if you want to live in this population as a child molester, you're going to pay me, or else i'm going to kick your ass. >> an inmate with a long record runs an extortion scheme. >> the hustle never sleeps.

never sleeps. >> you didn't have any second thoughts when you were ingesting golf ball sized pills? you give us a hard time, we're going to run it military straight. ♪ >> tampa, florida, is a green city. ♪ >> located on the gulf coast of the sunshine florida is a gleaming city. >> there 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 continued 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, a former secret service agent, runs the two facilities that make up the hillsborough county jail system. located just outside downtown tampa, the jail has a capacity of 3,000 inmates. and four miles away, the orient road jail has room for 1,700. it's also the site of intake, where men and women are processed into the jail. >> line up along the wall here. >> unlike prison, where all the inmates are convicted, the majority of jail inmates have only been charged with the crime and are awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. but these days, many of them

first arrive in a similar state. >> we are seeing more and more men and women arrive in our doors in a state of opiate withdrawal. it's not a black issue, a white issue, a hispanic issue, a young issue or an old issue. it's not a rich issue or a poor issue. it crosses all lines. people feel it's okay to eat the 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, once the pills reach the street, 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 or a doctor, if they don't get it from me they'll get it from somebody else. >> i know you're happy to see me. >> she's been charged with

trafficking vicodin, burglary and dealing in stolen property. she's pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. and though she's never been convicted for it, she admits to having dealt drugs in the past. >> it's fast money. easy lifestyle to live just because the money comes so fast. it's easy to get. it's easy to learn how to do. >> look what we're eating for lunch. >> sandwiches. >> this is a mess. >> being here has opened up my eyes to like this woman is addicted to whatever her addiction is, and i kind of helped her get there. not me specifically, but drug dealers in general, we need them. >> this is her first time in jail. she's currently housed in the 72-woman dorm.

>> to put 72 women in a big room together, we're all emotionally stressed, all have their periods, you have too many personalities and too many attitudes and too many emotions and too many feelings for everybody to get along. i'm not making any promises but ain't nobody worth me arguing over. i'm going to hold my tongue. >> in the three months she's been in jail, she's received multiple write-ups for minor infractions, such as arguing with other inmates. >> i just have a bad attitude, and if i feel that i have something to say, whether it's going to 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 she's always arguing with everybody. it doesn't matter if it's staff or other inmates. >> i've tried to talk to my friend about her behavior.

>> the key word she used, "tried." >> it did not work. >> what does the conduct record show? >> not good. not good at all. giving the deputies a hard time, bad attitude, always talking back, being belligerent toward staff. >> to me, a verbal confrontation is not that serious. it's like okay, we had a disagreement and that's it. >> ladies let's go, lockdown. >> but to them it's like you guys are arguing. you guys have to be separated completely. >> so far, her violations have not been serious enough to place her in one of the jail's confinement units, where she would be locked in her cell 23 hours a day. that's where steven 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. got nobody in my face. i've got privacy. i like where i am right now. >> caponi had been out of prison for 90 days, on parole for sexual battery, when he was arrested for allegedly attempting to hold up a bank. he's pled not guilty to two armed robbery charges and is now awaiting trial. caponi was removed from general population. >> we're going to do a strip search. >> and placed in this confinement unit for extorting other inmates who he says were child molesters. >> if you're going to live in this population as a child molester, you're going to pay me.lse i'm going to kick your ass. that's the bottom line. >> caponi says he would force his victims to put money on his books. a debit card from which inmates

purchase snacks and toiletries. >> it's about who's got the most money. i'm your best friend when i'm extorting you. i don't just say you're going to give me this or that or i'm going to kill you. it doesn't work like that. i'm going to approach you and be your best friend. you're going to confide me all your deepest secrets. and once i have that, your strengths and weaknesses, then i can dwell on that. like i said the ones i was extorting, yeah, they admitted it. so no, i don't feel bad by what i did to them, 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. >> you give my deputy a hard time, we're going to run it military style, strict. >> and later, jessica faces a new harsh reality. >> i don't get to see my son?

