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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. if you want to live in this child molester in this population, you will pay. >> an inmate runs an extorsion sleep. >> you didn't have any thoughts when you were ingesting golfball sized of pills. you could have signed your death warrant right there. >> the search is on as the jail's newest team member makes her presence known.
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>> pill's crushed. >> shutdown. give my deputy a hard time, we going to run it military style straight. located on the gulf coast of the sunshine state, tampa, florida, is a gleaming city. >> used to be a motto, tampa is where the good life gets better every day. >> but a dark cloud has steadily cast a shadow over tampa. >> we saw the prescription drug abuse epidemic really start to appear on the radar here in the tampa area. and it continues to grow, and the result now is our drug treatment systems are taxed to the limits. and our county jails are now becoming taxed to the limits. >> colonel jim frapatera runs the two facilities that make up the tampa jail system.
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the falkenberg jail has a capacity of 3,000 inmates, and the orient road jail has capacity for 1,700. it's also the site for intake, where men and women are processed into the jail. unlike prison, for all of the inmates convicted, the majority of jail inmates have only be charged with a crime and are awaiting trial for resolution of their cases. but these days, many of them first arrive in a similar state. >> whatever. what is this? >> you're at orient road? >> orient road. >> in hillsborough. >> seeing more and more men and women arrive in a state of
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opiate withdrawal. not a black issue, a white issue. not a hispanic issue, not an old issue or young issue not a rich issue or a poor issue it crosses all lines. people feel it's okay to eat this stuff like candy because a doctor gave it to them. these irresponsible physicians have legalized it in many people's eyes. >> while some overprescribing doctors might be at the root of tampa's drug problem, people like jessica come into play. >> when you have an addiction, you're going to get it. it doesn't matter if you get it from a drug dealer, it doesn't matter if you get it from the doctor. if they don't get it from me, they'll get it somewhere else. >> jessica has been charged with trafficking vicodin, burglary, and trafficking in stolen property. she has pled not guilty and awaiting trial. she admits to having dealt drugs in the past, although she's never been convicted for it. >> fast money. easy life-style to live. the money comes so fast. easy to get, easy to learn how
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to do. look what we're eating for lunch? sandwiches. being here has opened up my eyes, this woman is addicted to whatever their addiction is, and i kind of helped her get there. not me specifically, but, you know, drug dealers in general. we feed them. >> this is jessica's first time in jail. she is currently housed in a 7,200-woman dorm at falkenburg dorm. >> to put 7,000 women together, all emotionally stressed. all have their periods. too many personalities, attitudes, emotions and feelings for everybody to get along.
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>> i'm not making no promises. >> it's not worth it. >> ain't nobody really worth me arguing over, like i'm going to hold my tongue. >> in the three months she's been in jail, she's received multiple writeups for minor disciplinary fractions, such as arguing with other inmates. >> i just have a bad attitude, and i feel if i have something to say, whether it will hurt your feelings or not, i'm going to say it. >> she is the kind of inmate who always seems to have the manipulating thing going on and always arguing with everything -- everybody. doesn't matter if it's staff or other inmates. >> i have tried to talk to my friends about -- about her behavior. >> the key word she used, tried. >> it did not work. >> what does her contact record show? >> not good. giving deputies a hard time. bad altitude, talking about, being belligerent and insolent toward staff.
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>> i don't think it's that bad. we had a disagreement, that's it. but to them, it's like you guys are arguing. you have to be separate completely. >> so far, jessica's violations haven't been serious enough to place her in a confinement unit where she would be locked in her cell 23 hours a day. that's where steve caponi has spent the last nine months. >> they were going to put me back in population. i told them, oh no. i'm not going back in population. very comfortable where i am right now. nobody in my face, i've got privacy. i like where i am right now.
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>> caponi had been out on prison for 90 days, on parole for sexual battery, when arrested for attempting to hold up a bank and sandwich shop. he plead not guilty and awaiting trial. caponi removed from general population and placed in this confinement unit for extorting other inmates, who he said were child molesters. >> if you want to live in this population and you're a child molester, you're going to pay me, or else i'm going to kick your ass. >> he would force inmates to put money on his books. >> doing time, it's about who has the most money. i'm your best friend when i extort you. i don't come up, hey you, i'm going to give you this or that, i'm going to kill you. i'm going to approach you, be
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your best friend. you're going to confide in me your deepest secrets and once i have that, your strength and weaknesses, i can dwell on that the ones i was extorting, yeah, they admitted it. i don't feel bad. because they don't feel bad what they did to those kids. coming up, a surprise shakedown led by a sergeant with a no-nonsense reputation. >> give me deputy a hard time, we'll run it military style straight. >> and later, jessica graniella faces a harsh new reality. >> i don't get to see my son, call my son. >> you realize this is the first time i've ever seen you draw tears? we spend a lot of time on the feed because a chicken is what it eats. [ jim ] this seal verifies we feed my fresh all-natural chickens an all-vegetarian diet including corn, soybeans, and marigolds.
