yvette and doris gay know all about that. since our visit to the north carolina correctional institution for women, doris has been paroled. the soonest she will be allowed to visit yvette is when her probation expires. brad and michael love have more time. brad is currently eligible, but has not yet made parole. so we re going to spend as many years together here as we can. i love him to death. i d do anything for brad. anything. short of killing somebody again. coming up on lockup: raw. these cats is their kids. and you mess with one of the cats, i mean, these cats is their family. that s all they got. the special bond between prisoner and pet. it s like anything. show them respect they ll treat you with love and respect back.
injuries you want to report? no? never crossed my mind one time other than to tell someone that i m not interested in doing it. you know? today, spring creek staff uses medication and therapy to help blevins serve his 45-year sentence. even though he s done a horrible double murder, he s still a person and he has to have some kind of human contact. so what i try to focus on is just a relationship. we try to be alert to prisoners mental status, to make sure they re not thinking of harming themselves or someone else. beyond that, we try to help them be together enough to serve their time and serve it as quietly and peacefully as possible. serving time quietly and peacefully is exactly how we found ramona rosario. in the gym at the north carolina correctional institution for women. she was a long way from home. i m originally from dominican republic.
have some kind of human contact. so what i try to focus on is just a relationship. we try to be alert to prisoners mental status, to make sure they re not thinking of harming themselves or someone else. beyond that, we try to help them be together enough to serve their time and serve it as quietly and peacefully as possible. serving time quietly and peacefully is exactly how we found ramona rosario. in the gym at the north carolina correctional institution for women. she was a long way from home. i m originally from dominican republic. i live in new york city. and that was my first time that i come to north carolina and i got in trouble. seven years earlier, rosario agreed to carry a package for a friend. she s now serving 18 to 24 years for trafficking heroin.
life behind bars. in some cases those bonds have existed their entire lives. over the years, lockup crews have discovered a surprising number of family members serving time together. but few have ever had to face the difficult circumstances that confronted these two women. being on death row it was like, it was like i needed to be with my sister. the identical twins, convicted of murder, for helping her former boyfriend carry out a triple homicide were sent to the north carolina correctional institution for women. doris got a life sentence. yvette was condemned to die. she told us about her first day on death row. i began to hear hurls of insults when i first got in the gate, i began to hear people talk about, oh, she got sentenced to death. oh, she is going to be she s going to die for the crimes that she committed. even though they were housed at the same prison, the women were prohibited from seeing one
never visit anybody while they re incarcerated. yvette and doris day know all about that. since our visit to the north carolina correctional institution for women, doris has been paroled. the soonest she will be allowed to visit yvette is in 2012, when her probation expires. brad and michael love have more time. brad is currently eligible, but has not yet made parole. we re going to spend as many years together here as we can. i love him to death. i would do anything for brad. anything. short of killing somebody again. coming up on lockup: raw, prison love. these cats is their kids. you mess with the cat, it s their family. that s all they got. the special bond between prisoner and pet. just play games, they respect you, they ll treat you with a little respect back.