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>> being in jail definitely puts it all in perspective how off track i've gotten. i used to have, like, major dreams. i never thought i'd shoot up, but i got my track marks. it's just, wow, what am i doing? still, i love it. i guess that's the addiction. i guess that's why they call it a disease i guess. >> katie has no idea she may be suffering from another disease as well. her husband, chad white, who's also serving time at the jail was recently diagnosed with hepatitis but hasn't told her yet. he's hopeful he'll be released within a few days and plans to visit her. >> i want to tell her fac...

Most of the year and has been communicating with katie through letters. >> i reread them and reread them. i read them all the time. i take them with me when i travel and i just thought i'd read them before i went in today. "i never quite grasped the meaning of being grateful until i met chad. i know on the outside our relationship doesn't look so great, but i've learned so much about myself and now i can say that i like myself. before i struggled with not feeling like i was good enough, strong enough, pretty enough, skinny enough, anything enough. i now know that i'm enough. still have some mo...

Someone is telling me you will never be able to use it again. i will let them go and grab the heroin. that's what it did to me. it took my soul. >> katie and chad started to use drugs at age 13. when she was 20, chad showed katie how to shoot heroin. >> the best high i ever felt in my life. >> did you ask him to shoot you up? >> i didn't really have to. i was going to do some. i wasn't not going to shoot up. >> the way i looked at it is she is going to do it any ways and i need to show r her how to do it right and not to share needles. i want to learn the way with standards because she was alr...

I'm not but i'm not doing it. like, i'm -- just, no. >> you'll figure it out. >> the only thing i wouldn't give up to see you, katie, is a job. you know what i mean? >> you already got one of those. >> i did. i'm so happy. i'm probably going to get two. i might as well. idle hands. you know what i mean? >> now that chad has a job, chad hopes to find a place to live so she has a home when released. >> one thing, every day i accomplish something. to make a your life better. not mine. >> i know. i tell people all the time. everything he does he does it for me. >> listen. i have a minute and 30 se...

Since the jail requires visitors to show one, he was unable to visit katie. >> broke my heart and it did make me down in the dumps. i don't want her heart to be broken. i don't want her to think i'm putting her off for any reason. as soon as i get an identification card i'll be in those doors. >> until then, chad is working on rebuilding his life and staying off drugs. >> i've been pressured to use again several times out here. literally that was the first time in my life i think i ever said no six times repeatedly. that's the farthest thing from my mind is dope. >> chad is living at the salva...