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Interview with Burt, Daniel and David

JM: How many different blocks were there?
Burt: in buliding 1 there were 2 sides. open doors, and closed doors. closed door carried units a,b,c,d and open carried e,f,g,h. builing 2 carried ag cases, building 3 were females. building 4 was work release building 5 was laundry people building 6, 7,8,9 were open floor. where yu had more trust. 10 wasmore old people building 11 was a female trustee building 12 is a new 1 that hold 2500+ppl itself
Daniel: Last time I was in the county there were 12 buildings with like 35 blocks total. Eight buildings of 2 blocks and 2 of 8 blocks, 1 of 2 blocks, and 1 of 1 block.
David: Where I was they called them dorms. There were around 15 dorms that housed 28 men a piece and they were always full. There was another unit of about 50 cells for lock down.

JM: Did they have names? If so, what were they?
Burt: no, not that i knew of
Daniel: Just building 1 through 8, HSB(not sure what it stands for), and the 3 trusty buildings(also not sure what they were called.)
David: They were labled A, B, C and so on.

JM: Which types of inmates were housed in the different blocks?
Burt: honestly dont know but ag cases were in build 1 and mostly buildin 2
Daniel: Building 1 was for mostly high risk offenders(aggravated), 2 was for straight up lockdown, 3 was women only, HSB was the medical building, 4 was kitchen duty, 5-8 was outside portables(low-risk), and the trusty buildings were for the rest of the workers.
David: No, they pretty much mixed everybody up. This was miniumum security so whoever got that kind of sentence was in there.

JM: What do you remember being the nicest and worst parts about the different blocks?
Burt: out buildings 56789 had mor freedom and others were caved in
Daniel: The portables were nice cause there were no doors or cells except the front door to the building. Building 2 sucked cause you never came out except for a shower.
David: The nicest was that some of the inmates were really friendly and offered their commisary. The worst was that somebody always looking for a fight.

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