aaron sofield continues to deal with his addiction, and the drug s rehabilitation center. aaron sofield s growth was amazi amazing. he came in the attitude of maybe i will do that program, but from that day, it progressed to wow, i do have a problem. i do have something in my life that is not going to right way, and i need to change it around. in fact, sofield who was in jail on a theft conviction recently turned down a chance of freedom in order to complete the program. he went to court, and he told the judge that he wanted to stay in the program which i thought was important. a lot of people will not do that. i have court on two weeks ago and the pros ecutor and the jude told me to leave and time served, and you know, basically, get out. my stomach, i knew i could not leave, because i have been here 30 days, and every other program, it was 30 days and right back to the same thing, and right back on the streets and not good. i want this to work this time. i don t want to hav
am starting. i know i am going to. we have lived his lifestyle, but we are going to live mine. but costa is not sure that change is on the horizon. it is not going to be any different than the recent past has beench. it is the way of the past and i see myself getting high again when i get out of here, and whether she wants to or not, she will, too. i know that he is going to complete this program for me, because he knows that i don t want to be away from him ever again after this. it does not matter if he wants to get high, because he is not going to. coming up the prosecutor and the judge told me i could leave, and the time served, and basically, get out. aaron sofield asked to stay in jail, while thomas costa and alyssa schlossberg make important decisions about their futures as well. salmon and ene. but the energy bp produces up here salmon and ene. creates something else as well: jobs all over america.
hackensack, new jersey s bergen county jail. it is not just a lockup center, but also a drug rehabilitation center. we were the first correctional facility to open up a drug rehabilitation center. a couple of years ago we opened up a female drug rehabilitation center which has eight beds, and that is also successful. since it has more men than women, the men s side houses 18 inmates. i don t have amateur addicts burk the real mccoys. i have guys that live on the street and homeless, and i don t have the weekend warrior, and i have the everyday user. those are the people that we need to help right now to stop the revolving doors from coming in and out of the jails and save some money down the road for the taxpayers. aaron sofield is an admitted heroin addict awaiting sentence for theft and fornl ri, a nnd -
and you leave the other one in there. and you have the key, right? i was addicted to heroin twice a day. i had about $200 a day, and 50 bags a day. it affected myself and my family, and i heard this is the best program in the state to be clean. luckily, i got arrested to get into here. my life was good. i have a great family. i had a great job. i stole from my family, and they don t trust me. they gave me so many chances, and this is the last chance, because if i don t succeed here, i don t have any family backing me up, and i come from a big family, and i will be out on my own, and i don t want that. sofield has plead guilty to theft and forgery and awaiting sentencing. he has had several prior convictions for drug possession as well. you guys, this is aaron. welcome.
i m 29 years old, and i would have never thought that my life would have come to this. you know, i i lived a pretty good life growing up. family loved me, and people cared about me and a lot of friends. i had a girlfriend for the past four years. we broke up about eight months ago because of my using. i was engaged to her. and just, i chose the drugs i chose the drugs over her. aaron sofield continues to do time in the bergen county jail s drug rehabilitation center while