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Interview with Girliegirl, Paul, Tyler, Tom, Ryan, Zach and Pat

JM: How many different blocks were there?
Girliegirl: 750
Paul: A few
Tyler: I was in the East Annex. Broken into four sections each with 32 bunks (64 people). Each of the 64 person sections have there own community bathroom/showers. All 256 inmates share a common day room and outside yard. The day room has four T.V.s that are elevated and hard to hear. They regularly showed movies on the T.V.s and with the closed captions this was functional. No cells, no bars, more of a camp or dorm like environment.
Tom: A-block thru K-block and the R-9 thru R-16.
Ryan: there were 4 different blocks.
Zach: Several. There are pods, a main jail, trustee dorms, and an "east annex" facility.
Pat: No idea.

JM: Did they have names? If so, what were they?
Girliegirl: I don't remember
Paul: there where names but dont remember what they where
Tyler: Only saw East Annex
Tom: A-block thru K-block and R-9 thru R-16 and the uncuffed.
Ryan: they were A, B, C, and D block. And each block was split up into 5 parts and within each of these parts were 3 different housing units to hold 10 inmates each, at a time.
Zach: I believe I named them in the previous question.

JM: Which types of inmates were housed in the different blocks?
Girliegirl: They housed us by offenses. A murderer wouldn't be housed with an embezzler.
Paul: Dangerous criminals.
Tyler: East Annex is minimum security
Tom: all kinds from murderer to rapist to drunk drivers and mental health inmates and people that had not been charge yet or for what ever reason their there for so.
Ryan: Higher security inmates were housed in these areas. Inmates that were most likely going to prison because of the crimes that were committed. Or coming down from prison to take care of more pending cases.
Zach: There are maximum security blocks, housing murders, rapes, and high profile cases. Medium security, usually housing more volatile and pre sentenced inmates, and low security, housing misdemeanors, first time offenders, and general charged folk.

JM: What do you remember being the nicest and worst parts about the different blocks?
Girliegirl: some of the blocks were newer than the other ones. Some blocks were cleaner or had new beds or had better lighting.
Paul: Dunno
Tyler: East Annex is the only area that has access the outside.
Tom: the nicest thing was how clean the blocks was and when light out it was mostly quite and you can sleep a little better but the worst was the officers not paying attention to the inmates needs and ignoring the inmates like they have better things to do then see what the inmates wants or need.
Ryan: Each block had its own feel to it. the people that occupied them had usually been there a while. And had set up some sort of routine set up for how that cell block was normally ran. And most of them were pretty smooth. with people that were nice, and layed back.
Zach: Really? I'm not sure there are nice parts of cell blocks. That's like asking what the best part of war is.
Pat: 1F where I was housed had an outdoor area.

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