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>> why did you get guilty things on your eyelids. >> because my past, a lot of things i felt guilty for. >> i had a love affair with opium i cannot shake. >> heroin addiction breaks up a couple's home and lands them both in jail. >> i love it. that's the addiction. that's why they call ate disease, i guess. >> and now they face another consequence. a potentially fatal one. >> i wake up at night gasping for breath thinking about it. >> reporter: in a jail where drugs have led to the arrest of many of the inmates, officials add a new member to their corrections. ♪ located this the heart of tampa,

florida is a historic cigar manufacturing center, ebor city. but for too many in tampa, guilty pleasures go beyond cigars. as in other big cities, drug abuse has taken its toll here. it leads addicts to commit far more serious crimes, often resulting in extended stays at tampa's hillsborough county jail. >> one behind the other. single-file line. on the wall. this colonel is in charge of all operations and the nearly 3,000 inmates housed in the county's two jail facilities. >> i feel pretty safe in telling you if you went in to any given pod and got every inmate to honestly answer the question of how substance abuse impacted their incarceration. i think you would find seven out of ten inmates would tell you alcohol, prescription drugs or other controlled substances, they use them on a are regular basis or it is a direct

contributor to their current situation. >> the cycle of committing crime to buy drugs has caught up with chad. he's been a heroin addict for 17 years and spent the last two months here. like most other jail inmates, white has not been convicted of a crime, but is in custody awaiting resolution of his case. he's pled not guilty to charges of burglary, grand theft an dealing in stolen property. >> that's katie, my wife and me getting married on the beach. we put together this whole thing ourselves. it was so cool. i baked my own cake. did everything myself really. it turned out extremely good. very, very very pretty. that one was of the happiest days of my life. i'm looking at this photo surrounded by this. it hits home. i feel like i let her down. >> white's wife, katie ellis is

in another wing of the jail, regulations prohibit them from seeing each other. ♪ katie who shares a heroin addiction with chad is charged with burglary and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. she has not yet entered a plea. ♪ like chad's katie's incarceration is largely due to a drug addiction. >> that song is when i smoke pot i'm free. i'm escaping. that's what it is about. >> katie and chad met shortly before katie's 18th birthday and

say they bonded first not over drugs but music. >> he brought his guitar over and he would play the chords to breakfast at tiffany and we'd make up our loan lyrics. we'd have full conversations on how we felt about each other and free style. it was cool. >> at first i blew her off. she is too young for me. but by the time she was 19 i said this is going to be my girl. so we moved in together. >> reporter: but their drug addictions often made life difficult. >> you are on the verge of addiction, late on bills, living on thet streets multiple times and now we are in jail because of drug addiction. >> i have a love affair with opiates that i can't shake. >> for chad openuates are a powerful mistress. >> if i was on a cliff and i had my daughter and wife on my hand and i am trying to pull them up and this is a bag of heroin and

someone is telling me you will never be able to use it again. i will let them go and grab the heroin. that's what it did to me. it took my soul. >> katie and chad started to use drugs at age 13. when she was 20, chad showed katie how to shoot heroin. >> the best high i ever felt in my life. >> did you ask him to shoot you up? >> i didn't really have to. i was going to do some. i wasn't not going to shoot up. >> the way i looked at it is she is going to do it any ways and i need to show r her how to do it right and not to share needles. i want to learn the way with standards because she was already going down the wrong road. the way i justified it in my head any way. i regret not leading by example. if i would have stayed clean she would have 0 followed me. i know she would have. >> she was all right until she met chad. they think we are bad influences

on each other. probably true. >> now the couple must face a new set of consequences. chad got sobering news. >> i found out i have hepatitis b and c. i can beat death, this and that and it kicks me in my nuts saying you can't and it will kill you soon, sooner if you don't stop. i have worked in hospitals before and i have seen people die of hepatitis and guys testicles swell up like basketballs and their bodies swell up, turn stark yellow and in horrible pain and they die. i wake up at night gasping for breath. i can't do it. i can't be that guy. if someone used one 0 of my needles without me knowing it would be somebody else's needles because i have used them 17 years now and i have been tested every year and i beat it. i never contracted hiv or hepatitis. >> considering you share needles with katie, what are the chances

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the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida, is preparing for a new team member. she's due to arrive from pennsylvania in a week. >> it's a monster jail complex. she'll be busy. this is a picture of elmo. elmo is the name the breeder gave her. i guess we should change her name and that's something we'll discuss. i guess it really should be elma since it is, in fact, a female shepard. the nose looks like it has potential.

