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The first thing that happens is that any items the inmates don't want to get caught with start flying out of the cells. The flag gets covered with these items. Those that don’t anticipate their cell getting shaken down on this first day will toss the items out during the night time when we would be less likely to be able to identify who threw what out of their cell. In reality, there is little chance of us identifying what flew out of any cell. We are just happy for it to hit the floor instead of us and to have it out of circulation.

Some common items found in cells that belong to other inmates are televisions, radios and fans. Some reasons these inmates have possession of these items are that they stole them, punked someone out for them, borrowed them, won them gambling and a very common reason is that the inmate that the item belonged to got released and gave it to them when he left.

The reason we find these items in their cell is that they didn’t know the lockdown was coming and by the time they were locked in, they found those items to be too big to fit through their cell bars to get rid of them. There is little consequence for having these items, so some hang on to them hoping the officers shaking down their cell will not be thorough.