"caught on camera > 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 will bury me. >> i feel weak without him. it's not because of nutrition.

>> i am not afraid because of it, but lack of toughness. >> i am addicted 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 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, can visit the glitz and glamour of new york in less than an hour, but in the outskirts of

downtown hackensack is a place where compelling drama plays out everyday. there are about 900 men 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 inmates 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 schlossberg need 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. 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 know. 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 and woke up. except for putting the handcuffs around me, and sergeant. >> this is schlossberg'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. we were caught up in that lifestyle. 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 mate and he is my other. >> and now schlossberg'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 schlossberg when he was arrested again. >> i was using heroin. >> 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 threr not carrying weapons in the building. they are not passing anything. they do not have direct contact with the inmates, and when he signed in, it popped up that he had a warrant out for his probation. when it did, officers went to arrest him. >> i was in the bathroom getting high.

i heard the doors open. i heard the keys and i knew i was busted. >> i hadn't plan on doing it the whole time i was in there. >> 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 i said, i thought you didn't have anything on you. he said, that is not on me, but that is in my wallet. >> now i'm in here with her unfortunately. it is funny how things work out. >> costa was charged with possession of a controlled 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 mean like i know we are going through the same thing. >> i feel weak without him. >> 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 a commitment to drug rehabilitation and rigorous testing. >> and the anger issues. >> and the jail offers its own road to sobriety for the inmates who agree to abide by a strict list of rules. >> this is our drc program. it's our drug rehabl taking center. >> it is the in-house treatment center and 90-day program for the people in the bergen county jail.

>> officer lopez is one of the supervisors of the drc. >> >> officer acakios is one of the officers who is in charge of the program. >> the gentlemen here wake up at 6:00 in the morning. >> no radios. right? >> 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. so for them it is military, but for anybody else, it is normal behavior. >> use your lockers, bact back books bathrooms now. and we have a lot of people coming in here thinking that the program is one way and after 90 days, they are totally different people. >> and thomas says he is a testament to it. >> it is nice 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 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 very difficult task. so the ability to get through it without being written up and/or kicked out is very important. 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, i will 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 grab two sets of blues. we'll change you up. 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. >> 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.

you know, like, 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. never one more time. 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. >> the hebrew bible goes opposite the american bible. >> and going opposite of the american -- >> and alyssa schlossberg returns to her religious roots. >> i did not lie to you. >> yes, she did, in a nutshell. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america.

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inside hackensack, bergen 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. thomas costa. >> i am in here and a useless -- >> and his girlfriend, alyssa schlossberg. they are both facing drug charges, and they are hoping to go the rehab in lieu of jail time. >> our crap mirror. >> 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 the mirror that it is not really who a lot of people. are. 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. it goes opposite of the american bible. >> i know that part. >> 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. >> there are big ceremonies. they get together and they have 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. >> schlossberg might have another motivation to the reawakening the jewish roots, and prior to visiting her, thomas costa gave her an inside tip about jail food. 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. >> this one is chicken and black beans. >> 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 get. >> people come in here to say they are kosher, because it is better food. allegedly. >> jews don't get anything. we don't get a synagogue in here.

>> and we have a roving religion, and he comes around with the jewish card and the protestant card and the catholic card. i'm kidding. >> you guys think it is funny, but i take the religious seriously. >> and it is the god's honest -- well, maybe not god, but allah 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 hashanah 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, but they hold religious studies with inmates. and while she says that her renewed interest in judaism is real, she admits that she is not above deceit.

>> i know how to 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. >> sometimes it's hard to choose, am i right? during the lesson, the rabbi notices that schlossberg's energy has begun to 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 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 today. >> oh, i didn't know that. >> and you did, too, schlossberg. don't play with him. >> i wasn't the one who said to it. 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? 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. >> and 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. >> okay. case closed. stepped back there. >> and alyssa schlossberg is sneaky and conniving and she will do anything to get 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. >> it's a good thing you told me. >> 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 schlossberg encounters an angry lieutenant. >> you know what i'm talking about, right? >> all right. i don't have amateur addicts, i have the real mccoys here. >> and the first drug rehab center ever opened inside of a new jersey correctional facility. >> the next time i stick a needle in my arm, i'm going to

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would have never thought that my life would have come to this. you know, 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 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 of respect, because he has put up with a lot of nonsense in this place. and people come in complaining about this and that.

i'm thankful. really thankful for him. he put that structure back in my life. >> 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 currently charged with possession of cocaine and hopes to take part in the program. she would have to plead guilty and then instead of jail or prison time, she would be sent into the rehabilitation facility, and she would have to follow the protocol and be subjected to the reporting for the period of her sentence.

