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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. i'm not going to lie, i still think about getting high. it is always in the back of my head. and this is it, i can't get high again? >> a dangerous drug makes a comeback in hackensack, but this time, with a dangerous twist. >> and you will see that they are very close to their moms and that is why i call them mama's boys. >> my mom is afraid that she
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will bury me. >> i am not afraid because of it, but lack of toughness. >> i am addictsed to every drug i put in my body. >> and they have developed a method of communicating unlike any we have seen before. >> and asap, please give me money a sap. >> we are on the same wavelength and i don't know who picked up o on that kind of thing, but they did. >> and we once again give them cameras to record their intimate thoughts. >> and if he were to kill somebody, i would be right next to him hiding the body. the 40,000 or so residents of quiet hackensack, new jersey,
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can visit the glitz and glamour of new york in less than an hour, but in the outskirts of hackensack is a place where compelling drama plays out everyday. there are about 900 mn and women incarcerated inside of the bergen county jail. most are only accused of crimes and awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. many of them will also share something else in common. >> we are seeing a large influx of coming into our facility for heroin, prescription drugs and oxycodeine and things of that nature, but heroin is making a huge comeback and not just in the suburbs or the urban area, but all areas. >> reporter: alyssa sloshberg look no further than her own skin of heroin's comeback. >> i shot my feet, too, like in here, and little spots in here, here. my family being around them, they know what these are.
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you know, people that don't know that i do drugs now can tell. so it is embarrassing. but nothing a little foundation can't fix. i have so many moments where i don't remember. i hear what happened, you nknow. when i was at the hospital, the nurse had told me that they found me naked on route 46. i had no recollection. before coming here, i passed out in front of a judge and didn't remember anything in court except for putting the handcuffs around me, and sergeant. >> this is sloshberg's first time in jail. she is charged with distribution of cocaine, and she has plead not guilty. but she does admit to living a drug-filled lifestyle with her boyfriend. >> we always had drugs, and people always calling him.
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we were caught up in that life stooim. it is not because of to drugs, but money. and we were eating like in his word, a boss. we had the money to do whatever we wanted. i love him. he is my everything, my baby and my father in some way, and my best friend and my soul matt and he is my other. >> and now sloshberg's other is now an inmate in the bergen county jail. thomas costa has charges of aggravated assault was recently on probation when he came to see sloshberg when he was arrested again. >> i had pills on me, and i was not thinking to leave them somewhere, because i thought that i would walk in and walk out just like i do every week. >> a visitor must pass through the metal detector to make sure they are not passing anything. they do not have direct contact with the inmates, and when he
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signed in, it popped up that he had a warrant out for his probation. >> i was in the bathroom getting high. i heard the keys and i knew i was busted. >> and there is not a lot of people that come to the police jail to do drugs, but we weren't shocked that he did. >> >> i was not planning to get arrested. >> i asked him to step out and put his hands behind his back. and he did it. then i asked him if he had anything else on him, and he said, no. then i found the 13 decks, and he said, that is not on me, but that is in my wallet. >> now i'm in here with her unfoch n unfortunately. it is funny how things work out. >> costa was charged with possession of a controlled
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dangerous substance and he plead not guilty in hopes of making a deal for a lighter sentence. in the meantime, even though he and his girlfriend are housed in separate wings, and they can't see each other, costa says it is good to be under the same roof with her. >> and i miss the [ bleep ] out of her, and i feel closer to her now being in here. i know we are going through the same thing. >> i feel dead without him. it is not because of lack of nutrition or anything, but it is lack of thomas. >> and they hope to qualify for the new jersey court drug program to help offenders sign up for rehabilitation instead of jail time. it is rigorous, and requires rigorous testing. >> and the ainnger issues. >> and the jail offers its own road to sobriety for the inmates who agree to abide by a strict
