and throwing up, you know what i mean? yeah. what were you doing on the streets that caused you to be on suboxone in here? pills. what? i was doing like three a day. you re a good guy. i can see it. sure. you are, man. spread the word out there for me? spread like wildfire. good? i m good. investigators later cleared nunez from having anything to do with the suboxone mail to him. they concluded that he was most likely victimized by another inmate who would eventually steal the letter from him. ready? all right. you re going to cell four. pack your stuff. but nick battaglia says he knows full well about the illicit suboxone trade inside the jail. i had the suboxone brought in so i could support myself, you know, i made a little bit of money but i also took it regularly.
being you cooperated somewhat, we re going to give you ten days in lock, all right? so you re done. good to go. all right. i felt like just cooperating. i don t know. just seemed like the better thing to do at the time. my bunky. i m done with him. we can t associate anymore. while battaglia s relations in the jail might have landed him in segregation, william bernard s have resulted in violence. he was recently assaulted in his housing unit. what happened was an inmate polanco and rivera assaulted inmate bernard as he walked up the stairs. they got him at the first couple stairs. bernard was already on the ground. definitely was out of it. once it was called out, we were probably inside less than a minute after the fight was called out. bernard was laying on or sitting on the ground, looked dazed. once the officer saw it, they both ran away. gomez ran to his cell and rivera ran to his cell.
inmate tattoo on his wrist. since tattooing violates jail rules, bernard is confined to a disciplinary cell he now shares with lewis pizzi. i wanted to represent bronze star or a general star to symbolize the military, because i know a lot of the guys that had passed away had gotten bronze stars, medals of valor, quite a few got purple hearts before they even got killed, so i wanted to go along those lines. and i ll probably get a tattoo of a purple heart later on down the road. bernard says he chose the star to honor men he served with in the army, who had lost their lives. he also has a new war wound of his own, or in this case, a busted lip. from a fight with another inmate. but he says this time, he stood up for himself. and it even seems to have improved his stutter. he tried to man-handle me, grabbed me by my throat. that didn t work. and he punched me. i told him to stop.
together, we re building a better california. inside hackensack bergen county jail, officer domenico recently discovered strips of heroine inside a greeting card mailed to inmate 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 has told staff he suspects his cell mate might be behind the card. they will conduct internal
it was a little chaotic. for the most part i tried to be nonconfrontational as much as possible. it s not what i prefer, but, unfortunately, i m put in i m put into a situation that there s really not too much i can do. from what i understand, inmate rivera and inmate polanco believe bernard was working with a police agency. since they thought he was snitching, they decided to assault him. both the inmates who attacked bernard were placed in disciplinary segregation. one of them, rafael riviera, says bernard, whose nickname is whitey, had it coming. let me tell you, whitey don t have no friends. because he s a [ bleep ] snitch. working for the police. because he working for the police, every spot that he s going, he going to get [ bleep ] up. and i bet you that [ bleep ] is gonna happen.