Previously on "Love During Lockup"...
Monique!
I just got in from the hospital.
Titus, you're about to be single.
Back together.
What the [bleep] is this?
I've already caught Justin talking to his ex.
She's saying I'm just a bank to him.
I don't know what's going on with the money I just gave him.
I don't know what Justin got himself caught up in in jail.
Where the [bleep] do you expect me to pull 6K?
Out of my coochie?
How's your girl doing?
We met on a pen pal site.
What's up, Cay?
This is the first person I'm meeting from Felicia's life.
What's the issue?
How you gonna send me the homegirl
and then feel a way that I'm cool with the homegirl?
you then.
Why won't this open?
Why is two locks on here and I can't get it open?
I've never trusted a man 100%.
We're going to get to the bottom of this.
Look at this. 999 years.
You sure he's not catfishing you?
How many years did they give him?
Mikhael got life.
You never told me that you had life.
The judge gave me five years.
I was called back to court and told the life sentence.
It's just mind boggling.
♪ Life is like a maze, it'll make you crazy ♪
♪ But you can't be afraid 'cause I got you, baby ♪
Hey, girl. Hey. Hey, baby.
I'm packing so I can see you and the grandbabies.
Yeah!
So no, he's not coming this time.
♪ Take me, take me away ♪
Girl, don't even act like that.
Mm-hmm.
And he's somewhere on the farm anyways.
I feel guilty lying to my daughter about Mikhael.
I told her he's a farmer.
That's all she knows.
And it's really hard not being able to
talk about this with her.
I think it's going good.
Okay.
Why are you looking like that?
Okay, well, I'll be seeing y'all soon.
Love you.
Love you too. Bye-bye.
I'm tired of dragging it out.
I'm tired of skating around her little questions.
Zippity zip.
We are-- Bam!-- taking a trip.
I don't want to do that anymore.
It's time to tell Charnise.
I'm just feeling so nervous.
It's stressing me out.
I made it.
I like your shirt.
Oh, my God. How you doing, baby?
I've been lying to Charnise about Mikhael because
she's a corrections officer.
Where's my Twinkies at? Where the babies at?
At school.
But I talked to a lawyer.
He believes he can help Mikhael's case out.
One of the things that we could really,
seriously look at would be you could possibly go back
and refile a rule 32 for re-sentencing.
You could make an Eighth Amendment claim--
unusual, cruel and unusual punishment.
I think we have a shot at possibly getting him out.
But $4,000 is what it's going to take
to even retain him.
Look at your eyebrows looking all cute.
Oh, my God.
Look, I don't got time to do-- Yes.
That's a lot of money.
What if he doesn't even get out of prison?
I'm taking all the risk.
Oh, my God.
You got this blond hair.
We gotta go lighter with your eyebrows.
Get me together, girl.
You gotta turn towards me.
Oh. So tell me a little bit how work is going.
My baby the CO. Officer, Officer.
The inmates getting on my nerves, per usual.
They ain't got nothing else to do.
Oh, my God.
You remember when I was in Alabama?
Mm-hmm.
And I was going to see him?
The farmer? Yeah, yeah, the farmer.
I got something to tell you.
He is...
in prison.
No, he not.
I'm just wanting--
I know you ain't dating nobody in prison.
You can look him up. He's in prison.
Why are you lying on this man?
Don't want to just tell me about him?
Where my water at?
This need to be some liquor wines.
What kind of crime?
Selling some drugs.
Mm. When he getting out?
So he is in prison right now...
for life.
He in prison for life?
They have a law in Alabama,
if you are a habitual offender,
third strike--
Yes. Third strike equals life in prison.
But he still has a possibility of parole.
Honestly, I think it's a joke.
As far as I'm concerned, my mother is single.
So any eligible bachelors out there,
tall, dark, handsome, with money, hit my mother up.
He probably got, like,
two other girlfriends doing the same thing.
I doubt it.
You think you're the only one?
Inmates, they'll talk to her like
she's just the only one in the world
and she's just so beautiful and lovely.
And then turn around and will call another female.
He don't got nothing but free time on his hands
to turn himself into the man he think you want.
It could all be an act.
I just hope this isn't one of those situations.