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list of rules. >> it is the in-house treatment center and 90-day program for the people in the bergen county jail. >> officer a krshcakios is one e officers who is in charge of the program. >> the gentlemen here wake up at 6:00 in the morning. >> no radios. >> and a lot of people who are not used to the structure think it is military. we don't run it like that, but i say things one time, and i expect for it to be done. for them it is mill tashgs but for anybody else, it is normal behavi behavior. and we have a lot of people coming in here thinking that the p program is one way and after 90 days, they are totally different people. >> and thomas says he is a testament to it. >> it is fis to have my spirit come back to life. i was dead coming in here. >> serving four months for theft and robbery, he is about to complete the program. in a few days he will be
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released from jail and continue the recovery in a drug residential treatment program. today, drug abuse counselor sam watson will honor the achievement with a special token. >> this coin is a token really of your ability to cope. it has no intrinsic value, but to cope and complete this program in 90 days is a difficult task. so to get through it without being written up or kicked out is an important journey. i hope you put the same effort into the discovery house that you did here. >> thank you, sam. >> you feel good to see them come in and see the change in them. if i get too good of this, i will be put out of the job. but that is okay,ly find something else to do. >> and prior to the release, he must complete one more task, provide orientation for inmate who will take his spot in the program. aaron. >> so granted two sets of blues
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and you leave the other one in there. and you have the key, right? >> i was addicted to heroin twice a day. i had about $200 a day, and 50 bags a day. it affected myself and my family, and i heard this is the best program in the state to be clean. luckily, i got arrested to get into here. >> my life was good. i have a great family. i had a great job. i stole from my family, and they don't trust me. they gave me so many chances, and this is the last chance, because if i don't succeed here, i don't have any family backing me up, and i come from a big family, and i will be out on my own, and i don't want that. >> sofield has plead guilty to theft and forgery and awaiting sentencing. he has had several prior convictions for drug possession as well. >> you guys, this is aaron. >> welcome.
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>> i will not lie, because i think about getting high, and it is always in the back of my head, but that is it, i can't get high ever again. i am 29 and still a little bit young, but i have been around a lot compared to system of the kids in here that are still young, and they think about it, and everybody thinks about it, this is it, i can't get high one more time, but there is never one more time when it comes to heroin. one more time, and you know how many times i said that? and it leads to the next day and the next day and more and more and more and never one more time when it comes to that. >> coming up -- >> i am 6'3", and my feet hit this thing when i am trying to sleep. you wake up every time you try to turn and it is freezing. >> aaron sofield struggles to fit in the drug rehabilitation center. >> and going opposite of the american -- >> and alyssa sloshberg returns to her religious roots. >> i did not lie to you. >> yes, she did, in a nutshell.
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inside hackensack, bergen ko county, jail, inmates were allowed digital cameras for about an hour or so, and the purpose was to allow them to record any intimate thoughts of their lives in privacy. >> still pimping. >> and two of the inmates are thomas costa. >> i am in here and a useless -- >> and his girlfriend, alyssa sloshberg. they are both facing drug charge s, and they are hoping to go the rehab in lieu of jail time. >> and it is cool, because you can see me better through the camera, through the mirror, which is weird. but, i don't know, maybe it is a reason why i keep looking at seeing their real self through
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the mirror that it is not really who a lot of people. because it is not how i look when i am who i am. and this is just a piece of me, and it is not the whole thing. >> actually, this book is on rosh hashanah. >> and she is using this part to reconnect with her religious roots. >> and it is the hebrew bible. >> and this is the transition on this side? >> this is hebrew and this is english. >> i was raised catholic and jewish and i made communion and i was confirmed. it is more that the boys did the jewish thing and i followed my mom with the catholic thing, and we celebrated both christmas and hanukkah. they get together and they have
