Jail, Jail, Jail #4

Ok so it has been a few days since I last posted. Please forgive me...still dealing with the chest cold that won't end. Again..working, then sleep.

Ok so we left off where I was sentenced to 60 days in Racine county Jail(RCJ). I still had no job, nor was I in school. I was so hoping for a "work crew" situation. They did not have a work crew, like KCDC. They had a selected 4 spots of women that would do laundry for a nursing home.  Out of the more than 100 women that were housed at RCJ I was chosen to do work at the nursing home. Again I got one day off of my sentense for every 3 days worked.

In RCJ, we had cells, in a pod, I think it was 8 or ten cells...so 16- 20 ppl. We shared a cell. It was kind of nice haveing my own space..kind of like having a roommmate. I liked it better then the dorm. There was a day room, which was 4 stainless steele tables with 4 stainless benches around the table. Non are moveable, all bolted down. Again, there were cards, I am awesome at spades. I don't know why that is the game of choice in jail, but it seems to be. Followed, by rummy. In the cell, was the sink/toilet combo..stainless steel. Sink on top of the pooper. Sadly, I had the cell that was RIGHT behing the TV. So when ever anyone was watching TV...well..need I say more? I think I pooped 3 times in a month.

Arg..the TV drama....OMG... always a fight....and sometimes physical. I was so happy to leave every day to go clean up poop. Sad, but, true. Yet on this trustee..duty. I was shipped to and fro, from the jail by a sherriff. There were no street clothes, no smoking allowed.

I spent my 2nd anniversary there, and my b-day.


So not as rewading as the food pantry. Basically, my day was filled with what we called, "poop shoots". Now what that means is that when the nurse, or CNA changed the bed of a patient...who shat themselves..they would put the bedding in a laundry shoot in a plastic bag. Well, it should have been double bagged per OSHA, but almost never the case.  One of my jobs was to seperate the poop laundry, from the other laundey. It ws gross, so gross....but better than hanging in jail.

The cool thing was that they hired devopmentally, challenged ppl to do laundry. God bless. But man, if I put something in the wrong place...I had hell to pay.

I must say I loved them. So not like the food pantry...but still cool.