Last day of freedom…

Less tan 24 hours, I will be on my way back to prison…

Mixed feelings, part of me wants to go back, the other part wants to stay home.  In a normal situation, I could just go home when I was done with it, but knowing that I wont have the option to go home.

But of course i dont have a choice not to go either, so I guess it doesnt matter, but doesnt change how I feel, which seems to be normal for this kind of thing.

There has been some questions about what I will be wearing when I get back to prison, so I am going to sum it up here from start to end.

Transport wear:  Facility 5 requires prisoners to arrive at the administration building wearing nothing but a t-shirt and jeans, no underwear, no shoes, no socks.  They do allow flip flops to be worn if you are arriving as a voluntary prisoners, since you cant get on a plane with bare feet.

But when transported by car, I am expected to leave, wearing t-shirt and jeans, along with transport restraints.  This is optional since I am being transported by my girlfriend, instead of a contracted 3rd party transport agent as before.

So, when I leave tomorrow morning, all that I will be wearing is a t-shirt, jeans and the permanent shackles that were welded on during my first processing.

When I arrive at the administration building, they will put me in a holding cell, I will be wearing what I arrived in, they might have me in transport restraints while in holding, last time my transport restraints were left on, but since I wont be arriving in transport restraints, I might not have to wear them.

The holding cells are tiny, about 4ft by 4ft with a plexi glass front, inside is a little wall mounted bench, a thin metal divider with a metal toilet/sink behind it, mounted to either the left or right wall.

Its very confining, but at least you can see out into the hall and the prisoners in the cells across the hall.

They will keep me in that holding cell until all 10 holding cells are filled.

They will remove us from those holding cells and chain us together by our ankles in groups of 5, before taking us to the lower level parking structure, where they will pack us tightly into a cage in the back of a van for about 8-9 hours.

Processing: When I arrive at the prison, after being cramped in a cage for 9 hours, they will bring us into the main room to prepare for processing.  With us still chained together by our ankles, they will cut our jeans and t-shirt off, so we are naked.

We will only be wearing transport restraints and permanent shackles if we arrived in them, like I will.  We will stand in a line, side by side, chained together by our ankles and naked.

Anyone who wore underwear will have them cut off and be flagged for punishment for violating dress code.

They take us of the chain, one at a time for processing, while the others remain standing.  They go down the line and give us water, since we havent had food or water in over 9 hours by this point.

Punishment Cell: After processing, they will give me a paper gown, i doubt I will get the plastic underwear option in processing, probably just the paper gown, before they take me to the old building and down the spiky stairwell of foot torture, before putting me in a solitary confinement punishment cell

I will be wearing the paper gown that all punishment cell prisoners wear with the option of plastic underwear, probably offered on my first weekly shower.

I will also be wearing the mandatory punishment restraints, which are rounded steal shackles for ankles and wrists, bolted on.  wrists connected by about 13 inch chain and ankles chained as well with a tether chain that connects my wrists to my ankles, so that they are at my waist while standing.

After, possibly 30 days in quarantine, either in solitary confinement or moved to consolidated confinement, in the punishment cells, they will pull me out and give me the standard uniform.

Standard Uniform:  All prisoners wear the same uniform while in the regular cells, however, because the uniform has changed slightly over time, its a mix of older style and newer style.

The oldest style is white leggings, white long sleeve shirt and top shirt, which is a color coded short sleeve shirt that hangs down to your knees.

I was told before I was imprisoned that the dress code was strict, but in my experience, you can wear any combination of the uniform while in your cell, even go naked if you want.

But outside of the cell, its a little grey, I have heard that you only really have to wear the color coded long shirt and can basically be naked under it, but other people have told me that you have to wear the leggings and long sleeve shirt as well, while outside of the cell.

I always wear the long sleeve shirt and leggings, along with the long shirt.

The newest uniform is a grey long sleeve shirt and grey leggings with a black stripe down the sides and black ankle cuffs, a black waist band, but you never see that part because the shirts hang down over it.

They do have some grey leggings that are lighter and thinner, I think for prisoners who are permanently shackled with shackles that fit tighter around their ankles.  I have worn those a few times and they are much easier to take off and put on with permanent shackles.

Underwear is only provided if you buy them and they are very expensive, because when you buy underwear, your prisoner ID is embroidered in them and they have to be washed and returned to each prisoner, so they build the service cost into the price of each pair.

I cant afford underwear, so I wont be wearing them, except for the plastic underwear I smuggled in from the punishment cells.

I will go into more detail on the uniform and the color coding in a vlog when I get permission to vlog from my cell.

 

No shaving heads:  People asking if they shave our heads, NO.  Remember this is a PAID PRIVATE PRISON, people PAY to be imprisoned there, some of them are only in for a couple weeks.

Would be pretty stupid if a corp exec goes in and comes out looking like a nazi concentration camp victim…