>> when i was using alcohol and drugs, i used to actually beat up somebody or something like that and go to sleep because, you know, you pass out from the alcohol. i'd pass out. >> he was once sentenced to 25 years in prison. and it was during that time that he says he changed his life by getting involved in alcoholics and narcotics anonymous. >> i started going to naa, aa meetings in prison and started going to church. the only thing i wanted to be around, if you weren't spiritual or talked about something positive, i didn't want to be bothered with you. >> jones was eventually paroled and found a place to live and work at the noah house. a residential drug treatment program in tampa, florida. but one day when he took a shortcut on the way home from work through a hole in a fence, he was arrested and sent back to jail for trespassing. >> when they handcuffed me, as soon as they put them handcuffs on me, i cannot lie, you know. as much as i've been through, i didn't think i'd do it, but tears started coming to my eyes.