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Just because they're from across town and all that. i haven't done that in years. but i still hang with my homeboys. and if something happened to one of my close, close ones i'm going to have to help retaliate. you know what i mean? >> dooker loc, on the other hand, was still caught up in the game. he was still infatuated with this romantic notion of being a gangster. >> what do you want for your future? >> money, power, respect. top of the food chain. >> everybody's like that when they're young. they don't see the big picture. they can't see it yet. you know what i mean? it's just whatever ha...

Suspects will usually find themselves booked into the orange county jail. >> what are you in for? >> disturbing the peace. >> you been in jail before? >> no, sir. >> look here at the camera for me. >> the orange county jail is comprised of five separate jail facilities. the largest of these is the theo lacy jail, with an average daily population of 2800 male inmates. theo lacy, alone, dwarfs many state prisons. >> i have assistant sheriff at theo lacy, and he always likes to say that we don't have andy of mayberry. we don't have otis coming into the jail tank, that's not the kind of county jai...

>> how do you know that this is different? >> i just feel totally different. i've never done a program. and out of 16 years of being in jail, i feel so much better after that 14 months that i'm doing right here. it's an awakening for me, rsonally. >> we've all made a choice to participate in trying to change our life. >> just a few years ago, therapy-based programing here didn't exist. inmates were here for too short a time. the average stay was just 54 days. but then in an effort to reduce overcrowding in state prisons, california started sending inmates with multi-year sentences to the count...

>> an old-timer counts his losses. >> lost my brother, sister, mother, pretty much my whole family's passed away since i've been in here. >> me being home sex wail, i'm like an outcast. i'm likw scum of the earth here. >> and a younger inmate looks forward to hitting the streets. there are more than 102,000 men and women doing time in the florida state prison system. of the 56 state prisons for men, one is considered the end of the line. the place male inmates go when other prisons can't handle them.

>> two. >> left. >> two. >> all right, y'all, hold it down. hey, if you stop talking and get up here, we'll go to chow. we structure everything like the military. and we like to have everybody do the same thing all together and they stay in compliance when they do that. if you've got your hands in your pockets, you're wrong. if you've got your hands in your jacket, you're wrong. >> we make them walk on the line so we do have consistency. and if everybody's walking in a straight line, it makes our job a whole lot easier. y'all take your hands out of your pockets. >> while florida's santa rosa c...