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saders and they have different foods that represent different things. i don't know them off of the top of my head, but like the -- what is it? a radish. relish. >> sloshberg might have another motivation to the reawakening the jewish roots, and prior to visit i visiting her, thomas costa gave her an inside tip about jail feed. and she said i hate the food. and i said, play the jewish card, and you will get real meals as opposed to the meals we get in here. >> and according to her friend, the jewish meals are preferable to the other meals. >> the portions are smaller, but it is better than what they give us on the tray. >> and vegetarian and kosher and if they say that is what they need, that is what they will
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get. >> people come in here to say they are kosher, because it is better food. >> jews don't get anything. we don't get a synagogue in h e here. >> and we have a roving religion, and he comes around with the jewish card and the protestant card and the catholic card. >> you guys think it is funny, but i take the religious seriously. >> and it is the god's honest -- well, maybe not god, but al law or whatever, and they come around with it on the cart. the rabbi and the priest. >> and we don't get a service, and rosh ha shawna starts tonight, and if it were christmas would we go to church? >> well, the rabbi has his own hours. >> well, we need a better rabbi. >> and well, you should write to the lieutenant and ask for a rabbi on call. >> i don't plan to be here. >> then why are we having this conversation? >> members of the clergy not only the rabbi visit the jail,
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but they hold religious studies with inmates. and while she say ths that her interest in judaism is real, she admits that she is not above deceit. >> i know how the lie and make the whole world believe it. i know how to manipulate someone. my parents told me that i should either be an actor or a lawyer. >> and you always have a choice. you can never say that circumstances, i can't choose. >> today they meet with the rabbi for religious studies. during the lesson, the rabbi notices that sloshberg's energy has begown wane. >> we just had lunch. >> no lunch. >> i am going to go right now. >> and upon hearing that she did not receive her kosher lunch that day, the rabbi requests a meal for her, but lunch is quickly interrupted when officer cruz ponder lied to the rabbi
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about missing a meal. >> did you eat at chow time? >> yeah, i have it now. my salad. >> but did you eat at chow time? >> yes, we ate. >> but why did you tell the rabbi that you didn't eat? >> we didn't have lunch then. >> i went into kitchen and said that you didn't receive a tray to d today. >> oh, i didn't know that. >> and you did, too, sloshberg. when you walked past, what did you say to us? the rabbi is on the way to kitchen to get me some extra food. is that what you said, yes or no? you knew what you were doing then. >> no, i had a snack. >> she actually had two trays. she is good. >> and yes, she did lie to you. >> in a nutshell. >> okay. >> okay. but you did get your tray? >> yes. >> thank you. >> that is it. >> thank you. >> i was not the one who told him that.
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>> okay. case closed. >> and alyssa sloshberg is sneaky and conniving and she will do anything to get e her way or get it over. >> and she not only told to rabbi that she didn't eat that day, she also told him something else. >> cat. >> they don't beat us, because she is pregnant. >> no, no, the exact words were "i'm with child." >> and now the rabbi is going to talk to the boyfriend, and she says, but don't tell thomas that i'm pregnant, because he doesn't know yet. >> yes, i lied. i lied about my pregnancy and i lied about the food to get whatever i want. >> coming up -- >> i will tell you something, this [ bleep ] has to stop. >> and alyssa sloshberg en ko t encounters an angry lieutenant. >> all right. i don't have amateur addicts, i
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i'm 29 years old, and i would have never thought that my life would have come to this. you know, i i lived a pretty good life growing up. family loved me, and people cared about me and a lot of friends. i had a girlfriend for the past four years. we broke up about eight months ago because of my using. i was engaged to her. and just, i chose the drugs -- i chose the drugs over her. >> aaron sofield continues to do time in the bergen county jail's drug rehabilitation center while
