can you seriously say that? yes. i don t think i m guilty of anything that harmed anybody. that s for sure. this law isn t about really harming people. i mean, the dude s a married man. he s out having unprotected sex with complete strangers online. if he hasn t encountered something before, he s very lucky. merithew could face up to 15 years in prison. and this isn t his first offense. two years earlier he was convicted of the same crime with a different man but only had to pay a fine. that guy, i don t know what his deal was, but he was hard of hearing, and we were drinking the night when we met. so i made sure he was aware the next morning. ironically, merithew says he contracted the virus from a man who did not disclose his own hiv positive status. do you feel like the person that gave you hiv, that they should have told you? i take 100% accountability for me being infected. i knew about aids since, like, eighth grade. and so i knew i was having unprotected sex even t
to get away from that pod because he had informed on them up there, and when he came down here he kind of was bragging about that incident and how he came forward and gave us the information, and vasquez said, well, you re a snitch. started from there. and escalated. vasquez says he was honoring the long-standing convict code which says snitches should be punished. telling them something about somebody else, technically it is snitching. he kept calling me a bitch. when we started to beef over lunch. and i was like you a bitch man. what the [ bleep ] you say to the detectives. that was the right thing for me to, do was to tell. if anybody if anybody do anything to anybody s food they deserve to be told on. it wasn t a real thing. it was a joke. i mean, if anybody else would have said that in that pod, if they were giving their sandwiches away and said, oh,
dying while i m in here now. i mean, because then that wouldn t be a good thing at all. so it makes me worry a lot about grandma s health. i m in here, there s nothing i can do to help her, unfortunately. coming up all s i ask is that you wear a condom. don t do it in our home and don t catch anything. pamala speckin takes an unconventional step to hold her family together. and because people are saying you ve put seminal fluids into foods you were sharing with other inmates jeremy merithew faces an angry judge on the day of his sentencing. so why accept it from your allergy pills? most pills don t finish the job because they don t relieve nasal congestion. flonase allergy relief is different. flonase relieves sneezing, itchy, watery eyes and a runny nose, plus nasal congestion, which pills don t. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances.
at the time she was on probation for her fourth dui conviction. i work at a bar restaurant, and i got done working and i decided that i m going to have a screwdriver tonight, i deserve it. i went ahead and ordered a second drink. i don t remember anything after that. i don t remember driving. i don t remember going into the ditch. i don t remember walking up to these people s houses that they said i walked up to and asked for help. i was arrested right there, handcuffed and brought to the kent county jail. and this is where i ve been ever since that night. speckin has been in jail three months. drinking that night led to her fifth dui conviction in the past ten year, and she is now awaiting sentencing. she once served 120 days in jail but knows this time it could be worse. my biggest concern right now is staying in county, not going to prison. i don t want to be far away. if i go prison, i won t see my
was high at the time. that s no excuse. so i take full responsibility. but merithew feels differently about his current case. i m taking half the responsibility, but i m not taking responsibility for anything that happens to his wife or anything that happens to his children because of the fact that he s out having unprotected sex. sounds a little bit like you re not taking responsibility. that s what it sounds like. okay. you know? i take responsibility. i should tell everybody that i have sex with that i m hiv positive. sometimes it doesn t happen. okay. i m sorry. i used to talk to him like as a friend. why? because i wanted to bring him the gospel. not because i want to mingle with him. because i don t condone his activities. ruben was the first one that kind of sought me out and basically because my case is kind of high-profile, it s on the news. so everybody knows my business. maybe i was a little bit attracted to him. but the thing is as i learned his personality