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you tearing up my property? that's where we're going with this?
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sergeant sara herman, she came to the hills borough county jail after a career in television marketing. >> after 9/11, i wanted to do something a little different, more meaningful. it fulfills everything i wanted to do as far as helping people. >> i want a section chance. >> every day is a different day. >> if you touch one person, i don't know if it's helping, but it does for me, i like it. >> sergeant herman was motivated by helping people, she is anything but soft. >> i don't want to see you anymore. >> known by inmates and staff alike as a commanding presence with zero tolerance for breaking the rules. >> always an issue when it comes to contraband. >> after two inmates were caught smoking tobacco, she decided to
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search the entire unit disguised as a fire drill. >> fire drill, fire drill. >> the ruse gets them into the recreation yard without time to expose of contraband. >> back hall, face the wall. >> arms out of your shirts, gentlemen. >> they'll be assisted by the new search dog. >> it's a deterrent. sends a strong message, not hillsborough county. don't bring drugs in our jail. >> when i get suspicious, i don't have all of the senses i have to find what i need to find. but i have tools, called canines. if you want to bring it in, you want more charges, bring it in. we'll find it and we'll put more charges to introduction of contraband, specifically narcotics and tobacco. do i make myself clear?
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two, attitudes in this pod cease from this moment unless you want on 72-hour lock. candy, visitation, shutdown. give my deputy a hard time, we'll run it military style straight. do make myself clear? >> yes, ma'am. >> i don't hear you. do i make myself clear? >> yes, ma'am! >> thank you. >> she got up in there. i think it was -- i think it was her just looking back. just have somebody check that room kind of thorough. >> she likes this mattress. >> in room ten, we found leftover breakfast and extra uniforms. it attracts bugs, and we try to
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keep cells clean. >> flush the toilet, sometimes they put stuff inside the toilet. >> this looks like pills, crushed up. >> it looks like aspirin. >> this timing the only drug that turns up is crushed aspirin. >> good girl. that's a good girl. >> thank you very much. thank you very much, guys. appreciate it. >> but the staff knows that keeping drugs out of the jail is a never-ending game of cat and mouse. keeping up with the game is the first thing master steven gray does when he arrives in the morning. >> i have an e-mail from an officer that wants me to look into a report. female inmate letting the pod deputy know that another female inmate had 14 pills in her possession so what they did they took her to strip search with the supervisor and they observed her starting to chew something in her mouth and swallowing. took her to medical unit, induced vomiting, they didn't know what she had swallowed. she did admit to having pills to
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the nurse, but she didn't know the name of the pills. this is something i will look into as far as interviewing the inmates involved, especially the one who allegedly had the pills. it's been a day or so, so hopefully her attitude is where it needs to be. >> the following day, deputy gray and his partner deputy bret strosak begin the interview. they will begin by interviewing the inmate that tipped off deputy. >> do you know why you're here? >> no. >> i wanted to get to the bottom of the inmate know about the female in the pod that had pills in her possession. >> yeah. >> can you walk me through the process? >> she found the pills in her room, asked me what they were, trying to sell them for canteen.
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>> it was an all-day process. >> it was in the morning, hardly anybody up. about 14 pills in there. >> you saw these pills? >> they were wrapped in a walmart bag. they came from outside. >> they were in a walmart bag. >> right. >> where was she coming from, new to the pod? she had been in there for a month. >> they had nowhere else to move her. the captain told her if she got in trouble anymore, they would put her in charlie. >> you could have saved this girl's life. i wish there were more people like you inside the jail. i think you did the right thing. >> the in mate accused of having the prescription drug stash and then swallowing it is one with a reputation for drug dealing. jessica graniella.
