Women behind bars and the families they left behind | A Hidden America with Diane Sawyer PART 6/6 

"so rude" IM CRYING SHES SO CUTE

Lord help everyone who should not be in there.

Wow thats sends a chill thru me seein the 90 yr old coming to see her grand daughter 🙏

o god when her grandmother came to see her nd the joy on her face....took me out. her grandmother wont live to see her released

“Bullets pierce, handcuffs are tight, cells are lonely.”

There's nothing like a real mother's love to her child and there is nothing comparable to a grandmother's love to her grandchild.

it’s important to try to give people the benefit of the doubt because things are not always as they appear. Showing empathy for someone else can make big shifts in our world. Instead of saying something negative, we should try to diffuse the situation, choose kindness and lead with love

I'm a male and I've been incarcerated before... It's hard to watch these females in prison with long sentences

Awwww...the grandma and mother..that is lovely. Hope she gets out sooner...

“everyone I love will be gone” this makes me so sad yes they are people who stole or did something bad to end up there but they had reasons behind that or tendency’s and learn from it.

😢 😭 MOM STOP WITH THE ONIONS

A thirteen-year sentence for drugs - that's America where the knee jerk reaction is imprisonment - the law is made by jerks.

don't be selfish and go to the penitentiary !! 90 yr old grandmother coming to see u! who had two strokes

Oh lawd! When granny came to see her and her mom she said your my baby your my baby and the girl just broke down. Omg that touched me deeply. I can tell her grandmother loves her so much 💗

When the grandma said “so rude” but in the sweetest voice 💕 her mom and grandmother as super loving and sweet women

When you're jealous of someone in jail because they have family that cares/loves them .. And you've never been to jail or done anything that horrible

Wow she is 93 and visiting family in jail. That is awesone💪🏽🤗❤️

Wow I felt that visit ❤ I did 14 months in state prison. I know how good and bad those visits feel. And when it's over 😭😭 Sending positive vibes to all those women ❤

Aww the grandma brought me too tears😓

She got me 😢😢 when she said everyone I love will gone. My God, because it is so true and do sad!!

I shed a tear @1:25

G's the Grandmother an mother are truly amazing🙏🙏

nope _ lost it when 93yo grandma said - you my baby ... get it together america

"Gim mwe shoogar" aww nothing warms my heart more than old ladies talking❤❤🤧

See some people who don't understand, don't really live, But people who do understand, live life to it's full content because we know things really can get worse. ~Thats what we should tell every poor soul in that prison because people CAN change.~

Awe bless them old Ladys going to visit every month god bless them, every1 needs to feel loved n not forgotten

Stokes shot my nephew and I really feel bad for her and hope she get a second chance. She can help save a lot of young girls, so they won't go down that gang path.

Sad all the way around !

I wish I had a grandma to love me like that.

What an amazing husband!!! Nicole chose the right guy. God bless them.

its so sweet that you give people in prison a sencond chance

Im in tears omg it brokes my heart

So Rude... For real for feal. 😂

Old School does it right. In her 90s and going to see her grandbaby. She knows how important it is

So beautiful yet Heart breaking 😭

Very heartwarming to see.☺️ Very interested to know what happened to Eraina?

I can understand the woman named Nicole bc I always had an addiction that started with prescription pills 💊 given to me for years by my Family Dr. I know exactly what people do when you develop an addiction. Sometimes jail helps. It helped me but I was only in my county jail for 1 month but a lot do go to state & or federal prison.

Awwww.... That’s grandma kiss did it for me!!! 🙏🏾

This story makes me cry the GRANDMOTHER, REMINDS ME OF MY GRANDMA.A GRANDMAS LOVES IS BETTER THAN THE WHOLE WORLD MY GRANDMA IS MY WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD

Don't ya just love grandma. "visiting time is over" Granny "oh so rude" lol.

Oh I see once again our media has done another feature on the victims and victims’ family. They are the ones serving a life sentence no parole.

I'm in tears..❤🤲☝️😥

I feel so mad for the prisoners, their so nice and sweet and i know they have done bad things..but i still feel empathy for them

That kiss though....aweeeee

I love the old black ladies and they show me that nothing is,imposible and it's sad too that they'll be gone before she's even close to getting out.😢😢😢

I'm crying

'BOOM' lol

Arena’s grandson looks just like her

Anybody watching in 2019

2:00 Pretty sure there are more leaves and book pages than vents.... She wins.

