Jail memories .

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Since I guess old threads aren't reachable anymore , I will put up a memory of my jail time in 2013 ~ inncluding some things I didn't mention the first time around , a little " less nice " , which is why I officially put this in the Haven . So , you're warned .
I'm just going to put up the beginning here ~ I was arrested , by cop where I had been sleeping , homeless , the night before , on IIRC Jan. 21st , Martin Luther King Day ~ a holiday ~ .
It was for a whole lot of previous sleeping/camping tickets that I had received before , and my not showing up for the court heartings for them - As well as the non-paid fines that were accrued (??) against me from those previous hearings , which piled up and grew interest .
Most of those hearings were in Santa Cruz , but there was one , IIRC , dating back to a similar ticket/court date in San Francisco .
So , on Jan. 21 , 2014 , I was taken to the Santa Cruz County Jail...

Your user handle sounds clever. Ha-ha.

My time in jail was not particularly awful. It did get boring at times because you are locked up most of the time except when you get let out to be fed and you are counted like sheep. The nurse took me to the wing the first day I arrived as I felt nervous.

I was in a section of Saughton in Edinburgh called Glenesk. You get put there if the protection hall elsewhere is full. You are not meant to be there for ages unless you request to be put on protection.

Well, the first time I was remanded in prison, I was with a guy called James, but he would not tell me what he was in for. The cell we shared was quite small and we put out cereal for the birds. We never got out for recreation or exercise because we were on protection, in a mainstream hall. The food was mostly great, but they once gave us a stinking shortcake thing with raspberry jam and grated coconut on it, which was not that tasty.

The good thing about being a remanded inmate is you can get visited every day apart from a Sunday, but the guards are bossy and tell you how to sit in your seat. Sentenced prisoners only get a maximum of three visits a month. I once again met Ashleigh, who was a girl I had a crush on one time, at a shop I was working in. She was a guard in there and I dream of tapping that rather fine ass. Ha-ha.

Just kidding!

My second trip to jail was not terribly bad, but it was not really much fun either. You basically just have to stay enlightened and try to forget where you are so that it does not drive you insane. I was put in Glenesk again with this guy who assaulted me for asking him to turn the TV off one night. He probably just picked on me because I look like a sap. He got punished for attacking me, which the guy deserved and a lot of people told me they would have him if he bullied me again. Then I shared a cell with a guy who had apparently been in jail for 18 months, then he got remanded again just hours after being granted freedom and all for being drunk, and acting racist to some people on a bus, who attacked him. I had no issues with this guy, but he did seem the racially abusive type going by the things he said. We were on very friendly terms and I even told him where all the saunas are located, in case he gets horny after he gets out of jail.

When I got out of jail, I did some research on him, and I found out he once had slashed a gay guy's face in the jail because people were spreading stories that he too was gay when he claimed he was straight, and apparently these tales bothered him because he feared they would draw attention to him. He went into the dude's cell with a razor (removed from a disposable shaver) and just left the guy bleeding, so feel lucky you did not share a cell with him and then get on his bad side. He got extra time over the attack, too. But some folk do not care about their actions at all. Jail just ends up being a occupational hazard for them. Maybe he has a mental problem or two that he needs help with.

With a week to go, I was moved to the protection wing, so I got split away from my co-pilot which saddened me and I got a new one who turned out to be cool. With no fixed address, I think he was kind of stuck in there, being that he was homeless.

At first, it felt weird being relocated to another section in the prison, because it was like being in a different environment, but at least this time I could play pool, get exercise and my co-pilot and I played music a lot, and we watched the women outside as our window overlooked their yard. The screws were more arrogant in that wing, however. They muttered some cheeky things as I left to go to court. It is sad that my affection for two ungrateful support workers lead to me being locked up, but certain women generally are skanks that overreact to your affection, so it is not like I am the only one this has happened to. I doubt there will be any recourse with them.

Prison life sucks, but if you get put in a cell with somebody decent, who is not nuts, you are better off in some ways. It is still boring though and you will begin to miss the life you had prior to prison. Hopefully, I will never have to go back there either.

Peter.

Jails (county jails) in the US tend to have crappy food filled with vermin. The inmates aren't so great, either.

Prisons (penitentiaries) tend to have crappy food with vermin, too. The inmates aren't so great, either. However, it seems as if many prisoners prefer the (especially federal) prisons to the county jails.

...I guess you don't get informed of replies to your postshere ???
Or did I forget to click that box ???
Well , regardless , maybe more later .
Pete , I seem to recall an earlier installment of your story .
Yes , I was suprised no one had the abbreviation but me ~ I thought Brits might've used " Arse-P " , but still ! !! !!

We got milk and cookies in juvenile hall. Definitely better than jail.

I did not think the food in the jail I was in was awful. The canteen sheet did suck, however. It was all sweets and junk food on it. The only fruit listed was pear and peach pieces in juice. You got a sundry sheet but the fruit was not delivered to you for days. I was going bananas from the lack of bananas. I know that bananas are one of the best foods you can consume for battling anxiety and the screws in that place are morons. I don't think I want to go back there again. Who would?