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the capacity for nearly 5,000 inmates, 950 sworn
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deputies and 410 civilian employees, the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida, is like a city unto itself. >> we'll be serving lunch shortly. >> safety of the inmates is top priority, it's supported by a vast infrastructure. the laundry facility alone is manned ten hours a day, seven days a week. >> we do approximately 12,000 pounds of laundry a day. >> james turner, supervises the operation. >> all of the loads are weighed before they go in the wash. putting in 165 pounds. we're not overstuffing the washer. >> turner supplements his human staff with automation. >> folding machine makes everything the same size. so when you have five items on a shelf, you get five items across the shelf. have you a dozen inmates folding, one is going to fold so wide, another will be a little wider. >> pacing ourselves today then. >> working in the laundry is considered a privilege.
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inmates earn one day off their sentence for every six days they work. but the job does have its down side. >> this is the biohazard bin. two gloves on. watch out this with this particular bin. you see all kinds of stuff. you see tampons attached to an underwear, you see like do do stains. discharges from people that might have something. you just got to get it in the wash. >> javier perez has been working in the laundry for a couple of weeks now.
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for many in the jail, perez is here after getting caught up in the prescription drug epidemic and plead not guilty to possession of a controlled substance with intent to delivery. >> morphine based chemical. and opportunity came across to try to make extra money. and i tried to take it like an idiot. i spoke to a c.i. twice. made like $130. it shows you i'm not that good. i'm ready to change. definitely a wakeup call. >> but not everyone who comes to jail sees it as an opportunity for change. the drug trade exists even on the inside. drugs are most commonly smuggled in through visitors or the mail, and once they are, inmates create their own sales and contribution systems. >> the laundry room, as well as the kitchen, are the central hubs for the transportation contraband throughout the facility. they put the contraband, whether drugs or weapons, put it in the cart and tag the cart in such a manner that the other inmates at
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the receiving end know this is the cart it might be something as simple as flipping a shirt over, it might be taping a piece of paper to the side of the cart. >> techniques inmates use to smuggle and deal drugs in jail are constantly evolving, so deputies try to stay at least one step ahead. the jail recently acquired a new team member named benja. >> she is a narcotics dog. trained to find cocaine, meth, heroin, marijuana, and we recently trained her on oxycodone. >> guys okay with dogs. sounds good. she'll be off her lead and i'll let her do her thing, okay? she's a big puppy. good girl. >> a lot of this job will be presence. >> check, check. inmates knowing that the dog is here and we will be out looking for the drugs, i think will deter it a good bit.
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>> whether directly or indirectly, drugs have led to the incarceration of many inmates at the hillsborough county jail. >> my drug of choice is crack. charged two robberies. one armed robbery first degree and other is strong arm robbery attempted second degree. no recollection whatsoever of doing these crimes. leaving a crack house, waking up in the field, that's it. >> steven caponi's trouble didn't end there. in jail, caught extorting other inmates who he said were child molesters. he would threaten them with violence if they didn't put money on the books. >> one, $40 per week. the second one, about $80. $80 per week. >> it landed him in confinement. >> another day in paradise. >> he says he's enjoyed the solitude. but after nine months is ready for a change.
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>> i'd like to be in population, be around, play cards with somebody, talk to somebody. >> can i talk to you for a minute? >> yeah, what's up. >> did you get my request about trying to get out of here? >> classification specialist bara said they didn't get another request from you. >> i have to put another request in? >> you didn't get anything back from them? >> no, i didn't get nothing back. >> caponi has run out of canteen snacks. >> i have nothing. >> and he has no money left on his books. >> i'm eating my finger nails. >> you think people will think that you want to go back there to do your old tricks. >> that's exactly what they are going to think, oh, ain't got no money or hustle. the reason he wants out is he wants to hustle. i don't care what they think. >> he might be trying to
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manipulate, that's just part of the game every day we go through. >> probably keep him a couple more weeks at least, the possibility if his behavior is good and give him a shot back out in general population. >> here it is. make sure you fill it out, ask to go to general population, tell her you know you are going to be behaving. >> worst case scenario let me out, i go back to extort child molesters. i got to leave them alone. sometimes it's not easy, you know. >> coming up, your honor investigation for dealing drugs in jail, jessica graniella turns the tables on her accuser. >> i seen her on the phone earlier, say six this and -- >> pill numbers. >> yeah, she was saying numbers.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. at the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida, sentenced inmates work in a variety of capacities throughout the facility. there is a waiting list for the much coveted jobs, and those who are lucky enough to hold them, receive one day off their
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sentence for every six days worked. javier perez' job in the laundry facility made the two months he spent here awaiting trial go by a little easier. >> something to do, man. if they would have made me feed pigs all day long, i would have done that. >> when his morning shift is over, perez heads back to the dorms. >> 29, perez. >> once he's back to his bed, he turns to poetry. >> my life comes and goes, how is life is love, many need a hug, where they need it is from heaven up above. it helps, something for me. something for me to just get away escape for a little while, you know. >> just two days after his arrest, perez' first child, a son, was born. >> i haven't even got a chance to hold him or meet him or anything, you know what i'm saying. be able to touch him. i know he's missing me right now. i hear him cry over the phone.