Amen and Amen

In my life time was jail and prison back and forth I got tire and turn my life around got tire of the dumb ass shit I use to do hurting myself my kids my family it's never to late to try to do the right things in life I thank the Lord so much that iam still keeping my head up now I'm a married woman I have two beautiful granddaughter's my grown kids are so happy for me life couldn't be any better specially staying out of trouble and prison Iam 48 years old enough was enough for me my grandma use to tell me that whenever god call her home all she want and pray for me to get my life together and my beautiful grandma prayers was answer 🙏 I love you Mama rest in Paradise beautiful angel may 41-dec 2016 I goes through alot of depression every since my grandma passed but I'm going to continue to be strong and keep doing well I'm not going back to that prison life again god is good all the time

The whole video made me cry. I hate this because these women are normal humans who have made mistakes and gotten caught. We all fuck up.

Eraina Pretty is the perfect surname because she’s gorgeous ! 36 years in prison my god.

Sorry i cried for these women this is too sad this could be anyone of us!

‘give me sugar’ SHES SO PRECIOUS!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Aww WE 1:26 I'm crying sweet little lady's that love there little girl

Hope she get out 💯💯💯🦋

😔 god help those lovely people That should not be in there

"Ery'body I love will be gawn...." Shedding tears for no one but themselves. Should have thought about that before they did what they did. Prayers for her victims and their families.

2:26 Nice.

Damn when she said everyone I love will be gone that was fucking sad

I looooooovvvve u more babe lmao🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Sad that the little boy wants to call his grandma but they way she tried to hide it, it hurts!!

You know they play on our sympathy, but the families of the people they killed will NEVER get to visit or hug or talk to their dead loved one. Not in 10 years, not in 49 years. There are no visits with the dead, no letters, no hugs, no parole. So yeah, it's sad they're apart from their families, but it's even sadder that out there is family who will never ever see their loved one again because of what they did.

It is the hardest thing to see a person in jail and after they get released they have no place to live . their families might not have the room for them and HUD will not let them into the low income housing plan. Where do they go? How do they survive in these streets where no one will hire them , because of their past? Although they have done their time and more and now they have to still be stereotype by our society. released with no money , and possibly no where to live but the streets. If their loved one died while they were incarcerated Oh well the prisons or higher up do not care you do not get to go to their funeral. You pay over a thousand dollars you might be able to say your goodbyes. Money talks in a lot of things in life ... You might be able to see your mom or dad but that is with handcuffs and a guard , so their life isn't really free when they get out.. They just have a new life , but no help to guide them in a new life or day. This girl who needed her medication didn't feel like her life was better out on these streets. Oh she tried, but was turned down and yet the prison knows they will be back and it is a revolving door. A life they had once will never be. They can't stop time as their children are growing up and yet our government isn't there to help them once they let them out. You know if you have a love one in jail or prison you can relate to this if you don't than God Bless You , because they don't have luxury things like in the movies. Oh sure they can read a book and maybe watch t.v. at certain times and possibly be able to have school classes , but with this Virus no one is having school. They can work in a job and make 15 cents an hour. Wow!!! That just could break the bank and other countries pay their workers more to make products ... Crazy how prisoners are treated.. You can be put down on a lockdown in a drop of a hat. You may say there had to be something that caused them to be on lockdown . Ok in some situations but How about because a CO. Correctional Officer doesn't want to deal with the prisoners? That day for 23 hours you are in a small cell and you get out for 15 min to have 1 phone call, but that is only if you requested it the night before, than you have to get your shower and than you are back in your cell. All because the CO's and others have control over you and they can make you or break you.. Was these jails really build to keep your mistakes a life sentencing for their gain. I read if you drop out of school and you have a 8th grade education the statistics the government uses tells them how many prisons they will need to. build .. They already knew you would fail....Do they give these children a fighting chance ? No. they already deemed them to be a bad person in society . How many prisons are housing the rioters that are killing and destroying our world? Ooops None !!!!!!! , cause no one is going to stay in jail long enough to be even finger printed ..That is if the Police can get close enough to arrest them. They have put fear into the officers and yes they will harm them , because the Police Officers have used their power for evil and not justice . Yet all lives matter so they need to put their different views aside and do their job they were hired to do. . Serve and Protect . Yet Money Talks ..They fear for their lives I GET THAT, but what about the life of lives that ended because you failed to Serve and Protect. Let's throw people that smoke. Marijuana that's going to probably be legal in all states. Yet so nothing to the people who are killing innocent people cause the government sees what havoc they can cause and don't want to do anything out of fear of possibly politics ... . This girl and others have no chance once they get out so the government know this.. A Revolving Door.... No money, No Job .. The only life they knew was criminal activity to survive and to get their medication or a substitute drug that will numb that problem you are having... No one to let you have a place to call home, because you are a felon or criminal and you did your time. But you have a life time record that will ban you from doing better. Throw you out into a broken society that got you there in the first place so let's release you back into a much broken society with no where to go. Throw you back out onto the streets cause this way we know our jails will always be filled and they who work there will always have a job.. Screw the prisoners they don't matter... All the negative people who think they know how a prisoner feels and think if they didn't do the crime than they wouldn't be in jail. Ok so once they do their time that a judge decided on than why do they have no clean record or at least block it so housing and job employment can't use that against you. So you can have a fighting chance a new life a new chance to prosper in life and raise your family and possibly be a grand parent ... Did you know that if our world was to end the prisoners will not be released to spend their last moment or moments with their children or family They probably will do a lockdown and leave them die alone behind the only walls they know right now. Messed up so we see this girl's pain and yet what can we do to help these people have a better life than behind bars once they get out. You know how fast our world changes and technology takes over and we have time each day to adjust to it , but a prisoner comes out of a confined shelter life into a high tech life and still No job No Housing and Now no experience with this new technology and we think they will prosper and survive . My daughter is in prison so I know her pain and concerns . Unfairness and unaware of life outside these prison walls .

