I've done nearly 3 days in the asylum, and 3 days in jail

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I don't want to talk about the why or the backstory.

Fun fact about both jail in the asylum. In the asylum, the patients would all say that jail was worse. In jail, they feared the asylum more.

I preferred the asylum over jail. The food was better, but admittedly sleeping the asylum was... well I'm going to be honest it was crazy. Lots of s**t went down at night in the asylum.

Jail sucks a lot worse. Pick the asylum if you get a choice. But, if you are a normal person (I am mostly normal btw) you might have a hard time understanding the asylum rules. A lot of asylum patients pace around. Do not interrupt them or get in their way. If you keep to yourself you should be ok but the crazies each have individual rules whereas jail inmates have one general rule.

If jail had asylum sleeping arrangements, food, and bathroom & showers, it'd be pretty cool. I was in general pop with 55 inmates for nearly 3 nights. Inmates are divided in general pop based on what they did and I was not in the "bad" GP. So if you followed the social rules in there - and they made sure you knew what they were - you were OK.

I worked in a mental health hospital for a couple of years, cleaning, and other general duties. Toward the end I did limited work in the secure unit, but didn't feel confident of my safety doing so. Adults of all ages, and mental health conditions. The elderly in the dementia ward, and the teenagers in the secure unit I found the most difficult to witness, distressing.
There was a middle aged down syndrome patient, was warned not to get on the wrong side of him, he was quite a big guy. Another patient always wore army-like clothes, and never called me by my name, only my job title. I had enough of it and called him patient one day. It didn't go down well, and we never were amicable again.

In my county, the jail has three cells -- one holds five inmates and the other two each hold one inmate.

It's pretty easy going. Friends or relatives can bring you books to read. Prisoners are treated pretty good. That's according to someone who was there for a couple of weeks in October.

When i was a kid, the sheriff and his wife lived in an apartment in the courthouse and the sheriff's wife cooked the food for the inmates. It was probably pretty good eating. A cousin of mine was in jail during that period for thirty days and when he was the only prisoner, they would sometimes let him out so he could walk down to the drug store lunch counter (which is still there and a great place to eat) to eat.

By the way, that cousin was allowed to have a tv in his cell. And then one weekend night, a drunk broke it and so he had to finish his sentence without a tv.

Later, a deputy would go to the grocery store and load up a basket with frozen dinners. The prisoners would select what they wanted and microwve it. One guy I knew who was in jail during that period had a favorite frozen dinner and so he would take those out of the freezer and hide them under his bunk. Eventually, the jailer found them when they were about out of frozen dinners and put them back in the freezer. Every single person there ate one and every single person there got a bad case of food poisoning from it. The guy I knew there wasn't very well liked after that.

These days, the local hospital cooks the food and a deputy transports it to the jail. One guy I know who was there for a couple of weeks in October said that the food was pretty good.

In a nearby county, the employee who used to be in charge of food at a much larger jail would feed them bologna sandwiches for their meals was my oldest brother's wife's nephew (nephew-in-law?). I knew one guy (brother of the one who stashed the frozen dinners under his bunk) who was there for about three weeks waiting trial and was finally bailed out. I asked him about the food and he said it was horrible. Later, he went to trial and was sentenced for thirty days and so he had a few more days to serve after his previous time was taken out of the sentence. When he got out, I asked him about the food and he surprised me by saying it was wonderful! It turned out that once he was convicted they made him a trustee and the trustees were all taken down to a pizza joint for supper every night.

Glad you made it through that stuff.

Yeah same here

I'm glad you're here man