Were you in a cell by yourself? Or were you in with a group of guys?
4 other guys.
There was a toilet, 2 bunks. So 4 beds.
That cell was actually preferable to the other stuff I had to sleep on such as on the floor of cells that were over glorified bathrooms at the sheriff's office in downtown.
On Friday they took us to the sheriff's place to get some filing done and all that jazz at 6am. We came out at 4pm. I just slept and sat on the floor all day.
The cells at the sheriff's contained on rough average, at least 25-50 inmates in total at their largest. We moved down from people who were going to county and people like me going to a city jail all the way down to people like me who were gong to be released. So the inmate number in the sheriff's office gradually decreased as the day went by.
Most boring experience of my life. I migrated to at least 6-7 different holding cells that day, each with their own unique funky smell.
Food...on Thursday I was given one sandwich, some cookies, and orange drink. I don't know what time they gave it to me. All I know is that they gave it to me at night. When incarcerated you lose any sense of time and place. I would gauge it was at 8 or 9 they gave me that food, but when I finally managed to be able to call home and get an answer it was 1 in the morning.
Friday, I was given the same meal as above only twice.
On Saturday they gave us the following for breakfast:
- scrambled eggs
- grits
- apple
- cornbread (yes, cornbread)
- orange drink (yes it says orange *DRINK* on the label of the container, same for lemon flavor)
Lunch:
- Cabbage
- Spaghetti
- Carrots
- Cornbread
- Lemon Drink
Overall, the experience wasn't *so* bad, it was just mind numbingly boring. If I were to describe it I'd use three words: scary, stressful and boring. Inmates weren't so bad, and were actually nice to talk to. Lots of people had crazy stories and were fun as hell. So it wasn't too depressing, thankfully.