>> i told them you didn't receive a tray today. >> and i did not. >> you know exactly what you said. >> she admits to lying to a rabbi to get an extra food tray. while it is not the most serious, the lieutenant decides 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 know. >> 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? right? >> yes, so does everyone else, because i am not the only one -- >> well -- >> it doesn't matter. >> i am the only one who gets yelled at. >> why do you think that is? >> you think that it's me? >> why do you think that is? >> well, i don't know why, because i'm not the only person.

>> you are 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 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 the fact that she's manipulating the system to get extra food and items, and that if she uses her faith to do it, it 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 treating me like my jail 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. costa in jail, and they are codependent on each other, and the need to communicate is overwhelming. >> alyssa schlossberg and thomas

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for men and women facing a variety of charges but also a drug rehabilitation >> in the early 1990s, center. >> we were the first correctional facility to open up a drug rehabilitation center. it's been very successful. 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 really 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 forgery, and he is three weeks into the program. >> it's a little boring. >> 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? >> the thrill. >> miss being on the streets and the rush that you get. i am not really missing my friends. you know. girls, and everybody is going to 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 parapar who is a few weeks from completing the program. >> we have a lot in common. we both used heroin and smoked >> he's a young cool kid. 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. 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 veins, and it was like an instant peak. it was wild. >> 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 heroin, amphetamines and oxycontin in the same needle and shot it. >> all in the same rig. >> it's crazy. >> i don't know how to describe that kind of high. have you ever shot vodka? >> no. parapar >> 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 centers before

this. >> i have never been to jail before this, and it sucks. i don't want to come back. toil jail again. the way i was doing drugs, 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. i know for a fact. my dad has almost given up on me. that's why i'm really -- 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 meen 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 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

drug rehab center, because of the past convictions involving violate crimes, but he says he has an addiction greater than heroin, his girlfriend alyssa schlossberg. >> i'm addicted to her more than any drug i put in my body. >> 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. as her, you know. >> 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. >> you are the only one for me. >> 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 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 break 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. >> 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 where inmates can order snacks or toiletries. from the jail kmisary.

>> 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. i put a couple of items on there that i knew she would key in on. >> 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 sugar, because he knows that i like that. >> and since the commissary orders are only filled on mondays, 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 and stuff, ways to let us know that we are thinking of each other. >> 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.

i've never seen so many numbers on there. so i am going down the list and writing them down and i write down alphabet, and then i realize that every number represents aler in the alphabet. >> and this 11 is the letter of the alphabet, and this word here spells out a word. it is p-l-e-a-s-e-g-e-t-m-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 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

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may i have your attention. we're having ran inspection. >> the bergen county jail rehabilitation center opened in

1995, and it was the first of its kind inside of a correctional facility. by your lockers. inspection for lockers. now 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 got to live in here too for eight hours. 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 many inmates. and in bergen county, one of the nation's prosperous counties, heroin has taken an unusual twist. >> you will see that the heroin users are unusually close to their moms. so that is why i call it the mama's 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.

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 don't look like it. i was a surgeon with a needle. >> 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 three weeks left, and so it is a 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 next 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 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 approaching his first month in the drug rehab center, aaron sofield. after the discomfort of fitting

into the bunk, and feeling bored. with yet another program. >> it is just boring and repettive. same stuff. same stuff. >> 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 jail. >> when we first got together, he would say that he loved me

plutonically. 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's w-h-a-t-s-u-p. he said "what's up" to me. >> they found out a way to send coded messages to each other by using the computers used to order commissary goods. >> these are my letters. nm. nothing much. you ok. we have a way of communicating. this is the first time in eight years that we've ever been separated. the longest was seven days maybe.

