. >> convicted of armed robbery, bernard jones has been incarcerated for 3 1/2 years and is currently appealing his case. >> i got to use the bathroom around other brothers. there aren't no separation. ain't no shower curtain. that means, when i'm taking a bath, i got a dude walking by. >> tempers can flare at any moment so officers are required to make hourly security checks. >> everything all right? all right. normally you look for cracks on the bars, check the bars, check the locks, make sure that everything is secured. look inside the cells, make sure that the inmate population isn't doing anything that they aren't supposed to. >> since drugs are frequently smuggled into this jail, specially-trained canine units are brought in to find them. corporal perez is the canine handler for miami-dade corrections and frequently conducts cell searches with his dog, sandy. >> we found a pound one day. another day we did, like, three quarters of a pound of marijuana here. so it is coming in. from itty bitty amounts from one-tenth of a gram up to a pound. >> often searches turn up other dangero

. ♪ >> when we met bernard jones at the miami-dade county jail, the aspiring rapper was anticipating had been incarcerated nearly four years while appealing a life sentence for armed robbery. >> what's your best moment of being here? >> it's hard for me to say that because i have a problem keeping my hands off my areas. the best moment of the week is when i can get me a visit. so i can see a little something because it gets hard in here. i get tired of seeing men every day. so when i get chance to see a beautiful woman -- can't look at the officers too much. that's against the rules. if she is beautiful, i ain't even got the right to tell her, you're beautiful, how you doing? i got to wait to see something of my own. tell her you're beautiful. that's when i get my moment on thursdays and saturdays. thursdays and saturdays. >> well, i think the visit means a lot for him, because if i don't come or no one don't come, he's going to be mad. >> bernard's girlfriend angela has only know him behind bars. it turns out they had met four months earlier on a blind date of sorts. >> my brother i

. >> to tell us more about what's done and how, we're joined by jeff jones the founder of decorate a vet and bernardtull a veteran. guys, good to have you here with us, jeff, how did this get started? tell us. >> well, it really started out of my business and doing some landscaping work in falls church area. and just sort of noticing that some of the homes of our veterans just needed a little bit of a spruceup. so we joined together with some local companies and started decorate a vet. >> now bernard you're one of the recipients of the spruce up, what are they doing with your home? >> oh lord, they came in and made it -- spruced it up plus. made the great improvements in it. >> and how does it feel? >> ha ha. well, i've been chuckling a lot. yes, it's very joyful. it's -- a heck of a holiday gift. >> and jeff, you are also partnering with angie's list for this. why did you take on a partner and how much more can you do for people like bernard with a partner? >> well, angie's list was critical for our group and really here in year, it was sort of our -- this year, it was sort of our test run with ang