fast relief, fresh breath miami-dade corrections houses the majority of female inmates at the women s detention center less than a mile away from the main jail. well, this is my room. this is where i sleep at. this my mother. this my locker. you know, just my little
peace. it s like i block everything out. it s what i do. i get up here. i meditate, i read. stay to myself most of the time, you know. pollard s greatest hope is that he will one day reunite with the family he lost. i ve got a daughter. man, i ain t never told her i love her. she s 27 years old. i ve got five grandkids. i ain t never told her i love her. i can t do it. i ve made a lot of mistakes and lost a lot of my life that i can t get back, but i thank god that i m still living. next on lockup, women behind bars. women s detention center is the nicest of all the facilities, if you can call any of them nice, but jail is hell. but how are they saving you those dollars? a lot of companies might answer um or, no comment. then there s esurance. born online raised by technology, and majors in efficiency. so whatever they save you save. hassle, time, paperwork, hair-tearing-out, and yes, especially dollars. esurance. insurance for the modern world.
starting to fight with officers, kicking and screaming, they can t give her medicine so they have to tie her down. so it s working under adverse conditions with extremely ill people. dr. mary sue haber is a forensic psychologist and has worked in corrections for 35 years. there are less places for women to be treated after they leave here. and even if they are released, and go to a hospital, in a short-time treatment program, they come back. they sometimes commit crimes, deliberately, to get arrested because they don t have a place to sleep, they have not a meal to eat. and surviving on the streets is really tough. when we built the women s detention center, it was well under capacity. once we opened it up, we never could get back to capacity. there s just there was a lot of need for housing female inmates. in an attempt to decrease recidivism, miami-dade corrections offers counseling services, life classes and
stay to myself most of the time, you know. pollard s greatest hope is that he will one day reunite with the family he lost. i ve got a daughter. man, i ain t never told her i love her. she s 27 years old. i ve got five grandkids. i ain t never told her i love her. i can t do it. i ve made a lot of mistakes and lost a lot of my life that i can t get back, but i thank god that i m still living. next on lockup, women behind bars. women s detention center is the nicest of all the facilities, if you can call any of them nice, but jail is hell.
services, life classes and vocational programs. at the women s detention center, i believe the most effective vocational program we have here is our cosmetology because they have the opportunity to receive a certification and it does not print they received this in jail so then they can present that to a possible employer when they get out. hold your ridge, hold your ridge. start to clean out. swing it. that s it. see it closes up the openings? you got it? elizabeth valenza is the head instructor for the cosmetology program. i m here for them and that s very important to them. i mean, that they would tell you straight out. they would tell anybody. that s good. to them, it s just very important that they have this class because otherwise they re upstairs for five hours in their cell doing nothing, except perhaps getting in trouble.