>> elmo will be the jail's first drug detection dog. >> it's important we keep drugs out of here. sometimes this is the only chance for someone to sober up, number one, but also it creates the same drug culture that contaminates neighborhoods across this country in the institution, itself. we start to see violence, you start to see exploitation of other inmates and essentially it creates a black market for many things. >> i'm going to leave the picture here. i may end up giving it to the handler as a gift. >> colonel previtera and his staff have yet to decide who the handler will be. >> the tough part about this, there's only one position. the first time we've done this, we're going to have a dog awe signed to de -- assigned to detention 24/7. you're going to be putting your career into this dog for the next seven, eight years. >> 14 deputies assigned to the jail have applied to be elmo's handler. after a series of in-depth interviews, 11 of them have moved on to the physical fitness

portion of the selective process. >> we're going to do the mile and a half. once you're done, come over, do pushups, sit-ups then we'll turn you over to the canine handlers. all right. good luck. give it your all. >> we're looking for the total package. all the deputies out here are outstanding deputies. >> 12:21, 12:21, remember your time. >> the fact they're out here shows their level of commitment. >> ready, begin. that's what we appreciate. the fact they are willing to come out here and sacrifice the next seven, eight years of their career. they won't be able to get promoted. they won't be able to be reassigned any other specialty unit. they'll be working with this dog essentially for that time period. >> you have to have more in you. >> it's a really hard decision. somebody here is going to be excited when it's over. for the others there's going to be a certain level of dejection because of the fact they want this badly. >> once you stop, you're done. five more. five more. come on, come on, come on.

>> the next phase of the competition is the most anticipated. sergeant gary herman is a canine handler for the hillsborough county sheriffs office. he's here to give the deputies an opportunity to interact with his patrol dog, stitch, and to experience the strength of his jaws. just as a fleeing suspect would. >> that's what the job is about, doing different things, exciting things. i like to feel the adrenaline. it's great. >> you know you have a protecting suit on, still, it gets through the suit. it gets your skin. it's like little pinches and it hurts. there's my battle scars. >> i'm feeling a little bit of anxiety, a little nervous. but basically want to get it over with and have it done. >> that a boy. good boy.

>> i hope that for all you guys that this has been a good experience. the tough part about it is i can only pick one of you. it ain't going to be easy. i can tell you that. all the guys are showing the qualities. thank you, guys, appreciate it. you can limp around saying you got attacked by a dog. and try to milk that for all you can today, all right? >> drugs have played a role in the arrest of many of the inmates detained at the hillsborough county jail. the majority of them are on the demand side of tampa's drug problem. but michael garcia has been on the supply side. he was once a leader of one of florida's most notorious gangs. >> how high up in the chain were you? >> pretty high. >> you were the number one -- >> yeah, i was the president, let's put it like that. i was the president for the whole state of florida. >> garcia is at hillsborough county appealing a 17 1/2 year

prison sentence for trafficking cocaine, selling ecstasy and possession of a firearm. he's been in custody for the last three years. >> why did you get guilty dreams on your eyelids? >> just because of my past. a lot of things i have felt guilty for. i didn't want my family to be involved in any of this. i didn't want the pain to come in. i didn't want my daughters to be without me. when you're in the criminal life, you don't think about getting caught. >> but garcia was caught after making several drug deals with a police informant. he was arrested at home and his family witnessed the magnitude of his reputation. >> it took them, like, nine hits with the ram to knock my door down. by that time i was already putting my underwear on and i was trying to get out the window. when i stepped out of the window, they threw a flash grenade. it blew up, flew off the wall, took the hair off my arm and knocked me unconscious. i remember coming up, couldn't hear nothing or see nothing. my kids are crying because we

