impacted their incarceration, i think that you'd find the number is staggering. probably close to 7 out of 10 inmates would tell you that either alcohol, prescription drugs or other controlled substances, they either used 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's been a heroin addict for 17 years and 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 together this whole thing ourselves. i mean, it was so cool. i baked my own cake and did everything myself, really. it turned out extremely good. very, very, very pretty.

that was one of the happiest days of my life. i'm looking at that photo surrounded by this. it hits home. you know, i feel like i let her down, you know? >> white's wife, 21-year-old katie ellis, is in another wing of the jail. regulations prohibit them from seeing each other. ♪ i'm free ♪ ♪ believe me ♪ >> 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. ♪ you smoked away your fears ♪ >> like chad's, katie's incarceration is largely due to a drug addiction. ♪ i'll be happy when i found my savior tonight ♪

the messages in that song is when i smoke pot i'm free. i'm escaping. that's what it's about. >> katie and chad met shortly before katie's 18th birthday and say they first bonded not over drugs but music. >> he always brought his guitar over and he would play the chords to "breakfast at tiffany's" and we'd make up our own lyrics. we'd have full-on conversations about how we felt about each other and lyrics that we would just freestyle. it was cool. >> at first i kind of blew her off. i was like, no, she's too young for me, she's too young for me. by the time she was almost 19, i said, you know what, this is going to be my girl, you know. so we moved in together. >> but their drug addictions often made life difficult. >> you're always on the verge of eviction. you're always late on bills. we've been living on the streets. multiple times in jail because of drug addiction. >> i have a love affair with opiates that i cannot shake. i can't lose her the way i look

at it, you know? >> and for chad opiates have proven to be a powerful mistress. >> if i was on a cliff and i had my daughter and my wife in my hand and i'm trying to pull them up and there's a bag of heroin and that bag of heroin is going to fall off the cliff and something's telling me you'll never be able to use that ever again, i'm going to let them go and grab that heroin because that's what it did to me. it took my soul. >> katie and chad both started using drugs at age 13. when she was 20, chad showed katie how to shoot heroin. >> it was the best high that i ever felt in my life. >> did you ask him to shoot you up? >> well, i didn't really have to. i mean, i was going to do so. i mean, i wasn't not going to shoot up. >> the way i looked at it was she's going to do it anyways and i need to show her how to do this right and how not to reuse needles, share needles. i kind of wanted her to learn the way of the standards because 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. >> my dad was like, she was all right and then she met chad. you know? they think we're bad influences on each other. which is probably true. >> now the couple must face a new set of consequences. chad recently got sobering news during a visit to the jail's infirmary. >> i found out that i have hepatitis "b" and "c." i have been proud saying i can beat death, i can beat this and i can beat that. it kind of kicked me in my nuts saying you can't beat it and it will kill you very very soon. now sooner if you don't stop. i've worked in hospitals before and i've seen people die of hepatitis. i've seen guys with their testicles swell up like basketballs and their body swells up, they turn stark yellow and they're in horrible, horrible pain and then they die. i wake up at night gasping for breath thinking about it. i can't be that guy. either somebody used one of my needles without me knowing or my wife had used somebody else's

needle without me knowing. because i've used needles for almost 17 years now and i've been tested every year and i beat it. i never contracted hiv. i never contracted hepatitis. >> considering that you share needles with katie, what are the chances that she also has hepatitis c? >> 99.99999%. coming up -- >> in pittsburgh it was really 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. >> it took him, like, nine hits with the ram to knock my door down. but by that time i was trying to get out the window.

