favorite pictures, too. william bernard, also known as whitey, says battaglia is one of his few friends on the unit. me and whitey, we re friendly. he s good people. he s white, so i like him. i mean, i m not racist, but just have my set ways. bernard says he s growing more confident these days. along with his new mohawk, he s learned new ways to get by. like trading commissary items. everything s for sale. everything. everything has a price. even these little packets of sugar. get ten of these, it s worth $1. three of the oatmeals are worth two soups. i give you a haircut for that one. i would give you a haircut for free. i just got my hair cut. my hair looks good. i woke up one morning and i didn t want to get out of bed. i was just depressed. just wanted, like, some type of
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 believed inmate bernard was working with some sort of 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 something. 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 going to happen. people don t play no game.
i was armed and tried to kill you. they walked into the house armed. they could have shot and killed me. they could have. did you ever think of that? yeah, they could have. william bernard gets a visit from the man who had him arrested, his father. wondering, what if? i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it s been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. and is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if you ve ever had hepatitis b, which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during and after harvoni treatment. tell your doctor if you ve ever had hepatitis b, a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv or any other medical conditions and about all the medicines you take including her
life inside the bergen county jail has been tough enough for william bernard. he says fights and harassment by other inmates has caused his stutter to worsen and sent him into panic attacks. he believes frequent visits to medical for anxiety treatments have led some inmates to believe he s an informant. now charged with threatening to kill his father and assaulting the police officers who came to arrest him, he s consumed by thoughts of spending up to 20 years in prison if found guilty. i m just afraid my father will get on the stand and testify against me. i think that would be a really strong point in a case, especially with a jury. and just just that thought alone that i can get a ridiculous amount of time for something that i didn t do, really, really just that thought throws me almost completely over over the edge.
not even the inmate worker who used to cut his hair. my barber, he stabbed somebody 27 times. they wound up taking him out of the unit. then he bailed out of there and got in a fire fight with police officers and got shot seven times. my bunky before kidnapped somebody at gunpoint. was doing all types of drugs. he was doing robberies. so you just you don t know who you re sleeping with. one of the times bernard does leave his cell is to perform his duties as a unit maintenance worker. but he says even that led to trouble when another inmate got angry because bernard threw away the lid to his soup bowl. he came up behind me and just smacked me and smacked all the stuff out of my hands so it went all over the floor. because of his fear of being a snitch, bernard says he does not report his harassment to staff. and he says it was another set of problems in the free world that put him in this predicament.