environment, for a little while at least. >> my instructors, they don't treat me like an inmate. they treat me like a student. first of all, i'm a female and i'm african-american and i've been incarcerated, so that's already three strikes against me. but i think i could actually have another chance to become someone, to be something. i would always turn my client away from the mirror so that she's surprised when she see that transformation. >> shampoo and conditioner, please. >> jennie brown is 21 and serving six to eight months for trafficking cocaine and breaking and entering. >> this is where i hand out the supplies, brushes, shampoo/conditioner, grease, spreads, curlers, perm rods. whenever they bring it back, i check it, to make sure there is no hair is in the brushes and make sure everything's sanitized and clean. >> many inmates see the cosmo program as a chance to not only better their lives but the lives of their children. >> lance and darion, my