http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1582304,00.html
Note: This is an article about solitary detention driving human beings insane and can be defined as cruel and unusual punishment.
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How long you spend in the pod area depends on the charges against you (bond or no bond) and whether or not you are able to make bail (money or no money). Only another person can provide the CASH ONLY if you don't have the entire amount on you, though there is access to an ATM upstairs in the booking area.
The only contact you are allowed to have with the outside world is between 8 and 10 AM in the morning when you are allowed out of your cell for that period of time and can make phone calls to bail bondsmen, lawyers, or land lines. You will not be able to call cell phones from the pod area! You will be allowed out of your cell for three meals for 20 minutes at the time. The rest of the time you will spend alone with your thoughts, unless they run out of room and double-up your cell by adding another mattress and a roomate that sleeps on the floor.
The rooms are about 7 feet across by 12 feet long. There is a combination of stainless steel sink and toilet, and the sink, which is situated above the open toilet, is your only source of drinking water. The bed is a plastic-wrapped piece of foam (placed on a metal platform) that includes the pillow area. Whether that is cleaned before it was handed over to you is unlikely. You may want to use the towel and the soap you are issued to wipe off the mattress as your first act before you settle in. The wall are scratched with the writings of repentant men. "Don't do stupid shit!" is perhaps the most popular graffiti etching.
The food provided is classic, barely nutritional fare: white bread, balogna, powdered eggs, hot dogs, canned fruit pieces, high-sugar "fruit" juices, etc. There are occasional appearances of green bananas, apples, collared greens and other healthy food. For some reason milk is served with just about every meal to a population that just may be mostly lactose intolerant.
If you are able to make bail and be released after the first few hours, you will be happy that you will no longer have to hear the screams of grown men (who perhaps should be in a mental area). You will be happy that you are not forced to be alone with your thoughts and experience the mental anguish that being forced into a locked, climate-controlled corner produces.
There are those that consider the cell to be home; they go to sleep and they eat the food that is provided to them. The others who consider themselves wrongly imprisoned face an extra form of torture. They do not sleep because the only way to do that would be to wrap the towel over your eyes, since there is ALWAYS a light on in your cell. They try in vain to see the sun, which they cannot see because the small window slits have been scratched so there is no way to tell the time of day without asking the guards. They will sit and wonder whether when they will be sprung and who will do it and what is taking so long.
And when the hour comes for release, when the 10 or 15 percent is paid to the bondsman, when you get back your clothing and your property back, and when you walk out into the fresh air of sunshine or night time, you will get a snide, smiling remark from the last deputy you see. "Stay out of trouble" or "Don't come back here, now" are two of the common phrases that are used to further impress upon you the psychological purpose of the entire experience: conform to and obey the structure that has been set in place for troublemakers like you...and tell your fucking friends that jail is no fun.
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Note: This is an article about solitary detention driving human beings insane and can be defined as cruel and unusual punishment.
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How long you spend in the pod area depends on the charges against you (bond or no bond) and whether or not you are able to make bail (money or no money). Only another person can provide the CASH ONLY if you don't have the entire amount on you, though there is access to an ATM upstairs in the booking area.The only contact you are allowed to have with the outside world is between 8 and 10 AM in the morning when you are allowed out of your cell for that period of time and can make phone calls to bail bondsmen, lawyers, or land lines. You will not be able to call cell phones from the pod area! You will be allowed out of your cell for three meals for 20 minutes at the time. The rest of the time you will spend alone with your thoughts, unless they run out of room and double-up your cell by adding another mattress and a roomate that sleeps on the floor.
The rooms are about 7 feet across by 12 feet long. There is a combination of stainless steel sink and toilet, and the sink, which is situated above the open toilet, is your only source of drinking water. The bed is a plastic-wrapped piece of foam (placed on a metal platform) that includes the pillow area. Whether that is cleaned before it was handed over to you is unlikely. You may want to use the towel and the soap you are issued to wipe off the mattress as your first act before you settle in. The wall are scratched with the writings of repentant men. "Don't do stupid shit!" is perhaps the most popular graffiti etching.
The food provided is classic, barely nutritional fare: white bread, balogna, powdered eggs, hot dogs, canned fruit pieces, high-sugar "fruit" juices, etc. There are occasional appearances of green bananas, apples, collared greens and other healthy food. For some reason milk is served with just about every meal to a population that just may be mostly lactose intolerant.If you are able to make bail and be released after the first few hours, you will be happy that you will no longer have to hear the screams of grown men (who perhaps should be in a mental area). You will be happy that you are not forced to be alone with your thoughts and experience the mental anguish that being forced into a locked, climate-controlled corner produces.
There are those that consider the cell to be home; they go to sleep and they eat the food that is provided to them. The others who consider themselves wrongly imprisoned face an extra form of torture. They do not sleep because the only way to do that would be to wrap the towel over your eyes, since there is ALWAYS a light on in your cell. They try in vain to see the sun, which they cannot see because the small window slits have been scratched so there is no way to tell the time of day without asking the guards. They will sit and wonder whether when they will be sprung and who will do it and what is taking so long.
And when the hour comes for release, when the 10 or 15 percent is paid to the bondsman, when you get back your clothing and your property back, and when you walk out into the fresh air of sunshine or night time, you will get a snide, smiling remark from the last deputy you see. "Stay out of trouble" or "Don't come back here, now" are two of the common phrases that are used to further impress upon you the psychological purpose of the entire experience: conform to and obey the structure that has been set in place for troublemakers like you...and tell your fucking friends that jail is no fun.
Next: Vito's Pizza - It's That Or Nothing At 2 AM
