notorious drug dealer leaves his family behind. >> why did you get dreams on your eyelids? >> things i felt guilty for, i didn't want my daughters to be without me, i didn't want my family to be involved in none of this. >> i have a love affair with

opiates i can't shake. >> heroin addiction breaks up a couple's home and lands them both in jail. >> i love it, that is the addiction, that is why they call it a disease, i guess. >> now they face another consequence. a potentially fatal one. >> i wake up at night gasping for breath thinking about it. >> in a jail where drugs have led to the arrest of many of the inmates, officials add a new member to the correction staff. located in the heart of tampa, florida, is the his tore i -- historic cigar manufacturing area. guilty pleasures go beyond

cigars. drug abuse has taken its toll, leads addicts to commit far more serious crimes leading to extended stays at hillborough county jail. >> hug the wall, single file line. >> the colonel is in charge of all operations in the two jail facilities. >> i feel safe, if you want in any given pod and got every inmate to answer the question of how substance abuse impacted their incarceration, i think you would find the number is staggering, probably close to seven out of ten inmates would tell you either alcohol, prescription drugs or other controlled substances they use them on a regular basis or it's a direct contributor to their current situation. >> the cycle of committing crime to buy drugs has caught up with chad white. he has been a heroin addict for

17 years. has 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 and dealing in stolen property. >> that's katie, my wife and me, getting married on the beach, we put this together ourselves. i made my own cake, did everything myself, really. turned out extremely good, very, very, very pretty. >> one of the happiest days of my life. i'm surrounded by this, i feel like i let her down, you know. >> white's wife, katie ellis, is in another wing of the jail. regulations prohibit them from seeing each other. ♪ i'm free, believe me

katie is charged with burglary and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. she has not yet entered a plea. ♪ >> like chad's, katie's in c incarceration is due to a drug addiction. ♪ >> message in that song is when i smoke pot i'm free. i'm escaping. that is what it's about. >> katie and chad met shortly before katie's 18th birthday and first bonded not over drugs, but music. >> he always brought his guitar over, would play the chords to breakfast at tiffany's, we would make up lyrics, we have

conversations how we felt about each other. >> at first i kind of blew her off, she was too young, by the time she was 19, i said this is going to be my girl. so we moved in together. >> their drug addictions made life difficult. >> always on the verge of eviction, always late on bills, living on the streets, multiple times. now we're in jail because of drug addiction. >> i have a love affair with opiates i can't shake. i can't lose her the way i look at it. >> for chad, opiates have proven to be a powerful mistress. >> if i was on a cliff and had my daughter and wife in my hand trying to pull them up and there is a bag of heroin and it was going to fall off the cliff, something is telling me you won't be able toite again i'll let them go and grab the heroin, that is what it did to me, it took my soul. >> katie and chad started using

drugs at age 13, whether she was 20, chad showed katie how to shoot heroin. >> the best high i ever felt in my life. >> did you ask him for it? >> i was going to do some. i wasn't not going to shoot up. >> the way i looked at it she is going to do it anyways, i need to show her how to do it right, not share needles, reuse needles. i kind of wanted her to learn the way that was standard, she was already going down the wrong road, the way i justified it in my head, anyway. i regret not leading by example. if i would have stayed clean, she would have followed me, i know she would have. >> she was all right, until she met chad. >> they think we are bad influences on each other. it's probably true. >> now they have to face new consequences. chad got sobering news during a visit to the jail's in firmly. >> i have hepatitus b and c.

i can beat death, i can beat death, it kicked me in my nuts, it will kill you if you don't stop. i've worked in hospitals before and seen people die of hepatitis and guys with testicles swell up like basketballs and bodies swell up, they turned stark yellow and horrible, horrible pain and they die. i wake up at night gasping for breath thinking about it. i can't do it, i can't be that guy. somebody used one of my needles without me knowing or my wife used somebody else's needle without me knowing. i've used needles for 17 years and tested every year and beat it, i never contracted hiv or hepatitis. >> considering that you share needles with katie, what are the chans she also has hepatitis? >> 9a has hepatitis? >> 99 >> 99.9 # 9%. >> coming up. >> in pittsburgh it was hard to get needles. >> katie ellis makes a

revelation about her drug use. >> yeah, pretty gross. >> but first, a former drug dealer takes a hard fall. >> took him like nine hits with the ram to knock my door down by that time i was trying to get out the window.