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you tearing up my property, is that where we're going with this? one way trip to charlie duty and you're never coming out. >> sergeant sarah herman came to the hillsboro county jail in tampa, florida, after a career in television marketing. >> after 9/11, i wanted to do something a little bit different, something a little more meaningful. tell me what keeps bringing you back here. it fulfilled everything i wanted to do when it comes to helping people. sometimes we don't feel like we're making a difference. but if you just touch one perp, one little word, i don't know if it's helping, but it does for me and i like it. >> while sergeant herman was motivated by her desire to help people, she's anything but soft. >> zero tolerance. >> yes, ma'am. >> i don't want to see you anymore. >> she's known by inmates and staff alike with a commanding

presence with a zero tolerance policy for breaking the rules. after two inmates in her unit were caught smoking tobacco, she decided to search the entire unit in a shakedown disguised as a fire drill. >> fire drill! fire drill! fire drill! let's go! everybody out! >> come on! >> the ruse is intended to get inmates out of their cells into the recreation yard without time to dispose of contraband. >> fire drill! let's go. gentlemen, face the wall! >> the deputy will also be assisted by the jail's newly arrived dogs. >> it's a deterrent. it sends a strong message, do not bring drugs into our jail. >> when i get suspicious, i don't have all the senses it makes to find what i need to

find. but i have tools, called canine. so if you want to bring it in, if you want more charges, bring it in because we're going to find it. and we'll be happy to give you more charges for contraband. specifically on tobacco. do i make myself clear on contraband? part number two, attitudes on this floor cease from now on. unless you want to be on 72-hour lock, nothing coming or going. we're going to shut the canteen, visitation, everything. i don't hear but five people. do i make myself clear? >> yes, ma'am. >> thank you. >> show me, where's it at. >> i think it was her just looking back. check that room kind of

thorough. >> what we found in room ten is what we consider nuisance contraband, extra uniforms and leftover breakfast. things of that nature. things that attract bugs. >> make sure you flush the toilet. because sometimes they put stuff inside the toilet. >> this time, the only drug that turns up is some crushed aspirin. >> that's a good girl. >> thank you for your hard work and your efforts. we sent a message, zero tolerance. thank you very much, guys. appreciate you. >> thank you, everybody. >> but the staff knows that keeping drugs out of the jail is a never-ending game of cat and mouse, and keeping up with the game is usually the first thing that deputy steven gray does when he arrives at work each morning. >> i got an e-mail this morning from an officer who wants me to look into a report. basically what we have here is a

female inmate letting the pod deputy know that another female inmate had about 14 pills in her possession. so what they did was they took her into the strip search room along with a supervisor and observed her starting to chew something and swallow it. they took her to the medical unit to induce vomiting. they didn't know what she swallowed. she did admit to having pills but did not know the name. this is something i will look into as far as interviewing the inmates involved, especially the one who had the pills. it's been a day or so, so hopefully her attitude is where it needs to be. >> the following day, they begin the investigation. they will start by interviewing the inmate who tipped off the deputies. she's requested anonymity. >> do you know why you're here? >> no. >> i wanted to get to the bottom of the report written on the

female in the pod that you let the deputy know that she had some pills in her possession. >> right. >> can you walk me through that whole scenario again as far as what was going on? >> she said she had found these pills in her room and asked what they were. >> okay. >> she was trying to sell them for canteen. >> is this like an all-day process? >> it was in the morning. there was hardly anybody up. >> did you physically see -- >> she had 14 pills in there. >> you physically saw them? >> they were wrapped in a walmart bag. they did come from outside. >> so they were in a walmart bag? >> right. >> now, where was she coming from? was she new to the pod? she had been in there for a month. >> she's been all over they had nowhere else to move her. the captain told her if she got in trouble any more they would put her in charlie for her own protection. >> i appreciate you telling the deputy. you could have saved this girl's life.

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with the capacity of nearly 5,000 inmates, 950 sworn deputies and 410 civilian employees, the hillsboro county jail in tampa, florida is like a city unto itself. >> everybody head back to your bunks. we will be serving lunch shortly. >> while safely securing inmates is the top priority, the jail is supported by a vast infrastructure that must complete a large number of tasks for a large number of inmates. 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. we're putting in 165 pounds. we're not overstuffing the washer. >> turner supplements his human staff with automation.

