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
i would like to be in population so i can be around people. so i talk to somebody. can i talk to you for a second? yes, what s up? you didn t get anything back from them? i put two 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. 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.
But i knew it was only a matter of time. caponi s trip back to confinement started when the deputy caught him making fun of another inmate. the inmate in question that he was picking on had trouble walking and keeping his balance and inmate caponi was making gestures like he was going to push him down, blowing like he was going to blow him over and calling him some inaudible names. i made a joke about another inmate, that s all. what were you saying? i don t remember what i said. it was just a joke. caponi almost got off with a warning. but when the deputy directed him to a holding cell, caponi decided to push things a step further. they use that holding cell for kids. oh, go hang out in the holding cell for two hours or an hour. that s your time-out. man, you do that for the kids. i ain t no kid. initially he was not complying. he told me just send me to the hole, send me to lockdown. i gave him another order and he stood up in my face and told me get the f out of my w
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. 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. caponi says this time around, instead of hustling canteen, he s sharing it. they have pooled their snacks to make a jailhouse burrito. this is the bread and the noodles are right here. 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. pretty simple. deodorant used as a roller.