Amika Moda

Loving women in prison is hard.

But there was nowhere she could go.

You can't just take a break from prison.

She had years left to live out on her sentence.

There was one option.

They would wear real denim, dark blue denim shirts and denim pants, boots.

If she became a firefighter, she wouldn't be on the yard anymore.

She would live and work at Station 5, a little house on the prison grounds with no cells or bars and only a handful of people.

So the next time a fire captain from the station came inside the prison to give informational interviews, Amiko went and talked to him.

And one of the things he explained to her was that as a firefighter there, she would respond to calls inside the prison, prison fires and fire alarms, and also respond to calls in the surrounding area, like house fires, structure fires, car accidents.

After she interviewed with the fire captain, she waited every day for three months to hear back from Station 5.

The ducat told her her new job assignment, institutional firefighter.

She'd be moving from an eight-person prison cell to the prison firehouse just over the wall.

They wanted to see if she had what it took.

She had to meet with the fire captain again to sign her contract.

And there was a lot of fine print.

Captain Lott was one of the captains from Station 5 that explained and enforced the rules.

He explained that the prison wasn't responsible if they were injured or killed on the job.

He explained the rule that firefighters couldn't be friends with women on the inside.

Do you remember that being part of the deal?