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Anything and i -- basically the only control i have is my hair style and so i wanted the hair cut. >> coming up -- >> im feeding you and youre providing a service for me. you help me out, you clean my room, heat up my water in the morning, wash my dishes after i eat. >> nick battaglia and his new cellmate set up shop in general population. and william bernard acquires new ink and a busted lip. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isnt easy, and we ought to know. wer...

>> sob buuboxone was fun while lasted. all good things come to an end. >> battaglia says now hell fall back on another technique hes used in the past to make life more comfortable. >> i just look for easy prey, you know? little white boys. its an easy target. its easy. easy money. >> i need to find a mat. >> mat? >> you got one? >> ill tell them look, youre going to get robbed. black boys are going to run on you. its going to happen. you can either come deal with me or you can just get everythin...

His fathers missing keys and wallet and now william bernard, sr., has come to visit his son. >> we were best friends. we would fish and camp together and we did all the repairs on the house together. so we got along other than the alcohol. that really destroyed things. gotten a alcohol problem and he needs to address it and obviously in here theres no alcohol. lets just hope he makes the best of it while hes in. he gets himself sober and gets a good base in his sobriety while hes in. >> hey, dad...

[ bleep ] with us, theyre gonna get it. he lucky that he dont go into his room when i say go into your room. he goes into his room, hes finished. >> bernard denies being a snitch. he says frequent visits to the medical unit because of his anxiety and panic attacks have caused some inmates to suspect hes been reporting illicit activities to staff. >> i dont want to have that label following me all the way through because a lot of these gangs and stuff, theyre interconnected so word travels. >> co...

Send it had staircase. they said bernard attempted to jump down the stairs and landed face-first before sliding down to the landing. now bernard fears if his case goes to trial his father will testify against him. >> its just unbelievably heartbroken and overwhelmed that i was actually put into a situation with my father because i love my father. im very family oriented. its just absolutely heartbreaking. >> while alcohol could have played a role in bernards troubles, jail staff say that lately ...

A -- you know, hes a good guy, man, just let him go with that. but nick likes to charge everybody for everything. no matter what it is. something simple, give me a snack. sometimes ill -- you know, i dont mind doing favors but nicks good about it, though. were going go broke if we dont charge for everything. >> ive got to look out for me. >> got to make money. >> in the end its jail so its all about me. >> battaglia got his new position when the inmate who held it prior to him got into trouble. ...

>> two months later, william bernard would no longer have to worry about defending himself in jail. his judge found him not guilty by reason of insanity. but the legal definition is different than it sounds. the judge says he was competent to stand trial but not in a proper state of mind on the night he had the conflict with his father that led to his arrest. he was remanded to the state department of health who will monitor him and he must report to the court every six months for the same perio...

With louis peasy. >> i wanted it to represent a bronze star or like 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 of them got purple hearts before they even got killed so i wanted to go along those lines and ill probably get a tattoo of a purple heart later on down the road. >> bernard said he chose the star to honor men he served with in the army who had lost their lives. he also has a new war...

Enough for william bernard. he says fights and harassment by other inmates has caused his stutter to worsen and to descend into panic attacks. he believes frequent visits to medical for anxiety treatments have led some inmates to believe hes an informant. but now charged with threatening to kill his father and assaulting the police officers who came to arrest him, hes consumed by thoughts of spending up to 20 years in prison if found guilty. >> im just afraid that my father will get on the stand...

More than likely not because of the small amount that was coming in. and being that the return address is phony theres no way to determine who actually sent it in. >> but battaglia does not know that yet. >> if they find me guilty im going to be upset because i cant risk another charge. >> instead of criminal charges back tag leia and his cellmate, who requested to remain anonymous, will each be investigated and receive disciplinary hearings. >> how are you going to fight this case? >> my words....