How much [ bleep ] got a problem with me, ill go to the hole every i dont give a [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. David. You see it in every booking department of every jail we visit. You done fighting . No. Newly arrested men and women, so drunk or high, theyre a danger to themselves or others. Somebody gets drunk, theyre more aggressive. They think they can do anything. Theyre strong. You cant stop me. And you got to deal with that. You dont know how theyre going to act. They can be dangerous, real dangerous. You feel suicidal, to harm yourself . [ bleep ]. Ill take that as a no. Addiction leads to serious crimes in order to support their habits. For others, it means a revolving door for jail with seemingly no end in sight. The Sheriff Detention Center in South Carolina, Eugene Foster fell into the latter category. Have you been arrested before . My rap sheet about as long as your arm. Just a drunk [ bleep ]. Foster says his rap sheet dates back 30 years to when he was 18. Hes been convicted of numerous crimes. He says alcohol played a role in most of them. Hes usually not a problem. Comes in, does his thing. Sits down. He knows the process. Mr. Foster . Foster . What . Step up here, sir. How many times can you estimate youve probably seen him since youve been working here . At least 30, 40 times. Do you drink any alcohol today . Yeah. As much as i can get. Right up to where i got arrested. This time, foster was brought in on a probation violation for urinating in public. Did you urinate in public . No. I went behind a wall. I wouldnt do that. I do have morals. Can i ask how much youve had to drink tonight . Oh, maybe i equivalent of four quarts, Something Like that. Off and on. I didnt do it all at once. Just space it. Okay. So what im going to do if you stay here is im going to have you sign another release once i know all the alcohol is out of your system, okay . Okay. We always ask permission to film somebody. Whenever we do that with a person who may be under the influence, we followup a couple days later to make sure that they remember who we are, remember that we were filming with them and to make sure its okay if we continue filming with them to tell their story. Youre selfproclaimed alcoholic. Talk to me about that. I dont know. I started drinking as a cool idea around about the age of 13. You know, everybody was doing it. I figured oh, id try it. At first it was fun, you know. Then it kept on being fun until about 29 when i really started getting in trouble. One thing about alcohol, its like doing a life sentence on the installment plan. Foster has had dozens of short jail stays on less serious charges, he once served three years in prison for assault and battery. By his drinking cost him more than just time. Whats your lifelike . Have you been married . Do you have children . I dont think ive been sober long enough to actually have a relationship with a woman, and it seems to be sometimes i feel, you know, like at 48, i could have done better. Have you ever seriously thought about truly quitting drinking . I did. As a matter of fact, couple of days ago i woke up and said i really dont feel like it. I spent the day in the park, i read a book. I said i forgot how much i actually enjoy this. I dont know. It seems like when you want to quit something, like quit smoking, four people will come out of nowhere with 50 pack of cigarettes and want you to have one. I dont know why it works that way. Ask anybody whose ever quit anything, because the first thing like, the first thing thats going to happen and the last thing you want. Its a way of life, i guess. Based on everything you said, it seems like youre chronic alcoholic. How much longer do you think youre going to make it . And what do you see as your end . I dont know. If i dont quit, ill probably maybe 70something. But if i keep going like this, i dont think ill live to see 60. In another part of the charleston jail, 26yearold Cory Youngman is nearly as wellknown as foster. You got no at home. We dont have the accommodation for that, sir. Cory youngman was typical of a lot of the drug addicts we interview. He was young. He was really kind of cocky. I hope my sons mother doesnt see this. Always in the mirror. Hes in jail in the mirror. Fixing his hair. I got to ask about the hair. The hair . I just kind of started it out of boredom and i like it. Its probably not something maybe ill keep it when i go to school. Its not like you can walk into a place and get a job. Guy the mohawk came by looking for a job, you know. Hes still on drugs. Look at the mohawk. Youngman says hes been using drugs and alcohol since he was 13 years old. I have to say every good thing ive had in my life at one time or another, everything going for myself, ive seemed to ruin it somehow through drug use. Youngman served time on prior drugrelated convictions and was facing a litany of new charges, including driving under the influence. When i woke up in the hospital, i wasnt aware of what was going on. I had a head injury, my nose was broken, my shoulder got broken. We met youngman just days before he would plead guilty to those charges and face two years in prison, leaving behind two sons, a 9yearold and a 2yearold. When im not on drugs, im a good father, friend and Family Member. I can be a completely different person. For my mom to be here after these times i put her through these things is just amazing to me. In fact, his mother is what makes Cory Youngman so wellknown here. Officer youngman works at the jail. Whats it like for you, working in the same jail where your son is incarcerated . I dont think about it. I do my job, i go home. Any parent of a drug addict, you sleep so much better when theyre in jail. Is that horrible . But you do. Theyre not out there dying, overdosing, committing crimes. Its got to be embarrassing for her, you know, to come to work and oh, yeah, i seen your son over in the other unit. Its shameful for me and i would imagine more so for her seeing how shes the innocent in this. She didnt do anything for me to be here. Lifes hard sometimes. Sometimes you got to go through the hard stuff to get to where the good stuff is, i guess. Jail policy does not allow officer youngman to work in corys housing unit. But most of the staff who do work there are aware of the relationship. Officer youngman is in a sad situation because her son is locked up here, and i know shes embarrassed that he is here, but everybody supports her and nobody says anything to her about him, because everybody know whats the situation is. So its just kind of one of those unspoken things. Do you ever play the mom card . My mom is an officer here. Have you ever played that card . Yeah. Tell me about it. Of course. Play that card sometimes, and most of the time it doesnt work. It never works. He tries to use his mom as a manipulative tool here. I tell him all the time, stop talking about your mom. I dont want to know nothing about your mom. You shouldnt be telling people about your mother and telling people about her like that and jeopardizing your moms job. From then on, he dont say much to me and i dont say much to him. Like any other parent, youngman is only allowed to see him as a civilian in the Visitation Center where she can speak to him through a video efeed and telephone. When was the last time you saw him . I dont come often. Its probably been a couple months because when i come, it seems i just feel like all my coworkers are watching and stuff. Its just easier to talk to him on the phone, put money in his account. Officer youngman, was to me the epitome of what happens to a drug addicts Family Member. She embodied all the pain and sorrow that a Family Member has when someone they love has a drug addiction. Its hard for all parents. These guys parents, everybody has a parent. When they come here and on drugs, i dont i tell them, i say theyre like well, its only a problem when i dont have them. Its only a problem for you when you dont have them. Its a problem for your parents all the time. You just dont know what its doing to your family. When theyre out there on the streets doing that stuff, they dont have a clue. Coming up you have an abscess cut out. You almost lose your arm, you would say i went to heroin again. But no, i still want to do heroin. Addiction takes one woman from wall street to a jail cell. You wouldnt accept an incomplete job from any one else. Why accept it from your allergy pills . 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At the Suffolk County jail on new yorks long island, sheriff Vincent Demarco says one drug in particular is wreaking havoc nationwide, but especially in the northeastern United States. A lot of people who wind up here in the Suffolk County jail are in here because they committed burglary, robbery, maybe even murders. But the underlying theme to committing those crimes is heroin. They need to feed the habit. This is rock bottom, i think. This is definitely rock bottom for me. Suffolk county inmate car a debella had recently plead guilty to three counts of identity theft, crimes she had committed to support her heroin addiction. Theres no reason i should be like this. I have a family thats wonderful and supported. I wasnt abused. Nothing like that happened to me. I graduated st. Johns in finance. After that i went on to work in a brokerage firm. I did really well there. But then thats when i started really getting into drugs. How much money do you think you spent on heroin . In the past ten years . Half a mill. I sold like a bmw car, i stole thousands of dollars from my mom. I went through my dads inheritance. Its taken a toll not only mentally but also on my arms and everything about me physically. Thats pretty drastic, you know. Thats a pretty big abscess you got from surgery. You could have lost your arm. Yeah. I know you guys were staring at my arms like this girls crazy. I didnt think you were crazy. I was oh my god. Honestly, im glad thats not mine dont look like this . Yes. I shot all my arms, you can see here. I was shooting over here straight into the i could go to the vein there. I was shooting right there for a while. I was shooting in my feet, too. I got an abscess there. Everything up here is all you can see, its gone, collapsed veins. Its one of the most severe cases ive ever seen of track marks. Ive seen different versions and yours look blue. Explain that. The blue is from skin popping and shooting up cocaine. The cocaine is so dirty that it also will leave marks. I have an abscess here that had to be cut out. This one obviously is a big one when i almost lost my arm. You would think to yourselves, after you have an abscess cut out, you almost lose your arm, you would say i wouldnt do her heroin again, but no, i still want to do heroin. Its an everyday battle. Its going to be an uphill road for me. Suffolk county, precomprehensive Drug Rehab Program for qualified inmates. But since debella is on Prescription Medication for anxiety and depression, she does not currently qualify. She says shes still managed to stay clean, despite of the fact that heroin and other drugs are smuggled into the jail. They charge a ridiculous amount of money here, like 30 a bag. Thats number