>> the folding machine makes everything the same size. when you have five items on a shelf, you get five items across the shelf. you have a dozen inmates folding. one is going to fold so wide, another is going to fold wider. >> we're pacing ourselves today then. >> working in the laundry is considered a privilege. inmates earn one day off their sentence for every six days they work. but the job does have its downside. >> this is like the biohazard bin. i have two sets of gloves on. we have to watch out with this particular bin. we have to watch out with it. we see all kinds of stuff. you see tampons attached to underway. you see doo-doo stains. discharges from people who might have something. you just have to get it in the wash. >> javier perez has been working in the laundry for many weeks.

like many of the inmates at the jail he's here after getting caught up in tampa's prescription drug epidemic. he's pled not guilty and is now awaiting trial. >> the opportunity came across to make extra money and i tried to take it like an idiot. i sold to a c.i. twice. i made like $130. goes to show you i'm not that good, huh? i'm ready to change. it's 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're in, inmates create their own sales and distribution systems. >> the laundry room, as well as the kitchen are the central hubs for the transportation of contraband throughout the facility. they'll put the contraband whether it be drugs or weapons, they'll put it in a cart and tag

it in such a manner that the inmates at the receiving end know this is the cart. it might be something as simple as flipping a shirt over or taping a piece of paper to the side of the cart. >> but the technique inmates use to smuggle and deal drugs in jail are constantly evolving. so deputies try to stay one step ahead. the jail recently acquired a new team member. >> she's a narcotics dog. she's trained to find all the different forms of cocaine, meth heroin, cannibus. and we recently trained her on oxycodone. she's going to be off her leash and i'm going to let her do her thing. she's a big puppy. i think a lot of this job is

going to be presence, just the inmates knowing that this dog is here and that we will be out looking for the drugs. i think we will deter it a good bit. >> whether directly or indirectly, drugs have led to the incarceration of many of the inmates at the county jail. >> my drug of choice is crack. i'm being charged with two robberies, one is a first degree. the second one is second degree. i have no recollections whatsoever of doing these crimes. all i remember is leaving a crack house, waking up in a field. that's it. >> steven caponi's troubles didn't end there. in jail, he was extorting other inmates he says were child molesters. he would threaten them with violence if they didn't put money on his books. >> for one, it was $40 a week, from the second one it was about $80 a week. >> the hustle landed caponi in confinement. >> just another day in paradise. >> he says he's enjoyed the solitude. but after nine months is ready for a change. >> i would like to be in

population so i can be around people. play cards with somebody, talk to somebody. >> can i talk to you for a minute? >> yes, what's up? >> do you know if classification got my request about getting me out of here going back to population? >> no she said she didn't get your request. >> i have to put in another request. >> you didn't get anything back from them in. >> no i put two of them in last week. >> during his time in confinement, caponi has run out of canteen snacks. >> i had a bunch of canteen in this corner. it's all gone now. >> and he has no money left on his books. >> i'm eating my fingernails. >> you think people are going to think you want to go back there to do your old tricks? >> that's exactly what they're going to think. they're going to think that's why i'm back here. he ain't got no money now, the reason he's out of confinement is he wants to hustle again. that's exactly what they're going to think. i don't care what they think. >> he might be trying to manipulate, but that's part of the game every day we go through.

we'll probably keep him a couple more weeks at least, but there's always that possibility if his behavior is good that they give him a shot back out in general population. >> here's the request slip. make sure you fill it out asking to go to general population. tell her that you've been behaving. >> worst case scenario if they let me out, i go back to extorting child molesters. i've got to leave them alone, i know that. i've got to leave them alone. sometimes it's not easy. coming up, under investigation for dealing drugs in jail, jessica turns the tables on her accuser. >> i had seen her on the phone earlier. you could hear her, she was saying six this -- >> maybe pill numbers? >> yeah that -- yeah, she was saying numbers.

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two months he has been here go by a little easier. >> it's something to do. it didn't matter what it w if they made me feed pigs, i would have done that. >> when his morning shift is over, perez heads back to the dorms. >> 29, perez. >> once he's back at his bed, he often turns to a new time filler, poetry. >> my life comes and goes, where life can change no one knows how in life is love many need a hug where they need it is from heaven up above. it helps. it's something for me. you know something for me to just get away escape for a little while, you know? >> just two days after his arrest, perez's 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? just be able to touch him for him to feel i'm there. i hear him cry over the phone and it's like, i'm coming, i'll be there soon. just hold on, my little buddy. it's hard, man.

