In my experience and also here in the fantastic Commonwealth of Kentucky, unless you are in a Class D facility you are going to listen to non stop loud television and, depending on if you're in a little girl jail or the little boy jail, you have these sleeping routines that ensure you if you're hoping for some quiet so you can sleep your sentence away… HAHA!! Forget it! Aint none of that happening. Class D facilities are for your state inmates, or the ones who have been prosecuted and have received their sentences. Ah yes, here in this amazing Bluegrass state if you get less than 10 years then you are serving most if not all your time in a county jail. Which is absolute ludacris. So now not only do I get the pleasure of working my rear end off in all weather conditions while employed as one of the road crew for $.63 a day, but I don't get to rest when I get in cause all the county inmates for some damn reason come to jail thinking its a damn neverending slumber party blasting really bad music while mixing up whip its and coffee shots and snorting pain reliever. Bed time in county jail-NIL!!!
Now, if you've committed a really heinous crime then you are definitely going to prison. Since I am a female I better do something really big if I wanna not spend my days in county doing hard time. Oh, but there's the whole process of how things work in the Circuit Court system. Even if you've done something huge its going to be at least 5 years before your case is tried, plea bargained, what have you. Being prosecuted in Kentucky is a painstaking process.
But once you've made it to, for me, the only prison in Kentucky for woman, suddenly you are outside in the sunshine, you can go for a nice walk, frequent the library, even have a meal in the cafeteria. All while surrounded by the splendor the kentucky countryside has to offer, surrounded by 10 rows of electrified barbed razor wire of course. But even this a mere formality after never having seen the outside of my cell for the last 4 years… and yes i mean that.
And because prison is more like a working, functioning little community all its own, there are many many rules to follow, things like structure are strictly enforced. Bedtime for prison-10 pm, wake up row call… 4 am… every single F****** day, even holidays. OOOHHHH and very very important… Continue reading

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