Because then I'll probably be an inmate next.
Girl, they don't even have soap operas on TV no more,
and you acting like one.
Like, stop.
- Call from... - Yo.
Hello?
Two locks on the storage?
♪ What we do? We get higher every day ♪
Maybe your mother was trying to keep me out.
Who the [bleep] knows? I don't know.
I did.
I don't know what the [bleep] going on.
ain't got nothing to do with me, boo.
But I feel like there's some truth I gotta find out now.
I don't care about that
'cause it's like something's up.
Something is up.
You got some other weird back door [bleep] going on
like you [bleep] with somebody.
Call [bleep] and be talking to an ex then
'cause I don't know what the [bleep] you talking about.
I ain't put no lock on nothing.
And mask it because she got this little thing where
I ask a question and she'll get real mad
and try to change the subject.
Like, and redirect the question.
What am I supposed to think?
I did not put that lock on your storage.
You said it wasn't your mother.
If it wasn't your mother, who the [bleep]?
Was it Casper?
I don't know what to tell you, boo.
This real or is this another little ploy?
Because I ain't gonna lie,
you've been up my ass for the last two days.
This another little trick?
Listen, I gave you nothing but love.
I did nothing but have your [bleep] back.
Been holding you down. Been paying the lawyers.
Been sending the money.
Been putting the money on the commissary.
Putting money on the phones. Like, stop playing with me.
All his kids are waiting for him to come home,
you know what I'm saying?
Sometimes I gotta say [bleep] on feelings because
he was calling me to calm him down.
So that's why I try to just calm down sometimes,
instead of just reacting and getting mad
because I know he really don't mean no harm.
So what is your new release date, baby?
When is it?
I'm so sorry.
I wasn't trying to be, um,
not supportive or inconsiderate of your feelings.
It just kind of took me back.
Right.
And that's why we gotta get you the [bleep] out of there.
And that's why you're never going back again.
Right.
Okay, babe. I love you.
Have a good day.
Just try not to think too much about it.
Talk to you soon.
My [bleep] God.
This [bleep] boy.
His release date getting pushed back,
it was a curse,
but I found a little blessing in it.
And that might sound [bleep] up, but hear me out.
That gives me some more time to be able to
buy him [bleep],
fill that little storage unit up a little more.
I feel like, "Oh, more time?"
But I feel like, "Oh, my man. Like, damn."
What a conundrum, a bloody conundrum.
crazy.
My heart is beating so fast.
We waited a whole year for this moment.
Is it even worth it?
I want to be up-front and honest
because once you lie, you gotta keep going with that.
Ugh!
What the [bleep] is this ho doing here?
There's so much running through my mind.
The day he gets out, he's gonna call me.
try the burger.
bitch.
♪ Hiya, did you miss me?
♪ It's been a little while since you see me ♪
♪ Yo, take a little trip, now follow me ♪
I can't wait to get my new couch.
Make it all homey.
Hey, girl. How are you?
Good.
Girl, look cute. Thank you.
♪ Yeah, follow me and watch me how I do it ♪
I'm driving or you driving?
You driving. Alright.
I feel like me and Titus
are getting along better right now,
so I'm just excited to make this house a home
and start preparing it for when Titus is released.
Not this big old van.
Jazemen is my friend that I met in Cleveland.
Alright, girl, I hope you got some AC up in here.
You hear me?
She can relate to me in so many ways.
So I feel like she can give me a lot of advice.
So what you got planned as far as the visit?
When are you going to go see him?
I'm actually going to see him tomorrow.
Oh.
Are you nervous?
I guess.
This is our first visit.
And I think the only insecurity that I do have is, like,
whether he's going to be attracted to me or not.
So, yes, I'm nervous, but it's a happy nervous.
You said no leather, no brown.
- This right here. - Yeah.
I don't know, I just feel like this is too light.
Sit on it, see how it feel.
Yeah, this is a big comfy couch.
This is a good one.
This Titus. Can you be quiet?
Be quiet? Why I gotta be quiet?
Just be quiet.
This is a prepaid call from...
[Speaks indistinctly]
Hello?
Just at the furniture store.
I'm by myself.
No, I got it.
Yeah, I'm-a call Jazemen and see if she'll help me.
