What do you really know about jail?

Question

Do you know what people actually do all day long in jail?

Answer 1

THEY EAT 3 TIMES A DAY,GET THEIR MAIL, PLAY CARDS, ARM WRESTLE, READ, VISIT THE NURSE, GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY BASKETBALL, WRITE LETTERS AND VISIT WITH VISITORS.

SOME WORK IN THE KITCHEN AND SOME CLEAN THE RECEPTION AREA ACCOMPANIED BY A DEPUTY.

Answer 2

I don't know that much about what inmates do during short term incarceration (one year or less) in municipal or county jails. I'm a teacher in a state prison so I can tell you a little bit of what goes in on those places.

All inmates are assigned a job, most of them at our prison work in the kitchen or as porters. These jobs can take as little as an half hour or all day. The lowest paid inmates make $18 per month, but inmates who qualify for contract work can make a lot more.

Inmates who lack a high school diploma or GED are place in an education classes ,usually within a year before they're scheduled to be released. They must attend these classes a minimum of sixth months unless they obtain their GED before that. After the six months, an inmate can elect to stay in school or waive his opportunity for an education. In my state, inmates are eligible for a day off their sentences for each month they attend school. However, they have to maintain a minimum 75% aattendance rate and can not be tardy or skip classes.

Many inmates are invoved in self help programs such as anger management or sex offender therapy. Some of these programs are mandated by the judge who sentenced them to prison.

During the day, when they're not working , going to school or program, most inmates are sleeping, watching tv, playing cards or other games, working out, working on their legal appeals in the prison library, going to the commissary etc. Inmates are not allowed to be in any other cube (a living space housing two inmates) than their own or in any other dorm than their own. In the prison I work in, each dorm has two sides and inmates are only permitted to be on the side where they live. If an inmate is somewhere he's not allowed, he's "out of place" and in some cases can be put in segregation.

The institution has a count of inmates six times a day where the inmates have to be sitting on their bunks or standing by their bunks. That's mainly to prevent escapes. If the numbers don't come out right, everything stops until each prisoner is accounted for.

Answer 3

You eat at 6 am, 10:30 am and 4:30 pm.
You can work in the kitchen, commisary, laundry, outside details, be a porter {like a custodian for the CO's}, or you can sit around all day. Most jails are non-smoking, recreation has been de-emphasized, weight-lifting is almost non-existent, but you can read, watch TV, or play cards.
Worship services are available in almost all faiths.

It sucks, as well it should.

Answer 4

The food is rotten