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I got done with an 18 month sentence at a County Jail in May. I got setup in a drug deal and did my time. The sentence was carried out at a County jail as a second chance type deal, I finished the program and do not have a conviction on my record. I was on work release 5 days a week so I did my TFP’ing at the office..
We didn’t have cells; they housed us in a metal warehouse type building that could only be compared with an airplane hangar. The building had 40 bunch beds lined up side by side and a trailer that we called the shit house right next door to it. Picture one side of the shit house as 8 toilets about a foot and a half from each other side by side (with nothing between them). The other side had the zero privacy showers.
The building we lived in had no air conditioning. It got up to 120 degrees on a regular basis. I am in Florida, so add the 95% humidity into the mix and your basically living in a Sauna.
The first 60 days of my sentence I didn’t have the luxury of being able to work. As a “trustee” (jail birds with jobs), you get nice jobs during the day like walking the sides of the road for 8-10 hours picking up trash, or sorting recycling goods at the landfill. You get nice black and white striped uniforms to ware, which is humiliating in itself. If you work as a trustee they get 5 days a month off your sentence, otherwise you get to sit around in jail all day, everyday which is maddening in and of it self.
The food is HORRIBLE. Moldy bread and greenish bologna for lunch, powdered eggs and grits for breakfast, and what ever they wish to throw together for dinner.
It’s a life changing experience, but like other people said, your probably better off joining the military.
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In the strangest of places if you look at it right
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