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hillsborough county jail is preparing for a new team member. due to arrive in pittsburgh, pennsylvania in a week. >> this is a monster jail contest. elmo is the name the breeder gave her, i guess we could change her name, that is something we'll discuss, it should be elma since it's a female shepherd. looks like it has potential. >> will be the 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 the country in the institution itself. we start to see violence, you start to see exploitation of other inmates, it creates a black market for many things. >> i'll leave the picture here, i may give it to the handler as a gift. >> the colonel and his staff have yet to decide who the handler will be. >> tough part about this is, only one position, first time we've ever done this we'll have a dog assigned to the detention 24/7. put your career in this dog the next seven or 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 moved on to the physical fitness portion of the selection process. >> do the mile-and-a-half. once you're done come over and do push-ups, sit-ups and then turn you over to canine hand

letters. good luck, give it your all. looking for the total package, all the deputies are outstanding. 12: 21. >> ready, begin. >> we appreciate the fact they are willing to sacrifice what could be the next six or seven years to be committed. >> get your ass all the way down. >> won't be reassigned to any unit, they will be working with the dog for that time period. >> rest in the up position. >> you got to have ten more in you, come on, man. >> it's a really hard decision. somebody here is going to be excited when this is over. for the others, it will be a certain level of dejection, they all want this badly. >> once you stop you're done. >> 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 sheriff's office. he's here to give the deputies an opportunity to interact with his patrol dog, stitch, and experience the strength of his jaws, just as a fleeing suspect would. >> that is what the job is about, different things, exciting things, i like to feel the adrenaline it's great. >> you got a protective suit, still he can get your skin, like little pinches and it hurts. there is my battle scar. >> i'm feeling anxiety, nervous, want to get it over with and have it done. >> halt! good boy! >> i hope for all you guys 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 all of have shown the qualities we're looking are for. thanks a lot, i appreciate you. limp around saying you got attacked by a dog, try to milk that for all you can today, all right? >> drugs have played a role in the arrest of many inmates detained at hillsborough jail. most of them are on the demand side. michael garcia was on the supply side. 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? >> the president for the whole state of florida. >> garcia is at hissborough county appealing a 17 1/2 year prison sentence. he has been in custody for the

last three years. >> why did you get guilty dreams on your eyelids? >> because of my past. things i felt guilty for, i didn't want my family to be involved in none 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. >> garcia was caught after making several drug deals with the police informant. he was arrested at home. and his family witnessed the mag my tud any -- magnitude of his reputation. >> took nine hits for them to knock the door down, i was trying to get the window, they threw a flash grenade, it knocked me unconscious. i couldn't hear nothing or see nothing. my kids are crying of course because we got 80 agents in the house. my dogs are going crazy, two pit bulls, it was total chaos. >> garcia says his life used to

be influenced by the devil. but in the day of his arrest, he heard a different voice. >> almighty father. >> i started praying, god help me, he spoke to me 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 on his family. though separated from his current wife, he has eight daughters from four different women. the daughters range 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. those are the consequences we have to go through 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 puts it in

perspective how off track i had gotten. i never thought i would shoot up, i got my track marks and it's like wow, what am i doing? but still i love it. i guess that is the addiction, i guess that is why they call it a disease, i guess. >> katie has no idea that she may be suffering from another disease as well. her husband chad white was also ser vieng time at the jail, was diagnosed with hepatitis, he's hopeful he will be released in a few days and plans to visit her. >> i was to tell her face-to-face that i came up positive for hepatitis b and c, she needs to go to the clinic in jail. >> because they shot heroin together, there is a good chance katie could have hepatitis as well. in fact, she could have given the distease 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 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 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 has pen released. i put him down for visitation, he told me to put him down for 2:00 today. >> katie ellis waits for a advice it that could alter her life. and michael garcia sees the daughters he left behind. >> my dad is the world to me. looking at him behind there is hard. i'm freaking out man, he's on my back

