baby is a civilian, we have to treat the baby as we would any other baby. i don t want to be pregnant anymore. shuck will soon leave the friends she has made at riverhead behind. she will also leave behind the man who is both her co-defendant and fath of her baby. cesar figueroa is housed in the men s maximum security unit at riverhead. both he and shuck face charges including second degree murder related to a christmas morning hold-up. they pled not guilty and are awaiting trial. if i could just take one thing back in my entire life, it would be that night. everything went wrong. coming up hard questions for soon-to-be parents. does sabrina know what you did inside the store? no. i feel like the less i know with that, the better. and
i just like it here. 15 miles away, at suffolk county s riverhead jail, cesar figueroa hopes to see his newborn daughter. i feel bad that i can t be there to even tell her i love her or nothing. i can t see her. i don t know if she even knows me. he s written me a couple letters about it, requesting it. i had to talk to the warden about it. make sure that the warden was on board with it. figueroa, come in. have a seat in the black chair. how are you doing? i m all right. got good news for you. the warden, i talked to the warden about you going to the see the baby. he gave it the approval. don t get in any trouble between now and when you go, and we ll make it happen. all right? yeah. you happy? hell yeah i m happy. i feel like crying but i don t want to cry. it s highly unusual to have the mother and father in the facility at the same time. they re both accused of crimes
i like riverhead. it s nice, and the jail is right there, so when you get arrested, it s a short ride to it. you can get there usually in about two minutes. i m a big guy, so when i put my hands behind my back, it hurts. fisher is assigned to the giant tent-like housing unit known as sprung. some inmates liken life here to camping out, and fisher says he adds to that communal feel by sharing his large stash of commissary snacks. all the new guys come in and they re hungry. they ll ask for food and i ll loan it out. what if they don t pay you back? i m not going to hurt them, not going to chase them. you eat the loss. cocoa, coffee. am i going to cry? it s $1.75. take that. what else? fisher and other inmates in the sprung unit often combine their commissary snacks to create what they call a cook-up. cheese, tarter sauce, mustard, mayonnaise, milk, fill
you don t want to be the next pops. you don t and you don t. you re right. you re right. you don t. i ain t got much time left. each sentence could be a death sentence for me. where s that cheesecake? the male inmates will soon be joined by a woman, but there s a good chance most of them will never see her. sabrina shuck will be segregated in a specially designed nursery and kept away from all other inmates. and right now, she s about to be driven from the riverhead jail to a local hospital where she will give birth by cesarean section. i m excited, anxious, nervous, scared. but ultimately, ecstatic. just can t wait to get off of this tier and just have my baby after six long months of being here. it s exciting but i feel like it s going to be sad. it s going to be like bittersweet, because i m going to be i mean, i won t be
due to mature subject matter viewer discretion is advised. located in the eastern long island towns, suffolk county s two jails usually house between 1500 and 1700 inmates on any given day. and though the jails are located some 70 miles from new york city, inmates face the same kind of charges one would expect to find in any big-city jail. the breakdown is about 60% inmates charged with felonies. we have inmates in here for murder, rapes, robberies, every violent crime you can think of. how are you doing? good. 28 years earlier, charles was a rookie corrections officer at riverhead. now he s the warden. there s about 25% that are