i made the choice. i made the choices. i'm in a roomful of men. i've got to be a man, you know? i've got to stand up for my mistake. i've got to deal with it, and it's hard. it really is hard, you know? >> but perez knows showing too much emotion here can be dangerous. >> you can't let people see you for what you are. that's where your weaknesses and your faults come in. people will ride that right to the bank. you have to be an actor while in jail, because sometimes you're ing to have to be an act other than what you really are. >> steven caponi is a self-professed expert at taking advantage of vulnerable inmates. he's spent the last nine months in confinement for extorting alleged child molesters. >> answer the phone. >> recently his request to move back to general population was

granted. >> the sergeant gave me the third degree last night. he said we ain't going to have no problems, are we? but this is jail, you have to do what you have to do. >> people know your business the second you walk in here. >> caponi's transfer isn't the only good news. >> we've got to eat. >> his sister just put some money on his books so he can buy snacks from the jail canteen. >> we need the whole table, right? >> caponi says this time around, instead of hustling canteen, he's sharing it. they have pooled their snacks to make a jailhouse burrito. >> this right here is the bread. the noodles are already done. >> you mix it in with the 16 slices of bread. >> what the bread is going to do is bulk it up and expand it. >> it's going to make a dough. it's like pizza dough. you know what i'm saying? pretty simple.

>> now we're rolling out the dow. >> deodorant, we use for the roller. >> rachel ray, eat your heart out. i hope you're watched, because not only do we have the ultimate plan, but we've got the master plan. we take it and roll it up and make it look like a this. if you want our recipe, you can write to me here. >> so good, it makes you want to slap your momma. >> as caponi enjoys his time in general population, jessica has recently been transferred from general population to confinement. she's under investigation after deputies witnessed her swallowing what turned out to be a packet of prescription pills. another inmate told master deputy steven gray that she was trying to sell the pills. but she claims the pills belong to the inmate who reported her.

>> she approached me and was like can you hold this for me? so i grabbed them and put them in my bra. >> you didn't find that strange? >> after the fact, yeah. >> she says she didn't know what kind of pills were in the bag. but 15 minutes later, when a deputy called her over for a strip search, she put the bag in her mouth. >> i wasn't going to swallow them i just put them in my mouth. so they strip searched me, everything was good. as i was about to walk about the door, they were like open up your mouth. i was like, you know, i'd rather chew them and swallow them than get in trouble for having them. >> so when you put those in your mouth, you're putting something in your mouth that's almost the size of a golf ball. you didn't have any second thoughts when you were ingesting a golf ball size of pills as you were doing it? >> no. it happened too fast. >> because i'm going to be honest, you could have signed your death warrant.

>> i know. >> the only way i see you doing that without thinking, you knew what the pills were. >> i didn't know what they were. >> therefore you probably knew they weren't going to kill you. i'm asking you, do you see the questions i have to ask? >> well, if i knew what they were. >> the only way i'm going to swallow any kind of pills, is if i'm getting ready to get nailed here. if i swallow 10, 14 of these, they're not going to kill me. i'm not going to catch another charge. so i go ahead and swallow them. >> no that's not what i was thinking. >> she claims if nothing else, she can prove that the pills belonged to the inmate. who reported her. >> i had seen her on the phone earlier, i think she was talking to her husband on the phone. she was like talking in code to him. he was i guess on the internet looking up something for her about the pills. whoever she got them from. >> maybe pill numbers? >> yeah. she would say numbers over the phone. like if you get the tape from her phone call, you can hear

her, she was saying six this, whatever, whatever. she was saying numbers over the phone. >> the jail records all phone calls made by inmates for security purposes. but policy prohibits them from being made public. since jessica has provided the date and time of the calls, deputy gray accesses it and listens to the conversation between the inmate and her husband. >> on the actual phone call, she's asking on the other end for this person to on the internet look up a web m.d. and trying 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 that we interviewed to get to the bottom of this. it seems as though she's got a lot more to do with the case than what she originally told us. >> coming up -- >> i'm not going to let her know about the phone calls until a little bit into the interview. and then we'll hit her with everything. >> the investigation takes a turn. >> you know how i thanked you for telling the truth yesterday? i may have spoken too soon. >> and steven caponi finds old

