- We lock our closets but we can’t lock the bathroom door. In fact, in many prisons there isn’t a bathroom door.
- The best food you get to eat is vending machine food in the visiting room or gas station food from the commissary. The chow hall food is practically inedible.
- The windows don’t have any curtains but still fail to let much light in.
- It is dark in the housing units, yet people complain when you turn on the lights.
- When you do turn on the lights they are still not bright enough to read by.
- Bath soap and shampoo are used to wash your personal dishes.
- The day room is most crowded at night.
- We use chairs as a ladder to climb unto the top bunk instead of sitting on them.
- Emergency count is never an emergency and always takes longer than regular count.
- In the chow hall they feed grown men kid’s meal portions.
- Disposable plastic silverware is used over and over forever.
- Guys talk about the ugliest women as if they are beauty queens when they would never give them a second thought out in the world.
- We refill the ink barrel of our favorite disposable pen.
- We recharge disposable batteries.
- Laundry comes out of the wash looking dirtier than before it was washed.
- Headphones are used to block out sound.
- The family we were tired of listening to can’t talk long enough on the phone.
- We sometimes have to lock-up to get free of a bad situation.
- New flat screen TVs have smaller screens than the old CRTs and cost 50% more.
- Some work only to steal.
- The MDOC pays students to go to school.
- Some inmates have their people put money in other prisoner’s trust accounts because they can’t have any in their own.
- We brush our teeth before meals.
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- Bad behavior is expected.
- We learned that the truth will not set you free.
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