drugs to forget that i did that. dake says he hopes that ab-109 will help him do better in his life. in addition to his involvement in the wild horse program, he s taken advantage of other parts of the law as well. as being sentenced ab-109, there s all kinds of re-entry services, all kinds of stuff to get you back into society in a correct and positive way. and that s what i m looking to do. ironically, i asked god to save my life. and then i ended up stealing a car and coming out here. and my life is being saved and changed. so it s cool. coming up i want her to trust me. the cowboy shows the inmates how it s done. she s a little bit afraid. try not to look at her so much. i want her to just reach out and touch my finger.
like nashe dake, carey is also an ab-109 inmate. he s here for selling high-capacity magazines and rifles. carey has been in the 5-month-old horse program since inception. and plays a sort of big brother role to dake. everybody s instructing everybody as they go along. if i ve got a guy that s going to be with me for a long time, i can mold him and then i can pass that onto, okay, you want to take these guys and show them the basics that you ve already learned and then i can move on to the other guys and show them a little more advanced. the other thing that joe has taught us, i ve been trying to get the new guys to follow through. nashe is getting used to being around the horses. never really done this at all, so. they learned how to work together to get the jobs done and also just follow rules and instructions. i mean, that s probably why they re here is because they said i m not going the follow the rules. i m going to do it my way. and now they re learning through going thr
sprawling branch jail. the rio cosumnes correctional center. you water those mares there? ab-109 inmate robert carey has been in the horse program since it was implemented five months earlier. its goal is to make wild horses suitable for adoption. we leave in the morning and we get back at night. we re tired and sore by the end of the day. it s a long day but it makes the day really fast. and that s important. carey is only one year into a 12-year sentence for manufacturing and selling firearms and high-capacity magazines without a license. carey said he learned how to make guns from his father who did so legally on their pennsylvania farm. it was just part of our every day life. we d go to the range and spend the whole day at the rifle range and stuff. pick up brass and reload them. that s what i did as a kid behind him. even when i didn t know how to shoot, i would be out on the range picking up buckets of
we re seeing greater propensity for smuggling, a greater propensity for assault on officers and staff. we didn t see that before. our officers are trained to be custodians for short-term inmates. so it is really creating a paradigm shift for local jail facilities. well, ab-109 is controversial among staff and inmates alike, one of its provisions has proven popular. it provides funding for several new rehabilitation programs that could give inmates a chance to find jobs on the outside, despite the stigma of serving time. that s why the horses are here. get that thing off. let s go. this is the ranch that was developed by the sacramento county sheriff s department. and the bureau of land management. what we do out here is we take inmates and i train them how to train wild horses to become
dake has been sentenced to two years as an ab-109 inmate for auto theft and forgery. what s kind of brought me back is the dope, you know, the meth. i know what happens. you know, i know what not to do. and i basically know what gets me into trouble. it s hard out there. i realize i was at my lowest low when i traded a guitar to a pawnshop for money and turned around and bought drugs with that money. my mom had actually bought me that guitar when i was a senior in high school. and she boughts guitar for me for $180. i traded it for $20 and a cheap high. it broke my heart, honestly. when i couldn t pay to get that guitar back, i freaked out. that made me want to use more