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Of these offenders are doing time for crimes committed in order to support a drug habit. >> it numbs you up and you don't feel. you become somebody you would never expect to be. >> cheryl megarry is serving five years for forging a credit card application, a crime she perpetrated in order to buy drugs. >> this unit is very good because the women all support each other. it's like a sisterhood. >> in the community they have mentors, they have support for each other. >> positive nine plus negative six. >> exactly. >> we have set it up so that everybody gets positive reinforcements all the time. >...

>> it numbs you up and you don't feel. you become somebody you would never expect to be. >> cheryl megarry is serving five years for forging a credit card application, a crime she perpetrated in order to buy drugs. >> this unit is very good because the women all support each other. it's like a sisterhood. >> in the community they have mentors, they have support for each other. >> positive nine plus negative six. >> exactly. >> we have set it up so that everybody gets positive reinforcements all the time. >> we realize the consequences what we have done because of the wrong choices we have made...

>> two counts of distribution methamphetamine and illegal sale of a gun. >> while only 50% of usp female inmates are here specifically on drug charges, a large majority of these offenders are doing time for crimes committed in order to support a drug habit. >> it numbs you up and you don't feel. you become somebody you would never expect to be. >> cheryl megarry is serving five years for forging a credit card application, a crime she perpetrated in order to buy drugs. >> this unit is very good because the women all support each other. it's like a sisterhood. >> in the community they have mento...

Ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense. utah state prison is one of the only penal institutions in the country that houses both male and female offenders. usp's 430 women are housed here, at the timpanogos facility. >> they come from every social, economic class that there is. they come in and say, i didn't think that this would ever happen to me. and here i am. >> the timpanogos facility is split into four buildings or stars. lieutenant whitney supervises star-4, a home of the excel program, a therapeutic community for substance abusers. >> i'm in here for zero to five. >> possession wit...

Utah state prison is one of the only penal institutions in the country that houses both male and female offenders. usp's 430 women are housed here, at the timpanogos facility. >> they come from every social, economic class that there is. they come in and say, i didn't think that this would ever happen to me. and here i am. >> the timpanogos facility is split into four buildings or stars. lieutenant whitney supervises star-4, a home of the excel program, a therapeutic community for substance abusers. >> i'm in here for zero to five. >> possession with intent to distribute. >> possession of a co...