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 could change her name, and that's something we'll discuss. i guess it really should be elma since it is, in fact, a female shepherd. the nose looks like it has potential. >> elmo will be the jail's first drug detection dog. >> it's important that we keep drugs out of here because 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. >> but colonel previtera and his staff have yet to decide who the handler will be. >> the tough part about this is there's only one position. it's first time we've ever done this where we're actually going to have a dog assigned to detention 24/7. you're going to be putting your

career into this dog for 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 have moved on to the physical fitness portion of the selection process. >> we're going to do the mile and a half. once you're done, come over, do push-ups, we'll do sit-ups and then we'll turn you over to the canine handlers. all right? 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, bickerstaff, remember your time. >> just the fact that they're out here shows their level of commitment. >> ready, begin. >> that's what we appreciate, is they're willing to come out here and essentially sacrifice the next six or seven years of their career. they won't be able to get promoted. >> come on get all the way down. get your ass all the way down. >> they won't be able to be reassigned any other specialty unit. they'll be working with this dog extensively for that time period. >> rest in the up position.

>> you've got to have ten more in you. come on, come on. >> 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 i think they all want this badly. >> keep going. don't stop. 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 hillsborough county sheriff's 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 this job is about, it's about doing different things, exciting things. i like to feel the adrenaline. it's great. >> you know you got 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. >> atta 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. honestly, all of you guys have shown the qualities we're looking for. thanks a lot, guys. i appreciate it. thank you. you know, you can limp around and say 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 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. >> 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. but 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, and i flew off the ground and hit the wall. burned all the hair off my arm and knocked me unconscious. then i remember coming up and i couldn't hear nothing or see nothing. and my kids are crying of course because we've got 80 agents in my house. my dogs are going crazy. you know, my two pit bulls. it was just 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 christ. >> i started praying, 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 that now his focus is only 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 didn't 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 mean, i used to have, like, major dreams. i never thought i'd shoot up, but i got my track marks. and it's just, wow. what am i doing? but 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 that 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 that 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.

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by his own admission, michael garcia was once a high-ranking leader of a notorious gang that dealt in drugs and 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 closed-circuit tv. >> my friend and i were talking at school today, me and my dad had our issues but we get along now. like that's my best friend. she's like you tell your dad everything? i'm like 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? >> and not a dad. >> yeah. like remember when nana first came on her period, i started crying because i didn't know what to tell her, you know? but that's the things that make it more special. that's the things that bond you a lot closer is 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 come to me and say hey, this is what's going down, you know? >> but garcia wasn't always honest with his daughters about his criminal past.

>> i told them i was a mechanic. i was working on cars, working on all kinds of cars and selling drugs at the same time. >> but one incident exposed them to the violent nature of his gangster lifestyle. it occurred when the three of them stopped for gas. >> we were 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, you know, getting at it. i remember stomping the guy. and i heard my daughters say, "papi!" and i just looked and turned, ran to the car, got in the car and left. 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, you know, 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's like john gotti. when they came and told me that i was like what did you say? did you not know what you just said? she didn't understand. i got mad and punished her and everything for it.

but later on i reflected back and was like, man, why did i even do that? you're trying to show them a different life and not thinking that they're smart enough to understand. because we think as adults we're smarter. but we're really not. >> remember? i was always talking about the devil this, the devil that and the devil the other. but that was the devil, man. 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 all the right way. >> you know they're a little older now, 19 and 20, and it's getting into a situation where they're experiencing the adult life, you know and i'm not there for them, you know, physically. i miss them. i miss them bad. >> i love you. bye. >> all right. i love you. >> i love you, papi. >> you all be good. >> you, too. >> 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. so looking at him behind there is hard.

>> it is. but 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 because he told me to put him down for 2:00 today. i'm so excited. >> i know. i'm excited, too. >> i know i'll be so crushed if he doesn't come. i'll probably cry if he doesn't show up. >> aw. >> just because i don't know what happened. you know? >> my palms are sweating 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 that she needs to go to the clinic in jail. >> both chad and katie know that 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 just 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.

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facing some criticism from fellow republicans. a hearing for the suspect in the colorado movie theater killings will be held monday. james holmes is charged with killing 12 and wounding 70. and the nhl has reached a ten-year deal with its players which will end the lockout that canceled most of this year's season. now back to "lockup." 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 shepherd who will work as a drug detection dog in the jail.

