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Interview with Jon, Sabrina, Ronchie Boy, Gary, Lance, Seth, Liz, Nate, Duane and Aaron

JM: How many different blocks were there?
Jon: 6 in the old jail and im not sure how many are in the new jail
Sabrina: i have no clue but a lot i think the first MOD i was in had 24 cells
Ronchie Boy: I was only in 3 places, Holding, classification, then 4 South B, right across from the hole.
Gary: 8 in old jai 16 in new jail
Lance: Several... 5 Stories of Multiple Blocks.... each one classified to the individual Inmate... depending on criminal history and personality etc....so that people that are locked up together are somewhat the same.. you wont have someone like me.. sharing a cell with a Child Molestor or something....
Seth: i am not exactly sure but they were sorted by alphabet up to g so i would say 7.
Liz: im not sure, there are multiple floors at the jail that house inmates.
Nate: Alont north, east, west south with 5 floors.
Duane: Snohomish county is huge. I have no idea. they hold the worst type of offenders there.
Aaron: Old Jail (where I was in Trustee) had 5 floors. New jail has A-G. Old jail will start with a number like 3N, new jail starts with a letter like G4.

JM: Did they have names? If so, what were they?
Jon: 2south 2north 3south 3north 4south a and 4southb 4north c 4north d 5south and 5north
Sabrina: names? yeah mine was Paris...Paris Hilton and it was not a good thing
Ronchie Boy: I'm sure they did.
Gary: old jail 1a,1bthru 4a,4b new jail was 1-2-3-4H thru im not sure but they also had max security and medical blocks and mental health blocks
Lance: 3 North, 4 South etc...
Seth: they did have names but unfortunately i do not remember them.
Liz: they had numbers ie 3-north A,B,C,and D,meaning third floor north east south or east with corresponding letter designation.
Nate: 2north, 3South, 3north b, 3north a think you get the picture
Duane: 4sb, 4wb, 4nb,4eb. shoot, I don't know. everything is classified there.
Aaron: Not official names. Certain floors were for certain people. 3N=Trustee, 2N, 2S, E1 were for women. Floor 4 and 5 were for problem inmates. MHU & OH(medical housing unit). Kitchen & laundry were in new jail S1.

JM: Which types of inmates were housed in the different blocks?
Jon: 2n is intake 2s is population 3s is population 3n is for the trusties. 4north c and d is segregation. and 4 south is the good behavior tank. 5s is protective custdoy, thats for rats rapo's and child molesters
Sabrina: theres common and phyc thats where i was and there are so many more like for sick ppl, and disabiled ...ect
Ronchie Boy: I am not sure.
Gary: I belive they were classified into low level offenders and low risk to mental health to trusties that did work for free and work release that paid to stay at jail
Lance: Well i can only speak for my block... and they were just regular people...some just down on their luck...
Seth: well i was in g block at first and from my understanding that was intake and general population. i know f was for like felons and things like that and anything else im not too sure. 5th floor is protective custody and mental inmates.
Liz: as far as i know they mixed pretty much every body together, unless you were in salutary confinement for behavioral problems or suicide watch or if they were informants for the police,then they were placed in protective custody.
Nate: The ones that were at risk, like snitches or the ones that wanted to kill then selfs I don't know how people do time like that never made sence to me.
Duane: all kinds. the worst and the least. in snoco they do it all. lots of shackles on inmates. you gotta wonder what they did but you don't ask. lots of weirdness.
Aaron: See above.

JM: What do you remember being the nicest and worst parts about the different blocks?
Jon: The nicest part is um... the hallway. The blocks are dirty and I saw a few people with mersa, and heard stories of scabies
Sabrina: nicest-when a lady gaurd pulled me out of my cell and had me sit next to her in her office and told me it was ok and she knew i didnt belong, she told me id get thro it and hoped i could see good in such a bad situation worse-a gaurd spit on me when i was in the hole and would not give me water on his shift
Ronchie Boy: I was in a dorm situation 20 dudes in each dorm, I was in bed 20 on the top tier. Everyone was pretty much clean. The worst part really is using the bathroom after someone took a shit.
Gary: the medical unit was the worst you were on 23 hr lock down they kept it very cold on purpose probbly to keep the bactieria down but gave you only one blanket to freeze the whole time the old jail was dlapitated and dirty but the new jail was ok (for jail)
Lance: Nicest?? lol... There is absolutely NOTHING nice about being in a Certain Jail Block.... Now Worst?? I could go on forever... but Snohomish COunty Jail.. treats people so bad.. I felt like a POW there... the Conditions were horrible... Dirty.. Extremely Cold... SHowers are Cold.. All FOod Looks like it cameout of a Tube....
Seth: the nicest thing i can say was that the blocks are definitely segregated which i think is good because of the diversity of the different chrimes. there is a girls and boys side of each block. all the blocks had a inmate worker setup where you can work to earn more food or freetime. the worst part was the two man cells i would say and that it was fairly cold in the blocks.
Liz: the worst was being placed on the floor on withdrawal wall which was the open area close to the guard desk,which was also the rec area.so that you were in plain view of everybody during rec time and meal time.there wasnt any "nice" part of any block that i saw how ever it was better to have a "bunk" than be on the floor.
Nate: Well the worst was lock down, no one likes to be locked down for the whole night an several days at a time. The nice part when the guard would let us out early if we behaved an did what the guard had told us to di it was reallt cool
Duane: well, there was tv and games during rec times. the food totally sucked. why could the food not be better? like refried beans and tortillas would cost more than the horrible stuff they fed us? the initial holding block was very cold. on purpose I think to keep us in bed. it was a bit warmer in the actual cell block.
Aaron: In Trustee we had a "track" on the upper tier we could walk around for exercise (30 laps was a mile, or so we were told). We also had an enclosed movie room that was on the upper tier that had a great view of north Everett (Mountains, the City, etc) that I would watch the sunset (ahhh, the little joys of life). The worse was the oldness of the old jail. We would clean daily but still it's the old jail.

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