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Interview with mitchell, Stewart, Adam, Jeffrey, Brent and Daryll

JM: How many different blocks were there?
mitchell: 3
Stewart: I know there are 4 blocks per floor on the one side of the jail and there are 5 floors and there is another side of the same jail that was open bay dorms and I am unsure how many of those there are
Adam: there were four floors,,,top three each had three dorms with females on top each from 60-80 inmates each.. old jails I think holds close to 3000
Jeffrey: I think there were about 36 blocks. some were 2 man cells and some were open bay type dorms
Brent: 5 floors with 4 blocks per floor
Daryll: 4 per floor, there were 5 floors and then on the other side of the jail, the older side which should be condemned there were 3 floors with open bay dorms and 4 dorms per floor there

JM: Did they have names? If so, what were they?
mitchell: east side west side n north side
Stewart: the main jail itself has a nickname of "castle grey skull but the blocks were identified by floor # and a color
Adam: 2 north, 2 east and 2 west and so forth for each floor
Jeffrey: they went by a color and number system that was done by floor number
Brent: they were identified by a floor number and a color
Daryll: the jail itself has the nick name of castle grey skull because it is a nasty run down building but the blocks them selves were determined by floor number with a color

JM: Which types of inmates were housed in the different blocks?
mitchell: the trustees were in north side which had fewer girls in there the other were for everyone else
Stewart: I don't think there was any type of real classification going on because we even had inmates in our block from rival gangs and I would think at the very least they would want to separate them
Adam: all the high risk and guys charged with assult and so forth are housed in the new jail and lower risk are housed in the new jail. there is also different housing for in different building for work release
Jeffrey: there was no rhyme or reason to how they classified the inmates in to housing units. even those that were obviously mentally un balanced were just thrown in with every one else, people with staph, whatever they did not care
Brent: there was no method to the way they classified and housed inmates. unless it was a totally obvious situation, they just put you where ever they had room to put you
Daryll: there was no real classification process, they just threw people where ever there was room. in the block I was on there were older and younger people. some people had mental health issues. you would think they would want to classify people so that they don't have trouble makers on every block, just keep them together so they can put extra officers on those blocks to control the situations that broke out like fights

JM: What do you remember being the nicest and worst parts about the different blocks?
mitchell: there wasn't nothing nice different co.s treated you different some of them looked @ you like the worst person in the world n would put you in the tank for no reason
Stewart: I am not proud of the fact that ive been in my fair share of county jails 3 different states including Philadelphia pa. but I can honestly say that the Escambia county jail is the absolute worst jail in every category. terrible food, lack of any type of supervision, no cleaning supplies ever, have to beg for toilet paper and could only seem to get it if about 10 to 12 inmates started acting up to get the c/o`s attention, medical was a joke and there was outbreak of mrsa, staff rudeness, it is the worst jail ive ever seen. I have not been in any trouble in 8 plus years and the Escambia county jail was the last county jail ive been to. maybe I should thank them
Adam: I was only in one dorm besides the holding dorm downstairs you stay in till they assign you to a dorm upstairs. I don't think there was any nice part to any of it. Small dorm area for the amount of inmates in each dorm and for one officer in each dorm the all they do is sit behind a desk and talk on phone or play on there phone or tablets.
Jeffrey: there was nothing nice about any of it at all toilets open to view, showers open to view, terrible food , no air conditioning just vents to recycle the air, the c/os treated people with no respect or dignity, medical was a waste of time actually medical was a joke
Brent: there was nothing at all that was nice about this jail. peeling paint, no real air circulation, cold showers that offered no privacy at all right next to the phones so if you were on the phone you could not hear over the water. no library, hardly ever any rec yard time, terrible food
Daryll: there was absolutely nothing good about this jail. I have been in quite a few jails in my stupid days and I could look back and say this was good about this one and this was bad about that one but the Escambia county jail had not one thing that was good about it

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