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Is that where we re going with this? one way trip 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 it don t feel like we re making a difference. but if you just touch one person, 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. 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 ....
I made the choice. i made the choices. i m in a room full 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 going 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 spent the last nine months in confinement for extorting alleged child molesters. recently, his request to move back to general population was ....
Indirectly, drugs have led to the incarceration of many of the inmates at the county jail. my drug of choice is crack. i ve been charged with two robberies. 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. another day in paradise. he says he s enjoyed the solitude. but after nine months is ready for a change. ....
graniela, 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 hillsboro county. sergeant sarah herman has come to talk to her about her behavior. your long 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. ....
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. 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 these pills? they were wrapped in a walmart bag. now where was she coming from? was she new to the pod? she had been in there for a month. the captain told her if she got in trouble anymore that they would put her in charlie for her own protection. i appreciate you telling the deputy. you could have saved this girl s life. i wish there was more people like you inside the jail. i think you did the right thing. the inmate accused of having the prescription drug stash and swallowing it is one with the reputation for drug dealing, jessica graniela. ....