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And sprinkles on just the right amount of brown sugar streusel. ♪ so that you can spend more time making special moments with your family. marie callender's. it's time to savor. coming to prison can be culture shock for just about everyone, but for an ex-cop is truly is a private hell.
>> i had an idea i would never end up in prison. i was somehow exempt. i'm not saying i was an exempt lair citizen by any means, but i had no idea it could get this bad. >> in the middle of interviewing stephen, the alarm went off and the rule is all prisoners get down on their stadiums and personnel and staff remain standing. >> falls alarm. it was a little sad actually watching stephen on the ground because we were in the midst of having this great conversation almost and he started to think of himself as a regular guy and back out on the street and suddenly it was very clear, no, he's an in...
>> to make a long story short the judge said all of the money was raised was fraud even though we could show we gave away $70,000 to little league teams, hospitals, christmas drives, thanksgiving, easter basket drives. now it's all fraud money so because it's all fraud the $3.5 million is all income and by the way you owe several million dollars tax on that. >> after donating only $70,000 of the $3.5 million he raised, tiano was sentenced to almost 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement. >> it's one of those things that in the beginning it seemed surreal. as you go through it you start ...
Enforcement, he still carried himself like a cop. and here he was incarcerated in a pretty hard core prison, and i could see he hadn't come to terms with the fact he was once a law enforcement agent and now he was an inmate. he still obviously struggled with that fact. he was lucky he was put in a protective custody unit, otherwise he would be in grave danger. >> i wouldn't probably last five minutes on the main line. >> why? >> they don't like cops. you know. or ex-cops. >> tiano says if nothing else his experience here has helped him see the people he used to arrest in a new light. >> i've b...
You make the ritual of having coffee just like you did out there. you don't have the option to get starbucks. you get the canteen and make what you can make. i think one of the interesting things i kind of woke up to was that that's what life is. here or elsewhere. you better get something out of it. if i can actually enjoy making coffee here in corcoran surrounded by a lot of loud people and a lot of other discomforts, i'm going to come out a lot better for it when i come out. if i'm going to live through this and i have a son so i better live there through, you reach down and you find metal ...