Jail, Jail, Jail #6a

Ok, so where I left off was looking for my DH's "hope" piece he wrote for church...He cannot yet find it. When he does he has given me permission to post it.

I also mentioned I would talk about the outcome of my sentence.

I was sentenced 175 days. to the Waukesha County Huber Facility. I would be able to get out to go to school. Waukesha County only gives you 1/4 of your sentence off for "good time". I quickly did the math, and I WOULD be out for my DD's graduation..."WHEW"!  I started my sentence on January 12th. My new semester didn't begin until January 21st. Which meant I would have to sit for those days. I also was able to get out to see my therapist. I did have one appointment with her about a week in.  I was grateful for that.

I have to say this facility, was the nicest of all of the correctional facilities. There were 3 large rooms, for the women. Each room had about 8-10 metal bunks. They were still the metal bunks with the 1inch thick pads, no pillows, and scratchy blankets, but there was carpet on the floor. It was kind of carpet..more like indoor/outdoor turf, but it was better than cold slab. The bathroom actually had 3 stalls...WITH DOORS...HOOT! The showers had curtains...I was thinking, "This is the "Hilton" of jails". So strange that even in correctional facilities, it seems that things are nicer, more upscale, as you move away from the city, and into the suburbs. The cars in the Huber parking lot were impressive. There were even a few BMW's. The guards were even A BIT more civilized.

Out side of the 3 bunk rooms, there was a "day room" which included, tables, chairs(the plastic stacking variety), vending machines and a flat screen T.V..."What? a flat screen?....I KNOW, I don't even have one at home. The food still sucked. After all it is still jail.

My fellow inmates were, again mostly DUI's, drug related crimes, a few embezzlers, and the few that are jail lifers.

I was organized with my school schedule. I methodically planned my classes. MWFS. So once school started I would never have to sit in two days in a row. I made my first school payment on-line so everything was set.

Again, I was unusually calm about going to jail this time. Strangely at peace with it. I attribute that to finally accepting my disease as a part of me.

The most frustrating part was getting my school schedule approved by the guards. They could not understand that I needed computer time allotted as well as my class time.  Most of them not having gone to any form of higher education, did not get, that in this day and age, all homework is done on a computer, and e-mailed to the professor. So it was even more difficult to explain to them that an hour is not enough for all of my classes, not even enough for one. I had to had my professors write a note explaining for each hour of class you have an hour of homework, if not more...especially with anatomy. They finally agreed so more computer time, but not nearly enough. AND I could only have the computer time on the days I had class. The next school obstacle was that I was in jail in Waukesha, and I went to school in downtown Milwaukee. It was an hour bus ride. So, I would need 2 hours of travel time. Their response was so stupid. "Why can't you go to school in Waukesha"? Duh..."Because, I don't go to school there...um I have been going to MATC the entire time, I am in my final semester, and oh yeah right...I DON"T GO TO SCHOOL THERE"!

It was a good thing that I didn't start school for a couple of weeks...that's how long it took explain it to them.

I have more to write, but I need to shower, and get ready for work.

Stay tuned.