...Jumping ahead , one food peculairity that turned up in my time was , with our rather minimal lunch (Basically a peanut butter/maybe something else sandwich) - There was this no-brand Kool-Aid wannabee , grape-flavored I think?? ~ which claimed upon the packaging to be both vegan and kosher !
Oy vey , where's my chakras ?

...I was in the SCCJ for two overnights , getting brought to court on the 23d , Wednesday .
At that time I pled guilty and was given nonsupervised probation for two years .
I got a barely-filled out form listinng not very much which , IIRC , was all the paperwork I got from the court people during any of this . I kept it till it totally dissolved .
At that time , I considered myuself thrown out of town and left Santa Cruz for San Jose , taking the $5 bus there .
There is a really major point about something I said to the court then which I haven't time to write now~

It is a good thing my hearings were just weeks apart after being remanded, otherwise I could have been stuck in that prison for ages. Like, say your sentencing date was 3 months from your last hearing and you got in bother again, they could just lock you up.

The first time I was in the Saughton jail was from 29 July till 12 August, over sending harassing messages on the Internet to two of my former female caregivers. Then I got out but continued apologizing to the women on Facebook, so I was remanded in jail again from 2 September until 19 September, yet I lost my freedom just over that. What a joke. And who was it that was the grass? Yes. My own support staff!

All my life, I feel like I have been a victim of bullying, where upon doing something innocent to blend in, it lead to me being hated on for reasons I do not fully understand. I cut a lot of corners as I gained new enemies seemingly everywhere both online and in real-life, and throughout it all, I was often lucky not to have gotten into legal trouble years sooner. But I felt as if I had some God giving right to act vengeful, when people were degrading me. It sure as hell sucks to be insulted, spat on, attacked, excluded from things and eventually, betrayed. After the dust settles, you just stand there, alone, feeling like a moron. Rinse and repeat.

That sheriff in the court is a dog. In fact, all lawyers, judges, procurator fiscals, prison staff, support agencies, Internet trolls, failed relationships and police forces are indeed full of dogs, brutes, liars, tarts, meanies, a-holes, corrupt conspirators, perverts, rats and more. And now the Autism Initiatives company is making the legal orders stacked against me as a scapegoat not to undo their own blunders.

It is just a pile of crap, in my view. They had a chance to give me a chance and they chose to meddle with my emotions, so anything that should happen to them in the future courtesy of me will be warranted. So I encourage others to fight their opposition, too.

...So now I know what " remand " means , thank you ...According to Prison Talk Online (Checked it out ? t's US-centered ~ naturally ~ We're #1 is imprisonment ! EWE ! ESS ! AYE ! ~ but has UK-centered forums specifically as well .) , I could get into the UK (and Eire and France) more likely than I could get into AU or CA , as I said , so maybe we can meet one day !
To expand briefly on what I said above , when I left SC for SJ , I forwarded my mail to SJ , having gotten a new postal box there .
More later .

In the US, when you're "remanded," you're put in jail with no bail available for you to get out.

Yes, that is basically what it means. When you commit a crime or are accused of a felony, then while you are outside the court pending a hearing, you are on what is called bail. So if you acted like a fanny again, they get annoyed and feel locking you up is the safest thing to do so that you cannot be a threat to the public.

In my case, I just sent them sexually vulgar messages, that offended them. This was immaturity on my part, but you know why I got angry. They could have just deleted them, but they were out for payback, I am sure. Joanna hated me over the 192.com thing and Sara for well, thinking I was creepy by developing feelings for my own key worker and then rightfully screaming at her when she has a hand in telling me fibs along with this Andrew guy who has since left.

Yes. These so-called "support workers" think I am a creepy client just because I 'liked' them. Well, OK. Professional restrictions are important and necessary. Blah. Blah. But I have a penis and they have a vagina. It is natural to be attracted to *ANY* woman. However, you have to learn to take a step back and some of us do not fair too well with being rejected.

...I should have said this before ~ the probation I had put on me forbade me from being on the main drag at all , the " main street "/downtown district of Santa Cruz , a couple of blocks that comprise the " downtown " that they call the Pacific Garden Mall .
If I violates that , was PGM area at all , I would receive a twenty-five day jail sentence . That wouldd be for the probation's duration . They impose this kind of thing on "troublemakers " a lot there .
BTW , I don't think à single one of my camping/sleeping " offences " were for anything that I did in the PGM !

The piggy perverts came to see me again recently after I broke a cup. My mother called them.

By the way, I wish to appeal about my flat.

...The fact is , I still fantasize about doing more mjail time ~ Jail/local , I guess , not state/federal prison (as much , anyway)...

What makes you think you're going to end up back in jail? Relax!

B the way, I've gone off my support workers a lot now. I realized they were just doing a job and I was a moron for even *THINKING* a guy like me had any chance with them!