apkaw doesn t have much time left in adam 100. she recently accepted a plea in her aggravated assault case and will soon be transferred from maricopa to state prison to begin a 2 1/2-year sentence. but staff still takes plenty of precaution whenever they deal with her. searching her cell because she was on her hour out. every time they re on their hour out they come back to the cell and get searched to make sure they didn t bring back contraband or another inmate in the pod didn t pass any information. before long, some contraband is found. inmates call this a fishing line. there s a whole lot of string there. there s probably enough to go from one end of the pod to another and probably a couple of times around. they can use it to move weapons from one cell to the other or notes or things such as that. although it looks harmless, if they re moving weapons back and forth, it could be a threat to the security of the facility or one of the other inmates in here.
since disavowing his gang, he knows there still may be some trouble ahead. i d rather die on my feet than live on my knees. if they come, they better come hard and strong. you know what i mean? and everybody who knows me will say that because i m not going to [ bleep ] sit there and bow down. i don t bow down to nobody. while martinez contemplates life with neither his fiancee nor his gang, there s anger in the adam 100 pod and it s all directed at one detention officer. what a jerk! what a jerk! jerk! as inmate cynthia apkaw was returning from a visit with her lawyer, she managed to slip her cuffs. though she was quickly restrained again, officers removed certain possessions from her cell as a sanction. when apkaw attempted to stop them, she put up a struggle and one of the officers tased her. that [ bleep ] that just walked by, he s the one who
bear in mind, if you screw this up, you re going to go back down to the bottom. we re going to take everything from your cell. you re going to have no day room access. you re going to have to work your way up again. you need to keep your eye on the prize here because any little infraction, if you if you re passing stuff under the doors, if you re talking up against the doors and things like that, you re going to go back all the way down to nothing. just because of the nature of inmate apkaw and the violence she s had in the past, while she is on her hour of day room access, we have to keep her in a very controlled setting. what are you doing? you got your hour! yes. [ bleep ]. that s beautiful. [ bleep ]. that is so nice. that is beautiful. apkaw is allowed to visit her three pod mates but must stay at least three feet away from their doors to prevent the passage of contraband. oh, that s cute.
i had a rough childhood. i mean, that s all i could say. my dad passed away when i was younger. he was in prison most of the time. i had to take care of my brothers and sisters, and i had to grow up fast. i didn t have a childhood. i wasn t there to carry around a purse and have a cinderella crown on me. i had to grow up, feed my family, do what i have to do. my mom wasn t taking care of responsibilities so i had to do that. the girl you got in a fight with, why did you get in a fight with her? she was making comments about raping kids and just sick comments. just making comments about kids. about just disgusting stuff. she started calling us all racist names in the pod. she was snitching to the cops and lying at the same time right in front of me. i just had it. while apkaw gave us an assortment of reasons for the attack, jail officials think she left out the real one. other inmates greatly influence her. she wants to be other people s
head. she is the one in this whole jail that creeps me out for a better word, you know? she just you just don t know what she s going to do. thank you, ms. simpson. coming up, the unofficial leader of the adam 100 pod speaks out. they swear up and down that i like run the show or something like that. and later, the nation s only female chain gang takes on a solemn task. dear predictable, there s no other way to say this. it s over. i ve found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say: if you love something. set it free. see you around, giulia