religious roots. >> i did not lie to you. >> yes, she did, in a nutshell. >>> 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. >> and two of the inmates are 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. >> 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. 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 catho

make more happen. >>> doing time behind the walls of the bergen county jail in hackensack, new jersey is the last place michael bates wanted to be today. not only did he recently complete a nine-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, he's now awaiting trial on two new counts of aggravated assault. if that's not bad enough, today is his birthday and all he has is a gift from another inmate. >> he told me happy birthday and gave me toilet tissue with my name on it and gave me some of these. >> having served time before, bates knows this is no random collection of items. they're to make a device known in jail as a fifi. >> you could get a towel or whatever and you roll this up. you roll the towel up real tight and you take the glove and you stuff them inside the towel. then you take vaseline and you throw the vaseline in between the towel, the gloves, and it's called a fifi. and -- >> bates says he has more important concerns on his mind. he has a 12-year-old son that he has missed out on raising due to the years he spent behind bars. >> i'm supposed to show him exactly what

democrat john perez for controller. >>> inside hackensack bergen county jail, officer domenico recentlycovered strips of heroine inside a greeting card mailed to nick battaglia. >> you have 800 other inmates you're dealing with here. you need somebody to be sane. and the drug is going to, obviously, incapacitate somebody and make them not act appropriately. >> battaglia denies any knowledge of the card and suspects his cell mate might be behind the card. they will conduct internal disciplinary hearings starting with battaglia's cell mate, who has requested anonymity. >> there was a birthday card sent into the facility through the mail. the birthday card was tampered with. there was actually four bags of heroine in between the two birthday cards. the birthday card had the "e" number of your roommate. so, can you make a statement on what your involvement is with this or -- >> i have no involvement at all with that. at all. only involvement i can see me having is being his celly. >> are you aware of him doing this? >> i was not aware of anything like that. >> so, you had no involvement wit

>>> bergen county, new jersey, is ranked as one of the most prosperous communities in the united states. but behind the walls at the bergen county jail in hackensack is a very different world. in the maximum security unit, surprise searches for contraband are a regular part of life. >> shake-downs here in the bergen county jail are performed on a continuous but sporadic basis. it's to catch the inmates off guard. >> spread your legs. >> i personally like that they get too comfortable being anywhere. i consider it my house, you're a visitor. you get in there, too comfortable, too bad. >> we're looking for contraband. >> he use as a weapon. grab somebody from behind. >> contraband can go from as far as a weapon and it also goes to excess. inmates can buy a newspaper, if they have 50 weeks of newspapers, it's got to go. >> these guys are here for a long term. they accumulate more stuff. >> today julio flores will lose some excess items in his cell. >> back it up. >> inmates are allowed only two pencils in a cell, anything over that is confiscated. >> how many pencils do you think you lost here today? >> irlost like six, seven pencils. it's very impor

how tomorrow moves. >>> inside hackensack, new jersey's, bergen county jail, the officer recently discovered strips of heroin con sealed inside a greeting card mailed no inmate nick battaglia. >> can cause a potential problem because you have 800 other inmates you're dealing with here, and you need somebody to be sane, and the drug is going to obviously incapacitate somebody and make them not act appropriately. >> battaglia denies any knowledge of the card and has told staff he suspects his cellmate might have been behind the scheme. jail officials have conducted an investigation and decided not to pursue criminal charges but conducting internal disciplinary hearings, starting with battaglia's cellmate. >> there was a birthday card sent to the facility through the mail. the card was tampered with. there was actually four bags of heroin in between the two birthday cards. the birthday card a had the are number their e number of your roommate. >> i have no involvement at all with that. i can see me having being in the cell. >> are you aware of him doing this? >> i was not aware of anything like

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 4 years old. >> most of the roughly 800 men and 50 women here have only been charged with crimes and awaiting resolution of their cases. >> gentlemen, to yourselves. go, fellows, put it down. to yourselves. let's go. >> having spent nearly two years in the jail's maximum security unit as his case moves through the courts, david goodell 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. it would have came out a little bit better. i was kind of rushing it, but that's the basic idea. >> i've been doing this job over 22 years. i believe david goodell is potentially one of the most dangerous inmates we've ever dealt with here. he's very intelligent. he can be narcissistic, self-grandizing and he can be manipulative to the point where he can convi

hackensack, new jersey bergen county jail is not only a detention center for men and women facing a varietys it is a drug rehabilitation center. >> we were the first in new jersey to open a male drug rehabilitation center. it has been very successful. several years ago we opened a female drug rehabilitation center that has eight beds. that also has been successful. >> since the jab jail has more men than women, the male side houses 30 inmates. >> i don't have amateur addicts. i have the real mccoys here. i have guys that live on the street, highway patrolless. i don't have your weekend warrior. i have the everyday user. those are the people we need to help right now, stop the revolving door from coming in and out of jails and hopefully save money down the road for taxpayers. >> aaron sofield is admitted heroin addict and three weeks in to the 90-day program. >> little boring, same stuff, same stuff. i have been through two rehabs before so i know what it is all about. >> what do you miss? >> the thrill, running around. miss the rush that you get. i'm really not missing my friends, you know.

reviews, tripadvisor makes any destination better. >>> new inmates are booked into the bergen county jail in hackensack week. most will arrive in a police squad car. but today one is driven into the compound by an ambulance from a nearby hospital. and due to the nature of his charges, robert leonardes's reputation has preceded him. >> at the end of the day you hear a fellow officer got shot at, it sticks with you. you're going to look at that guy differently than you would a guy who's here for a parking ticket. >> any crime involving law enforcement, we take a little more personally. especially when it's someone being shot at. >> you have to put your emotions aside. you can't let your emotions dictate what you do. so i mean, yeah, you think about it. it affects you. but it's -- you still have a job to do at the end. >> one month earlier, leonardes was out on bail for a prior aggravated assault charge. police say he shot at three hackensack officers who fired back, hitting leonardes 14 times. >> a shot in my hand. shot in my arm. i'm still healing up, going through a lot of pain and problems. i had open