one. Im pretty cheap. Other than that, i dont know what it is. I dont know if its going to be fake or not or i dont know. Im not bothering with it. Ive been clean for this long, you know. I really just want to give it a shot. If i cant stay clean in here, ill never make it out on the street. Suffolk county jail officials estimate they house thousands of heroin addict, and now an investigator decided to get to know one better. Im a heroin addict. I got abscess in my arm. I was doing 55 bags a day. You were doing 55 bags day . He put word out that hes looking to buy drugs from anybody who has drugs. This guy is putting the word out he is looking to buy drugs. Richard valentino was arrested in a countywide heroin bust while on parole for attempted burglary. As a result, he will transfer back to state prison to complete a twoyear sentence. When you buy your heroin, in here or up in the city . In bronx. [ bleep ]. I was paying a lot out there. Yeah, i know. Its a lot more expensive. I was still paying a lot out there. I was paying 800. You use half, sell half . No. How do you gambling. What kind of gambling . Casino, poker dice. And harlem. Thats how you make your money. Thats a big habit. I can build my tolerance up. In the morning, because ive been doing heroin since i was 15. In the morning i can do a little bit. And do a little more. Do a little more and i build my tolerance up. I got a golf ball fricking abscess on my arm. I came to this jail, they refused me because they said i was pretty much dead, and i sat in the hospital for four days. Okay. All right. Lets take him back to detention. While santa cruzs interview doesnt reveal drug smuggling. Jail officials attribute state mandated contact visitation as a significant means by which drugs penetrate the facility. This woman was caught attempting to pass balloons of heroin from her bra to her boyfriend. Santa cruz says this plot, and many others, were foiled by constantly gathering intelligence from the inmate population. We have people that we work with who are inmates. We develop a rapport with them. As we talk to them, watch this person coming in or if we have information, somebody is going to come in, theyll do it and they get ahold of us and say the person has it. Coming up do you have any oxycontin . No. You have nothing . I have nothing. A new tip puts more heat on richard valentino. But first. Im trying so hard not to not to what . Throw up. A new inmate suffers the painful effects of withdrawal. Liberty mutual customizes your Car Insurance, so you only pay for what you need. Nice but uh, whats up with your partner . Oh we just spend all day telling everyone how we customize Car Insurance because no two people are alike, so. Limu gets a little confused when he sees another bird that looks exactly like him. Ya. Hell figure it out. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Were all under one roof now. Congratulations. Thank you. How many kids . My two. His three. Along with two dogs and jake, our new parrot. That is quite the family. 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Many would argue that president nixon set the stage. For the drugrelated mass incarceration to come. Within the last several years, i think america has come to its senses about drug abuse. In the 1980s, the war on drugs escalated dramatically. Under the reagan administration, arrests for drug offenses rose. About 120 . New mandatory sentencing laws sent more people to prison for more time than ever. All right, back in the cell. Most experts agree weve lost the war on drugs. We see the casualties of that war all the time on lockup. We hope by covering their stories that maybe were sending a message to someone who might be considering experimenting with an addictive drug that its not a good idea. Because we see the wreckage of those decisions all the time. 19yearold kayla jones says she was at an all new low the day we met her at the tulsa county jail. The reason why im down here on the floor is im going through heroin withdrawals. Ayla chose to stay on the floor because she needed to have access to the rest room if need be because she would have diarrhea. She had the bucket because she was continuously vomiting. To be on a top bunk which is where she was assigned obviously wasnt conducive for her going through this kind of a situation. Im trying so hard not to not to what . Throw up. Jones told us she had been using heroin for three years, and the withdrawal was the worst thing she had ever experienced. Take me through that. What does that feel like . The first step is sneezing. You sneeze a lot. And continuously. Achoo, achoo, achoo. And then youll start getting the cold chills. Your legs start hurting. And then youll start getting real sick to your stomach. Youll be throwing up both ways, both ends. You cant sleep. You cant get comfortable. You cant just its just the most uncomfortable feeling. It was a very visceral experience. Ive had so many heroin addicts tell me what it was like to go through withdrawal, but it was always past tense. Ayla, right in front of us, was going through all those symptoms. She was having fevers, she was throwing up. She was in the midst of withdrawal while talking to us. I can only imagine this pain is pretty severe. If you had access to heroin right now yeah. I would. You would what . Use. Jones was arrested for missing a court date. At the time she was high on heroin and on parole for crimes including burglary and selling stolen merchandise to pawnshops. But jones addiction has impacted others as well. She has a 7monthold son whose father, jones boyfriend was