Interview with Collin, Robbie, Michelle and Lorrie
JM: How many different blocks were there? Collin: They were moving folks to the new jail and I was
in the old jail. It was dirty, filthy, with wires
hanging out of walls. The TV was broken. As for
the layout, there were cells upstairs and
downstairs. Maybe around 40 people in there. Robbie: there were at least 8 per floor and three floors
that i know of. Michelle: There were only 3 blocks in the county/city jail. Lorrie: on the women side it was 3 blocks
JM: Did they have names? If so, what were they? Collin: They called them Pods and gave them alphabet
letters. I was in Pod C. Robbie: they were listed in alphabetical order. so
abcdefg and so on and so forth. Michelle: Yes, It was I unit, J unit, and K unit. Lorrie: dorm I dorm J and then you had the honor dorm which
was K
JM: Which types of inmates were housed in the different blocks? Collin: Yeah. The violent offenders were on different
floors. They also had a sick floor. I think I was
on the second floor. Robbie: I think they mixed each other with everybody
else. I'm not sure if they had different blocks
for different criminals. if they did i didnt
know about it. I think they just mixed everbody
together. Michelle: Mostly the wild and young inmates were in I unit.
The older laid back inmates were in J unit or if you
have been there before or known in the jail. And,
the honor dorm was K unit, for work release, road
crew, and kitchen workers. Lorrie: it was a mixture but K was the honor dorm which
were your best behaved and non violent crimnals but
in the other 2 dorms you had all kinds of inmates
JM: What do you remember being the nicest and worst parts about the different blocks? Collin: They took care of the medicine I needed because
I'm a diabetic. And the food wasn't that bad. I
wasn't expecting steak and eggs but it kept me
fed. What I didn't like is that you could get
double meals if you worked on certain clean up
crews but they let the gangs do that which meant
you didn't stand a chance. Robbie: I remember them all being the same. all of them
were over crowded and dirty with no
organization. Everybody was loud and obnoxious
and wanted to be out so it was all chaos. even
at night it was hard to sleep becuase they left
the lights on the entire time. Michelle: The nicest were that J unit was pretty much quite
and people would actually sleep in there and the
worst was I unit because everyone in there was
young
and still immature and would stay up all night and
yell and sing loud. Just to try to be loud so the
others couldn't sleep. Lorrie: the fights and the way a few folks could jst run a
dorm. The honor dorm was ok cause you had to be nice
and get along with everyone in order to be in there
you got to have sugar for your coffee and little
things like that that you take for granted in the
free world