job. they get game time for their pay. they like working here. good atmosphere, good environment. we attempt to recycle 100 % of everything we have. if a uniform goes bad. we will make belts out of it. we ll make whatever is required. inmate johnny bruster serving three years for cocaine possession lends his sewing skills to the prison s recycling efforts. sometimes i get teased by these guys here. right now i m making belts from pant leg material. as you see, we start off by joining the two pieces. usually i make one large spool approximately 35-foot every two to three days. i make approximately 10 to 12 belts a day. i learned to sew approximately 20 years ago from my mother.
of the job, there are plenty of others eager to replace them. i get about 70 to 80 work requests, i want to work in the laundry, a week. of course, we re only authorized 18, so. it s a highly coveted job and position here at santa rosa. they re not getting paid. they get game time for their pay, but they like working here. it s a good atmosphere, a good environment. we attempt to recycle 100% of everything we have. if the uniform goes bad, we ll make belts out of it, we ll make whatever is required. inmate johnny brewster, serving three years for cocaine possession, lends his formidable sewing skills to the prison s recycling efforts. sometimes i get teased about it by these guys here. right now, i m making belts from pant leg material. as you see, we start off by joining the two pieces. usually i make one large spool approximately 35 foot every two to three days. i m making approximately 10 to 12 belts a day. i learned to sew approximately 20 years ago from my mother. she aske
i kind of have, i guess psychological problems, if you will. and i guess the mental stress. so. twaun stallworth serving a one year sentence for cocaine possession, is still haunted by a combat experience that occurred 20 years earlier during the battle to free kuwait. he says he once saw a friend blown up by a woman and a child who were concealing explosives. moments later, he saw another child running towards him. i didn t know what to do. but i turned, i aimed and i fired. he was 6 years old. i didn t kill him. i did injure him his leg. that s one of the things that bothers me because that was somebody s kid. it kind of wasn t wasn t trying to hurt me.
pay, but they like working here. it s a good atmosphere, a good environment. we attempt to recycle 100% of everything we have. if the uniform goes bad, we ll make belts out of it, we ll make whatever is required. inmate johnny brewster, serving three years for cocaine possession, lends his formidable sewing skills to the prison s recycling efforts. sometimes i get teased about it by these guys here. right now, i m making belts from pant leg material. as you see, we start off by joining the two pieces. usually i make one large spool approximately 35 foot every two to three days. i m making approximately 10 to 12 belts a day. i learned to sew approximately 20 years ago from my mother. she asked me one day if i want to learn to sew. i said, i don t know, boys
at the end of each day, inmates participating in santa rosa s veterans program lower the flag, just as they raise it every morning. file! one of santa rosa s veterans is now just days away from returning to life on the outside. twuan stallworth has been treated for post-traumatic stress disorder while serving a one-year sentence for cocaine possession. i have ten days left, so every day i count down, ten, nine, eight, and by next friday, midnight, hopefully my ride will show up because i m going to go ahead and get my folks to pick me up. that way i don t have to wait until the next day. i can t wait to get the hell out of here. stallworth s first priority is seeing his 3-year-old son.