have 80 agents in my house. my dogs were going crazy, my two pit bulls. it was total chaos. >> garcia says his life used to be influenced by the devil, but on the day of his arrest, he heard a different voice. >> almighty father in the name of jesus. i started to pray, god help me. god help me. he spoke to me right there and said, look, if you serve me the way you were serving this clown, i can make things so much better for you. >> garcia says now his focus is only on his family. though separated from his current wife, he has eight daughters from four different women. the daughters age from age 3 to 20. >> i just love them and i never mean it to turn out this way. never. i never meant to abandon them, never meant to leave them alone. but those little consequences we have to go through, you know, for the things we do. >> when it comes to consequences, however, drug dealers and their children are not alone. katie ellis has been thinking about the consequences of her actions.

>> being in jail definitely puts it all in perspective how off track i've gotten. i used to have, like, major dreams. i never thought i'd shoot up, but i got my track marks. it's just, wow, what am i doing? still, i love it. i guess that's the addiction. i guess that's why they call it a disease i guess. >> katie has no idea she may be suffering from another disease as well. her husband, chad white, who's also serving time at the jail was recently diagnosed with hepatitis but hasn't told her yet. he's hopeful he'll be released within a few days and plans to visit her. >> i want to tell her face to face that i came up positive for hepatitis "b" and "c" and she needs to go to the clinic in jail. >> because they shot heroin together, there's a good chance katie could have hepatitis as well. in fact, she could have given the disease to chad. >> when you were using, did you

ever share needles? >> with my husband, yes. i've slipped up a couple other times. in pittsburgh it was really hard to get needles. so i remember there was one needle between four of us. yeah. pretty gross. luckily i don't have anything. i got tested here in jail. i was pretty worried. >> what did they test you for? >> hiv. i should probably, you know, get tested for hepatitis, but i don't think -- i don't think i have that. i was more worried about the hiv. coming up -- >> i don't know if he's been released. i put him down for visitation because he told me to put him down for 2:00 today. >> katie ellis waits for a visit that could alter her life. and michael garcia sees the daughters he's left behind. >> my dad's, like, he's the world to me, so it's like looking at him behind there is, like, hard. brad, where we going?

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violence throughout florida. now he's at the hillsborough county jail in tampa appealing a 17 year prison sentence for drug trafficking. but with eight daughters, he also considers himself a family man. >> that's my babies. >> two of garcia's eight daughters, 20-year-old sianna and 19-year-old anya visit him at the jail two to three times a week. >> every day they come i'm happy. they're like my best friends, so we talk about everything. yeah, we talk about everything. >> but talking is as far as it goes. they never actually see each other in person. the jail requires that inmates' friends and family members check in at the visitor's center. the inmates remain in their housing units and talk to their loved ones by telephone and close circuit tv. >> my friend and i were talking at school today, me and my dad have issues but we get along now. my dad's my best friend. she's like you tell your dad

everything and i say, listen, i tell me dad about everything, guys, females, sisters, brothers. >> a lot of times chicks don't understand that because they had a mother that was always there, you know? >> and not a dad. >> yeah. remember when donna came on the period, i cried because i didn't know what to tell her. that's the things that bond you. that right there. not having that separation. that's what i've always told you. i'd rather you tell me everything than somebody else saying, hey, this is what's going on, you know? >> garcia wasn't always honest with his daughters about his criminal past. >> i told them i was a mechanic. i was working on cars, all kinds of cars and selling drugs at the same time. >> one incident exposed them to the violent nature of his gangster lifestyle. it occurred when the three of them stopped for gas. i parked in the gas line and i went in and bumped in to

somebody. i dragged him out of the stores. i remember stomping the guy. i heard my daughters say, daddy! i looked, turned, ran into the car and left. i said, what did you see? i said, i seen you kicking the guy. i said, yeah, he tried to rob me. i tried to play it off like that. you know how you lie to cover up. i remember one time getting mad at my daughters, went to school, told their friends my dad's like john gotti. when they came and told me, i said what did you say, do you not know what you just said? she didn't understand. i got mad and -- later on, i reflected back and thought, man, why did i do that? you're trying to show them a different life and think they're not smart enough to understand. as adults we think we're smarter. we're really not. remember, i was always talking about this and that and the devil the other. if that was the devil the devil was all over me. i can laugh at it now, but it was a sad situation because i should have been showing you the

