Mob cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are already getting a taste of the hard life behind bars that awaits them.
The pair, convicted of racketeering conspiracy on Friday, were most likely whisked away to the Special Housing Unit at Metropolitan Detention Center, one of their lawyers said.
Ed Hayes, lawyer for Caracappa, said yesterday he hadn’t talked to the men, but “I assume they’re in the SHU,” where a 23-hour lockdown is in effect.
The lockdown means that inmates are in their individual cells, alone, for 23 hours of each day, allowed out only for an hour of exercise.
They are incarcerated in the SHU until the Bureau of Prisons designates which facility to which they’ll be assigned.
Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Carla Wilson wouldn’t say where the men were being kept. But she indicated a typical day in a federal lockup is long, hard – and tedious.
According to Wilson, lights go on at 6 a.m., followed by breakfast, and that work begins for inmates at 7:40 a.m. each day.
Then there’s a half-hour lunch break before returning to work until 3:30 p.m. The feds do a count of the population around 4 p.m., and dinner follows at 5, followed by recreation time until lights out at 11:30 p.m.
Cop wags were cynical about the pair’s future.
On “NYPD Rant,” a blog for officers, a writer known as 3qtrs noted:
“It looks like they’ll be shedding pounds.”
Another, with the sign-in gross mutton chops, wrote: “Ouch!!! They aren’t going to be happy at the Supermax in Colorado,” referring to one of the most secure federal facilities, in Florence, Colo. “I’m sure the feds will look for someplace cushy like that to send him.”