Contraband, extra uniform and leftover breakfast, things of that nature, 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
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 and they keep an eye out for negative interactions between inmates. steven caponi spent nine months in confinement. after he was caught extorting deen funds from alleged 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. the 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.
Over. derailed. i ve been derailed. just like that fast train they were trying to put up here in tampa, derailed. so no, there s no hustle. it s just doing time right now. without bond, caponi will stay in the hillsboro county jail while he awaits trial for two robberies. if convicted, he could get up to 20 years in prison and caponi says that kind of time will guarantee he ll never change. if i stay in jail till my 60s and 70s and get out, you re not going to see me at publics 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 best, the stickup kid
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 on 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
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. yes, back wall. face the wall! deputies also be assisted by the jail s newly arrived dog. 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.