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A Day in One Prisoner's Life...Marcia Bunny, CCWFTypical Weekday 5:00 am: Get up; boil water for coffee and oatmeal (using a coil-immersion heater); while water is heating, do hair and organize toiletries for shower; at approximately 5:30 am, enter shower. 5:45 am: Dress, do make-up, put belongings away; eat; read devotional materials. 6:30 am: Be ready for release to "chow hall" - box lunches are handed out at breakfast, so I go in to at least get milk and a piece of fruit. Return to housing unit and wait to be released for work. 7:30 am: Work release. Report to security checkpoint ("work exchange"), show ID to officers who check each person off against a daily computer printout of authorized workers. Walk to work site. 7:45 am: Report to work. I am a clerical worker in the prison's education department. My tasks vary considerably, but are almost always performed on a computer, in MS Word or MS Excel. 11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Lunch break. We are permitted to eat at our desks, or go outside. I stay at my desk and use the time to scan the online tutorials to enhance my computer skills. 12:00 pm: Continue with tasks for the day. 3:45 pm: Dismissal from work; return through security checkpoint, getting pat-searched in the process (a daily occurrence -- usually the officer is male); return to housing unit. 4:00 pm: Locked into living quarters for count time; gather/arrange materials for evening session in law library. 4:30 pm: Count time. Must be seated on bed and observed by staff. 5:00 pm: (With luck!) count clears. Release to day room to await release for dinner. (I never go.) I rush to officers' station to sign up for the law library, then wait until it's time to leave. 5:55 pm: Depart to law library. If I don't have to wait long at the gate, it's about a 10-minute walk. 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm: Law library time: research, read the legal publications, such as Daily Recorder. 7:50 pm: Return to housing unit; shower; do hand laundry; organize clothing, etc., for the next day. 9:00 pm: Bed, with recreational reading as a de-stressing tool. (This "rule" has saved my sanity over the last few years!) 10:00 pm - 10:15 pm: Zz - zzz - zz... Last updated January 6, 2004 10:27 AM |
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