. >> dawn breland is the inmate advocate for the bergen county sheriff's office. >> hopefully be ablehem. let them contact you. thank you. have a good day. >> while not a lawyer, she provides resources to inmates as they prepare their cases and often interacts on their behalf with family members, drug counselors and attorneys. >> sometimes i don't like the title so much because it sounds like i'm in between the inmates and officers, and i'm not. i actually want what the officers want, which is peace. i want peace for the inmates. i want peace for everybody. >> i just like to keep the anxiety down. you know? >> okay. >> many of the inmates were very frustrated. majority of them have public defenders but they're not seeing their public defenders because they have lots of clients. they're feeling helpless. so this way we allow them to participate in their own defense. >> tell me what we need today. >> i need to check up on my case, cases that are similar to mine to try to find any loopholes or see what kind of time i might be facing. >> okay. so what i'm going to do is i'm going to look