and here he was incarcerated in a pretty hard core prison, and i could see he hadn t come to terms with the fact he was once a law enforcement agent and now he was an inmate. he still obviously struggled with that fact. he was lucky he was put in a protective custody unit, otherwise he would be in grave danger. i wouldn t probably last five minutes on the main line. why? they don t like cops. you know. or ex-cops. tiano says if nothing else his experience here has helped him see the people he used to arrest in a new light. i ve been dealing with these people for many, many years. and you know, there s a lot of them that aren t, i mean, you know, there s a perception, unfortunately, by the majority of our society that everybody is in prison is really a bad person. and that s not the case.
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. paro 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. stephan was a relatable guy to most of us who are filming lockup. he was a well educated man and he expressed himself so eloquently. 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. but there was stephan, trying to navigate through an extremely
shifted their focus to a kansas city landfill in their ongoing search for a missing 10-month-old girl. now back to lockup . most prisons have units designed for protective custody. they re for inmates who become targets. child molesters or gang dropouts. but one thing we ve learned about prison, doesn t matter where you re housed your safety is never guaranteed. we believe that you may have been the victim of a battery. joseph de la cruz is a gang dropout, serving nine years for attempted murder at california s san quentin state prison. and when we first met him, authorities had just discovered that he had been assaulted inside his protective custody
licensed for everything, plumbing, electrical and everything. and they stopped me. they pulled the rug out from under my feet. put some fake charges on me and took me to court. i ve been here since 1990. and it s a long time. now i got three grandkids out there. and i m a great grandfather, i was told. and all this has happened while i ve been in prison the last 20 years. but the hardest part of it s being without my wife. it s like she s she s everything. she s the bubble i live in. i m here to visit my husband, robert tedder. ava tedder lives just a few miles from holman and visits regularly. all right. thank you. all right. come on. usually it s every two weeks. and you can stay from 8:00 until about 1:20. for a long time it was real
bureau, personnel and training in the jails. then i was promote today lieutenant in 1984. what happened? good question. after retiring, tiano and a group of friends started a charitable foundation. they raised over $3 million in donations. but then, questions arose about where the money actually went. to make a long story short, the judge said all 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. no, 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, tiano was sentenced to almost 18 years in prison for fraud and