Did you dorks not read the next post. jfc.
even on work release, you would hate it. Do you want me to breakdown what E-Pod's daily schedule is like at RCJ?
YES!
E-pod is RCJ's work release pod. Unlike the majority of the others, it is unsupervised.
Your day starts at 5:00 am. The guards come in shortly to serve you cold, stale cereal, which alternates between rice krispies and corn flakes. you also get two pieces of burnt toast, milk and kool-aid. The television can be turned on at this point. After breakfast, you must clean the whole pod, bathrooms, bunks, sweep and mop, wipe down tables, everything. If the pod isn't cleaned to the guard's expectations, you must clean it again.
After all the cleaning is done, you have to make your bed and you can't go back to sleep. You're left to watch the filtered cable, playing cards or board games, write or draw, or converse with your podmates. The cable sucks, aside from local channels you get the travel channel and cartoon network.
Lunch is served at 11:30, it's usually terrible. Dinner is served at 5, it sucks too. E-pod is given recreation time twice a week in the evenings. Library trips once a week on the evenings. You're not allowed to swap library books, commissary or cafeteria food. Laundry comes twice a week.
You're strip searched on your way in and out of the facility. You have to submit a time sheet from work, so they can monitor where you've been. The CO's are really good about making you late to work and making you sit outside of the sally port in the weather for extended periods of time.
Lights go out at 11:00, but not really. You're required to be in your bunk. You can't talk or get up and move around if you can't sleep. It's tough to fall asleep since the lights stay on and the bunks are solid metal. Even if you do manage to fall asleep, you'll be woken up in short order, as the CO's will come through at scheduled intervals to do head counts. They always make a racket when they do.
That's a short overview, what specifics do you want to know? Anybody that's saying they could do a stint, or would do a stint, is either lying or doesn't know what they're talking about. The only people I know that have been through a similar situation to incarceration are military veterans.
