@Cutiepi23 That was many years ago. I'm not a jail bird anymore! I'm clean and sober, and going to AA meetings every night. Life is good. I sure don't mean to make you sad.

@puck61 I know you didnt mean any harm. This is such an emotional post reading it made me angry & sad. Im so glad it was a long time ago & your doing much better now. All the best with the meetings 👌 My uncle took AA meetings after he stopped drinking.

@Cutiepi23 It's working better than anything else I've tried! One day at a time every year till I meet my maker.

@JesseInTX I believe I heard them say they have 1600 inmates at the jail.

@cherokeepatti I’m not sure about Oklahoma’s jail standards. Close to where I live is the 3rd largest county jail system in the country. Around 11,000 inmates.

@JesseInTX I don’t know what’s going on with them. They contracted out the care of the jail last summer due to the way it was being managed and it’s not any better. I think the budget is way too low for one thing. And they need to separate the violent offenders and put them off in another building away from this jail. Kind of like a super max jail. One of the correctional officers spoke out on Dr. Phil because of the suicides going on there.

@SW-User The Oklahoma County Jail hasn’t let the inmates have a shower in two weeks. Imagine what that large jail smells like? I can’t even imagine being a guard at that jail much less an inmate. They had a hostage situation with a guard being taken hostage over the weekend and a jail inmate was killed. The jail was having problems for years and let a trust take it over last summer and it has gotten much worse since then.

@cherokeepatti thats wrong

@SW-User daily or the guards would avoid being around the inmates,

@Quetzalcoatlus Yes it is. I can’t even imagine what that jail is smelling like, probably a combo of ass, stinky feet, fungus & rancid sweat.

@Tminus6453 What comes around goes around.

@cherokeepatti I believe it’s every 3 days, rotating schedules for security .

@cherokeepatti Shawshank to.

@SW-User Jail isn't prison.

@hunkalove My answer is the same in either case.

@Cutiepi23 Even as a conservative, I believe we need serious reform in our correctional facilities. Especially when it comes to the mentally ill.

@puck61 Totally agree..

@puck61 I agree

@cherokeepatti That's just inhumane. No matter the crime. These are just basic needs.

@assemblingaknob I don’t know but they have had problems with that jail since it was built.Structural problems and prisoners stuffing the toilets and clogging and overflowing sewage all the way down to the bottom floor for example. Prisoners escaping out the windows using bedsheets. It was designed poorly and also has been managed poorly since it was built.

@StraCat There was a police chase that went through 2 counties and ended up not far from here, it lasted for over 2 hours. When the police finally caught the guy they asked why he came here instead of dragging the chase out so long. He said he knew he’d be arrested and he didn’t want to stay in the Oklahoma County Jail because of bedbugs and cadavers...apparently they have a problem with both. He said if someone died in the jail they’d put the body on a stretcher and leave it for many hours to be collected & taken to the morgue. So now every time the OKC County Jail gets on the news & I just think “Bedbugs & Cadavers”.

@hunkalove a person in a warm cell who sweats can get a fungus if they don’t shower regularly...foot fungus, jock itch etc. I guess if they have a washcloth & a bar of soap they could take a sink bath but not the same as a real shower and rinsing off the soap.

@TurtlePink that’s not gonna work, it has to be a schedule or otherwise inmates will be running off together to “shower”.

@cherokeepatti if I ever had to go to prison or jail, they're gonna have to change some rules because I love my bath and shower time.

@TurtlePink Haha you have a lot to learn little missy. It’s not your way or the highway in prison.

@TexChik I know that right has been removed from them because they are in prison but if you read *Maslows(psychologist) hierarchy of needs im sure its a basic need as is shelter food. But Personally I think it might lead to further problems within the system.

@Cutiepi23 A 3-day riot happened in Oklahoma and one of the biggest factors was infrequent showering and they had to buy their own soap. At least let them have some basic soap, nothing fancy.

@Cutiepi23 yep I was being a smartass . In Texas they get to shower fairly frequently . Smaller jails it’s more often than larger places

@Longpatrol Imagine what that jail smells like? And yeah.

🤢 smells like unwashed ass must be@cherokeepatti