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Interview with Victor

JM: Did you find it difficult to get along with other inmates? Please give examples to explain why you did or didn't.
Victor: It was pretty hard to get along with some of the inmates. There were many egos stemming from many more problems. The young inmates were placed in the cell block with older inmates who were at another maturity level, there was one TV, food was inadequate to the point of losing weight almost instantly and visibly after about 2 weeks in custody; all these things seemingly unrelated, but when put together made for an ill stew of hostility.

JM: What types of things did you have to do to avoid problems or fights with other inmates?
Victor: There were cliques. Plain and simple. people who you felt were on your level or at least reflected your values system. There were games and some cliques formed over that. There were music videos and the guys that cliqued of stuff like that. You stuck with the guys you got along with for the most part, but with the forming of cliques, where it be neighborhoods, gangs, or what not, there was always the feeling of "us against them."

JM: Were you able to choose an inmate as your cellmate if you knew one? How often would your cellmate(s) change?
Victor: Yes I was able to choose my cell mate. The only problem was that I did not live in Coffee County, so I was on foreign turf and didn't know anyone except for my co-defendant, who lived not to far away from the jail itself. Changing cell mates depended on one of two things: your cell mates level of progression in his proceedings, or you went to lock-up and found that there was another guy in your cell when you got back, forcing you to have to move to another cell, possibly with guys you didn't know.

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