right way. they're older now. 19 and 20. it's getting into a situation where they're experiencing the adult life, you knows and i'm not there for them physically. i miss them, i miss them bad. i love you. bye. >> all right. i love you. >> love you, daddy. >> you all be good. >> we will. >> anya and sianna find it painful to visit their father in jail. but they might have to get used to it. if he loses his appeal, garcia could go to prison for 17 years. >> my dad is the world to me. looking at him behind there is hard. >> it is. he'll be out soon. so it's okay. i know god's going to help us. >> those are my girls, man. my girls mean everything to me. that visit right there means everything to me, man. katie ellis has not seen or spoken to her husband, chad white, in almost three months.

both have been serving time in the hillsborough county jail. but chad recently had a court date and expected to be released on probation. >> i don't know if he's been released. i put him down for visitation. he told me to put him down for 2:00 today. i'm so excited. i'm excited. i'm so excited. i know i'll be so crushed if he doesn't come. i'll probably cry if he doesn't show up. just because i didn't know what happened. you know? >> waiting for you right now. i'm nervous for you. i'm excited. >> the visit is even more important than katie knows. chad plans on breaking some life altering news. >> i want to tell her face to face that i came up positive for hepatitis "b" and "c" and she needs to go to the clinic in jail. >> both know any number of factors could prevent their visit from happening today. >> it could mean he's not

released yet or couldn't make it here. i mean, he doesn't have a car, so i mean, if he doesn't show up it's probably just he's not released. that's about all i can think of. he won't just blow me off. i know that much. >> as 2:00 finally comes and goes, katie is still waiting. >> that was that. i really thought he'd show up. coming up -- >> the dog's coming monday night. 10:24. dog's coming on the red eye. >> elmo is on her way. but jail officials must still choose her handler. and katie ellis struggles with the things she cannot change. >> i'm not sure how to feel right now. i don't know if i should be angry, i don't know if i should just be sad about it. supported nearly 3 million steady jobs across our country... ... scientists, technicians, engineers, machinists...

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republican presidential candidate herman cain says he will make a major announcement about his campaign on saturday. a source close to the campaign tells nbc news he's likely to say he's dropping out of the race to focus on his family. the cain campaign insists no decision has been made. 89-year-old former democratic presidential candidate george mcgovern has been hospitalized after falling and hitting his head during a speaking engagement in south dakota. back to "lock up." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. in a few days, the hillsborough county jail in tampa will welcome its newest team member. one whose job will be to help stop illegal drug use and smuggling inside the walls. >> the dog's coming monday night. 10:24. dog's coming on the red eye. >> elmo is a german shepard who

will work as a drug detection job in the jail. 11 deputies have gone through the application process to become her handler. now colonel jim previtera and his senior staff must decide who will be chosen for the most coveted job. >> these people need to truly understand -- >> this is your life. >> -- what is going it be expect of them and what they're going to have to do. >> not to mention all the dog hair. >> they're going to have to be dedicated in this program. they're it. this thing lives or dies with them being committed to it. >> when we pick this person, we can't afford to fail. there was a lot of effort going into to get this. the last thing we can afford right now is for the dog to bomb because we didn't pick the right handler. >> three months into it, decides this isn't really what i -- >> yeah, exactly. >> elmo's primary duty is to detect illegal drugs inside the jail. at hillsborough county, drugs have played a role in the arrests of many of the inmates,

including katie ellis who says she did her crimes to support her habit. she recently pled guilty to drug paraphernalia charges and sentenced to jail. she's also required to complete the jail's drug rehab program. >> the drug program might help me, but i really don't think it will. i'm 21. i want to be young and reckless. >> what do you want to do when you get out of jail? >> first i want to get high. my dream of life is to party like a rock star. make a living with my music. ♪ we love to creep around your neighborhood ♪ ♪ we'll have you wondering where we came from ♪ ♪ oh, oh yeah ♪ too fast for you the title of that song is "too fast for you." that's about me and my girlfriends that are in here. >> during her time in jail,