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waiting for charges for theft and forgery. it is a strict regimen that the inmates must adhere to for 90 days or they are dropped. >> we have rules, and it is kind of funny, but if they don't have their keys on them or the locks on the lockers or leave out the books or the chairs down, and we want them focused and thinking, and we don't want them too comfortable, but always working on themselves. >> sofield faces an additional challenge. >> i'm 6'3", and if you turn your feet hit this thing, and i have drug dreams, and it is natural, but you are having drug dreams and you are not using drugs. >> sofield has battled addiction to heroin for the last several year, and he believes if he does not get clean this time h he is going to lose the support of his family and everything else that he values. >> mr. lopez, the c.o. in charge of the program, i give him a lot
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of respect, because he has put up with a lot of nonsense in this place. and people come in complain iin about this and that. i'm thankful. really thankful for him. >> being in jail now has kept me clean for 2 1/2 months, and i don't believe i have ever been that clean in 4 1/2 years. my body is getting back to the normal cycle. which is a good thing, because for a while, i thought that i wasn't going to be able to have children. >> alyssa schlossberg has also had a heroin addiction and she is current ly charged with possession of cocaine and hopes to take part in the program. she would have to plead giuilty and then instead of jail or prison time, she would be sent into the rehabilitation facility, and she would have to
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follow the protocol and be subjected to the reporting for the period of her sentence. >> and i did not. >> she admits to lying to a rabbi to get an extra food tray. while it is not the most serious, the lieutenant decids s that it is warranted a visit. >> let me tell you something, this [ bleep ] has to stop. and i deal with the drug court all of the time. >> i nknow. >> now, listen to me, and if you are pulling the [ bleep ] here, and listen, i don't want a response, if you are -- [ bleep ] here, all i have to do is to pick up the phone, and it does not go over well with them, and you know what i'm talking about? >> yes shg, so does everyone el because i am not the only one -- >> well -- >> i am the only one who gets
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yelled at. >> why do you think that is? >> well, i don't know why, because i'm not the only person. >> you are right. you are not the only person -- >> i am not going to get into that. >> and i told you, i don't want a response. >> just leave me locked up. >> and the fact is that she ate l lunch and went and lied to the rabbi to get an additional meal. and it is nothing to do with the religion or the faith, but it is manipulating the system to get extra food and items, and that is on her. that is her responsibility. >> what does he think that he is my father? i almost said that to him. and the only person he comes in here is me. it is e treating me like my jail fath father. like, you are not my father. like, go yell at someone else. >> coming up -- >> we quite often get couples like alyssa schlossberg and mr.
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costa in jail, and they are codependent on each other, and the need to communicate is overwhelmi overwhelming. >> alyssa schlossberg and thomas costa devise a way to communicate unlike anything. >> i knew his size of boxers, and so i knew it was him. did you get my e-mail? [ man ] i did.
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hackensack, new jersey's bergen county jail. it is not just a lockup center, but also a drug rehabilitation center. >> we were the first correctional facility to open up a drug rehabilitation center. a couple of years ago we opened up a female drug rehabilitation center which has eight beds, and that is also successful. >> since it has more men than women, the men's side houses 18 inmates. >> i don't have amateur addicts burk the real mccoys. i have guys that live on the street and homeless, and i don't have the weekend warrior, and i have the everyday user. those are the people that we need to help right now to stop the revolving doors from coming in and out of the jails and save some money down the road for the taxpayers. >> aaron sofield is an admitted heroin addict awaiting sentence for theft and fornl ri, a nnd -
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forgery and he is three weeks into the program. >> it is the same stuff, and boring. i have been through other rehabs before, so i know what is going on. >> what do you miss? >> miss being on the streets and the rush that you get. i am not really missing my friends. girls, and everybody is go g ino miss the girls, but my friends, i really don't care. i make friends no matter what. >> sofield's newest friend in the drug rehab center is michael who is a few weeks from completing the program. >> we have a lot in common. we both used heroin and smoked p pcp. >> well, he speaks your mind and he don't care who you are or what you are, and he speaks his mind. i like that. >> i have been using drugs since i was 14, and alcohol since i was basically 6.
