Thursday, August 6, 2009

The jail experience

Arrived at the Multnomah County Jail to be booked around 11:00pm. How many times I had been outside of the jail shooting pictures of bad guys in the past. I have to admit it was interesting. I had just seen a program on the National Geographic channel that showed this place. Little did I know I would be visiting it weeks later. The people there were OK. Several deputies were standing behind me putting on rubber gloves. I looked back and told them that they were making me nervous. They assured me I would be OK. I think they knew it was my first time there. They had a little sense of humor and searched me, with my clothes on, took my picture and finger printed me. I then got to go sit and watch TV with a bunch of other bad people. There were some beauties too. One guy who kept making horse sounds ended up getting hauled off to an isolation cell kicking and screaming. They had women in there too that were on the other side of a short wall. A couple of the women would not shut up either and ended up in isolation cells next to the horse man. They also went kicking and screaming. One of them did not shut up the rest of the night. The guards would not put up with any shit. I made sure to keep my eyes down and mouth shut. Five hours later I was released. As interesting as it was, I don't want to go back.

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