so i'm like waiting for friday. >> she told me that she has court on friday. i told her i have court on friday. it's going to be awkward know what i'm saying seeing her for the first time in a while, like schlossberg is charged with distribution of cocaine, and costa is already convicted of the same, plus three counts of aggravated assault. he's back in for parole violations that include 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'm going to complete what i'm starting. i know i'm going to. we lived his lifestyle. now we're 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 been. unfortunately. that's just -- i'm just being honest. i see me getting out of here, getting high, unfortunately. and if she's around me, whether she wants to or not, she'll probably go back to it too. >> i know he's 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 doesn't matter if he wants to get high, he's not going to. >> coming up -- >> the prosecutor and the judge told me i could leave, and the time served, you know. basically, it's get out. >> aaron sofield asked to stay in jail, while thomas costa and alyssa schlossberg make important decisions about their futures as well. you start at point "a," then give it your all to make a difference. and when you make it to point "b," you realize you had even more to give. capella university can help you do more

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let me give you another view of what's going on outside my window. because this is normally my view anyway.

and i don't know if i normally look outside of my window, but to give you a peek. real quick, know what i'm saying? see that that right there that's the pond, right? well, every morning i see ducks swimming by and stuff. it's like a little nature channel for me. it's the small things you start appreciating 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 obviously not on the streets. so this is my entertainment. got a groundhog that comes out of that hole down there, see him every morning. he gets under that fence somehow. envy that, i definitely envy that groundhog. >> thomas costa might have a new view, as his stay at the bergen county jail appears to be coming to an end. he recently went to court, and along with catching a glimpse of his girlfriend, alyssa schlossberg, he was given some good news about his recent probation violations. they were combined with his

current sentence and he was given a choice between prison or rehab. >> i was either going downstate for five years or taking a drug program. i got a long-term inpatient, which is six months. still waiting to hear if i got accepted into the one program i did apply to. >> schlossberg also had good news from her judge. she pled guilty to her charges of distributing cocaine and was sentenced to the state's drug court program for a period of five years. if she completes the rigorous program that includes inpatient drug rehab 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 was writing. just like i do every day. i write faithfully. i wrote her. but she's not going to get that letter -- actually, she'll probably get it around today. what i hear, it's a five-day blackout period. >> aaron sofield continues to deal with his addiction, and the jail's drug rehabilitation

center. >> aaron sofield's growth was amazing. he came in with the attitude, maybe i'll do this program. from that day, just progressed into, wow, i do have a problem. i do have something in my life isn't going the 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 this program, which i thought was important. a lot of people will not do that. >> i have court two weeks ago, i think. the prosecutor and judge told me i could leave. time served, you know. basically -- get out. my stomach told me, i couldn't leave. i was only here like 30 days. every other program i've been to, 30 days, i was right back to the same thing. running the streets. it's not good. i want to get this to work this time. i don't want to have to do this again. >> to accommodate his request, the judge gave him a longer sentence than he normally 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 i've learned is that i can't do it by myself. my thinking has changed since i've been in here. i totally don't think the same way i did when i first came in here. >> aaron has a better chance than most of the guys we have in here. he has a very supportive large family. he's bright, he's got college, he has a driver's license, a place to live, a car. that's more than many of the people who leave here have. getting better is making a decision. it doesn't just happen. it's saying, you know, i'm not going to pick up a drink or a drug, i'm going to get the help i need. >> yes, sir. >> all right, good luck. and we'll see you. we'll see you during the week, okay? >> yes, sir. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> today i might know i don't want to use. tomorrow's tomorrow. the 90 days in here i know i'm not going to use because i can't. once i walk out on the 91st day, then it's all on me. nobody else can tell me what to do, where to go. how to act.

they tried, don't work. so i'm not 100% sure. i'm not.

due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. i'm trying to make it easy. >> a distraught inmate is placed in the jail's restraint chair. >> i can't breathe. >> now staff must unravel the mystery of what has him so upset. >> how much time have you done in this jail >> 21 years. >> a familiar face struggles to exit the jail's revolving door but there's a catch. >> he's islamic and wants to go into a c