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Interview with Jorge, Laura, Terry and Eva

JM: What types of facilities were available to help pass the time?
Jorge: Well lets see....we had cards and t.v. ypu thats about it.
Laura: TV. If the weather is good you get to go outside during the morning for an hour. This means walking around in circles in a chain link fence area. Yay.
Terry: They offered us children's books, the Bible, church. You could do a Psych visit, and get meddded out for your duration. You worked, which could be a job doing food service (like I did) or a cozy job like tending Metro's horses where the 'boss' would buy you cigs, and let you fuck your GF.
Eva: Classes such as ged or culinary oytside wreck the tv working our assigned jobs were as mine was work release and of course the telephone we also had salon days to get your hair cut or straitned. We also had a library day once a week and then the best would be mail time

JM: Did you have regular access to the entertainment or was competition fierce? Give details.
Jorge: The mexicans pretty much ran everything there so I didnt have any problem gaining acces to whatever I wanted to do.
Laura: There was no competition for entertainment. There was one TV. the majority ruled. If we were lucky and had a guard bring in a movie, we at least got to watch something new.
Terry: We had one TV in the common area. It turns out all inmates want to watch is "Cops." When I was in the gym, that was gang controlled, all they watched was music videos. At my "job", after I was done feeding everyone, I was allowed to go into one of the TV cells to watch the news.
Eva: Yes the officer would take votes on what we watched on did majority rules plain and simple. Its kind of like veing in a hig school again but if you were in the tv area and talked you would have to go to your cell and if everyone did it would be turned off there is also no standing

JM: Did you have a hard time staying in shape while in jail?
Jorge: Nope O just did push ups and sit ups at my convienience.
Laura: No, the food is horrible so you don't exactly gorge yourself. Lots of up and down stairs to get to your room and back.
Terry: No. You get maybe 1000 calories a day if you have no money on your books, and exercise was the only thing that kept me sane.
Eva: If you don't work yes because all you eat is starch and there isn't much room to move personally I. Lost weight but most people gain alot

JM: How often did you get to go outside? What did you do outside if you were allowed to? If you were not allowed to go outside what could you do for exercise?
Jorge: THe day I was reliesed was the only time that I got to go outside.
Laura: Once per day if the weather was agreeable.
Terry: I never went outside, except for work. To exercise, I would walk up and down stairs and do 100 push ups a day just to keep sane.
Eva: Outside wreck is for one hour a day weather permitting you could walk and play basketball and anything that didn't involve touching or being to agressive on days you stay in you can walk around the top tier or home workouts in your cell but that's it

JM: Did the jail offer church services? If so, what were they like and when were they held?
Jorge: Yes I believe that they did offer church services several times a week but I cant tell you what they were like because I never attended any of them.
Laura: Yes. They were weird, and heaven for bid if you were some other religion than what came that day. I am catholic and no options were offered for me.
Terry: They did. I never went. A lot of people would go just to get out of their cells. It seemed like it was forced.
Eva: Yes most of them are great and there are a lot of different ones that come so it was pretty much everyday if not everyother day and sometimes twice daily

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