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when i shot acid, this the guy made me want to shoot acid, and i mean, it was crazy. at first, i did it and i could feel the acid crawling through my vaeins, and it was like an instant peak. >> i took acid like a couple of sheets, but -- >> i was pushed to the limits and the only way to be truly alive is to confront the mortality, and that is what i did on a daily basis. >> i know. i never heard of anyone shooting up acid or xanax before you. >> i put xanax and cocaine and amphetamines and oxycon nent in the same needle and shot it. >> all in the same rig. >> i don't know how to describe that kind of high.
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have you ever shot vodka? >> no. >> he was on probation when he was tested positive for drugs and sentenced to jail. he has been sentenced to the drug rehab center, and been in numerous rehab scenters before this. >> i have never been to jail before this, and it sucks. i don't want to come back. i don't want to use drugs again, because if i stick a needle in my arm, i will die. my mother is afraid that she will have to bury me. my dad has almost given up on me. and i'm really just sick and tired of really being sick and tired. >> he has a lot of problems, and i tell him that, and he has been through a lot, 21 years old, and i have not been through that. i wish him the best. i wish everybody the best in here, but we will see. you never know. >> thomas costa is also an
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admitted heroin addict, but he does his time in the general population unit. >> one shot, and you have a progression, and we were up to 60 or 70 bags a day, and that is about $400 a day for drugs. >> he was turned down for the rehab center, because of the past convictions involving crimes, but he says he has an addiction greater than heroin, his girlfriend alyssa schlossberg. >> i feel like i can do a lot less for her because i am in here, but i am at least in the same building. >> occasionally seeing each other on the way to court, the couple can only communicate through letters, and schlossberg has only opened up her latest from costa. >> i love you, and i will be there for you, and you alone make me a better man. and you continue to make me better everyday of my life. and i love you, baby girl, and
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love is you. >> he is so incredible, and i miss him. it has been real emotional in here, because i can't look at him or hear his voice. maybe i am addicted to him. but i don't see it like a bad thing. >> we quite often get the couples like alyssa schlossberg and mr. costa in the jail. they become co-dependent on each other, and the need to communicate is overwhelming for each of them, and so they will try to want to bend the rules sometimes in an effort to still stay in touch with each other. >> and recently costa did that. >> i saw her in the hallway and i was going downstairs and i saw a group of girls, and i was hoping that she would be one of them, and i blew her a kiss, and i got in trouble, and don't do it again or else, and from the officers and stuff, because they thought that she was a random female and a harassing one of them, and little do they know, but it was worth the risk.
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>> but now they have developed a new method of communicating and though it is against the rules, they have yet to be caught. each housing unit has a kiosk to order snacks or toiletries. >> so one day i'm on the commissary computer to order canteens and stuff like that. i went on the account and figured out the password because it is our anniversary. >> and a cocoa butter, and extra pair of boxers and i know what size of boxers he wears, and so i sent him back coffee and hazelnut and shugar, because he knows that i like that. >> and since the commissary orders are only filled on mondayings, they would erase all of the items on each other until then in order not to arouse suspicion. >> at first we were going back and forth with funny food names to let us know that we are thinking of each other.
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>> then i was like, okay, let's see how smart me he is, because he was not that smart when he came in here. >> and then a day or two, he had a number of numbers like 10 lollipops and 10 envelopes and what does it mean. so i am going down the list and writing them down and i write down alphabet, and then i real realize that every number represents a let over the alphabet. >> and this 11 is the letter of the alphabet, and this word here spells out a word. it is p-l-a-k-a-g-s-e and the next page is m-o-n-e-y-a-s-a-p. so it is please get me money asap. >> it is the jail version of text i
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texting. >> yes, but nobody has done it before. and it is weird that we connect on a different level. >> i will not lie, a tear came to my eye and i got choked up a little bit, because she figured out i was writing out to her, and she was writing back to me, and it is like we were on the same wavelength and i don't know who would have picked up on that kind of thing, but we did. >> coming up -- >> you will see that most heroin users are very close to their moms. >> insight into a unique aspect of bergen county's heroin problem. >> that is why i call them mama's boy drug. >> and while one thrives and another is forced to drop out. >> he is a guy i can't have back here, because to me, what he did is that serious. unfortunately, he blew his shot. when the satellite provider checked his credit, he found out his daughter didn't pay her bills. but he's not worried. now he checks his credit report and score at experian.com, allowing him to keep track of his credit and take a break of his own. experian. live credit confident.
