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long I sat in booking; finally I was taken to cell where there must have been twenty to thirty other women. I was given a toothbrush and a blanket and another door slammed shut behind me. Believe me when I tell you there is nothing like the sound of freedom lost.

Sometime in the middle of the second night my name was called and I found myself handcuffed again but this time to a fellow prisoner! Oh, please let me wake up! This has got to be a nightmare.

We were loaded into a van and driven to another jail. We were processed; we were each given a uniform and sent to a room where again we were strip-searched. We had to spread our cheeks, crouch and cough, submit a urinalysis, sit on a chair that would x-ray us making sure we had nothing inside our mouths? We were given a laundry bag of toothbrush and paste, soap, blanket, sheets (2), pillow, pillowcase, and a cup.

They directed us to a big cell with cement benches along the wall and a sink/toilet separated by half a wall. As the last woman entered the room the door was slammed and locked.

Eventually they called my name and again I was handcuffed to another prisoner as we were taken to another cell block. We were then assigned beds and sent to our cell to make them. I sat in my bunk wondering yet knowing how this was going to affect my life and soon I was sleeping.

I dreamed that my daughter had brought me pills. They didn't work I was still in pain so she brought me more. I dreamed that I got outside to get drugs and didn't how I was going to get back in again yet knew if I didn't get back in I was in bigger trouble. I awoke to the deputy screaming at us like we were children. "End of Story, you will do what I say when I say it! END OF STORY!"
Who the hell is she talking too? I looked around; this is how it is? Yes, I learned the deputies' rule and they like the power.

Sometime during the eleven days I was there I decided no drug was worth jail. I said it; I will never do another pain pill! And I haven't!
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