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If we had not shaken down the unit by spring time, inmates would always be asking when we were going to get locked down. I’d just tell them that they would know at the same time I knew. Some didn’t believe this. I would explain to these doubters that if I did know, I would be under orders not to say when it would be, so it wouldn’t do any good to ask me anyway. Most of them would understand this. There were always a few that would keep pushing.

There were a lot of reasons they would want to know. They would want to stock up on ice. They would want to call friends, relatives or lovers and let them know why they wouldn’t be calling for awhile. They might want to hide something, get rid of or return something that didn’t belong to them or something they weren’t allowed to have. In some cases, this would be a lot of items. If they were doing their laundry, they would want to get it before getting locked in their cell for a week or more.

After they were locked in, if anyone had laundry in a washer or dryer, I would finish it up for them and get it to them. If someone wanted ice, I would not do that. What you do for one, you have to do for all and getting ice for all of them would not be possible.