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i'm coming, i'll be there soon. just hold on, little guy. my little buddy. it's hard, man. i made the choice. i made the choices. i'm in a roomful for men. i have to be a man, you know. got to be a man. stand up for my mistake. deal with it. it's hard. really is hard. >> but perez knows showing too much emotion here is dangerous. >> you can't let people see you for who you are. that's where weaknesses come in. you have to be an actor while you're in jail. sometimes have you be an act. >> steven caponi, a self-prescribed expert at taking advantage of inmates. he spent the last nine months in confinement for extorting child
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molesters. >> answer the phone. >> but his request to move back to general population was granted. >> sergeant gave me the third degree. this is still jail, somebody tries you, you got to do, you got to do. >> i want to keep things a little on the low. >> the transfer isn't the only good news. >> got to eat. we've got to eat. >> his sister just put money on his books, so he can buy snacks from the jail canteen. >> we need the whole table, right? >> we need the whole table. >> this time around, instead of hustling canteen, he is sharing it. >> what did you get, another sausage? >> he and kyle and aaron have pulled snacks to make a jailhouse burrito. >> this right here is the bread and noodles, which are already done. >> 16 slices of bread. what the bread does is bulk it up, expand it. and make a dough. roll it out. kind of like pizza dough, you
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know what i'm saying, pretty simple. >> rolling out the dough. >> deodorant, use as a roller. rachel ray, eat your heart out. not only do we have the ultimate plan, we have the master plan. cheese crackers, hot pickle. sausage, roll up the shell then, make it look like a burrito. want the recipe, mail me right here, care of faulkenburg jail facility. >> as he joins his time in general population. >> jessica graniella has been transferred from general population to confinement, under investigation after deputies witnessed her swallowing what turned out to be a pact of prescription pills. another inmate told master deputy steven gray that granella
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was trying to sell the pills. but she says that they belonged to the woman who reported her. >> i grabbed them, put them in my bra. >> didn't find that strange that she would came up and hand you these pills. >> after the fact, yeah. >> graniella says she didn't know what kind of pills were in the bag, but 15 minutes when a deputy called her over for a search, she put the bag in her mouth. >> i wasn't going to swallow them. searched me, and as i was to walk out the door. they were like open up your mouth, you know what? i'd rather chew them and swallow them than get in trouble for having them. >> you are putting something the size of your mouth about the size of a golfball. you didn't have any second thoughts when you were ingesting a golfball sized of pills? >> no. it happened too fast. >> you could have signed your death warrant right there.
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>> i know. >> only way i see you doing that without thinking, you knew what the pills were. >> i didn't know what they were. >> therefore, you knew they probably weren't going to kill you. i'm asking you, do you see the questions i have to ask. the only way i would swallow any kind of pills, look, i'm getting ready to get nailed here, i know what they are. if i swallow, ten or 14 of these, they may make me sick, but i won't catch another charge. >> graniella says she can prove that they belonged to the inmate who reported her. >> i had seen her on the phone earlier, think she was talk her husband on the phone. and he was on the internet looking up something for her about the pills, wherever she got them from. >> maybe pill numbers. >> yeah, she was saying numbers over the phone. you can hear it if you listen to
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the recording. >> the jail records all calls. but policy prohibits them from being public. since graniella has provided the date and time of the call, the deputy listens to the conversation between the inmate and husband. >> on the actual phone call, she's asking on the other end for this person to look up the web md and try to identify these particular pills. now i think jessica may be telling the truth which is going to require an additional interview with the first female we interviewed to try to get to the bottom of this. seems like she has a lot more to do with the case than she originally told us about. coming up -- >> i won't let her know until the phone calls into a little bit into the interview. >> the investigation takes a turn. >> you know how i thanked you for telling the truth yesterday, i may have spoke too soon.
