racking up charges and doing drugs. it was all downhill. reporter: she turned to prostitution to support her drug habit. her two children, ages 5 and 6, are now in the custody of their father. i do write to them. i don t get any mail back from them. i don t get to talk to them on the phone. my family talks to them. he won t let me talk to them on the phone in jail. reporter: despite the pain, minacapelli found room nor laughter in jail. particularly with her cellmate cindy archer. the first day we came in, we laughed. so hard she was on the floor rolling. yeah. slapping the wall, everything. i, my god i haven t laughed so hard in my life like that. reporter: like minacapelli, archer also struggled with addictions to heroin and cocaine. she s currently serving one year for prostitution i. was street walking. i would go there and you know,
never did nothing. never did no drugs. did nothing. i was a stay-at-home mom. i was good, and then started racking up charges and doing drugs. it was all downhill. she says she turned to prostitution to support her drug habit. her two children, ages 5 and 6, are now in the custody of their father. i do write to them. i don t get any mail back from them. i don t get to talk to them on the phone. my family talks to them. he won t let me talk to them on the phone in jail. despite the pain, minacapelli has found room for laughter in jail, particularly with her cellmate cindy archer.
jared loughner sitting down with them and even a school campus police official was in that meeting. they said your son needs mental evaluation. we don t know what happened beyond that. there exists this law in the state that this school, anybody, his neighbor, could have tried to petition a court and say this person needs help. i must say the spirit of that law seems to be pointing at somebody who can t take care of themselves physically. again, we don t know if his parents did take action after they were notified by the school, if the school felt there were concerns about his mental stability, if the family talks, we ll learn about that but no record of them contacting the state or him receiving state help for mental health issues. drew, we ll talk to you again shortly. still ahead, new pictures of gabby giffords in the hospital with her husband and also remembering the victims killed on saturday.
in this state anybody can petition a court to try to get help for someone who appears to be mentally ill and doesn t know it. the school thought that they had properly notified the parents of jared loughner sitting down with them and even a school campus police official was in that meeting. they said your son needs mental evaluation. we don t know what happened beyond that. there exists this law in the state that this school, anybody, his neighbor, could have tried to petition a court and say this person needs help. i must say the spirit of that law seems to be pointing at somebody who can t take care of themselves physically. again, we don t know if his parents did take action after they were notified by the school, if the school felt there were concerns about his mental stability, if the family talks, we ll learn about about but no record of them contacting the state or him receiving state
police official was in that meeting. they said your son needs mental evaluation. we don t know what happened beyond that. there exists this law in the state that this school, anybody, his neighbor, could have tried to petition a court and say this person needs help. i must say the spirit of that law seems to be pointing at somebody who can t take care of themselves physically. again, we don t know if his parents did take action after they were notified by the school, if the school felt there were concerns about his mental stability, if the family talks, we ll learn about about but no record of them contacting the state or him receiving state help for mental health issues. drew, we ll talk to you again shortly. still ahead, new pictures of gabby giffords in the hospital with her husband and also remembering the victims killed on saturday. six lives cut short. each one unique and deeply mourned.