This story was told by a person incarcerated at Ventura County Main Jail.
UCI: What has it been like for you to have reduced programming?
Caller: I’ve been on the roof. I feel like with the end of COVID everything’s getting better but I only get an hour out a day and it’s random. I like to do it in the morning but I’m waiting till like five o’clock to call you.
It’s been very helpful that you reached out to me, it’s been something to hold onto emotionally. I’m always standing at the door or trying to fall asleep. I had like just problems being stuck in a cell.
It’s really crazy because I could be found innocent. And I don’t know how the heck it works. Ventura Police Department was not helpful with me.
So it feels like – it doesn’t matter. But I wouldn’t have – I never had a story told to me about jail. I don’t think I’ve ever put anybody in jail and I don’t know – I don’t particularly have any jail friends. I have a stepbrother who’s been to jail but he’s nuts. He’s not welcome at my house anymore. So.
I really don’t have any comparison. I just wanted to kind of call. You have points – there’s programs. We ate candy yesterday, you can get teeth brushing. You can get bars of soap – there’s two showers. So everything you need to get done is in one hour.
But you can’t eat with other people except for your cellmate. So that’s how program is. And there’s also roof time. I went on the roof about three times out of the whole month.