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at some point, most inmates at hillsborough county jail for the first time are hit with the realization of how much they left behind. she finds herself at the center of a drug investigation, jessica graniella's thoughts are with her 2-year-old son. >> my son is so important to me, and every day, so hard being without him. i know my son is with my mom and she is taking very good care of him. i still worry, i still care, i still know that he's missing me, and he needs his mom. >> graniella, in jail on a drug trafficking charge to which she
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plead not guilty, is charged with possession of prescription pills. she was found with pills, and she said she was holding them for another inmate. >> you, with the long history. >> this is only one of many problems she's had in the two months since she's been at hillsborough. >> your long history says you can't go in general population, you've had issues with everybody. there is no -- >> not all my fault, but i can understand what you're saying. >> okay. let's talk about fault. >> okay. >> real quick.
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if you are not in it, it wouldn't happen. so either own it or you don't. >> i take full responsibility. >> then nothing else needs to be said. >> okay. >> that's how ms. herman likes to hear you talk. once you get to that point. ms. 20-year-old, happy birthday, this tells me maybe, just maybe, in your future, all of this will change. i'm hoping for you, okay? am i confident? no. i am not going to stand up and say anything different. you have a lot to learn. a lot. your habits have not changed. are you doing in jail, according this this report, what you are accustomed to on the streets. the behavior is the same. >> i mean, what the report says is that i was selling pills in the pod, which is not -- not true. >> i don't want to talk about selling pills. close that new york mouth for a minute. seriously.
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i said it. you are qualifying every freaking thing that comes out of your mouth, which means you are not owning it. accept it. it is part of who you are until you decide to change it. you. >> i took the whole being locked up as a joke. >> i truly knew, i knew you were going end to up here. i learned my lesson and going to go into general population. >> how, how? >> i don't get to see my son. >> nope. >> i don't get to call my son, which affects me. i'm suffering enough being here and not being able to see him on the outside, but having my visitation taken away too, it's not easy. >> it's hard. >> nothing would worse than having your freedom strips. this is the first time i have ever seen you draw tears, before, it's spunky, this is who i am, trying not to give that you word, but a lot of attitude.
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>> i know. >> earlier, graniella says that the inmate who reported having the pills gave her the pills. to prove it graniella says she overheard someone asking on the phone to identify the pills for her. when deputy gray listened to the tape of the conversation, her story checked out. now he and his partner will reinterview the accuser. >> the fact we have to come back and talk with her today irritates me, and i'm going to let her know that. the fact that she's caused us more work and just telling the truth to begin with. i'm going to let her know about the phone calls until a little bit into the interview. i'm going to regurgitate her story back to her, and then we will hit her with everything. i want to start off, how i
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thanked you for telling me the truth and everything yesterday, i may have spoke too soon. let me regurgitate the story. telling me you're up in the cell, talking to another female inmate, jessica comes up with the pills, look at these pills, give her the speech, you don't know what those are, blah, blah, blah. i might want to take a couple, that's stupid. you don't know what they are. you see her trying to sell these pills, long story short, she takes a couple, you think she takes a couple, you go tell the deputy, because, oh, man, this girl just took a couple pills she don't know, and you are concerned. the whole strip search thing goes on, you left out the part that you were on the phone with your husband, telling your husband two different names of whose pills they are. >> figured it was in the report.
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i told them exactly what happened. when they pulled me out, they knew. >> it was never in no report. >> we didn't want her to take them. >> so you were trying to find out what they were -- >> right. >> i don't have a problem with jessica. >> after a few more minutes of questioning, he thinks he has a clearer picture of what happened. >> i think the female inmate that ended up ingesting the pills, she was not well liked. she was trying to sell them for canteen, phone cards, what have you, once they found out the pills were not anything they would be interested in taking themselves, that's what they set her up, gave her back the pills, told the deputy and out the pod she went. >> the investigation served another purpose. >> shaken people up in that pod. that's a victory for us.
