i try to take care of the kid, you know, keep him out of trouble, help him make some better decisions like i ve learned to do. he s only got a little bit of time left, so he ll be out of here in a couple more months, which is good because he s too young. too young. while piersol might act as a father figure to mccaffrey, the crime that brought him to prison cost him his relationship with his own child. and he admitted when we first met him, he wasn t honest about the crime. you asked me in the dorm what i was here for. i gave you a bs story. other people were around. i haven t taken into my confidence, so to speak. how many times have you been to prison? twice. both times on assault. yes. my friends and family know my history, and i m just not, you know, i m done putting up fronts and facades. i ve lived too many years like that. i m incarcerated in florida for failure to register an e-mail address by a sex offender. and that stems from a charge that i had up in new york,
kitchen work has proven beneficial for 21-year-old colin mccaffrey, who s serving 15 months for robbery. i enjoy it. it s not bad. you eat well. it s a job. it makes the time go by fast, yeah. i haven t worked this hard in a long time. it s the longest i ve ever kept a job, seriously. i got a lot of things. i got a lot of good people looking out for me. you think sometimes they re going to put down on a young person, but it s not anything like that. they d rather look out for me and stuff. one of those friends is biscuit maker jason piersol. he s kind of scared. i m his war daddy. exactly. he s afraid all the time. horribly afraid. horribly afraid. just joking. wendy. wendy is my mother. piersol, he s a good guy right there, one of my good friends that i can say actually will look out for me, cares for me.
this is like my fifth cup of coffee today. i m about to start sweating profusely. colin mccaffrey is the type of new young inmate who could be a prime target for predatory extortionists. whenever they give you, they want something back, want you to do favors for them, so that s how you get caught up in it. that s how you get into fights, because they expect something from you. yeah, whether it s sexual or not, it happens. i have to remind myself every day. this is prison. people are doing a lot of time. mccaffrey is known by other inmates in his general population housing dorm as jit, short for jitterbug, prison slang for a young, naive inmate. smile for the camera, babyface. look over here. smile. tell them how you re living, man. i come from a good family. where i went wrong, i can t tell
what are they doing in here? wouldn t want to see one of my kids in here. i ve got an 18-year-old daughter, so i think about stuff like that. why are you here now? another assault charge. how many times have you been to prison? twice. and both times on assault? yes. i ve been in prison since 18. so you know what he s going through. well, it was so long ago for me, i really don t remember. but i remember being in prison. i ve come to learn that the older people you hang out with, the better, because you don t want to play any games in here. this is a man s world. it s not a child s world. coming up he s kind of scared. i m his war daddy. exactly. he s afraid. horribly afraid. one of colin mccaffrey s protectors reveals a secret. you asked me in the dorm what i was here for. i gave you a bs story. and the medical examiner currently has done the autopsy, and all of the case is under investigation at this time. the unexpected death of an inmate.
you right now. i m thinking about it right now, where did i go wrong. shame is all i can think about. i m ashamed. can t show that in here. why not? they eat you alive. but mccaffrey has made two friends in his dormitory-style housing unit who he feels he can trust, 38-year-old jason piersol and 36-year-old matthew kemp. i think he s looking for a father figure and he s hanging with us. no, i m just joking. everybody needs a war daddy. scared. but no, i vibe with them well. they re good people. these are good guys right here. we look out for each other. especially me being one of the youngest people in the compound, they look out for me. when you see somebody who is 21 in here, what goes through your mind? what the hell are they doing?