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Of the bergen county jail in hackensack, new jersey is the last place michael bates wanted to be today. not only did he recently complete a nine-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, hes now awaiting trial on two new counts of aggravated assault. if thats not bad enough, today is his birthday and all he has is a gift from another inmate. >> he told me happy birthday and gave me toilet tissue with my name on it and gave me some of these. >> having served time before, bates knows this...

To be today. not only did he recently complete a nine-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, hes now awaiting trial on two new counts of aggravated assault. if thats not bad enough, today is his birthday and all he has is a gift from another inmate. >> he told me happy birthday and gave me toilet tissue with my name on it and gave me some of these. >> having served time before, bates knows this is no random collection of items. theyre to make a device known in jail as a fifi. >> you ...

Not only did he recently complete a nine-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, hes now awaiting trial on two new counts of aggravated assault. if thats not bad enough, today is his birthday and all he has is a gift from another inmate. >> he told me happy birthday and gave me toilet tissue with my name on it and gave me some of these. >> having served time before, bates knows this is no random collection of items. theyre to make a device known in jail as a fifi. >> you could get a t...

Different jails we go to. one of the words was fifi. >> we heard the term used in indiana. >> these men are lonely. they make what is called a fifi which is -- its a glove and some other items and they call it their lady. thats the nicest way to put it without getting beeped off of msnbc. >> we kept hearing this word fifi and it was coming up in conversations but no one would admit to having one. >> we heard the term in tampa, florida. >> i cant make a fifi. i cant get my hands to make no fifi. ...

What happens when the tent flaps go down is one of the things is they do is the male inmates make homemade sexual pleasure devices. >> today you asked what a fifi ask is i do not use them because i dont have that much time in here. >> we thought about it and figured it might be in bad taste to show you how one of these devices is made. but suffice it to say it takes only a few items and they are legally accessible by any inmate. >> what do you do with them when you find one? >> i dont touch it i...

Nationwide. >> sometimes theres words or terms that are universally wide at each location we film at. one of the words is fifi. >> we heard the term used in indiana. >> these men are lonely. they make what is called a fifi which is -- its a glove and some other items and they call it their lady. thats the nicest way to put it without getting beeped off of msnbc. >> we kept hearing this word fifi and it was coming up in conversations but no one would admit to having one. >> we heard the term in t...

>> we were shooting nighttime shots at tent city and there is quite a contrast between tent city during the day when people are working and going about their business and tent city at night. what happens when the tent flaps go down is one of the things is they do is the male inmates make homemade sexual pleasure devices. >> today you asked what a fifi is i do not use them because i dont have that much time in here. >> we thought about it and figured it might be in bad taste to show you how one o...

With plastic spoons. >> my glasses broke and can you give me another spoon? thank you. so im going to have to bend this. you bite it. when we bite it we make a hole. and we put the hole into here. there we go. now we got them fixed. slip them on. they should be tighter. and there we. go we got them set. we got to make with what we got in here. this is what we got in here so were making out. >> coming up -- >> the men are lonely. they make what is called a fifi. >> we discovered the inmate made d...

>> these men are lonely. they make what is called a fifi which is -- its a glove and some other items and they call it their lady. thats the nicest way to put it without getting beeped off of msnbc. >> we kept hearing this word fifi and it was coming up in conversations but no one would admit to having one. >> we heard the term in tampa, florida. >> i cant make a fifi. i cant get my hands to make no fifi. >> they have two or three or four life sentences. they have to have something to keep them ...

>> my glasses broke and can you give me another spoon? thank you. so im going to have to bend this. you bite it. when we bite it we make a hole. and we put the hole into here. there we go. now we got them fixed. slip them on. they should be tighter. and there we. go we got them set. we got to make with what we got in here. this is what we got in here so were making out. >> coming up -- >> the men are lonely. they make what is called a fifi. >> we discovered the inmate made device known as a fifi...