ready for sentencing. is that correct? yes, your honor. all right, ma am. you are sentenced to state prison for a period of three years. credits of 550 actual and 550 good time work time for a total of 1,100 so you ve done your time. you re not going to be transported to state prison. you have credit for time served. it s been a long time coming, i know that. and i have a sense that you re going to do it well. the problem is that you have no choice. you have to do it well. with your history, with your priors, if you don t do well, you re going to end up back in the prison and you have a son in the marine corps. pretty proud, huh? yeah. the point is they can t do it for you. i know you re motivated. this, believe it or not, is actually the easy part. the hard part is tonight when you get out. you ve been in custody for so long. the court wishes you well. good luck. thank you, sir. the judge s ruling is good news for rivas.
it says 22 pancakes left. every saturday we get pancakes, and i ve got 22 left. i mark it down every time. today is the 22nd. 22 pancakes left. paula rivas is hoping she ll never eat another pancake at the orange county jail either. she s headed to court in hopes that a new plea bargain will soon set her free. my public defender has told me that everything is okay, but i could always go to court and maybe them not give me all the credit because i have two open cases and one is supposed to run concurrent with the other, but there s always that chance that it might not. i ve seen it many times when girls, they are positive that they re going to go in and get their credit time and then they come back devastated because their time didn t run concurrent fully. so if that happens, basically i ll end up going upstate for like ten months. there s always that slim chance.
this is the first time rivas son has been deployed while she s been locked up. normally she would serve her time in prison, but a judge granted her request to stay at the orange county jail so she could be closer to her son when he returns from afghanistan. prison is a cakewalk, you know. it s so much easier. i ve got it made up there. upstate is our house. this is their house. over here it s the deputies. this is their house. they run it as their home. it s very tight. nobody wants to do their time here. i ve chosen to stay to see my boy. everyone thinks i m crazy but, no, i want 45 minutes with him, because you never know if it s going to be the last. coming up i drink and i get aggressive, i guess. i said i wasn t going to drink again, and here we are.
people can snap easily, and there s a lot of small tempers and fights over small stuff, like soap and the tv. that s why i just stay in my rack and do my time and get my head down, for real this time, not get caught up in any trouble. coming up, a tearful promise from a mother to put her marine son before drugs. i don t want to miss any more time with you. i want you to come home next time. i m going to be home, you know. when paula rivas gets reck go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators, that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night.
women s wing of orange county s central jail facility, paula revis, serving three years for identity theft and forgery is also preparing for a mother-son reunion. here you go. i know it s hard for him that i m in here. i just want him to forgive me that i m not out there for him, and i want him to know that i m going to be out there. rivas son is a marine who deployed to afghanistan seven months ago. i always wanted my son to join the military, but when you realize that they are going to war and there s nothing you can do, it s not easy. especially being here in jail, you know. he has nothing to come home to. i m in here, you know. i can t write well, i could write him, but it s just difficult, you know.