The kinship of the holding cell is an undeniable reality. Sometimes the good-byes between released defendants are among the only positive displays of emotion.

A young woman gets cut loose on a drug charge after her boyfriend — soon to be ex — was pulled over while puffing on a joint.

No boyfriend in sight, but her father waits patiently, if a bit angrily, in the gallery. The young woman semi-successfully contains her emotions until she lands into her father's hug.

There she cries unabashedly.

The father soothes and lightly reprimands, all while trying to guide the girl out of the court room.

But, she refuses to depart, gesturing to her cellmate standing before the judge.

This individual is being admonished by the judge for her crack appetite.

The young girl and her father sit and wait for the resolution.

While waiting, the girl's father goes into his pocket at his daughter's insistence and produces a few crumpled dollars.

When the crack smoker gets RORed, the two women who met tonight behind bars embrace and the friendship bills are passed.

They leave the room arm-in-arm, trailed by the father, whose shock has advanced one more state.