Originally Posted by Sunny Day

You must have never been in the system. I was 25 months, for $300 worth of drugs. Due to overcrowding, spent the 1st month in the county jail in a 32 man cell. Several of the guys were murderers. Others were in for violent crimes. The next few months were in intake. Again all were lumped into the same dorms. At least 1/2 were there on drug charges. But for a couple of days shared a cell with a 19 year-old who shot and killed a fast food manager while trying to make his bank deposit. I then watched him slice up his arm in a suicide attempt. The guards were underpaid so they earned extra smuggling in contraband. One dorm you could cut the pot smoke with a knife it was so thick. I was always rated minimum custody, but spent months in Max or medium. hell we were so overcrowded they sent some of us to the women's prison. The bikers decided I needed a girlfriend so they fixed me up with a 20 year old girl who was doing double life for felony kidnap and murder.