Gatesville,it pretty much housed all the women in Texaswho had been sent to prison. And,...

[McKinney] Gatesville,
it pretty much housed all the women in Texas
who had been sent to prison. And, in some respects,
the things you see on TV
about prisons are very true. There are a lot of gangs, there's a lot of violence, there's a lot of drugs. It is certainly true that
people in prisons who
have harmed kids, are treated differently
by other inmates. [Shanna] They assured me that
she would be away from
other inmates because there was the fear of
something happening
to her in there. But one of the first things
I heard back is that they didn't keep her separate