when paula ras gets ti at the orange county jail in california, she usually spends ione, punchg a basketball. i m a fighter. i use my fists, you know. i used to go to the boxing gym out there. you have to be solid as a rock in here, and nobody wants to see nobody cry in here. that s the first thing we tell them. don t cry. don t shed a tear. man up. face the glass. it s been very hard for me to manage. rivas has spent most of the last ten years locked up on various drug-related charges, but this time it s different. while she s here, her son lorenzo has been serving as a marine in afghanistan. i didn t want him to be hurt or injured in any way, you know. he s seen a lot. i know he has. but he s lost a few friends, i know that. today lorenzo is not only safe but home from his deployment. he has just arrived with his grandmother for a visit. i haven t seen her in about nine months. to see my mom in jail it s really hard on me.
i didn t want him to get a letter with orange county jail stamped on it. i look for articles about over there to see. every time i see the newspaper, losing 11, 10 men, i don t know if it s my boy. it s not been easy. rivas says she loves her son but has admittedly not been there for him over the years. she was often more focused on drugs than family. i was getting high one way or another from 9 years old, whether it be on weed, drinking. back then lsd, pcp. in my later years, it s been mostly it was coke for a while, but i went to other drugs, heroin, meth. i ve been coming here for the last ten years consistently, and it s pretty sad that i know the deputies in this place more than my own family. i know this place mo than my son, you know. this is the first time rivas son has been deployed while she s been locked up.
i nevewant to do this ever again. i ve got my little calen right there written on the wall. 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. ready for sentencing. is t
now it s your time to grow. let him work through you and change you to let you become the person he wants you to be. coming up, marc gonzales makes a surprising discovery about his new cellmate. when i first found out it kind of took me off guard. i was like whoa, okay. and a judge decides if paula rivas can leave jail. jimmy torres is no stranger to the orange county jail. but even though he claims to be . we re taing to you, cost inefficiencies and data without insights. and fragmented care- stop getting in the way of patient recovery and pay attention. every single one of you is on our list. for those who won t rest until the world is healthier, neither will we. optum. how well gets done.
there were big-time errors that happened during my trial and certain evidence was not brought forth that should have been brought for the. my trial attorney passed away from a brain tumor. she had a brain tumor no wonder. she kept forgetting everything i kept telling her and she did fatal mistakes during my trial. coming up hi, son. hello. marc gonzales gets a visit from his mother. and later i joined the marine corps for her just trying to get her to be proud of me for once. paula rivas son braces for a visit with his mother. dad, one second i was driving and then the next. they just didn t stop and then. i m really sorry. i wrecked the subaru. i wrecked it. you re ok. that s all that matters. (vo) a lifetime commitment to getting them home safely.