katie has actually made a lot of good friends in their housing unit and their activities are considerably different than the fast life katie lived on the outside. >> this is our lunch bags that we get at lunchtime with our sandwiches in them. we put the crushed up cookies in the bag and added water to. i rolled it out. it's going to be a little lopsided because i didn't have the bag straight. this is the cream out of the cookie. i added water to it and i'm making it into, like, frosting. this is what we got. we have some assorted candy bars here we broke up. little pieces. this is getting a little ridiculous. a little too much. how is that candy bar doing? >> it's melted. >> in my bra, so the body heat would melt it. >> like, when i stick it in my bra -- >> you know what's the fastest way to do it -- >> katie's friends have helped her deal with troublesome

questions about her husband, chad white. she's heard rumors that chad was released from jail after his last court appearance, but she still has no idea why he didn't show up the next day to visit her. >> i'm not sure how to feel right now. i don't know if i should be angry, i don't know if i should just be sad about it. like, there has to be a reason. he's not just going to leave me in here. he loves me more than anything. like, i really believe that, so something must have happened or maybe he's in a program, you know, that doesn't let him leave for a certain amount of time. that could be it, too. like, i don't know. i just don't know. >> the only reason i haven't visited my wife which would have been my number one priority is because i done have identification. i can't go visit her without an i.d. card. if i had an i.d., i would have been there an hour early and hoping to god that i got in and got to see her for the exact 40 minutes. >> chad was released on probation but couldn't find his i.d. when his personal property was returned to him upon his release.

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timothy bickerstaff is among the finalists considered for the new role of canine handler at the hillsborough county jail. >> what's up? >> hey, sir. >> how are you? >> good. welcome back again. >> thanks. >> this process will end at some point. i promise you. >> sounds good, sir.

>> colonel jim previtera called bickerstaff to his office for one final discussion. >> this thing has to work, this program has to work. i wanted to make sure we had the right person. it's clear to all of us that you have what it takes to do this job and to make it work and to be successful. i got no doubt at all, but at the same time, the other thing glaringly apparent to all of us, not only that you can do the job and do it well, we agree you should be a supervisor. that's all your supervisors saying, do you want to tie him to a dog for the next seven or eight years when he could be a lieutenant? the thing is, if i tie you for that dog, one thing is for certain, for probably at least five years you're tied to the dog. >> yes, sir. that's something i've debated for a while. there's satisfaction in moving up through the ranks and a different kind of satisfaction when you're doing something you enjoy and you're going to get more out of it. for some reason this is something that -- >> well, it's a first.

you are breaking ground. not just for detention but sheriffs office. your family's good with it, your wife's good about it? >> she may be more excited than me about it. to be honest. >> that's a gift. congratulations. you earned it. congratulations, man. >> hey, babe, i was calling to tell you that we got the position and we got a new puppy coming home. her name is elmo we're going to the airport to pick up the dog monday night. >> i love you. >> love you, too. thank you. bye-bye. you could hear my daughter in the background, asking when it's coming home. she's ecstatic. can't wait to have a puppy. can't wait to see him. very excited. elmo's job will be to detect drugs in the jail. but colonel previtera also hopes she'll be a deterrent to those thinking to smuggling drugs into the facility. drugs are also at the heart of michael garcia's troubles including his most recent conviction. he was a drug dealer who was ruining lives on the outside but

he says on the inside he attempts to heal them. >> in the name of jesus, father. be healed, father. touch his life, touch his mind, touch his heart, touch his soul, father. touch him from the top of his hair to the sole of his feet right now in the name of jesus. >> he's very religious now. he does lots of prayers groups. he talks to lots of inmates. he goes to bible study every night from what i've seen. >> let the judge show mercy on you, father. let the prosecutor show mercy, father. let the witnesses be blinded, father, by your word. >> everybody come here, comes here, finds god and leaves this building and then comes right back. they use it as a comfort so that they can deal with being in here. it's a means of hope that they can get released. >> amen. >> amen. >> god bless you. god bless you. the people that i did wrong, the families that i sold -- i didn't sell drugs to the families, like

