i look at that as bergen county jail. some of the hardened criminals like the dirty, dingy kind of jail and won't find it here. >> right here in bergen county jail, there are good, good people. just straight up real. >> with seven prior stays, enrique cruz qualifies as the jail's unofficial tour guide. >> spanish harlem over this [ bleep ] except for the white boy in the back. he down with them. he cool, dude. that's spanish harlem. you got up town over here. [ bleep ] up town [ bleep ]. sit down, man. stay still. >> over a period of 26 years cruz has spent time not only in bergen county but several other new jersey jails and prisons for dozens of convictions. they include assault, distribution of drugs, burglary, illegal possession of fire arms, criminal sexual contact, and endangering the welfare of a child. >> so y'all came in here last week you would have saw me over in that corner smoking my weed [ bleep ] but you came this week. i ain't got no more. you know? >> cruz is now back on a charge of drug possession with in

later, collins has changed back into the dress she was wearing when she was booked into the bergen county jailbut she's also in cuffs and shackles. an officer escorts her to a waiting van from the gloucester county sheriff's office, where she will face new charges for fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> ms. quevas, do you want to explain to me why i should not put you in prison? >> i'm tired of getting high. >> and you weren't tired before when i gave you a five-year prison sentence before? >> a drug addicted mother asks a judge to keep her out of prison. >> tell my dude look for someone who has collateral. >> just brought in on drug charges, a young man attempts to make bail. while anothe

the bergen county jail. >> ain't nobody in this county from this county. c crazy. i'm from trenton, new jersey. >> 65% are out of county residents. a lot are for drugs. they use bergen county because its use of artery highways. >> most of the roughly 900 inmates housed have been accused of crimes and awaiting trial under the resolution of their cases. like many, deanna collins is not only from somewhere else, philadelphia, she's also facing drug charges and unique in another way. >> what happened to your hand. >> really? it was a process. >> at the beauty parlor? >> yeah. i had a chemical treatment. i was supposed to be doing body wave and changing my hair color and they ended up singing off my hair. now that i look like this, i look like such a scum bag and not the kind of person you want to pull for. >> looks like it hurts. >> it does. it hurts my pride. it hurts everything. >> collins says things got worse soon after. she was arrested on multiple counts of obtaining prescription drugs through fraud. distributing prescription drugs and forgery. she has pled not gu

bergen county, new jersey ranks among america's wealthiest communities. its largest city is hackensack. just outside downtown is its own crossroads of the world. but virtually no one comes to the bergen county jail looking for good times. >> peanut butter and jelly. i ain't 10 years old. >> most of the men and women here have only been charged with crimes and awaiting resolution of their cases. >> to your cells. put it down. to your cells, let's go. >> having spent nearly two years in the jail's maximum security unit as his case moves through the court, david has picked up a new skill or two. >> when i was locked in the cell by myself, they let me have art activities. you got this for origami. i used to make ducks, flowers, birds, planes, like a butterfly, dinosaurs, frogs, everything. flower. i was kind of rushing it, but that's the basic idea. >> i've been doing this job over 22 years. i believe david is one of the most dangerous inmates we've dealt with here. he's very intelligent. can be very narcissistic and can be manipulative to the point where he can convince you of just about anything. >> staff realize that to deal with him is to deal with contradiction. the same hands that create delic

later, collins has changed back into the dress she was wearing when she was booked into the bergen county jail, but she's also in cuffs and shackles. an officer escorts her to a waiting van from the gloucester county sheriff's office, where she will face new charges for fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> a sadistic murder transforms the jail. >> he was sodomized, peed on, spit on, boiling water poured on him. he was tortured. >>> a roller derby queen takes a hard fall. >> i have kids, and i need to be with them, you know? this ain't cool no more. >>> and one inmate realizes that even a good day in jail can have a dark side.

collins is already in custody, the detective processes her for these new charges right at the bergen county jailhe will remain until her current charges are resolved. and with outstanding warrants from other counties, collins knows she could have similar visits in the future. >> i have done bad things in a lot of places. so they are finally catching on to my bad things. they are issuing a warrant for my arrest, something that breaks my heart every day. i've done something that only my face is on camera doing. >> over in the men's maximum security unit, sean stark is still dealing with the fact that, if found guilty, he could spend decades in prison for a police shootout for which he was not directly involved. >> i'm stressing a lot. i don't know what's going on with my case. i went to court. they just read me my charges and brought me back over here. >> since he was the last known owner of the gun robert leonardes allegedly used to shoot at hackensack police officers, stark has been charged with possession of a handgun while committing a crime. his new cellmate, james george has advice for him.