No, I hear you. Alright.
Alright, babe. Talk to you later.
- Girl. - Girl.
Now, what the [bleep] y'all got going on?
Why you lie to him and why you ain't just
tell him I was with you?
Girl, 'cause I don't be feeling like hearing his mouth.
I didn't tell Titus I was going
furniture shopping with Jazemen because he gets so upset
with me hanging around my friends,
especially my women friends.
Like, why are you that jealous?
He's just so overprotective.
Like, he just want to keep me inside.
Like, sheltered away from people.
Titus needs to know this is 2025,
and bitches is not putting couches on they back these days.
Mm-hmm. That makes no sense.
What's going on here?
Like, why are you telling this man that you by yourself?
'Cause I know he know
you ain't about to lift no damn couch.
Nice. It's comfortable.
Yeah, that's the one for sure.
Titus is being controlling. I ain't with it.
For $1,000 even. That's a good price for that.
Hell no. He gotta go.
Girl, I have no idea.
Okay. We're done.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
Take care, okay?
Girl, I don't know how Titus going to feel about that.
He gonna have to be alright with it this time
because we ain't got no other help.
I know.
Titus doesn't trust anybody.
I've done so much to show him
how dedicated I am to him.
He shouldn't try to strip me from my freedom
just because he stripped his.
He's gonna be pissed.
You send me to homegirl, and we're cool.
It's solid.
Then you got an issue.
How does that make sense?
Let me ask you a simple question.
Do you want me to treat her like how I treat my sister?
Okay, well, then we're linking up later on to go and smoke.
How is that weird?
Okay, then chill the [bleep] out.
Thank you for using Global Tel--
Talking about Cay. Like [bleep] about Cay.
That's not my type.
Mm.
Okay.
I hear you, but I think that's kind of backwards,
because you say you feel so strongly to the point to
where it makes you trip.
That's-- What?
Yeah, you be trippin'.
Your feelings is valid, man.
That's not what I'm saying.
If thoughts create the reality,
why would you want to think about things that
don't make you feel good?
Okay, so you gotta switch the narrative.
Maybe you keep experiencing things like that
because of what you keep thinking about.
Switch the thoughts.
You're triggering it in yourself.
Because I'm just-- I'm just moving how I move.
Yes. What's up, man?
What?
What you mean? Like, what?
Is what funny?
It's funny-- It's funny how you, like, keep, like--
Man, you know I love you.
I don't know what you asking me.
I feel the same way.
Felicia is really, like, on some young [bleep] right now.
Like, oh, yeah, I want to, oh-- I'm like, yo,
you just now about to get out.
Like, chill.
I've never felt [bleep] like this.
You know, it's like an ethereal connection.
So just-- just get home.
Just get home.
I don't know what else you want me to say.
Why the [bleep] are you texting your ex?
I'm trying to make sure you ain't trying to
jail talk my mama, 'cause I don't play like that.
I feel betrayed.
What am I gonna do? Like, why am I here?
Justin has shown so many red flags
in our relationship recently.
I got messages from his one ex
saying they were talking.
Next thing I know, this man is asking for
excessive amounts of money and saying it's for crypto.
And last I checked, you can't [bleep] buy crypto in jail.
Now I think that I am a wallet to Justin.
I [bleep] need answers 'cause [bleep] just isn't adding up,
and the only way to find out is the person who
is closest with him, and that's through Brittany.
That is his best friend.
I have never met Brittany in person before.
I briefly talked to her on her Facebook account
until Justin told me she had some things to say to Justin
about how she didn't like me,
and she's having some issues with what I do for a living
and that she regrets introducing us.
Hi. Can I get a table for two?
Sure thing. Thank you.
Right this way.
I don't know if I'm going to get answers.
I don't know if I'm going to get clarity.
Okay, so, like, the world-famous hamburger.
Yeah. Okay, so I'm meeting a friend.
Can I get two plates?
I'm gonna feed her.
Um, and we'll go with that.
But no matter what, I just want something
so I stop questioning myself.
Oh, my goodness, it is juicy.
I hope you guys are hungry.
What the heck?
What the [bleep] is this ho doing here?
Liz is Justin's other ex.