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violence throughout florida fa. now he's at the hillsborough county jail in tampa appealing a 17 year prison sentence for drug trafficking. with eight daughters, he considers himself a family man. >> those are my babies. >> two of garcia's eight daughters, 20-year-old sienna and 19-year-old anya visit him at the jail two to three times a week. >> every day they come, they're like my best friends, we talk about everything. yeah, we talk about everything. >> 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 visitors center. the inmates remain in their housing units and talk to the loved once by telephone and closed circuit tv. >> my friend we were talking at school me and my dad had issues but we get along now, that is my best friend. she was like you tell your dad everything? i said listen, i tell my dad

everything. i talk to him about guys, females, sisters, brothers. >> a lot of times chicks don't understand that because they had a mother that was always there, you know? >> without a doubt. >> when nana first came on her period i started crying i didn't know what to tell her. you know? but that is the things that make it more special, that bond you closer is that right there, you know, not having that separation that is what i've always told you i rather you tell me everything than someone else come to me and say hey, this is what is going down. >> garcia wasn't honest with his daughters about his past. >> i told him i was a mechanic. i was working on cars, all kind of cars and selling drugs at the same time. >> but one incident exposed them to the violent nature of his gangster lifestyle. occurred when the three of them stopped for gas. >> i parked in the gas line and i went in and bumped into somebody and i drug him out of the store and me and him were getting at it.

i remember stomping the guy and i heard my daughter say "papi" and i look and turned and ran to the car, got in the car and left, you know? i said what did you see? she said i seen you kicking the guy. i said yeah, he tried to rob me. i played it off like that. but you know how you lie to cover up. i remember one time getting mad at one of my daughters because she went to school and told all her friends my father is like john gotti. when they came and told me that, do you not know what you said? she didn't understand, i got mad and punished her for it but later on i reflected back and was like man, why did i do that, you're trying to show them a different life, not thinking they are smart enough to understand because we think as adults we're smarter but we're not. remember, i was always talking about the devil this and devil the other but that was the devil man. devil was all over me i can laugh now but it was a sad situation, i should have been showing you the right way.

they're 19 and 20, getting in a situation where they're experiencing the adult life, you know? i'm not there for them physically. i miss them, i miss them bad. i love you, bye. >> i love you. >> love you papi. >> y'all be good. >> anya and sienna find it painful to visit their father in jail. if he loses his appeal he could go to jail for 17 years. >> my dad is the world to me, so looking at him behind there is hard. >> it is. but he'll be out soon so it's okay. i know god will help us. >> those are my girls, man. my girls mean everything to me. that visit right there means everything to me, man. le 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 has been released, i put him down for visitation because he told me to put him down for 2:00 today. >> i'm so excited. i'm so excited. i will be so crushed if he doesn't come. i'll probably cry if he doesn't show up. just because i don't know what happened, you know? >> 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, i came up positive for hepatitis b and c, and she needs to go to the clinic in jail. >> both chad and katie know any number of factors could prevent

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10:24. dog is coming on the red eye. >> elmo is a german shephard who will work as a drug detection dog in the jail. 11 deputies went through the process to become her handler, now the colonel and senior staff must decide who will be chosen for the much-coveted job. >> these people need to truly understand this is your life. >> what is going to be expected of them and what they will have to do and they will have to -- >> imagine all dog hair. >> they have to be dedicated to the program because they're it. this thing lives or dies with them being committed to it. >> when we pick the person we can't afford to fail. there is a lot of effort in getting this thing right. and 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 what they wanted. >> elmo's primary duty is detect illegal drugs inside the jail and at hillsborough county,

drugs have played a role in the arrests of many of the inmates. including katie ellis, who says she committed her kriecrimes to support her habit. she bled guilty to burglary and drug paraphernalia charges and sentenced to 364 days in jail. she is also required to complete the jail's drug rehab program. >> the drug program might help me but i don't think it will. i'm 21, i want to be young and reckless right now. >> what do you want to doe when you get out of jail? >> first, i want to get high. ♪ >> my dream in life is party like a rock star, make a living with my music. ♪ >> the title of that song is "too fast for you" about me and

my girl friends in here. >> during her time in jail, katie has made good friends in their housing unit, their activities are considerably different than the fast life katie lived on the outside. >> these are lunch bags we get with our sandwiches, pushed up the crushed up cookies, added water, rolled it out, will be lop-sided because i didn't have the bag straight. this is the cream, i added water and making like frosting. this is what we got. . >> we have some candy bars here, we've broke up little pieces. this is getting a little ridiculous. >> how that is candy bar doing? >> in my bra so the body heat would melt it. >> like when i stick it in my bra -- >> it's fastest when you do it.