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may i have your attention. >> the bergen county jail rehabilitation center opened in 1995, and it was the first of its kind inside of a correctional facility. now nearing retirement, officer lopez has been a fixture in the center for those years and now he is ready for retirement. >> i don't like mice. i could have strayed and been one of the guys and been a damn good drug dealer and a damn good drug user, but for some reason, i chose the right road. >> recently the center has been seeing heroin make a comeback as the drug of choice among the inmates. and in bergen county, one of the prosperous counties, heroin has taken an unusual twist. >> you will see that the heroin users are unusually close to their moms. that is why i call it the mama's
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boy drug. and the mom will give him money to buy heroin so he won't have to go on the streets to steal and rob for it. sometim sometimes i have heard of cases in here where the mother will drive them to the spot to get the heroin and that is why it is a mama's drug for me. >> and now at 22, michael may have boyish looks, and says that his mother may not have realized that he was injecting it into his arm. >> it is like a surgeon's needle and hit the same spot 100 times, and my mother never knew i was doing heroin, because i never had track markets. >> he says he started to use heroin at age 15. he was well on the way of finishing the intensive 90-day program, but recently, he signed himself out to avoid being kicked out, and he is back in general population. >> this is my cell and i'm really mad, because i had e three weeks left, and so it is a
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kind of bummer, but, i have to accept my consequences. >> michael walked up to an inmate in the drc program, and took all of his commissary and decided to tell the guy that he needed to beg for him to get it back. >> i thought that we were cooler than we were, and i thought it was all fun and games and somebody else thought it wasn't. >> the nextt morning i came in, and i was aware of the incident and i brought him into the office and questioned him about the incident and at that point he admitted everything that he did. i thought that he was doing great. he was on the 68th day, and the day before the incident i told my sergeant that i can't believe the growth that he has e made. he was doing everything, everything perfect. >> i wish that i could go back to the program, but -- >> he is a guy i can't have back here. to me, what he did was that serious. unfortunately, he blew his shot. >> parapar's friend is
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approaching his first month in the drug rehab center, aaron sofiel sofield. after the discomfort of fitting into the bunk, and feeling bored. >> it is just boring and repettive. >> he said that seeing inmates like him dropping out has renewed his will. >> and it may not mean a lot to a lot of people, but it is just a coin, but it shows that you worked through the program, and you deserve it. it means a lot to me, and it means a lot to the people who care. i am really ready to take the right steps, but i am not going the lie, it is going to be hard. but i think that i can do it. >> this is by far my favorite picture. >> alyssa schlossberg also admits to drug addiction and quite possibly an addiction to her boyfriend thomas costa who is housed in another part of the
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jail. >> when we first got together, he would say that he loved me plutonicly. but it was inevitable. and now it is unconditionally. if thomas were to kill someone, i will be right next to him hiding the body. if thomas spent the rest of his life in jail, i would be at every visit, and i would be on the end of every phone call. we don't do well when we don't have each other. >> it is w-h-a-t-s-u-p. >> they found out a way to send messages to each other by using the computers used to order commissary goods. and so we have a way of communicating. >> this is the first time that in eight years that we have ever
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been separated. the longest was seven days maybe. so i am like waiting for friday. >> she told me that she has court on friday and i told her they have court on friday and it is going to be awkward seeing her for the first time in a while, and like actually that close, and her and me both in shackles, and not being able to hug her and that, and it is going to be pretty depressing. but at least i will get to see her. >> and the couple hopes that the courts will allow them each to go to drug rehabilitation programs rather than the possibility of more jail or prison time. schlossberg is charged with distribution of cocaine, and costa is already convicted of the same, and plus three counts of aggravated assault. he is back in for parole violations including using drugs in the jail's restroom in an earlier visit to schlossberg. >> i will stay clean and he will stay clean and we will have a family within five years. i am going the complete what i
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am starting. i know i am going to. we have lived his lifestyle, but we are going to live mine. >> but costa is not sure that change is on the horizon. >> it is not going to be any different than the recent past has beench. it is the way of the past and i see myself getting high again when i get out of here, and whether she wants to or not, she will, too. >> i know that he is going to complete this program for me, because he knows that i don't want to be away from him ever again after this. it does not matter if he wants to get high, because he is not going to. >> coming up -- >> the prosecutor and the judge told me i could leave, and the time served, and basically, get out. >> aaron sofield asked to stay in jail, while thomas costa and alyssa schlossberg make important decisions about their futures as well. salmon and ene. but the energy bp produces up here salmon and ene. creates something else as well: jobs all over america.
