if not drastically overhaul them. we can never know with certainty how sincere those claims are. but when an inmate repudiates his gang, as 25-year-old daniel miramontes did, it adds credence to their story. i ran the streets. grew up in the streets. life in the streets. what you see is what the streets created. we met miramontes at the orange county jail. he said before coming here he was a member of a los angeles street gang and a meth addict. it seemed out of sorts with the young man who enjoyed reading novels and writing poetry. i like to read a lot. i like nicolas sparks. walk to remember. notebook. oh, so like romantics? oh, yeah. i m a sucker for that. even cry when you read the sad part? yeah. most of the guys don t want to admit that because, hey, we re in jail. you know.
many inmates say that coming to jail made them reassess their lives. if not drastically overhaul them. we can never know with certainty how sincere those claims are. but when an inmate repudiates his gang, as 25-year-old daniel miramontes did, it adds credence to their story. i ran the streets. grew up in the streets. life in the streets. what you see is what the streets created. we met miramontes at the orange county jail. he said before coming here he was a member of a los angeles street gang and a meth addict. it seemed out of sorts with the young man who enjoyed reading novels and writing poetry. i like to read a lot. i like nicolas sparks. walk to remember. notebook. oh, so like romantics?
topics that maybe they haven t talked about in years. and one way for us to connect with them, to get them to open up, is to ask them to tell us about their tattoos. what is that? that s a gun? that s a gun. i got it right here on my ribs. that s a quote. you have to learn the rules to the game and learn how to play them better than anyone else. i took it from einstein and kind of applied it to the streets. i am what the streets created. i ran the streets, grew up in the streets, life in the streets. what you see is what the streets created. i ve been doing heroin a little over ten years. it s very expensive star. may not look expensive, but i put a lot of money into that star. sometimes an inmate s tattoos can lead us to a particularly revealing story. don t you got a hundred dollar bill? i do got a hundred dollar bill tattoo. where is that at? it s crazy, bro. i got a hundred dollar bill
on his body. most of my tats have to do with death or protection. one day we re all going to die eventually. we all have a meaning. they all have a time and place where they meant something. it s more like a memory road map. we conduct some very difficult interviews in prison, asking the inmates to reflect on some terrible things that they ve experienced years ago, topics that maybe they haven t talked about in years and one way for us to connect with them, to get them to open up, is to ask them to tell us about their tattoos. what is that? that s a gun? that s a gun. i got it right here on my ribs. that s a quote. you have to learn the rules to the game and learn how to play them better than anyone else. i took it from einstein and kind of applied it to the streets. i am what the streets created, i ran the streets, grew up in the streets, life in the streets. what you see is what the streets created. i ve been doing heroin a
reformer. tom brokaw was one of the first western broadcasters to get into china and cover the crisis. tom recently explained how he and cameraman tony wasserman came up with a way to get footage despite total blackout by chinese authorities. he was on a bicycle and putting a soft drink box on the back, and i said, we re going to put a camera there, right? he said, absolutely. it may be unusual. but it s one of the few ways we can show you life in the streets of beijing without getting in trouble with the authorities. we took off not knowing if i was going to get shot or whether we could pull this off or not. and i rode behind tony. i was wired up, and we could sync it up later. and to our surprise, no one stopped us. only one chinese bicyclist bicycled up behind tony, reached in the box and tickled the lens and drove away.