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God, revealed itself to me and said it's time to get your life right. i stayed in that confinement cell for 90 days. then they transferred me to another prison. when i got to the other prison, i started making aa and m.a. meetings. i started going to church. i started reading the bible more, studying. >> jones served 18 years of a 25-year sentence at a florida state prison before he was released on parole. he moved into the noah house, a residential substance abuse program, in tampa. >> they help ex-offenders get a fresh start in life. they help you stay straight, you know. i wanted to stay st...

Said it's time to get your life right. i stayed in that confinement cell for 90 days. then they transferred me to another prison. when i got to the other prison, i started making aa and m.a. meetings. i started going to church. i started reading the bible more, studying. >> jones served 18 years of a 25-year sentence at a florida state prison before he was released on parole. he moved into the noah house, a residential substance abuse program, in tampa. >> they help ex-offenders get a fresh start in life. they help you stay straight, you know. i wanted to stay straight. i didn't want to go bac...

Round in pendleton. >> i was here the first time for 9 1/2 months. i came back here the second time for the exact same thing. minor consumption, public intox, alcohol problem, over-the-counter cough medicine problem, done a lot of that stuff. >> inside pendleton, military-like structure keeps brehm on the straight and narrow. all offenders must attend school daily. after being locked up for more than two years, michael hopes the six months he spent in pendleton's substance abuse program will give him the skills to stay out for good. >> my groups have helped me quite a bit. the substance abuse ...

18-year-old michael brehm is nearing completion of a second round in pendleton. >> i was here the first time for 9 1/2 months. i came back here the second time for the exact same thing. minor consumption, public intox, alcohol problem, over-the-counter cough medicine problem, done a lot of that stuff. >> inside pendleton, military-like structure keeps brehm on the straight and narrow. all offenders must attend school daily. after being locked up for more than two years, michael hopes the six months he spent in pendleton's substance abuse program will give him the skills to stay out for good. >...

The table for michael. >> when you're 17 3/4, there's not a lot of resources out there. and there's probably not a lot of people that want to take a chance on you for that short period of time. >> when you were arrested in february of '08 for burglary and they gave you 90 days, 80 days are stayed and you did a remaining ten days here. and you got released. which means if you get into anymore trouble it's really up to your magistrate to decide what they're going to do with you. if they don't take advantage prior to that to the services this court offers, they're screwed. i know that sounds very...