11 deputies have gone through the application process to become her handler. and now colonel jim previtera and his senior staff must decide who will be chosen for the much coveted job. >> these people need to truly understand -- >> this is your life. >> -- what could be expected -- what is going to be expected of them and what they're going to have to do. >> imagine all the dog hair. >> they're going to have to be dedicated to this program. because they're it. this thing lives or dies with them being committed to it. >> when we pick this person, we cannot afford to fail. there was a lot of effort going into to get this. there's a lot of work on everybody's part to get 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. but i think we got it. >> 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. 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 crimes to

support her habit. she just recently pled guilty to burglary and drug paraphernalia charges and was sentenced to 364 days in 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 mean, i'm 21. i want to be young and reckless right now. >> what do you want to do when you get out of jail? >> first -- first i want to get high. ♪ too fast for you to keep up with ♪ my dream in life is to party like a rock star, make a living with my music. ♪ we love to creep around your neighborhood ♪ ♪ crash a house party, oh, you know we would ♪ ♪ 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." and that's about me and my girlfriends that are in here. >> during her time in jail katie has actually made a number of

good friends in her 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 we added water to it, and 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. but now i added water to it and i'm making it into like frosting. this is what we've got. we've got some assorted candy bars here we broke up in 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 it's like -- >> 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. like 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 don't 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. since the jail requires visitors

to show one, he was unable to visit katie. >> broke my heart and it did make me down in the dumps because i don't want her heart to be broken, as well. i don't want her to think i'm putting her off for any reason. as soon as i get an identification card i'll be in those doors. >> until then chad is working on rebuilding his life and staying off drugs. >> i've been pressured to use again several times out here. and literally that was the first time in my life i think that i've ever said no six times repeatedly. that's the farthest thing from my mind, is dope. >> chad is now living at the salvation army in downtown tampa, and says he's looking for work. >> part of my motivation and my strength is my wife that's locked up doing time for something that i probably influenced her under. and i regret every single minute of that, and either i can sit and wallow in it and go back to it because that's all wallowing in your own decaying [ bleep ] does to you, it makes you go back to using drugs when you're a heroin addict. or i can say, okay i'm going to make this better.

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>> good. welcome back again. >> thank you, sir. >> this process will end at some point. i promise you. >> sounds good, sir. >> colonel jim previtera has called bickerstaff to his office for one final discussion. >> this thing has got to work. this program's got to work. so 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. and i got no doubt at all. but at the same time the other thing that's glaringly apparent to all of us, not only the fact that you could do this job and do it well but that we all agree that you should be a supervisor. i mean that's all your supervisors saying do you want to tie him to the south end of the dog for the next seven, eight years when in seven or eight years he could be a lieutenant? the thing is if i tie you to that dog one thing's for certain. for probably at least five years you're tied to the dog. >> yes, sir. that's something i've debated for quite a while. there's satisfaction in moving up through the ranks. you know. there's also a different type of satisfaction whenever 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. >> yeah. that's -- >> you're -- you know, you are breaking ground. not just for detention but for the sheriff's office. and your family's good with it? your wife's good with it? >> she may be more excited than me about it. to be honest. >> you can bring her that home. that's a gift. congratulations. >> thank you. >> you earned it. >> thank you, sir. >> congratulations, man. >> hey, babe i was just calling you to tell you that we got the position and we got a new puppy coming home. >> yay. >> 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 of 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. let his ailment be healed father. touch his life. touch his mind. touch his heart. touch his soul, father. touch him from the top of his hair father, to the sole of his feet right now in the name of jesus. >> he's very religious now. he does lots of prayer 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 the brothers. let the prosecutors show mercy, father. >> thank you, jesus. >> 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, you know, the families that i --

i didn't sell drugs to families like that. but 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? and there's a responsibility there. but you've got to remember too that when you get saved all your past is forgotten. it's thrown into the sea of forgetfulness to never 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. and just nothing ever worked. >> katie ellis's 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.

i 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 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. >> 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 just 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 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. well, thanks for coming. >> i love you. >> i love you, too.

