Interview with Mickey, Nate, Anne, Ryan, Erik and Chris
JM: How long was your sentencing for? Mickey: 1 year with 10 months suspended. Nate: 31 days Anne: I was given a six month sentence (suspended) plus
alcohol and drug classes through Sequoia
counseling agency, as well as a 18 month
probationary period with Salt Lake County
Probation. Ryan: Bailed out, so no sentencing Erik: I was out in for 17 days and was released for
supervised probation Chris: I had served 30 went on the run and then served 30
more and did 30 on an ankle monitor.
JM: Did you spend time in a holding cell after your sentencing? If so, what was that like? If you didn't where did they they take you instead? Mickey: Yes. It took probably 10-12 hrs. from the time I
was brought to the jail to the time I was placed
in quarantine. Nate: No. I voluntarily had to report to the jail on
certain date. Anne: Oh my God. I was a first timer, and I was in such
a state of shock I alternated between a low
steady moan and an uncontrollable loud sobbing. I
was cold and just could not believe I was
handcuffed inside of 4 concrete walls. At the
Jail, the sheriffs took me from the courtroom
holding cell after about an hour to the basement
to await prisoner transport. At this time, I was
oblivious to the incredible mistreatment I was
about to take.
A male officer put me in a holding cell in the
basement alone. After maybe 30 minutes, I could
hear feet shuffling toward me. Sitting on the
bench handcuffed and cross-legged, I looked up to
see two Sheriffs- one maybe 50 and the other
30ish looking into the cell directly at me and
hard. One of them shouts through the glass (much
louder than necessary for me to hear him) What
you got there between your legs?
I was so shocked I don't think I really processed
the comment until after they walked off. He
shouted two more times something to the
effect, "Whats between your legs, what are you
hiding., Uncross your legs"..etc.
I finally stammered that I was a female
(absolutely confused because I HAD JUST BEEN
THOROUGHLY SEARCHED DOWN TO THE UNDERWEAR and THE
SUGGESTION THAT THEY NEEDED TO CONDUCT ANOTHER
SEARCH..AND THIS TIME FOR A MORE GENDER-
IDENTIFICATION PURPOSE I felt openly
brutalized,..provoked with other inmates in
holding cells all around me within ears shot. For
a period of maybe two hours another female was
placed in the same holding cell with me. Right
after the guards pushed her in and slammed the
door, she turned to me and asked if I was
okay. "I heard the whole thing and that was just
wrong what they did. I asked her if she would be
willing to sign a statement stating what she had
heard and seen and she agreed but we had no way
to exchange information such as telephone
numbers. The two officers came back, barking that
they had question of my gender identity. After
a 2ND humiliating search and taunting comments
about how the gender identification was
necessary to preserve the security of other
prisoners? I calmly asked for the male officer
who yelled the first offending comments and the
female who proudly stated that she had had to do
this routine with other(s) of "them" implying the
transexual nature. Ryan: left in the 'bull pen' for roughly 5 hours Erik: I was put back in the court holding cell and
transported back to the jail. The jail took 5-6
hours to get the judges release order processed and
to release me. Chris: Yes I spent time in a holding cell after sentencing.
It was cold hard cement with about 50 other guys
then it was back to the jail cell at SLCJ.