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Interview with Cami, Tombstone, Strawberry, Tonya, Jay, Fred, Alice and Patrick

JM: How many different blocks were there?
Cami: There were four blocks.
Tombstone: There are seven floors,with four pods of cells on each floor,each pod having 20-25 cells each
Strawberry: four blocks
Tonya: Several
Jay: In the county there was 9 floors with 7 blocks on each floor
Fred: There was 7 different blocks there
Alice: there were five different blocks
Patrick: lots, they have 5 floor, each with about 10 dorms of 5, plus space in an adjoining facilty

JM: Did they have names? If so, what were they?
Cami: A B C and D.
Tombstone: no names,they were classified as to your custody classification
Strawberry: a'b'd' and d....i was in cell block c
Tonya: Yes but don't remember
Jay: They didn't have names but they had letters A thru G
Fred: No they didn't have name they was lettered by the first 7 letters of the alphabet
Alice: a.b.c.d.e.f were the name of the different cell blocks. one was for medical and one was violent
Patrick: just floors and colors so you have two red and two blue that kinds of stuff.

JM: Which types of inmates were housed in the different blocks?
Cami: A was trustee, B was Medium Security, C was Maximum Security, D was minimum Security.
Tombstone: they were placed with the lowest custody ones starting on 3rd.I was on the 5th,where they put the guys with medical problems,the most dangerous ones were on the 7th
Strawberry: i really dont know i kinda stayed focused on what was goin on in my cell block...i honestly didnt care
Tonya: Not sure
Jay: On the first floor was the holding cells second floor kitchen third floor was the medical and special needs floor on the fourth floor was the women the fifth floor was for the trustees sixth and seventh floor was nonviolent offenders and eighth and ninth was violent offenders
Fred: On the floor I was in it was people with different types of drug charges such as possession distribution manufacturing anything drug related and no kind of violent charges ever
Alice: the only ones I knew were seperate were A was seg and another was violent crime block. the rest were for everyone else but there were no specific guidelines for the rest
Patrick: by record and type of offense and do not remmeber how they had people set up, the people going to prision I thank had the top two floors., I do not rember all of it.

JM: What do you remember being the nicest and worst parts about the different blocks?
Cami: The nice part was the ability to be outside of your cell for 20 hours a day, and the worst part of the block was having to go to lock down right after dinner.
Tombstone: Overcrowded,which makes things very tense,you would have to stay in a dayroom from about 6am,until about 6pm,& couldn't go back into your cell
Strawberry: nothing NICE about my block...but the wporst was the 1 shower in the whole block
Tonya: Nothing good about being in jail
Jay: I was in one block the whole time I was in the county that was f block on the eighth floor the worst part about being on the eighth floor you eat late cause the bring the food up floor by floor so we always ate late but nicest part about being on the eighth floor was the view out the cell window they county jail is in the middle of the city so you can see all the city lights at night time
Fred: I don't really recall anything being nice about the blocks I was in. All the tables were steel the phones didn't work and it was always freezing cold in the blocks. When we were allowed in the day space we mainly had to stand up because everything was steel and concrete
Alice: because of the overcrowding and the variety of personalities, many women were also not receiving the medication they needed,it made it difficult to get along with many of the other inmates. it was difficult to avoid the fights, even if i didn't respond it seemed to anger the inmate even more. One inmate with obvious mental problems came at me and pushed me and even spat at me. There was no help from the Co's. over a piece of toilet paper, I had a brush thrown across the room at me.
Patrick: people some people are good and some bad, some floors probally had more fight and more trouble being caused on them, I did not want to get with this crowd, itw was ll bad enough and no fun, I have not been back it was onece in my lfie never again.

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