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Interview with Jorge, Laura, Terry and Eva

JM: Did you find it difficult to get along with other inmates? Please give examples to explain why you did or didn't.
Jorge: I only found it difficult to get along with the blacks and that was because thay are loud bonoxious rude people who have no respect for themselves let alone others.
Laura: No. I just kept to myself until I figured out how it all worked. Keep to yourself, and everyone pretty much leaves you alone. There will be questions, and its up to you how you want to answer them.
Terry: Before I got classified, I was in a gymnasium with about 200 other inmates. It had one guard, and the entire thing was gang controlled. I had on guy try to steal my bedding, and told me a looked like a woman.
Eva: Not really I was pretty quiet and stayed to myself I ended up being put in a cell with 2 roomates I ended up becoming great friends with we stayed together for 5 months until they got out then it was my turn

JM: What types of things did you have to do to avoid problems or fights with other inmates?
Jorge: Avoid? Man theres no way that I could avoid fighting. It was either fight or be taken advantage of.
Laura: I mostly liked to stay in my room and read. I am a non violent person by nature, however during my time there I found myself in 2 fights and in segregation on 2 separate occasions for fighting. Close quarters, and a bunch of catty women together for prolonged times makes it hard to be harmonious at all times.
Terry: You had to keep your head low, hide your possessions and make friends that you would have never made in any other circumstances. You suck up to the guards. You give people part of your meager allowance of food. You try to do favors for people who could reciprocate them.
Eva: You don't have to do much just stay to yourself and don't get disrespectful. Most girls don't want to fight because in somecases it ads days to your sentence if your sent to the hole its known as dead time. Just don't think your better then then ext inmate because noone really wants to be there and everyone did something to be sent there

JM: Were you able to choose an inmate as your cellmate if you knew one? How often would your cellmate(s) change?
Jorge: I'm not sure that I understand your question here. What do you mean by " choose an inmate"?
Laura: No. I had made friends during my holding time downtown and we tried to stick together, but after classification (the way that they separate you based on the level of your crime) you just get stuck wherever they want to put you. Misdemeanors in one pod, felonies in another.
Terry: No, I had an assigned celly. After my final classification, I had the same celly for the duration. I was lucky that my celly was a decent guy who I got along with.
Eva: No you cannot just choose I only had a few roomate changes due to two being uncompatable and the others went home. When a bed is empty they fill it pretty fast

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