have, 180 days. but sofield is eligible for early release upon successfully completing the program. what have you learned in here about addiction? the main thing i ve learned is that i can t do it by myself. my thinking has changed since i ve been in here. i totally don t think the same way i did when i first came in here. aaron has a better chance than most of the guys we have in here. we has a very supportive large family. he s bright, he s got college, he has a driver s license, a place to live, a car. that s more than many of the people who leave here have. getting better is making a decision. it doesn t just happen. it s saying, you know, i m not going to pick up a drink or a drug, i m going to get the help i need. yes, sir. all right, good luck. and we ll see you. we ll see you during the week, okay? yes, sir. thank you. thank you. today i might know i don t want to use. tomorrow s tomorrow.
officer lopez is one of the supervisors of the drc. let s not get lax. the gentlemen here wake up at 6:00 in the morning. should there be no radios, right, in group? and a lot of people who are not used to the structure think that it s military. we don t run it like that, but i say things one time, and i expect it to be done. for them that s military, for anybody else, that s normal behavior. and we have a lot of people come in here thinking this program is one way and after 90 days they re totally different people. william says he can testify to that. it s a good feeling to have my spirit come back to life because i was dead coming in here. serving four months for theft and robbery, he s about to complete the 90-day program. in a few days he ll be released from jail and continue his recovery in a residential drug treatment program. today drug abuse counselor sam watson will honor his achievement with a special
facility. it s kind of funny. but if they don t have their keys on them or their locks on their lockers or if they leave the books out or chairs down, we want them focused, we want them thinking. we don t want them too comfortable. we want them always working on themselves. sofield, however, faces an additional challenge. i m 6 3 and my feet hit this thing when i try to sleep. you wake up every time you try to turn. it s freezing. i fall asleep and have drug dreams. that s just natural. if you re not having drug dreams, then you re not using drugs. sofield has battled addiction to heroin over the past several years and believes if he doesn t get clean this time, he ll lose the support of his family and everything else he values. mr. lopez, the co in charge of the program, i give him a lot of respect. he s put up with a lot of [ bleep ] nonsense in this place. people coming to him complaining about this, complaining about that. but i m thankful, really
streets and steal and rob for it. sometimes i ve heard cases in here where the mother actually drives them to the spot where they pick up their heroin. that s why it s a mama s boy drug for me. at 22 years old michael still have boyish looks but said he mother didn t pay for heroin and said she didn t realize he was shooting. hit the same spot about a hundred times. even my mom was my mom never knew i was doing heroin because i never left track marks. he said he started using heroin at age 15. he was well on his way to completing the center s rehab program but recently he signed himself out in order to avoid being kicked out and is back in general population. this is my cell. i m really mad at myself because i only had three weeks left. so that s kind of a bummer.
inside hackensack, new jersey s bergen county jail, inmates were allowed digital cameras for about an hour or so. the purpose was to allow them to record any intimate thoughts of their lives in privacy. two of those inmates are thomas costa and his girlfriend alyssa schlossberg. they re both facing drug charges and hope to be assigned to a rehab program in lieu of more jail or prison time. our crappy ass mirror, but it s cool. you can actually see me better through the camera through the mirror, which is weird. but i don t know, maybe it s a reason why people can t see their real self through this mirror. that it s not really who a lot of people are. because it s not how i look when i am who i am.