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and it's bringing the future forward. at some point, most inmates who are at tampa's hillsborough county jail for the first time are hit with the realization of how much they've left behind. as she now finds herself at the center of a drug investigation, jessica's thoughts are with her 2-year-old son. >> my son is so important to me. and like every day is just like it's so hard being without him. i know my son is with my mom and she takes very good care of him, but i still worry. i still care.

i still know that he misses me and he needs his mom. >> jessica, who is in jail on a drug trafficking charge to which she pled not guilty, was recently accused of trying to sell prescription pills. she admits to swallowing a small packet of pills when deputies attempted to search her, but she says she was only holding them for the inmate who made the accusation. >> you, with your long history, yes, you know where i'm going. >> but this is only one of many disciplinary problems she's had in the two months she's been at hillsborough county. sergeant sarah herman has come to talk to her about her behavior. >> your history says you can't cope in general population because you've had issues with everybody. >> i mean, it's not all my fault but i understand what you're saying. >> let's talk about fault. real quick, if you're not in it, it wouldn't happen.

so either own it or you don't. >> i take full responsibility for my actions -- >> then nothing else needs to be said. that's how miss herman likes to hear you talk. once you get to that point, miss 20-year-old, happy birthday, okay? that tells me that maybe, just maybe in your future, all of this will change. i'm hoping for you, okay? am i confident? no i'm not going to stand up here and tell you anything different. you have a lot to learn at 20 years old. a lot. your habits have not changed. they have not. you are doing in jail, according to this report, what you are accustomed to on the street. the behavior is the same. >> i mean, what the report says is that i was selling pills in the pod. which is not -- it's not true. >> i don't want to talk about selling the pills thing.

close that new york mouth for a minute. seriously. i said it. you are qualifying every freaking thing that comes out of your mouth with an excuse, which means you're not owning it. >> i know. >> accept it as what it is. you have to change it, you. >> i took the whole being in lockup as a joke. >> i know you did. i knew you were going to end up here. >> i think being in lock, i've learned my lesson and i'm willing to go back into general population. >> you learned your lesson how? >> i don't get to see my son. i don't get to call my son, which affects me. having my visitation taken away from me too, it was like -- it would be easier if i had visitation. >> the worst thing in the world to have your freedom stripped from you. >> yeah. >> it really is. you realize this is the first time i've ever seen you draw

tears, really? because all before it's been spunky, in your face, this is who i am, take it or leave it. a lot of attitude. >> i know. >> earlier, she told master deputy teach gray that the inmate who reported her having the pills had actually given her the pills. to prove it, she also said she overheard the inmate asking someone 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 that we've got to come back and talk with her today irritates me. i'm going to let her know that. the fact that she's caused us more work and just telling us the truth to begin with. i'm not 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. i want her to agree that's what she told us and then we'll hit her with everything.

i want to start off -- you know how i thanked you for telling me the truth yesterday after our little interview? i may have spoken to soon. let me regurgitate the story you gave me yesterday as far as the whole pill thing. you said you were up in your cell talking to another female inmate. jessica comes up with these pills and shows you hey, look at these pills. you give her the speech, you don't know what those are, blah, blah, blah. she said i might want to take a couple, you say that's stupid. you see her trying to sell these pills. long story short, she takes a couple or you think she does. you tell the deputy because you're thinking this girl just took a couple pills she doesn't know. you're concerned. makes sense. and then the whole strip search thing goes on, she swallows them. you left out the whole part where you're on the phone where you're telling your husband two different names of whose pills they are. i had to listen to an hour's worth of phone calls that you made that day.

>> i figured it was in the report because i told them exactly what happened. when they pulled me out, they knew. we didn't want her to take them. she had taken them already. >> you were trying to find out what they were? >> right. i didn't have a problem with jessica. just that one day we had an argument. >> after a few more minutes of questioning, deputy gray has a clearer picture of what happened. >> i think what happened is the female inmate that ingested the pills wasn't well liked. >> i'm just saying -- >> when she was hustling these pills, she was probably trying to sell them all day for canteen or what have you. but i think once they found out that the pills jessica is trying to hustle were not anything they would be interested in taking themselves, i think that's when they probably set her up, gave her back the pills and told the deputy and out the pod she went. >> the investigation also served another purpose. >> it's kind of shaken people up in that pod. that's a victory for us. that lets them know we're listening to phone calls, we're

