True Crime Vault: Women Behind Bars

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True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Diane Sawyer goes inside prison walls to reveal what life is like for American women doing time. From the trauma of the first strip search to fears when finally released, women talk of their daily lives, unlocking the codes and mystery of a hidden world. Originally Broadcast 02/27/2015 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everybody it's Deborah Roberts co-anchor of 2020. We're bringing you
0:08.8	more 2020 each week with the 2020 true crime vault.
0:13.0	That's right, you're going to hear a story pulled from our archives.
0:17.0	Shows that we just can't seem to get out of our heads,
0:20.0	and we think you're going to be drawn in too.
0:22.0	Thanks for listening.
0:26.3	Coming up. A nation of women behind bars.
0:32.8	We're all in here for stealing, stealing, huh?
0:35.8	From the Little League mom.
0:37.4	I'm not different than any other woman here.
0:39.7	To the lifer.
0:40.7	36 years, growing up in here. To the youngest woman on death row.
0:45.7	No we call it life row. Life row? Why? Because we're not dying, we're living.
0:49.8	Diane Sawyer goes inside.
0:53.0	And it holds a trigger what were you thinking?
0:55.0	From the moment they enter,
0:57.0	go ahead, take your clothes off.
0:58.0	I was scared.
0:59.0	To the day they're set free.
1:01.0	Am I afraid?
1:02.0	Absolutely. Because I've been not such a long time.
1:07.0	Come on James, I gotta move, I gotta see what I got.
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