that. i regardless of the situation, there was an impact because somebody's father was buying or somebody's mother was buying it or somebody's daughter or somebody's granddaughter. you feel me? there's a responsibility there. you have to remember, too, that when you get saved, all your past is forgotten. it's thrown in to the sea of forgetfulness and never to be brought back again in god's eyes. >> for families, dealing with a drug addicted member, forgetting is often difficult. >> we've been to counselors, we've been to mediation, we've been to hospitals, we've been to all kinds of drug rehabs and this and that. just nothing ever worked. >> katie ellis' mother, janice, has come to visit her for the first time since katie's arrest for burglary and possession of drug paraphernalia. >> i still have mixed emotions, but i'm happy for her that she's in a clean environment, clean being off drugs. and hope she can make some positive turn in her life from here. >> janice lives in maine for

most of the year and has been communicating with katie through letters. >> i reread them and reread them. i read them all the time. i take them with me when i travel and i just thought i'd read them before i went in today. "i never quite grasped the meaning of being grateful until i met chad. i know on the outside our relationship doesn't look so great, but i've learned so much about myself and now i can say that i like myself. before i struggled with not feeling like i was good enough, strong enough, pretty enough, skinny enough, anything enough. i now know that i'm enough. still have some more soul searching to do. i will grow and prosper before i die. i may be a rebel child, but who said i couldn't be a kick ass one?" so how you doing without the drugs? >> good. i feel good. i don't think about it. too much. i mean, my friends and i talk about it all the time. >> do they let you smoke cigarettes in jail? >> no. >> no? >> no.

i quit smoking, mom. being off the drugs, i do feel physically better. i haven't woken up with natural energy in a long time. >> so you're really off everything? >> yeah. >> so what do you do to get quote/unquote high in jail? >> sugar. >> sugar. >> yeah, i've gained ten pounds so far. carrie keeps feeding me moon pies. she told me the other day, she's like, yeah, i'm not going to be the fat friend. >> so you're addicted to moon pies? no caffeine, no coffee. wow. >> yeah. >> jail is given katie the opportunity to detox. and she will soon join an inhouse drug treatment program. >> i really hope that helps you a lot. sounds like you think you don't really need it much or -- >> i'm sure -- i mean, yes, i have a drug problem. you know, i know that.

i don't know -- i mean, i just -- i don't know how my life's going to go. >> it's an opportunity for you and i hope you will really try at it. it's kind of like going to school and you don't like school. i know. >> after 40 minutes, the video monitor turns off. so katie and her mother must say their good-byes. >> so do you want to come back? should i put dad down? >> put dad down every time you put me down. and i'll keep trying. it's hard for him. he gets really emotional. >> i know. >> he loves you. he just can't -- just can't come. let's try again for next monday at 1:00? >> okay. i can do that. thanks for coming. >> i love you. >> i love you, too. >> i'll see you again. bye, sweetie. >> bye.

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the hillsborough county jail's newest team member has finally arrived and she has a new name. >> he changed his name from

elmo. her name is now bensha which is the name on her genealogy. she came from amsterdam. >> after a competitive selection process, deputy timothy bickerstaff was chosen as bensha's handler. >> good girl. >> she's now living with him and his family. >> she's a great dog, very loving. she took to me right away. always looking around for me any time i leave. she loves the family already. with the limited amount of time i've had her around them has been great. there's been no problems at all. >> today, bensha will take on her first official assignment. she and deputy bickerstaff have been called to a housing unit where drug activity has recently been reported. along with a team of deputies, they'll inspect the entire unit for narcotics. >> two alpha is going to be the target this morning. when with go in, no one goes back to their bunk, no one goes back to the toiletry areas or showers or bathrooms. once we go in, everybody goes to the rec yard. make sure you let the dog do his thing.

