like those at jails across the nation, most inmates at the fairfax county adult detention center have been incarcerated more than once. sabrina monahan, however, is a first timer, who only arrived a few days earlier. a nightmare. it s a living nightmare. it s horrible. definitely make you walk a super straight path. oh, my gosh. monahan says police stopped her for a traffic violation and asked to search her car. i said, sure, i have nothing to hide. not thinking i had anything in my car, but i did. monahan says the opiates found in her car weren t hers. but she pled guilty to possession of a controlled
the latest to leave was sabrina monahan, having completed a short sentence for drug possession. before she left, monahan was subjected to a urine test after brewer told staff she d been trading commissary snacks for prescription drugs. while monahan passed the test and was exonerated, brewer admits to having dealt her own medication in the past. it all depends on the type of medicine they give me and if it make me high, i go out there and i see a white girl who would like to get high, and i sell my medicine to her. uh-huh. supporting her drug habit on the outside is what had led to brewer s 30-year-long revolving-door relationship with the jail. my pattern is to get out of here, go out there and steal, smoke crack and dope. that s the first thing i look for. go get me a girl, put on a skirt and go shoplifting. that s my routine of getting out of prison to do.
and i was like, all right. according to sabrina monahan, who a week earlier was considered the new girl herself, boyce latched on to her right away. a lot of the girls are here i don t know why, but they like to talk to me. the first person they go for, for some reason. i guess i have that warming, welcoming way. even though i ve never done time in my life. but inmate ginger lucas describes monahan another way. she s gullible. this is her first time around, you know. she s gullible. so what do you see happening to her? getting used. all the new people coming in here are flocking to me. i don t know why. hopefully it s not for my commissary. but that s a danger you have to watch out for. you get commissary, you re going to get a lot of enemies slash friends. enemies meaning you tell them know, they re going to hate you.
she says woo, girl, i took that pill and i can t sleep. thank you. uh-huh. you can have a seat. the questioning continues with nicole boyce, who, according to inmate rumors, trade her medication to sabrina monahan for commissary snacks. did you share your medication with anyone? no. it s a sub lingual film that dissolves right away. you can t share it. it s something that dissolves with saliva. so you don t know if anyone is sharing medication? no. but you re not sharing medication. no. okay. you can step out. finally, sabrina monahan, who has attributed her odd behavior to having had too much coffee, is called in for questioning. how are you feeling today? i m feeling fine. i had no coffee. so the way you were feeling on tuesday was because of coffee? i had nine coffees that day.
misdemeanor drug possession has recently caught the attention of deputies. i noticed on tuesday that inmate monahan seemed a little out of it. like a little loopy or whatever. and i talked to her. she said that she had been drinking a lot of coffee. this morning my sergeant called me and told me that ms. brewer gave her information that inmate boyce is possibly giving medication to inmate monahan. brenda brewer considered the housing unit s matriarch says unlike most inmates, if she says something suspicious, she ll report it to deputies. the girls will say i m a snitch, because i told them the truth. well then so be it. because if they ask me something i m going to tell them the truth. i m not going to lie. i m not a person that just lie. lie, lie, lie. i don t have time for that. another inmate says she heard a similar story about monahan. what i heard was that