Look I agree putting people behind bars for small drug offenses is not helping anything those people need to be in in programs that help them

Look at how he walking ? Like my nephew T.J.

Suzanne?!?

OH, this is so awful........Please change this terrible system--NOW!!!

2 and a half hour I would die without a phone charger 😂😂

1:42 The lady has great teeth! Jealous lol

Grandma nice

1:43 acts and looks like real life crazy eyes😂😂😂

Sya Goes Not Insane

Sad

Maybe they should have think before they do something that made them end up in jail

I truly believe if you spend a long time in prison it's up to the parole people to help you with housing. benefit .medical wen you go out even if you got to report to the authorities every week for the rest off there life I will tell you something the American government can afford it .

This was great

Sya More Sentence

This is a great video that I really did enjoy to watch, but at the end they act like every women in jail shouldn't be there. Murderers and etc. should be in jail regardless of what gender they are ( not anyone specific in the video but just as a whole )

Anyone knows what happened to eraina and salilah ? Grandma is adorable.

We all have to learn fr thair mistakes

Plz tell me pretty made parole

It makes me wonder what was the crime that the woman commited? The husband seemed to be patient and kind to bring her medication every week.

Did she just say NICOLE KESSENGER????? Sure does look like her

Moving..... SO MOVING...…..

When I see ms stokes it seriously makes me sad. It’s clear she had a good heart, and seriously does have a mental illness

Damn she'll be 69 years old when she leaves the penitentiary. She'll be the same age as her great grandmother that's coming to visit her. Don't do the crime if you cannot do the time.

1:23.....😢SHE BROKE DOWN....SHE LEFT THEM OUT HERE 😢....SHE WILL BE THE SAME AGE AS HER MOMMA WHEN SHE LEAVE THAT JAIL....SHE NOT GOING TO THEIR FUNERAL....THEY USE TO TAKE PEOPLE. ...NOT NO MORE...YOU OR YO FAMILY GOTTA PAY $5000.00....THEN THEY WILL TAKE YOU. ...... THAT IS WHAT I WAS NOT GOING TO DO TO MY FAMILY 😡😢😢OR MYSELF 😢😢THEY ARE GONNA NEED YOU ONE DAY 🀄❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

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ill be lucky to make it to 60 let alone 69 wit all this good living i did especially in my 20s 30s n 40s PMSL..

Here's a crazy idea, don't commit a crime.

Sya After More Sentence

Im a stokes

0:35....THANK GOD 🀄 FOR SOME COVID 19 LET ALOT OUT OF THERE ...BUT STILL KILLING PEOPLE AND TAKEN NAME'S LATER. ...🀄THANK GOD THAT IT WORK ED OUT FOR THE GOOD OF OTHER PEOPLE LIKE THIS LADY WHOM IS ON THE WAY HOME. .

This Life is A Total Pieceashit Humanity is Way Better Off Ceasing Existence.

I dont feel sorry for the ones who murdered someone . It’s obvious the ones in jail for years are the ones

West German used to buy East German prisoners and take them to the west. If this thing happened it can happen even today. Africa, China etc can buy some of these prisoners out of the USA. Most Black people are political prisoners.