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Interview with Ron, Candice and Cliff

JM: What types of facilities were available to help pass the time?
Ron: TV. Nothing else... they didn't allow books except you could have a bible. You could buy paper on commissary and a flex pen (just the part of the pen on the inside). I play music and write songs for fun so I wrote songs. A few times the deputies snuck in some books for us. Everybody would fight over them.
Candice: There are really no activities except you get to go to the rec yard ehich is nothing but a slab of concrete where you can sit out there and play basketball but most people just sit out there and talk to each other because there is really nothing to do
Cliff: none. you would watch t.v work out or go out side because thats all they had for us. and if you didnt do that you just sat around unless you were a trustee and they had more privalages and were able to move around more freely than everyone else could

JM: Did you have regular access to the entertainment or was competition fierce? Give details.
Ron: See above.
Candice: There are really no activities except you get to go to the rec yard ehich is nothing but a slab of concrete where you can sit out there and play basketball but most people just sit out there and talk to each other because there is really nothing to do
Cliff: yes, every day we could watch tv but there was times when some one wanted to watch one program and some one else wanted to watch another and at times it might get heated about what we would watch. i once saw a fight break out about what we would watch

JM: Did you have a hard time staying in shape while in jail?
Ron: I got in terrible shape while I was in jail. There was no place to work out. For an hour a day you go from the dayroom to a completely enclosed room. There was a basketball hoop that was about 20 feet high on the brick wall. When you walked out of the dayroom into the concrete outside area it was closed by 30-40 ft concrete walls with a black net covering it.
Candice: really no activities except you get to go to the rec yard ehich is nothing but a slab of concrete where you can sit out there and play basketball but most people just sit out there and talk to each other because there is really nothing to do
Cliff: no because i worked out every night doing push ups two nights on one night off. i started doing five sets of five and worked my way up

JM: How often did you get to go outside? What did you do outside if you were allowed to? If you were not allowed to go outside what could you do for exercise?
Ron: 1 hour per day.
Candice: really no activities except you get to go to the rec yard ehich is nothing but a slab of concrete where you can sit out there and play basketball but most people just sit out there and talk to each other because there is really nothing to do
Cliff: everyday. we just walked around, talked to each other, worked out doing push ups, crunches and other workout exercises. we would work out in our cells

JM: Did the jail offer church services? If so, what were they like and when were they held?
Ron: We had a minister come on Monday nights and Saturday mornings. In between the exit doors of the block there is a little meeting room, which were used for attorney visits and chaplain visits. The deputy would call "church call". Sometimes it was just em and other times there were 3 or 4 of us. We would do bible study.
Candice: You have some people that come to perform church services but they just come to the unit and talk for an hour
Cliff: yes they were. im not sure because i didnt go to any of them. i dont know where they were held

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