>> katie's friends have helped her deal with troublesome questions about her husband, chad white. she heard rumors he was released but she 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 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 is in a program that doesn't let him leave for a certain amount of time, that could be it too, 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, i don't have identification, i can't visit her without an id card. if i had id i would have been there hour early hoping to got i got to see her for the exact 40 minutes. >> chad was released on probation, but couldn't find his

id when his personal property was returned to him upon his release. since the jail requires visitors to show it, he was unable to visit katie. >> broke my heart and has me down in the dumps, i don't want her to think i'm putting her off for any reason. as soon as i get an id, i'll be in the doors. >> until then, chad is working on rebuilding his life and staying off drugs. >> i've been pressured to use and that was the first time in my life i ever said no six times repeat edly. that is the farthest thing from my mind at the dope. >> he's living at the salvation army in downtown tampa and is looking for work. >> part of my motivation, my strength is my wife, that is locked up, doing time for something that i probably influenced her under, and i regret every single minute of that. and you know i can sit and wallow in it, that is all it

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hillsborough county jail. >> how are you? >> good, welcome back again. >> thanks. >> this process will end at some point, i promise you. >> sounds good, sir. >> the colonel called him to the office for one final discussion. >> this thing has to work this program has to work, so i wanted to make sure that 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 and i got no doubt at all. but at the same time the other thing that is glaringly apparent, not only the fact you can do the job and do it well we all agree you should be a supervisor, that is all your supervisors saying do you want to tie him to the dog for the neck seven or eight years when in seven or eight years he could be a lieutenant. thing is if i tie you to that dog, one thing is for certain, for probably at least five years you're tied to the dog. >> yes, sir. >> that is something i debate forward quite a while. there is satisfaction in moving up through the ranks and there is also a different type of

satisfaction whenever i think you're doing something you enjoy and get more out of it. for some reason this is something that -- >> it's a first. >> you are breaking ground. not just for detention but the sheriff's office. and your family is good with it, your wife? >> she may be more excited than me. >> congratulations. you earned it. >> thank you, sir. >> hey, babe, calling to tell you that we got the position and we got a puppy coming home. >> yay! >> her name is elmo. we're going to the airport to pick up the dog monday night. >> love you. >> love you too. thank you, bye bye. >> could you hear my daughter in the background asked when it's coming home. she is ecstatic, can't wait to have a puppy. very excited. >> elmo's job will be to detect drugs in the jail. but the colonel hopes she will be a deterrent to those thinking of smuggling drugs in 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 says on the inside, he attempts to heal them. >> in the name of jesus, father, that his ailment be healed, touch his life, mind, heart, soul, touch him from the top of his hair to the sole of his feet in the name of jesus. >> he's very religious now, does lots of prayer groups, talked to inmates, bible study every night from what i've seen. >> let the judge show mercy on the brothers. let the prosecutors show mercy, father. let the witnesses be blinded, father, by your word. >> everybody comes here finds god, and leaves this building and then comes right back. they use it as a comfort. so they can deal with being in here. it's a means of hope they can get released. >> amen. >> god bless you. >> the people that i did wrong,

the families that i sold -- i didn't sell drugs to families, but rafegardless, there was an impact, somebody's father, mother, daughter, or granddaughter, you feel me, there is a responsibility but you have to remember, too, that when you get saved, all your past is forgotten. it's thrown in the sea of forgiveness never to be brought back in god's eyes. >> for families dealing with a drug addicted member, for getting is often difficult. >> we have been to counselors, mediation, we've been to hospital, we've been to all kind of drug rehabs and this and that. just nothing ever worked. >> katie ellis' mother has come to visit her for the first time since her conviction. >> i have mixed emotions but i'm happy for her that she is 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 most of the year has been communicating with katie through letters. >> i re-read them, i read them all the time. take them with me when i travel, and i just thought i would 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 grade but i learned so much about myself and now i can say 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 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. >> how are 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. >> you're really off everything? >> yeah. >> so what do you do to get "high" in jail? >> sugar. >> gained 10 pounds so far. kerry keeps feeding me moon pies. she said yeah i'm not going to be the fat friend. >> so you're addicted to moon pies. no caffeine, no coffee, wow. >> yeah. >> jail has given katie the opportunity to detox. and she will soon join an in-house drug treatment program. >> i hope that helps you a lot. sounds like you don't think you need it much.

