my wife was pregnant. and the fact that i couldn t stop drinking and i couldn t stop using, it was very difficult to deal with the shame and the guilt of all that. parro and his wife eventually separated, but he landed in prison for breaking into her home and stealing her credit cards to pay for drugs. i readily admitted to it. that was one of the problems in my defense is i had no defense. i said yeah, i did go in, take those credit cards and the reason i took the credit cards is wisely enough my wife canceled mine. stefan paaro was a very relatable guy to most of us who are filming lockup. he was a well educated man and he expressed himself so eloquently. and so succinctly. i think he was a cautionary tale because his crimes were committed because of his substance abuse and i think most of us probably know people who have similar issues.
clothes, you make the ritual of having coffee, just like you did out there, you know. you don t have the option to go to starbucks. you get folgers out of the canteen and make what you can make. i think one of the interesting things that i kind of woke up to was that that s what life is here or elsewhere. so you better get something out of it. so if i can actually enjoy making coffee here in corcoran surrounded by a lot of loud people, and a lot of other discomforts, then i m going to come out a lot better for it when i get out there. if i m going to live through this and i have a son so i better live through this, i ve got to do something, no matter how difficult it is, you reach down and you find mettle that you didn t know you had. that s what prison is about really is finding strength that
hair grease, and i didn t see the person who did it because there was too many, there was a lot of prisoners out so i didn t see who it was. i m not the type that would tattle tale on somebody anyway. he acknowledged what might be his biggest problem in prison. one of the problems and issues i had was talking a lot, excessive talking without you know, going on and on a lot of times. not only was witlow a sex offender, he was a sex offender that constantly talked about his crime and even his current behavior which was disturbing. he talked about to anybody who would listen. and this provoked the other inmates in effect, to attack him. what did you feel? i know it s a stupid question but what do you remember feeling? it was very painful. a lot of pain but nothing like the pain i went through for a false charge for why i m in here for the last 13 years. whitlou was insisting that he
where the money actually went. to make a long story short the judge said all of the money was raised was fraud even though we could show we gave away $70,000 to little league teams, hospitals, christmas drives, thanksgiving, easter basket drives. now it s all fraud money so because it s all fraud the $3.5 million is all income and by the way you owe several million dollars tax on that. after donating only $70,000 of the $3.5 million he raised, tianaa was sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement. in the beginning it seems surreal. as you go through it you start to devise ways to cope, or, go crazy. you know. i mean, no secret i mean i m not ashamed to say i thought of killing myself. in the beginning. i didn t know if i could get
clothes, you make the ritual of having coffee, just like you did out there, you know. you don t have the option to go to starbucks. you get folgers out of the canteen and make what you can make. i think one of the interesting things that i kind of woke up to was that that s what life is here or elsewhere. so you better get something out of it. so if i can actually enjoy making coffee here in cochran surrounded by a lot of loud people and a lot of other discomforts, then i m going to come out a lot better when i get out there. if i m going to live through this and i have a son so i better live through this, i ve got to do something, no matter how difficult it is, you reach down and you find met tell that you didn t know you had. that s what prison is about really is finding strength that you never thought you had. coming up.