aware of what goes on. >> keeping contraband out of the jail is one way deputies maintain order. they also keep an eye out for negative interaction between inmates. steven caponi spent nine months in confinement after he was extorting money from child molesters. he's now back in general population and he's found that old habits die hard. >> the hustle never sleeps. the 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. >> we're working on getting bonded out right now. my bond right now is $18,000. i need $1,800 to get out. so i'm not hustling for nickels and dimes anymore, you know? i don't want the canteen anymore. now i'm hustling to get bonded out and it looks like it might come together. >> but this deputy has caponi on

his radar. >> i notice he seems to be a social bug. he's always trying to involve himself in everything that goes on in the pod. usually the guys that are hustles and games are the ones that are circulating the pot like that. >> this is my click like that. this is what we do all day. play cards all day. there people who do know what i'm about. i consider them friends because they will not reveal what i am doing. >> i have been in the pod with them four times and each day he has been counselled twice for negative behavior stuff she not supposed to be doing. >> the tying game. >> he needs to involve himself with matters that don't pertain to him. he's on the verge of disciplinary action. >> i feel lost. i got a little fish here in front. you hear me? i have a fish to fry.

that would have been a good score. they left the fish up here. >> he wasn't getting along, was he? >> coming up -- >> if you mess up it won't be a second chance. >> jessica gets more straight talk from the sergeant. >> quiet. you don't tell her what to do. >> steven's time in general population proves to be a short stay. >> i didn't think i would be back here for what i came back here for. it was only time. # businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination... and businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com.

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packet of prescription pills. >> you are ready. >> it's like two weeks ago. >> really? okay. we will see. >> i'm looking forward to seeing my baby. >> we will see. if you stay out for another two weeks. >> don't play with me. >> where is your stuff? put that in there. >> i don't want it keep it in your room. >> put that in there. two minutes out the door? girl! you haven't even crossed the threshold and telling me what you top the do. you are doing this. >> i'm so excited. i'm so excited. >> let's not get too excited. i still have my rules. you know you don't get along with people too well. >> i know. >> that means there is more females in here. >> okay. >> mind your business. >> i'm going to be antisocial.

>> i'm not asking you to do that. >> that's the best thing for me to do. >> for feels like we are not even in here yet, but you are not there. the mouth. that's on you. >> inmates in her new unit share two-person cells, but with good behavior can move to a single person cell on the upper tier. >> downstairs she has to earn it. upstairs. okay? >> don't put that i'm not allowed -- >> use me! you don't have a room. quiet. you don't tell her what to do. >> i didn't mean to tell her. >> but you did. >> based on being counseled, deputy garcia and it has to be proven, no two class right write ups for you to go up to a

private room. >> thank you. >> that's a privilege. >> i know. thank you. i appreciate it. >> i plan on staying out of trouble. i cannot say i will not be following back. >> she is all yours. if she comes back, she ain't coming out. i will try my hardest not to go. i don't want to lose my privileges again. my son is my motivation. >> even with a strong motivation, the transition back to general population can sometimes be a tough one. >> steven capone only lasted a few weeks before he was sent back.idn't think i would be sent back here, but it was only a matter of time. >> capone stripped back to confinement when they caught him making fun of another inmate. >> the inmate in question that he was picking on had trouble walking and keeping his balance and the inmate was making 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, but they were inaudible. >> he made a joke about another inmate. >> i don't remember. i don't remember what i said. it was just a joke. >> capone almost got off with a warning, but when the deputy directed him to a holding cell capone decided to push things a step further. >> they're used that holding cell for kids. they hang out in the holding cell for two hours or an hour. i ain't no kid. >> he was not com behind and he said send me to the hole and lockdown. >>. >> i gave him another order and he stood up in my face and told me get the f out of my way. >> he gave me an order to go to the holding cell and i said no. you are going to need back up. that's not hostile. i told him what his job was.

>> confinement means chances of hustlinge inging bond money is over. >> derailed. so no there is no hustle. it's just doing time right now. >> without bond, capone will stay in the hillsborough county jail while he awaits trial for two robberies. if convicted, he could get up to 20 years in prison. capone said that kind of time will guarantee he will never change. >> if i stay in jail until my 60s or 70s, you see me tell you paper or plastic, ma'am? i am not going to be bagging your groceries. that's out. i will go right back to what i do best.