I'm very thrown off at the fact that
Brittany and Liz have been talking.
Last I knew, they couldn't stand each other.
I have a lot to say. Then say it.
You just are trashy.
I'm tra-- Honey, look at you.
You're at a family restaurant.
I love Justin at the end of the day.
Like, he's my best friend.
You know, like, I'm gonna be there for him.
But I wanted to bring Liz
because I don't understand why he's playing both sides.
I mean, she's just another ho
that I don't give a [bleep] about.
I'm just here to, like, confront [bleep] like.
Okay, then confront it.
He's always been obsessed with me.
The day he gets out, he's gonna call me.
Okay, whatever. Keep [bleep] lying, you [bleep]
Justin told me that when him and Liz were together,
that she wanted all these nice things
and he didn't have the money for it,
so he did what he was used to doing to get money,
and that was stealing things from people's houses.
Liz, you're the piece of [bleep]
You're the reason why Justin is in jail right now.
I have messages to prove that
he said he was going to call me when he gets out.
Okay, show me. Show you?
Let's do it. Okay.
"Look, I'm for real so [bleep] up
because I love you, Elizabeth.
I love the idea of us being together again
and making us work.
Just be sure it's what you want.
But for real, we need to come to a place
where you know that this can be us.
Because you tripping over a little bit of money
and leaving me hanging in this moment
isn't making me feel like you get it."
That was just yesterday.
So the only thing he wants is money.
Like, he said that you left him hanging on $6,000.
He also says he wants to be with her.
Then send Justin money because I [bleep]
I did send him 600 [bleep] dollars just yesterday.
Great. Because he said you left him down and dry.
Because I sent him $3,000 already.
That's a lie. Yeah. He said-- He said that's [bleep]
Okay, well, that's definitely not a lie.
I just feel like you're just
talking out your ass at this point.
I came to this meeting to get answers,
and this is the last thing I was expecting.
I wasn't expecting to be blindsided by all this.
I wasn't expecting Liz to be there.
I'm pissed off in general.
Every single thing that could go wrong
is just going wrong.
Justin, he might be lonely and in prison--
because I feel that's what this is--
but once he gets out,
he's not going to put up with this [bleep]
He's not.
Evi-[bleep]-dently, and it's not-- [bleep]
You bitch. Try the burger.
bitch.
Go outside. Outside.
You get the [bleep] outside.
You get the [bleep] outside, bitch.
Now he hung up.
What the [bleep]
Huh?
To pick this day, to call me at the last minute,
I'm not feeling this.
How we getting this thing in the house?
Girl, I don't know how Titus is gonna feel about that.
He's gonna be pissed.
♪ Oh, oh, yeah ♪
♪ And I know just where I'm going ♪
♪ Even, even when I don't ♪
He gonna have to be alright with it this time.
'Cause we ain't got no other help.
I know.
I'm trying to avoid conflict with Titus.
I don't want to argue with him.
I already know how he feels about
allowing people into my house,
so I am definitely terrified of Titus finding out
that Bud is helping me with the furniture.
What's up?
I already know I'm not gonna hear the end of it.
Hello?
[Speaks indistinctly]
Nothing. Just getting this couch set up.
Uh, well...
Bud came and helped us.
I mean, I didn't know.
Like, that wasn't, like, the plan.
We needed help with the couches.
We couldn't lift this up ourselves.
Like, what you expecting me to do?
It was last minute.
Like, you didn't call me.
Like, I didn't want to be sitting around
in a furniture store waiting for you to call me.
We gonna go on here and get up out of here,
and I'm gonna see y'all some other time.
Thank you for using GTL.
Now he hung up.
man.
I feel slightly embarrassed that
my friends heard the argument.
He is nuts.
Like, I just felt like he just wants to
dictate every single part of my life.
So y'all get some straightening on that.
You have to literally learn the person
that you're dealing with.
So you got a visit tomorrow?
Girl, I don't know.
The way he mad right about now,
you think I'm still finna drive three hours
to come see you?
He is cray-cray.
♪ I'm insane ♪
♪ Insane ♪
I'm taking an Uber.
I'm about to go see Moo Moo.
I'm so excited.
