenance is required. >> holy [ muted ] look at this. >> say a consomme of oxtail, followed perhaps by a chilled lobster a la parisian. >> the...

>> oh, so like romantics? >> oh, yeah, i'm a sucker for that. >> even cry when you read the sad part? >> yeah. most of the guys don't want to admit that because, hey, we're in jail. you know. but i don't care. >> but miramontes was facing the possibility of a lifetime in prison. >> been down almost two years. my charges are special circumstance murder. big case. big case. >> miramontes had entered a not guilty plea and was still awaiting trial when we met him. the night of the murder, he says he was visiting friends in an orange county gang and that they were all drinking and high on drugs. wh...