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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 cold, but realistically that's the way it is. they will only be a number. the adult system will not coddle you. you won't be held by your hand to make sure you do your substance abuse program or do your family counseling or take your medication. all of that is done and over. >> this is my second chance, you know, for me to do right. if i don't, when i turn...

>> the jail, however, has offered her a very different opportunity, a spot on the 28 day long substance abuse program but for day it's not an easy decision. >> i know it would help me. it's just my pride. i don't know if i would be able to let myself do that. it's just the fact that people would know, probably all of my family would know where is brooklyn? she is in a rehab. that would be embarrassing to have to say to anyone. coming up -- jack spell and brooklyn day step outside the rules to create a jailhouse e-mail network. >> i can probably get in some kind of trouble if they figured out...

Mop the floors, clean the offices, and painting. there's always something to paint. in the rooms paint gets peeled off the walls. walls get scuffed up, scarred up. it's a jail. there's always constant work. >> on the work list tonight is a cell that once belonged to 18-year-old brooklyn day. >> you can tell a lot about the girl. you can tell she's young, she's talented. she's a virgo. she lives in the moment. she loves america. she keeps her head up. looks like she was pretty bored, though. yeah, this one ain't that bad. not compared to some of the rest of them i've done. >> for the past few w...

At the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, garrett billiter was only a few days away from graduating from the jail's substance abuse program when he received his third idr or inmate disciplinary report. this time for refusing to follow the program's rules to wake up at 5:30 a.m. at the risk of receiving a longer disciplinary sentence, billiter has decided to challenge the idr at a hearing. if he's given any sentence longer than 14 days, he will be sent to disciplinary segregation which will force his removal from the substance abuse program. >> you worried? >> no -- well, may...

>> billiter has continued to perform tattoos even though he knows he risks getting kicked out of the substance abuse program that he's counting on to help him get a favorable ruling on his case. jail staff allowed us to give some inmates a small camera to record their thoughts. billiter decided to use his camera time to record himself creating a tattoo on his cellmate, jack spell. >> this is a little tattoo parlor right here. >> never thought i'd be getting a tattoo from a sharpened staple. got all the ink right here. mix it up with some shampoo and some soap. >> this is the tattoo i'm about t...