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let me give you another view of what is going on outside of my window, because this is normally my view. and i don't know if i normally look outside of my window, but to give you a peek. you see that right there, that is a pond, right? well, every morning i see ducks flying by and stuff. it is like a little nature channel for me. it is a small things that you start to appreciate when you get locked up. [ bleep ] like this, i never would have stared at a pond when i was on the streets, but i'm not on the streets, so this is my entertainment. there is a groundhog that comes out of the hole down there. i see him every morning, and he gets over that fence some how, and i don't know, but i definitely envy that groundhog. >> and thomas costa might have a new view, because his stay at the bergen county jail appears to be coming to an end. he recently went to court, and
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along with catching a glimpse of his girlfriend, he was given good news about the recent probations, and they were combined with his current sentence and he was given a choice of more jail or rehab. >> i had a choice of rehab or more jail time and i have a long term patient, and i am waiting to hear if i got a accepted to the program i applied to. >> and schlossberg also got good news from the judge and she has left the jail. she plead guilty to the distribution of cocaine and sentenced to the drug state drug program for five years f. she completes the program, and frequent testing, she will avoid further incarceration. >> and alyssa left five days ago and and as soon as i found out the address i wrote her. but she is not going to get that letter, and well, she will get it today, because from what i hear, it is a five-day blackout period.
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>> aaron sofield continues to deal with his addiction, and the drug's rehabilitation center. >> aaron sofield's growth was amazi amazing. he came in the attitude of maybe i will do that program, but from that day, it progressed to wow, i do have a problem. i do have something in my life that is not going to right way, and i need to change it around. >> in fact, sofield who was in jail on a theft conviction recently turned down a chance of freedom in order to complete the program. >> he went to court, and he told the judge that he wanted to stay in the program which i thought was important. a lot of people will not do that. >> i have court on two weeks ago and the pros ecutor and the jude told me to leave and time served, and you know, basically, get out. my stomach, i knew i could not leave, because i have been here 30 days, and every other program, it was 30 days and right back to the same thing, and right back on the streets and not good. i want this to work this time. i don't want to have to do this again. >> to accommodate his requests,
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the judge gave him a longer sentence than he would have, 180 days, but sofield is eligible for early release upon successfully completing the program. >> what have you learned in here about addiction? >> the main thing that i have learned is that i can't do it by myself. my thinking has changed since i have been in here and i do not think the same. >> aaron has more of a chance than most guys. he has a large supportive family, and he is bright, and has college and a driver's license and a place to live and a car, and that is more than many of the people who live here have. getting better is making a decision. it is not just going to happen, but it says that i am not going to pick up a drink or a drug, and i will get the help that i need. >> okay. >> we will see you in the week, okay. >> yes, sir. >> and today, i know that i won't use, but tomorrow is tomorrow. and in the 90 days i'm in here, i won't, because i know i can't,
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but on the 91st day, it is all on me, and nobody can tell me what to do or where to go or how the act, and they try, but it won't work, so i am not 100% sure.
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