>> everybody to the rec yard. everybody to the rec yard. everybody to the rec yard. >> go. check. go. notice how she's searching here and she's just calm. the head's moving around but she's not going frantic. she's not biting, scratching. check. whenever she gets frantic and the head's going crazy then she sits, a lot of times that's a response, that's an alert that there's something there. that's a good girl. good girl. good girl. check that bunk. >> bensha alerted on two bunks. deputies did not find any drugs in the unit, but that doesn't mean that bensha's nose failed her. >> it's not that she's looking

to find drugs, it's more catching the odor and that way we know that there was drugs there at one time. >> just because she didn't find anything doesn't mean it wasn't there two days ago. >> exactly. exactly. it's like a cherry pie. if you bake a cherry pie in the morning and eat it that morning before you go to work, when you come home -- what do you smell? cherry pie. but is it there still? >> we're being proactive, searching for them and hopefully be a big deterrent. >> she did very well. this is the first time i had an opportunity to watch her work. that was great. >> while deputy bickerstaff and bensha are happy to work in the jail, chad white is happy to be out of it. he returned to see his wife, katie ellis. a few days ago, during a private visit with katie, he's hepatitis she's likely to have it as well

and should be tested as soon as possible. but katie has shown considerably less concern than chad. >> i'm not totally freaked out or scared or anything. just something i'm going to have to deal with. >> in fact, katie has yet to report to the medical clinic to test for hepatitis. she fears a positive result will mean transferring to the infirmary for an indefinite period of time, forcing her to leave behind the good friends she's made in her housing unit. >> without them it would be very lonely, very depressing. you know, trying to get through this by yourself. >> there's no possible way she doesn't have it. it's impossible. >> chad is still living at the salvation army in downtown tampa. but today he's ridden his bike ten miles to the jail to see katie again. >> did you go get tested for your hepatitis? >> no. >> no. and the reason why is because you don't want to get moved out of that pod, huh? >> if i lose -- i don't want to make new friends. >> listen, listen, if you feel sick at all, then you need to go because chances are -- >> i know. >> -- you're already past the

destructive phase and you're going to be like me and your liver count is going to go way back up. are you scared about the hepatitis. >> i don't know enough about it to be scared. i know jesse had it. that's all i know. >> you know why jesse had a big gut, you know? that was fat. that was his body swollen up because he drank. >> yeah. i know that. >> that's what happens. like, it's a horrible death. you know what i mean, another reason for us to be clean, you know, or you know what i mean, just try to live healthier. >> had says he hasn't used drugs since his release two weeks ago. and that he's made some strides in rebuilding his life. >> i got a job today. >> yay! where? >> denny's. i'm working overnights. right next to venus. >> that's [ bleep ]. >> it's been two weeks i've been out. i need skid resistant shoes, black pants, a black belt because i couldn't find my black belt. i need a black long sleeve shirt to cover my tattoo all like by friday. i haven't stolen anything since i've been out -- i'm not, like, you know me, i can get whatever

i'm not but i'm not doing it. like, i'm -- just, no. >> you'll figure it out. >> the only thing i wouldn't give up to see you, katie, is a job. you know what i mean? >> you already got one of those. >> i did. i'm so happy. i'm probably going to get two. i might as well. idle hands. you know what i mean? >> now that chad has a job, chad hopes to find a place to live so she has a home when released. >> one thing, every day i accomplish something. to make a your life better. not mine. >> i know. i tell people all the time. everything he does he does it for me. >> listen. i have a minute and 30 seconds left. i love you, i love you more than life itself. you know i'm out here for you. this is just a learning experience. everything happens for a reason. you know that, honey. i can't wait to be able to hold you. i can't stand not being able to touch you and squeeze you and smell you. i love you, baby. >> love you, too. bye.

i'm so happy. yay. i miss him so much. it's good to see him on screen. hear his voice. i love it. >> 40 minutes seems like a minute and 30 seconds. afterwards as soon as the monitor goes black it is like complete despair, you know. your heart sinks down and you're like, oh, man. that's the only thing i have for hope to know she's going to get out clean and i'm going to have a nice, clean home without dope dealers and without scum and with a nice job that can support both of us. and start over again.