20 miles south of downtown sacramento at the county s branch jail, the real casumnis correctional center, it s a brand new day for yvette anderson. after five days in segregation followed by three months in a tightly restricted maximum security cell, she is back in a general population dormitory with considerably more freedom. i m back over here with my friends. and i m able to go to the gym every day. able to go outside every day, whenever i want to unless it s lights out or something. anderson s troubles began after she was found with cake frosting she stole from the jail s culinary class, along with some other contraband. out on the streets, anderson was known to steal as well.
i like to run miles and miles and miles and just get lost in music and forget where i m at. it s just like a peace for me. get that runner s high, you know. on the outside, anderson says her highs were usually from methamphetamine. she says an older relative forced her to take the drug at age 12. and that she has only been clean for three years since. i ve always had like a mask ever since i was little. like i started being molested when i was 3. it was just a [ bleep ] childhood, you know. everything that s happened to me, like it s not happening anymore, but it still controls my life. i m still not free mentally. i don t really have a happy ending type life. coming up rap s been having a bad rap for that for a long time. that s because it comes with the thug life. a gang investigator keeps tabs on the rap wars. and the posting of the mall video leads to multiple arrests. when i found out about the
with internet speeds up to 250 megabits per second. get fast internet and add phone and tv now for only $34.90 more per month. call today. comcast business. built for business. at the sacramento county jail s real casumis correction center, yvette anderson is now leading group workouts, a small step toward making her goal of being a personal trainer. okay, we re going to lay on our sides. and we re going to start real simply. pointing your toe, okay? and we re going to be lifting up
i have my b.s. in food service management and i have my master s degree in education. i m already teaching. i enjoy cooking. i m a teacher, i can help, pay back society as well. hot pan, coming through, ladies. inmate kiana turk says she values the training and feels motivated by chef bui. chef bui is very great. chef. yes? can you come see if i m doing this right? chef bui, he s pretty cool to be around. i don t know, i like him. when you don t know something, instead of him being kind of hard on you, actually he likes to help us a lot. i appreciate him for this program, actually. stay away from the bone. the privilege of working under chef bui can be lost in an instant. as yvette anderson knows all too well. i m in max security because i got caught with a bunch of extra stuff that i wasn t supposed to have, including stuff that
wasn t supposed to be in the facility and with some frosting. frosting? yeah, from chef bui s class, i had a cup of it. i just wanted to share some frosting with my friends so i brought it back. i got caught with it and they searched my stuff and found money, bobby pins, six blankets. stealing, that s unacceptable. they will lose all privilege and the program if they do that. and most of the ladies respect it but some don t. anderson spent five days in segregation and lost her spot in general population. she s now housed in the more restrictive maximum security unit. so i got 80 now, right? yeah. anderson is in jail for stealing more than frosting. she is serving six years on four counts of identity theft.