Survivors Guide to Prison Page #3

And you're dealing

with a 17-year-old kid,

and they were able to manipulate

him and twist things.

My case was assigned

to a homicide detective

who...

it was one of his first cases.

He hadn't even gone to homicide

school yet with the LAPD.

And he jumped the gun

and basically decided

that 'cause

I was a long-haired kid

who looked like he smoked pot,

which I did,

that I was the person

who had attacked my mother.

He must have had

all of his colleagues

scrutinizing him,

looking at him.

"How long is it gonna take you

to solve this one, Andy?"

And, well, he did it in minutes,

didn't he?

[Matthew] In 1994, Reggie Cole

was 18 years old

living in South Central LA

with no criminal record

when he was arrested for

the murder of Felipe Angeles.

The only eyewitness

was a man named John Jones,

the owner of a brothel

across the street

known as Johnny's

House of Prostitution.

How long has this place

been in operation?

- About 17 years.

- About 17 years?

The police were willing

to overlook

what John Jones was doing.

Then John Jones

would be willing to play along

with whatever the cops

wanted him to do.

16 years later,

a new theory would emerge

that the actual shooter was

more likely John Jones himself

firing from the rooftop

of his own building.

But the arresting officer

on the case

was sure the murderer

was Reggie Cole.

It was her first...

her first case,

and she needed to close

the case

in order for her to get

her shield, her homicide shield.

To be a doctor,

you have to go to school

for many years.

To be a lawyer, you have to go

to school for many years.

I don't understand how somebody

with just a high school diploma

or a GED can have

that type of power,

to be an officer of the law

with a pistol

that can take

someone's life, literally,

or with the charges

they put on you.

People, they don't...

they don't feel the need

to speak up because

it doesn't happen to them.

"Oh, that's... that's messed up,

you know what I mean?

But it can never happen to me."

Yes, it could.

It could happen to you

just like that.

[Bruce] Every staff member,

everybody that I encountered

I was saying,

"A mistake has been made.

I didn't do anything,"

Begging for phone calls

to talk to my dad.

You know, from moment to moment,

the reality

that my mother's dead...

would just bring an icy chill.

First thing the next morning,

I was taken up front

to talk to a psychologist

or psychiatrist,

and in this cheery

kind of a voice,

he says, "So, how do you feel

about being here at Sylmar?"

And I said, you know,

"Are you kidding?"

[Susan] Since the LAPD

report stated

that Bruce stabbed his mother

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