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that lets them know we're listening to phone calls, watching cameras, aware of what goes on. >> keeping contraband out jail is one way deputies maintain order and keep an eye out for negative interaction between inmates. steven caponie spent nine months in isolation. is he now back in general population and finds old habits die hard. >> hustle never sleeps. person i'm hustling right now has no idea what i'm about. >> not only is he hustling again, but he's raised the stakes. >> i need $1,800 to get out on bond. not hustling for nickels and dimes anymore. i don't want the canteen anymore. i'm hustling to get bonded out. and it might come together. >> but deputy robert vargols, has caponie on his radar. >> he is a social bug, tries to involved himself in everything that goes on. usual guys running games are the ones circulating the pod like that. >> this is my clique and this is
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what we do, play cards all day long. there are people that know what i'm about. they won't reveal what i'm doing to other people. >> i've been in the pod with him four times in the past three working shifts, each day he's been counselled twice for negative behavior, stuff he's not supposed to be doing. >> on you, child. this game called pinocle, an italian game. >> he's on the verge of disciplinary action. >> got a little fish here to fry. you hear me. need a fish to fry. >> they moved him out. >> yeah, they moved him out. that would have been a good score too if they would have let that fish up in here. he got a look at me, he ran.
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>> coming up -- >> pick your mess up, graniella. there won't be a second chance with me. you know that. >> more straight talk for graniella. >> and steven caponi's time in general population was short lived. >> i didn't think i would be back for what i came back for, but i knew it was only a matter of time.
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you know what this means, right? >> after 30 days in confinement, jessica graniella is headed back to general population. >> if you mess up, graniella, there won't be a second chance. you know me. >> graniella was in confinement for being in possession of and swallowing a pact of prescription pills.
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>> you are ready. >> i was ready like two weeks ago. i'm looking forward to seeing my baby. >> we will see. if you stay out for another two weeks -- >> don't tell me. >> where is your stuff. you keep that in there. >> i don't want to keep my -- >> okay. two minutes out the door. >> okay. >> girl. you haven't even crossed the threshold and you're telling me what you don't want to do. >> stop it! >> four you're doing this. >> i'm so excited. >> don't get too excited. i still have my rules in my pod. you know you don't get along with people too well. >> i know. >> and my numbers are high, which means more females in here. mind your business.
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>> i'm going to be anti social. >> i'm not asking to you do all that. >> that's how i'm going to do it best thing to do to me. >> we're not even in here yet, but you're not there. the mouth. that's on you. >> inmates in graniella's unit share two-person cells, but with good behavior can move to a single person cell. >> downstairs, she has to earn it to move upstairs. >> don't put that not allowed. >> excuse me. you don't have a room. quiet. you don't tell her what to do. >> didn't mean to tell her -- >> that's what you did. >> based on being counselled -- >> i am thinking she's not ready. >> it has to be proven, no q class writeups for you to go back upstairs to a private room, okay?
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that's a privilege. >> thank you, i appreciate it. >> i'm doing the right thing, staying out of trouble. i cannot say 110% that i won't go back to lockup. >> if she comes back to me, she ain't coming out. >> i'll try my hardest not to go, i don't want to lose my privileges again. my son is my motivation. >> even with the strong motivation, the transition back to general population can sometimes be a tough one. steven caponi only lasted a few weeks before he was sent back to confinement. >> i knew i would come back here with time. i didn't think i would be back for what i came back here for, but i knew it was only a matter of time. >> his trip back to confinement, started when deputy fargels caught him making fun of another inmate. >> the inmate had trouble walking and keeping his balance and inmate caponi was making
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gestures like he was going to push him down, blowing at him, like he was going to blow him over. and calling him some names, inaudible. >> made a joke about another inmate, that's all. i don't remember. i don't remember what i said. it was just a joke. >> he almost got off with a warning, but when deputy fargels put him to a holding cell, he pushed it. >> go hang out in the holding cell for an hour or two hours, that's your time out. you do that for the kids. i ain't no kid. >> initially, not compliant, he refused, told me send me to the hole, to lockdown. i gave him another order and he abruptly stood up in my face and told me get the "f" out of my way of. >> i told him no. i said holding cell. you're going to need backup.
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>> that seems sort of hostile. >> that's not hostile. i told him what his job was. >> this means chances of hustling bond money is over. >> derailed. i've been derailed. just like that fast train they were trying to up in the tampa. derailed. so, no, there is no hustle. just doing time right now. >> without bond, caponi will stay in the hillsborough county jail while he awaits time for two robberies. he could get up to 20 years in prison and caponi says that kind of time will guarantee he will never change. >> if i stay in jail until my 60s and 70s and get out, you won't see me at publix telling you, paper or plastic, ma'am. i'm not going to be bagging your groceries. i'm going to go right back to what i do up best. the stickup kid.

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