♪ Now you found what you're looking for ♪
♪ Left you wanting more ♪
♪ Now I'm always on your mind ♪
♪ I know you think about me all the time ♪
Hey, Ma. I'm on my way to my visit.
Yeah. He got approved for a visit today,
but because it's family day,
I don't know if they going to still
let it be regular visits.
Moo Moo keep talking about he don't know.
Uh-oh.
Yeah. Oh, my God, Ma.
I put on the wrong bra.
You cannot have underwire in your bra.
Well, my nipple rings.
You gonna be able to see them.
I haven't seen Damond in prison before.
This is like my first rodeo.
Alright.
I am nervous because we can touch
and I've never kissed Damond, never hugged.
I've never, like, felt his penis.
I wish I could get, like, conjugal visits.
That would be great.
I don't even care if the COs watched.
Like, just give me a second.
You have a prepaid call from an inmate
at Maryland Correctional Facility.
What's up, Lil Magoot?
I'm on my way.
Don't be staring me down.
I'm nervous.
Baby, I'm here.
I'm turning in.
I love you like the air that I breathe.
I've been let down all my life
from my mom to my dad,
from my kids' fathers.
I cannot wait to see you.
I definitely want my happily ever after.
I have it, I'm just waiting for him to come home.
But I'm nervous as well.
The baby mother, does she know that you're in a relationship?
He wants me to go get his belongings.
His child's mother got the belongings?
Yes.
Why is there two locks? And why won't this open?
It's giving she don't really want us to get his stuff.
I don't know what I'm up against right now.
This is a prepaid call from
an inmate at the Maryland Correctional Facility.
Hello.
They-- I can't get in because family day.
So--
Yeah, so they said no visits today because it's family day.
I don't never forget what I tell GG or Bonita.
Like, I always keep it in the back of my mind,
but my conscience telling me like, damn,
I want to be able to be up-front and honest.
Because once you lie,
you gotta keep going with that, that narrative.
If not, it's gonna backfire in the worst way.
And I don't want to break GG heart
and I don't want to break Bonita heart.
Come on.
bitch!
He's making her look like Bobo the [bleep] Clown.
What the [bleep] is Justin doing to me?
If my relationship with Michael doesn't work out,
I'm gonna be brokenhearted.
I'm not, like, equipped to deal with this.
♪ Don't be coming like a freight train ♪
♪ Don't be thinking 'bout pestering me ♪
Hands.
Little germy 40-year-old hands ain't clean.
♪ You'll be coming like a savior ♪
♪ Thinking you're gonna rescue me ♪
- Alright. - Here.
Alright, y'all eat your pizza.
Why can't we go in the front room?
We gonna talk.
Having a chit chat?
Charnise is upset because I didn't tell her
that Mikhael's in prison.
-Yeah. - Come on.
Them babies so big.
What?
First of all,
I need a better understanding of what's going on here.
She absolutely believes that Mikhael is using me.
So I set up a phone call.
They have got to get along
in order for this relationship to even flourish.
What exactly are the charges?
I mean, we could look them up. I want to--
Yes, bring them up. I need to see a picture.
That's fine. That's fine.
Here. There.
Alright. Trafficking cocaine. Ain't nobody got no glamour shots.
Distribution of a controlled substance.
That's the same thing.
Them charges be trumped up.
I believe he's going to get paroled.
Okay, but if he don't?
I'll deal with that at the time when it comes.
So, have you ever seen him in person?
When you was in Alabama, I'm thinking
you bout to go meet your boo and y'all going on nice dates.
So he is my boyfriend,
but I haven't seen him in person.
We are conversating on the phone.
We got to know each other.
We have feelings for each other.
And I have hope that this life sentence
is not going to have to be carried out.
I met with a lawyer, okay?
Now, he does not have all the money--
I knew it!
How about you work on just visiting first?
This is why I didn't want to tell you.
Mikhael hasn't proven anything to me,
but I still care about him,
and I still have hope that he will get out and come home.
He's calling.
Hi.
How you doing?
I'm sitting with my daughter,
and I finally told her about us.
Want to say hi?
Hello.
I'm good. How are you?
What are your intentions with my mother?
And how do you plan to be there for her?
Right. She told me that.