>> i'm sure -- i mean -- yes, i have a drug problem, you know, i know that. i don't know -- i don't know how my life will go. >> it's an opportunity for you and i hope you 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 goodbye. >> do you want to come back, should i put dad down? >> put dad down every time you put me down i'll keep trying. it's hard for him. he gets really emotional. >> i know. >> he loves you. he just can't come. let's try again for next monday at 1:00. >> okay, i can do that.

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jail's newest team member has finally arrived. and she has a new name. >> we changed the name from elmo. it's bencha, the name on her genealogy that came from amsterdam. >> after a competitive selection process, deputy timothy bickerstaff was chosen as bencha's handler. >> sit. good girl! >> she is now living with him and his family. >> she is a great dog, very loving. she took to me right away. always looking around for me any time i leave. she loves family already, the limited amount of time i have had her around them, has been great. no problems at all. >> today, bencha 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 the team of of deputies, they will inspect the entire unit for narcotics. >> two alphas will be the target, trustee pod. when we go in, no one back to

the bunk, no one goes back to the toilet or showers or bath rooms. 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. >> let's go. >> go. check, go. >> know how she sis searching, she is not biting, scratching. whenever she gets frantic and the head goes crazy and sits a lot of time that is the response, that is an alert there is something there. >> good girl! good girl! >> check that bunk.

>> bencha alerted on two bunks. deputies did not find drugs in the unit but that doesn't mean that bencha's nose failed her. >> it's not that she is looking to find the drugs, she is catching the odor, we know drugs were there. >> because they haven't found anything doesn't mean it wasn't there. >> exactly. like a cherry pie, if you bake a cherry pie in the morning and eat it before you go to work and come home, what do you smell, km cherry pie. we're being proactive, searching for them and be a big derear rent. >> she did well, that is the first opportunity to watch her work, that was great. deputy bickerstaff and bencha are eager to work in the jail, chad white happy to be out of it. he returned to see his wife, katie ellis. a few days ago with a private visit with katie, chad informed her he contracted hepatitis and she is 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 that i'm going 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. trying to get through this by yourself. >> there is no possible way she doesn't have it. it's impossible. >> chad is still living 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. the reason why because you don't want to get moved out of the pod, huh? >> if i lose -- i don't want to

lose my friends. >> if you feel sick at all, you need to go. chances are you already passed the destructive phase, are you scared about the hepatitis? >> i don't know enough about it to be scared. i know jesse had it. that is all i know. >> jesse had a big gut, that wasn't fat, that was his body swelling up because he drank. >> i know that. >> that is what happens. it a horrible death, another reason for us to be clean, you know, just try to live healthier. >> chad hasn't used drugs since his release two weeks ago. and that he made strides in rebuilding his life. >> i got a job today. >> yay, why. >> at denny's, working overnights. the plan is on, going great, two weeks i have been out. i need skid resistant shoes,

black shirt to cover my tattoo. i haven't stolen anything i'm not doing it. i'm just, no. >> you'll figure it out. >> only thing i wouldn't give up to see you, katie, is a job. >> you already got one of those. >> i did, i'm so happy. i might as well get two. idle hands. >> now that he has a job, he hopes to find a place to live so katie has a home when she is released. >> the one things that helps me is that every day i accomplish something to make your life better, not mine , oe o -- >> i tell people everything he does he does it for me. >> i love you, more than life itself. i'm out here for you this is a learning experience rg everything happens for a reason, you know that. i can't wait to hold you again. kapt stand not being able to touch and squeeze you and smell you, i love you, baby.

>> love you too. >> bye. >> bye. >> i miss him so much, good to hear his voice. >> 40 minutes seemed like 1:30. then afterwards as soon as that monitor goes black it's like complete despair your heart sinks down. that is the only thing i have for hope, i'll 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.