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Interview with Reggie, Sarah, Brenda, Mike and Will

JM: How many different blocks were there?
Reggie: The annex is set up in a series of dorms. I remember about 8 or 10. It is hard to say because once you get there you never really leave that dorm.
Sarah: All I ever saw was the first floor intake area for the whole week I was incarcerated. Another elderly lady was jailed later for the same reason, for filing something without a lawyer in a domestic dispute completely unrelated to me. She was in a block with other people and had her own cell, access to TV, phone, etc.
Brenda: we have 100 blocks or cells
Mike: Numerous,approximately 8. I have luckily only been in four out of those 8 blocks.
Will: We had five buildings on the camp.

JM: Did they have names? If so, what were they?
Reggie: The names wer essentially letters like A , B , C , and so forth
Sarah: Don't know.
Brenda: red-pond blue pond orange pond green pond sex offer ponds
Mike: Just numbers, the inmates I would say had names for the blocks ,but none where actually named anything by authorities.
Will: The housing dorms were named A through E. Each held up to 64 convicts.

JM: Which types of inmates were housed in the different blocks?
Reggie: I am not sure how they housed the inmates once you reached the Annex, but I do know that the inmates with lesser charges where housed at the Annex and inmates with serious charges remain in downtown at the main Public Safety Center.
Sarah: Don't know.
Brenda: sex offer men women underage kids drugs user drunk people menthol health people and inmate that what to fight with everyone inmate that couldn't get;ong with other inmate what to start fight
Mike: I noticed that it was segregated by gangs, when you go to jail you get asked what gang your in... (yes that actually happens)and I would see same gangs in the same blocks.
Will: Each block held a specific group of men based on what their job was on the camp. All the road crew guys bunked in A block for example. I was in Dblock with the kitchen crew.

JM: What do you remember being the nicest and worst parts about the different blocks?
Reggie: I can't respond to that per se because I was in the same dorm. I do know that inmates that give them problems go into solitary confinement.
Sarah: Don't know.
Brenda: the way office talk to inmate no respect and no caring if you ask a question you got smart ass answer back you have to learn on you on and find info out on you on with there help they said they just work here that all they not you lawyer so don't ask
Mike: I thought all the blocks were bad, I mean your in jail. Though people tell you to see the bright side, all you see is concrete and metal doors. I wouldn't say there was a nice part of any of those blocks to me. I was scared for my life that though, I didn't start anything with anyone, someone could randomly come and start something with me.
Will: I remember that E block had lost their AC and was left with just big fans. I felt for those poor guys as it was over 100 degrees many, many times that summer. The blocks were kept clean each day by convicts whose job was to be janitor of that block so things stayed decent.

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