Being locked up

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As people may have read, i was recently subject to illegal mass arrest at occupy oakland, and spent a long timein detention before being processed and released. Some things which I found useful to pass the time

•Memorize and/or right on body in permanent ink, a local land line phone number and/or legal support hot line. Call legal support and give them ur name and birthday so they can track you through the system.

•Get sleep. You will likely be in for a while and you might as well try to rest up and kill time. Shoes and toilet paper rolls make great pillows, having a hood or large collar to block out the light is helpful.

•bring extra layers, jail holding/processing cells have cold concrete floors and benchs, you will be cold in a t-shirt, plus layers=bedding

•get to know your cell mates, comrades and otherwise. talk, sing solidarity, chant protest slogans, and joke around will other protesters arrested and held with you, it builds solidarity like crazy. talk to the other inmates, its a great agit prop opportunity.

• make art! out of food, paper cups, mustard packets to write on wall, scratch "occupy" or whatever into the paint for future comrades.

•play games, use floor tiles as a checker board, throw bit of whatever into a cup or the toilet, play catch with an orange

[Sasha]

In daily life I'm quite undisciplined and borderline sloppy, in jail I go into very structured mode, I become extremely neat and organised, make the bed, fold clothes, clean. All solitary time is for reading, working out, meditating or sleeping. It all helps me a lot to keep myself to pass time and stick to my "no comment/lawyer" answers during interrogation.
Last time the guards after a few days of observing me started to get really worried and asking if I was military (dutch soldiers arrested by civilian police need to be transferred to the military police ASAP)

[Os Cangaceiros]

Spending a day in jail is just long enough to temporarily fuck your life, but not nearly long enough to get used to, IMO anyway,

[Nox]

u could masturbate and spunk all over the wall and spell occupy with it HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

[Sasha]

u could masturbate and spunk all over the wall and spell occupy with it HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

again, this is not chitchat, another infraction.

[GallowsBird]

I usually sing merrily and don't accept anything from them personally (their coffee is usually junk anyway). Oh and I would suggest not talking to them too much a trick of theirs is to try to strike a conversation with you and try to mine you for as much information as possible. Don't get yourself into any more trouble but don't bend over backwards for them either.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Second the wear layers thing ... they keep the temp down to slow the spread of contagions. Oh, and get used to the smell of bleach.

Don't say anything incriminating over the phone. AT ALL. Don't even whisper it thinking the guard can't hear you. They record phone calls made by inmates. At least in the US they do.

If you're going to be in there a while, find out your mailing address so people can write letters. And in Georgia, you need to list the 5 people who will be visiting you. If someone's not on the list they can't visit you. No more than 5. This may vary by state/county/city ...

[tachosomoza]

I usually sing merrily and don't accept anything from them personally (their coffee is usually junk anyway). Oh and I would suggest not talking to them too much a trick of theirs is to try to strike a conversation with you and try to mine you for as much information as possible. Don't get yourself into any more trouble but don't bend over backwards for them either.

They've got other detainees who will do the same thing.