Yes, I am, and I'm trying to make sure
you ain't trying to jail talk my mama,
'cause I don't play like that.
So right now you're facing life.
You are able to remain positive in your situation?
You sure?
Like how you feel about your chances with that?
And is your family helping you with that?
Mm-hmm.
Okay, well, I'm glad you answered all the questions.
I really appreciate it.
Mwah.
Bye-bye.
Better? Feel better?
Not really.
I see things like this all the time in jail,
and it's just ridiculous to me.
Like, I can't even wrap my mind around
what's going through her mind.
I need a minute, Ma.
I hate everything about it.
And I don't want that for my mother.
So Titus is mad at me because
Bud brought his friend over to help me move furniture.
If I drive three hours to go see Titus
and he doesn't agree to see me or come out,
this relationship is going to be so over.
♪ I won't back down, I'm winning it now ♪
♪ If you think you got a chance, then I'm shutting it down ♪
Let me go try on these bras and see how they fit.
'Cause I need to make sure they hold the girls up.
Last night I got no sleep.
All I could do is toss and turn.
But I'm still gonna go forward with my plans
on seeing Titus for the first time.
This is not gonna work at all.
It's supposed to be higher like this.
The dress code and the security process is definitely
intimidating to me at a prison,
because I don't want to go somewhere having to
be stripped and searched.
I don't want the first time my man see me,
he see my [bleep] down to my knees.
Like, he used to the girls sitting.
So yeah.
I feel really nervous and anxious going to
a prison for the first time.
Which is why I never visited anyone in prison before.
But I'm gonna just face my fear.
Face my anxiety.
Ever since I was a little girl, like, I had, like,
this whole picture in my head of what I want my life to be like.
Married with kids and a big house.
And I just feel like now I'm about to be 37.
And that idea, for me,
it just seems like it's just so far away.
So this visit is about commitment on both ends.
I think it'll show my commitment to our relationship.
And if he shows up,
it'll show me that he's committed to me as well.
We waited a whole year for this moment,
so I hope he doesn't mess that up.
Oh, my God.
I cannot believe I'm here.
My heart is beating so fast.
- Hello. - Hello.
I have a visit scheduled for today.
Titus [bleep]
Hello. This is a prepaid call from...
TK.
Justin, he might be lonely and in prison,
but once he gets out,
he's not going to put up with [bleep]
He's not.
Not going to [bleep]-- You bitch.
Try the burger.
bitch. Go outside.
You get the [bleep] outside, bitch.
Yo. Come on.
bitch.
The [bleep] balls. The [bleep] balls.
So much for a family [bleep] owned restaurant.
This is [bleep] [bleep]
game on.
bitch.
I'm feeling in a way,
Justin is kind of like using both of us at the same time.
He's seeing what he can get out of her
and seeing what he can get out of me.
And I'm not happy with it.
...an incarcerated individual at SCI Houtzdale.
And honestly, she's stupid if she keeps corresponding with,
you know, with him because, like,
he's making her look like Bobo the [bleep] Clown,
you know, also.
Listen, we got big [bleep] right now.
This bitch just threw a whole [bleep] one-pound burger
right in my [bleep] face.
Like, I'm [bleep] covered in [bleep] right now, Justin.
You are done with your friendship with her.
She had no reason to bring Liz in here.
Liz was brought in here. I have to deal with Liz.
She proved to me that she's sending you money
and you're still hounding me for it.
So if you're going to talk to these dumb bitches,
stop talking about how you're gonna have a future together,
because that makes no [bleep] sense.
You're out here looking like you're using me.
And the fact that I've seen messages from Liz
saying that [bleep] this relationship with her--
Evidently, I am nothing to you if--
Then why the [bleep] are you texting your ex?
I don't know what to [bleep] say.
I physically don't know what to say right now.
I gave up my dreams. I gave up my finances.
I gave up my peace. I gave up my freedom.
For a man who's done nothing but stress me out.
I have no words. No words.
I don't know if Justin's worth it.
I don't know if the future's worth it in the slightest.
Okay, bye.
My biggest fear is if I walk away from Justin now
that I'm never gonna know what the future holds.
What the [bleep] is Justin doing to me?