later, collins has changed back into the dress she was wearing when she was booked into the bergen county jail but she's also in cuffs and shackles. an officer escorts her to a waiting van from the gloucester county sheriff's office, where she will face new charges for fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ >>> i guess some people look at you and don't like you for some reason. they just target in on you. >> a new inmate tries to adjust to life in jail. >> my bunky before, he kidnapped somebody at gunpoint, so you just -- you don't know who you're sleeping with. >> but he finds himself with a target on his back and the victim of

there are about 900 men and women incarcerated inside 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 coming into our facility for heroin, prescription drugs and octiony codeine and that sort of thing, but heroine is making a huge comeback and not just in the suburbs or the urban area, but all areas. >> alyssa schlossberg look no further than her own skin of heroine'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

in the city's bergen county jail about 15% of the inmates are gang affiliated. hile most are divided among racial lines, the dominant gang here has found strength in diversity. >> the predominant gang inside bergen county jail is united blood nation. they recruit anybody. they believe in numbers. it's a numbers game for them. there could be bloods from different ethnic backgrounds, black, white, hispanic. when i worked in the state prison system i actually had a blood gang member who was a hindu. their willingness to accept anybody into their gang is what makes them the most dangerous. >> why? >> because we don't know where they're coming from. >> sometimes blood members don't even know each other. one blood everyone seems to know is michael bates, who has just met with his attorney, and is not pleased with what he has learned. >> i got to go to trial now. >> why? >> they're throwing double digit figures at me. i don't want it. i'm not taking it. if i got to do some time like that they got to give it to me. i'm not pleading guilty to nothing. >> bates has pled no

county jail. some hardened jails like the dirty grungy jail. they won't find that here. >> in bergenounty jail, good people that are real. >> enrique qualifies as the jail's unofficial tour guide. >> this spanish harlem there. except for the white boy in the back, he down with them. spanish harlem. uptown here, uptown. sit your ass down, man. >> over a period of 26 years, cruz spent time not only in bergen county but several other prisons for dozens of convictions, they include assault, distribution of drugs, illegal possession of firearms, criminal sexual contact. and endangering the welfare of a child. >> y'all would have came here last week, you would have saw me in the corner smoking my weed. but you can't this week, i ain't got no more, you know? >> cruz is back on a charge of drug possession with intent to distribute in a school zone. he pled not guilty, is awaiting trial. >> one thing i am, i am a fighting master. i will address your ass up real good. you give me a blade or a burner, i make a masterpiece. >> there's nothing -- officers, inmates, whatever you wanted to call the

now back to "lockup." >>> inside the walls of the bergen county jail, an officer has just received a last friday was my 16th year in corrections. i've never really been threatened. it was written on my name, p. burke, you need to move him out of the unit before something bad happens to him. >> the threat to officer burke was written on an inmate request form and left in the law library drop box. >> i look at it as someone this there may not like the fact that i run things tight, and wrote that to try and get me pulled out of there. >> staff already have a suspect in mind, jesus enrique marte. >> the way he speaks is similar to the way this letter is written. but that could have been a ploy by the inmate who wrote the letter. >> i swear to god i ain't wrote that. why would i threaten somebody for? i'm already in a lot of trouble with my case. >> you could say yes, that was me, or the whole unit gets shut down because we have to find exactly what's going on. >> it wasn't me. >> we're going to go into south three and do a shakedown. you're threatening one of our officers, it's our jail.

new jersey, an increase in heroine use has led to both new arrests and smuggling inside the bergen county jailf have now been alerted to the presence of another drug. >> there's been rumors going around about suboxone, which is a synthetic type of heroine, sent into the jail, and i'm going to talk to inmate battaglia, see if he knows anything about it. >> nick battaglia, has spent the last seven days in disciplinary segregation after he was caught smuggling a small amount of heroine into the jail. >> what's up, man? >> nothing. what's up? >> you remember me? >> yeah. >> what happened? >> i was found guilty. >> did you know about it? >> like i said, i didn't know the content. i knew that he asked, but i didn't know the contents. i never did heroine. >> never did heroine? >> no. >> what about all the suboxone? >> that was -- it was there for a while. but -- i don't know, man. >> how -- how did you get the suboxone in? >> are they going to reduce my sentence? >> what sentence? >> my ten-day sentence. >> it's ten days. you already got freaking seven in. what are you worried about? >> because it's

. >> bates will now take to to trial but he'll stay in bergen county jail. >> i believe michael bates is highest ranking member in the jail. >> michael bates is the real deal. he throws his weight around here. >> i hold a high rank around here, o.g., original gangster. i don't stab people in prison, i don't orchestrate riots i've been in every prison in the state of new jersey except other than state. everybody knows me. my word is golden. they don't hear my audio. they see my ved video. all i have to do is send an order and it's carried out. or if i want somebody stabbed, it's going to get done. >> recently, the self-proclaimed minister of defense is transferred into the same housing unit as bates. enrique cruz says he came on his own volition. >> i go, come when i want. >> he thinks he can dictate how he moves in this facility. we move him around a lot so he gets the idea he can pick and choose where he gets, which is not the case. >> cruz says he came on assignment to investigate bates and has no problem saying so right in front of bates. >> one of my punks had a complaint against

inmate battaglia and his cellmate were in cahoots in an attempt to get the heroin in. >> at the bergen county jail this call may be monitored or recorded. >> the jail says it has phone recordings of battaglia and his cellmate setting up the scheme. >> in this particular case, some information was developed through the use of the phone system to conclusively determine that he said two gentlemen were trying to bring in heroin into the facility utilizing the mail and mail system into the jail. >> all right, so we'll call battaglia back in and we'll let him know that we have concrete proof that he's involved in this and if he's willing to tell us how much involvement he had, if he's going to let us know he'll get less time. if he's going deny it and keep continually saying he doesn't know he'll get the maximum. >> according to disciplinary guidelines, the panel could cut battaglia in segregation for up to 15 days. >> i just want to let you know that we have concrete evidence that your roommate was setting this whole thing up and you were involved, you were right there involved. what i want to try to e