>> i'll see you again. bye, sweetie. >> bye. >> hang in there. >> i wish i could be like, yeah, mom, i'll totally go to this rehab and i'll totally do it and i'll get out and i'll be clean and sober forever. but i just -- i can't say that. >> coming up, the jail deputizes its newest team member. >> this is a great dog, very loving. she took to me right away. >> free. good. >> and a sobering visit for katie ellis. >> listen, if you feel sick at all, go get tested.

♪ the hillsborough county jail's newest team member has finally arrived, and she has a

new name. >> we changes the name from elmo. her name is now bensha, which is the name on her genealogy that came from amsterdam. >> after a competitive selection process deputy timothy bickerstaff was chosen as bensha's handler. >> sit. 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 have 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. at the trustee pod. when with go in, no one goes back to their bunk, no one goes back to the toiletry area or the showers or the 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. >> go. >> short cheers. >> go. check. go. zook. >> 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. show me. >> whenever she gets frantic and the head's going crazy and 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. 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? >> okay. >> i think we got good results. it will show that we're out here, we're being proactive searching for them and hopefully it will be a big deterrent. >> she did really well. this is the first time i had an opportunity to watch her work. that was great. >> while deputy bickerstaff and bensha are eager to work in the jail, chad white is happy to be out of it. but he has returned to see his wife, katie ellis. a few days ago during a private visit with katie chad informed her that he had contracted hepatitis and that 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 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's going to go way back up. i mean, are you scared about the hepatitis? i mean -- >> i don't know. 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, right? that wasn't fat. that was his body swelling up because he drank. >> yeah. i know that. >> and 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. >> chad says he hasn't used drugs since his release two weeks ago and that he's made some strides in rebuilding his life. >> oh, my god, i got a job today. >> yay! where? >> at denny's. i'm working overnights right next to venus. >> that's the [ bleep ]. >> the plan is on. it's going great. 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.

and i haven't stolen anything since i've been out. i'm not like -- and you know me. i can get whatever i want. 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? >> well, 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 he has a job, chad hopes to find a place to live so katie has a home when she's released. >> the one thing that helps me is that every day i accomplish something to make your life better, not mine. i'm like completely -- >> i know. i tell people all the time, everything he does, he's doing it for me. >> listen. i have a minute and 30 seconds left. so i love you. i love you more than life itself. you know i'm out here for you. and this just is a learning experience. everything happens for a reason. you know that, honey. i just can't wait to hold you again. i can't stand not being able to touch you and squeeze you and smell you. i love you, baby. >> i love you, too. >> bye. >> bye.

oh, 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 seemed like a minute and 30 seconds. then afterwards, as soon as that monitor goes black, it's like complete despair, you know? your heart sinks down and you're like, oh, man. that's the only thing i have for hope, you know, to know that 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.

if you want to live in this population as a child molester, you're going to pay me, or else i'm going to kick your ass. >> an inmate with a long record runs an extortion scheme. >> the hustle never sleeps. >> you didn't have any second thoughts when you were ingesting pills. >> you give us a hard time, we're going to run it military straight.

♪ >> tampa, florida, is a green city. >> there used to be a motto, tampa is where the good life gets better every day. >> but a dark cloud has steadily cast a shadow over tampa.

>> we saw the prescription drug abuse epidemic really start to appear on the radar here in the tampa area. and it continued to grow. and the result now is our drug treatment systems are taxed to the limits. and our county jails are now becoming taxed to the limits. >> colonel jim, a former secret service agent, runs the two facilities that make up the hillsboro county jail system. located just outside downtown tampa, the jail has a capacity of 3,000 inmates.