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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, he's now awaiting trial on two new counts of aggravated assault. if that's 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. they're to make a device known in jail as a fifi. >> you could ...

To be today. not only did he recently complete a nine-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, he's now awaiting trial on two new counts of aggravated assault. if that's 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. they're to make a device known in jail as a fifi. >> you could get a towel or whatever and you roll this up. you roll the towel up real tight and you take...

Not only did he recently complete a nine-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, he's now awaiting trial on two new counts of aggravated assault. if that's 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. they're to make a device known in jail as a fifi. >> you could get a towel or whatever and you roll this up. you roll the towel up real tight and you take the glove an...

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 -- it's a glove and some other items and they call it their lady. that's 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 can't make a fifi. i can't get my hands to make no fifi. >> they have two or three or four life sentences. they have to have something to keep their busy...

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 don't 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 don't touch it i find a new guy to touch it for me and throw it away. i have been here a while and i can designate...