jessica pimentel played caputo on orange is the new black.
jessica pimentel played caputo on orange is the new black.
who plays caputo on orange is the new black?
jessica pimentel
joseph "joe" salvatore caputo (played by nick sandow) – one of the administrative officials in the prison. caputo is initially portrayed as a sleazy character who believes in keeping the inmates dehumanized and who masturbates in his office immediately after his first encounter with piper. later, it becomes clear that he genuinely seeks to rehabilitate the inmates and run the prison properly and ethically. he does not tolerate corruption, inefficiency, and sexual exploitation, later telling bennett while berating him for impregnating daya that he masturbates to control any urges to sleep with one of the inmates. it is shown through flashbacks in the third season that caputo's desire to do the right thing has always been met with ingratitude and bad results for him. prior to working at the prison, he quit his band to raise his girlfriend's daughter – who was conceived with one of his bandmates while they were separated – only for them to become successful while he got stuck in a low-paid job in the prison service, and his wife left him for her daughter's father. throughout the first season, caputo appeared to have romantic feelings for the new recruit to the staff, susan fischer. however, when she did not return the feelings, caputo became upset and fired her during an argument. he is easily the most competent of the prison staff, being more than capable of dealing with crises without being appeasing or oppressive – on one occasion, upon finding out that there is a hunger strike in the prison, he goes to the strikers directly and tells them straight that most of their demands are either unreasonable or are being resolved independently, without then sending them to the shu. in addition, he is unafraid to challenge people who are being unreasonable, routinely lashing out at figueroa for her austere methods, and healy for his lesbian witch hunt. he also plays bass guitar in a band called "side boob," and attempts to grow plants as a therapeutic hobby. caputo is also seen to be very ambitious, and desired to move up the ladder to eventually become warden. when piper finds evidence of figueroa embezzling funds from the prison, caputo uses it to force her resignation and he becomes the new assistant warden.
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during the fourth season, taystee finds herself being assigned as caputo's secretary. she uses her new position to influence some of the decisions caputo makes on behalf of the inmates, to include convincing him to play the wiz during movie night. she also convinces caputo to give her a wristwatch, which none of the other inmates have, and it is later broken by one of the guards. while caputo was gone, she successfully guessed his computer password and used his computer to surf the internet. after poussey died, she was devastated, but refused to take the day off from being caputo's secretary, offering to call the police for him and trying to convince him to call poussey's dad. unknown to caputo, she was present during the press release announcing poussey's death and was angered when he stated bayley was not being arrested and when caputo failed to mention poussey's name. following this, she went through the halls shouting that bayley was being let off, causing an uprising among all of the inmates.
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