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Interview with Jorge, Laura, Terry and Eva

JM: How many different blocks were there?
Jorge: I'm not totally sure how many different blocks there were in the Davidson County Jial but I can tell you that there several hundred inmates.
Laura: Several Pods.
Terry: Some had blocks, some had dorms, some were pods.
Eva: About 6 blocks each on the same just different rules

JM: Did they have names? If so, what were they?
Jorge: They used the alphabet to anme them all
Laura: They were lettered. I, K, L, M, N, O, P
Terry: ORC, DCCC, Blackwood, and every different one you could go through the alphabet for the names of the individual pod/cell/dorm.
Eva: Yes just letter like o. P. L. Each on was for different people like k is for maximum and l was workers and so on

JM: Which types of inmates were housed in the different blocks?
Jorge: THe blacks were kept in seperate cells from the hispanics and of course all the gays and child molesters were segregated also.
Laura: again, we were segregated based on charges and length of time sentenced. Everyone starts out in 1 of 2 pods and then gets moved around after classification.
Terry: Violent offenders or those who were awaiting felony trial went to Blackwood. People who hadn't been to court, or who were insane went to DCCC. ORC was for short termers.
Eva: L was for any jail workers with work or outside clerance considered low risk inmates. The p pod was for classes and drug cases mostly also known as the program pod. O was for the newcomers until they were placed. K was for high risk or big chargers. Then there was a general population

JM: What do you remember being the nicest and worst parts about the different blocks?
Jorge: Nuthin
Laura: For the first part of being there you are stuck in the Newbie pods, that have no books to read, nothing to do because everyone there is just starting out an has nothing to share. The other pods have people that have been there longer and have books to share, better commissary stashes.
Terry: ORC was an Orwellian nightmare of people telling you to be in a certain place at a certain time without the luxury of clocks. You were consistently in trouble as the rules would change arbitrarily. We had one guard who took way too much pleasure in doing our daily body and cavity searches.
Eva: Everyone had there own things to do. A lot more room and some pods got in more trouble then the next were as some got more rewards. However you don't get to choose you are placed and even if you know someone in another pod you cannot speak even mother and daughter

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