honesty has served him well in an environment where homophobia can run rampant. i was 100% open that i was gay. i wasn t going to hide it. people took more of a liking to me, a trust to me. i wasn t considered a liar like somebody who is hiding it. it s all about trust being in prison. it s an open house. thank you. but honestly alone wasn t always enough. i ve had to fight quite a few times. i m not going to have anything taken from me. not material things, i mean sexual bodily function things, too. i m not having anything taken from me. i ll put the purse down and i ll have to fight. you have to. and once you fight, they respect you. what are you going to do with the pickles, may i ask?
we met one inmate who observed the convict code but was also open about being gay, and that s a combination you rarely find in prison. hi. all the men in there. hey! kenneth morgan is serving nine years for forgery and drug trafficking when we met him during our extended stay shoot at the penitentiary of new mexico. i told him i had more legs than a bucket of chicken. i do, i tell you. he was known to most of the prison by his nickname, peaches. you going to get a tattoo on your back? it says peaches all the way across the back. it better not. peaches is one of those inmates that stands out in your mind years after you leave a prison. he s very flamboyant, very forthright, very honest. like a poker party. you get around all five around them, oh, one, two, three, four, five. there s a poker party and you forgot to invite me. morgan says openness and
you re both gay. mm-hmm. yes. so why would you not be interested in each other? gay people stay with gay people, no? that s a negative. no. that s a negative. can you explain to me? if we want the same in the relationship, there s like a role play. i guess you d say, sort of, huh? well, not really, vice versa. we re more of the feminine side than the butch side. he look too much like for me. yeah. not only had morgan developed a friendship with the one other inmate most like himself, he received some good news from the disciplinary ward. they decided to suspend his sanctions. as a result, his transfer request to the lower security prison was still under consideration. but near the end of the shoot in new mexico, morgan had stumbled again. peaches got locked up again. poor thing. why?
for murillo as she had hoped. shortly after our shoot at maricopa she was sentenced to four years in prison and was transferred from the maricopa county jail to the arizona state prison system. coming up my dad s an emotional subject. he done what was right. a young inmate goes home to the father who turned him in. but on the way, one of our producers has her hands full. any time dogs and kids are around on a normal day shooting lockup it s kind of a good day. with respect to fast and efficient transportation. it s kind of a losing proposition to keep going this way. we are trying to tackle the problem with several different modes. one of them is the brand new metro. we had a modest forecast: 110,000 passengers per day in the first line.
as an inmate advocate. a sort of amateur lawyer for inmates facing sanctions for rule violations. on this i m going to try to get you suspended sanctions. while morgan lived in the minimum security level two section of the penitentiary of new mexico, he was awaiting transfer to an even less restrictive level one prison, commonly known as the farm. i told them, it s like disney land. oh, i m going to disney land. go find a ride. the farm is a lot more freedom. it s four-foot fences. you know, you re pretty much on your own will. you do what you want to do, you know. it s all trust that you build up. peaches was told he had six months to stay disciplinary free in order to go to a lower level facility. that seemed pretty easy to do since he was so well acclimated in that prison. morgan! but adherence to the convict code would soon cost morgan his place in general population and