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it makes everything the same size. but when you have five items on the 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. 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. you see tampons attached to underwear. you see doo-doo stains. discharges from people who might have something. you just have to get it in the wash. like many of the inmates at the jail, perez is here after getting caught up in tampa s ....
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 them? 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 of drug dealing, jessica. ....
i take full responsibility. then nothing else needs to be said. 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, you ve got 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. close that new york mouth for a minute, seriously. i said it. ....
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. 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. ....
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 inmate had about 14 pills in her possession. ....