Is it boring? Or are you busy? So the other day, I toted a pocket-sized notebook with me everywhere I went, scribbling down every single thing I did. At a. He gives me 10 minutes to throw on some clothes and escorts me to the isolation cells, where I strip down again for a thorough search and begin a three-hour suicide watch.
He opens up surprisingly quickly about the many horrors of his childhood. I almost cry several times. I wake up at 10, thanks to all the hooting and hollering outside my cell. I take a few minutes to center myself, climb from my top bunk and am met by my service dog in training, Ross. As I dress, Ross wags his tail and prods me with his cold, wet nose, which never fails to make me smile. I then hike down the Rock our term for the cell block to the communal bathroom I share with 48 other inmates, brush my teeth between four young kids who are rapping, handle my morning business on the toilet, and return to my cell once again, where I pour Ross another bowl of water, buckle on my pouch full of treats, then venture back out into the bowels of our unit with the dog in tow.
We spend the next 40 minutes training him to follow my commands. Next, I grab my tablet and a cup of instant coffee, and hurry to our JPay. There, I pay a guy a ramen noodle soup for holding me a spot in line, then plug my tablet in and upload and download emails. I repeat, be on your bunks and be visible for count or you will get a ticket!
During count, I write a few emails to be uploaded later and listen to the news on the radio as I lie in bed waiting for the guards to make their rounds. Sure, they start at the same times each day: 5 a. On this particular day, I get lucky. I run a few miles, do pullups, pushups, sprints, and finish with weights and stretches. When the prison opens its massive, razor-wire-topped gates at for a controlled mass-movement to the yard, I head inside like a fish swimming upstream through a river of convicts.
Hundreds of them. At times like these, I need to stay hyper-vigilant. For example, a person who has been charged with murder will be taken into custody and housed in County Jail. He attends a bail hearing and no bail is set, which means he will have to remain in custody because he is either a flight risk, or a harm to society, or both. During the course of his trial he remains in County Jail.
He is later convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life in Prison. Then he will be transferred to State Prison to serve his penalty. County Jails also offer and manage alternatives to jail such as work release programs, work furlough, house arrest, and private county jails where the person convicted can serve their sentences on weekends. State Prisons offer programs for halfway houses and community restitution centers and are used to house inmates that have been convicted of the more serious crimes such as murder, and rape.
Because overcrowding is a problem in both county jail and state prison, both systems operate a good behavior program. Those who are on good behavior can have their sentences reduced or cut. If a person is convicted, a part of their final sentence may be to serve some time in Jail. Many of us have obligations to work and children, or even certain medical obligations that cannot be put on hold.
In those situations and specific cases, the option of an alternative to jail may be available. One such alternative is to complete mandated time in a Private Jail. A private jail is also known as a city jail and is generally a facility that works in contract with a government agency. While it is supervised and has the same restrictions on freedom as a county jail, it provides a much more relaxed environment.
Private jails are cleaner and allow for private rooms. They also allow those enrolled to bring in laptops and books and things that are within reason. Some private jails also allow those serving time to not have to serve it continuously. For example, if someone is to serve 8 days in jail, they do not have to come in 8 days all at once.
If you show up to court, you get your money back. They see it as just a guilty plea where you have already paid the fine in advance. You pay bail to a bondsman to bond you out of jail. The showers are like the ones in your high-school gym with shower nozzles arranged around a single post. Besides, the showers are monitored to prevent stuff like that from happening. Rape is not nearly as widespread in jail as you might think.
Prison is a bit of a different matter, but inmates in jails generally have way more supervision and less free time than inmates in a prison. The jail clothes you will be issued when you are booked will have been worn by at least 3 million other people before they got to you.
They do not fit properly. They do not look good. On anyone. You will not have a belt. You will pull your pants up all day. The only underwear they have are tighty-whiteys. Some items offered are transistor radios, prayer rugs, sports bras for women only and better toiletry items like brand-name toothpaste and shampoo, as well as all manner of college-fare type foodstuffs, ranging from Ramen noodles and Cup-a-Soup to Mountain Dew and Doritos.
Cells with bars, where one person is housed, are mostly a thing of the past…or a thing of some po-dunk jail in a west-Texas county with a population of about people that still uses its year-old cowboy-days jail. Modern jails house a lot of people, and the cheapest way to do that is in barrack-style housing. Most jails have cable TV. If you thought deciding what TV show to watch on a Saturday night with your girlfriend or a few buddies was a chore, imagine trying to get 75 inmates to come to a consensus.
While some inmates are housed alone, all follow a strict, daily routine. Things like that.
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