If you've lived in The Florida Keys you know that the water pressure is mediocre at best. Not so in jail. The water pressure rocks and sometimes the showers are too hot. That being said, the showers were contentious for many women. Something about a bunch of naked twenty-somethings washing away the day's grime turned them into nasty school kids. Mean and spiteful all in the name of fun. Some got louder and more brash and others became more timid and shy much like any situation that could leave one vulnerable. You had to have a pretty thick skin to be impervious to the little rotters' jeers and insults or be a good enough sport to just let it all roll off your back.

I was given a really good tip one night while taking a shower. Never shave your bikini area. Use Neet, Nair whatever. No bumps or very little, no itching, no redness. How did I go through most of my life not knowing this?

Everyone gains weight in jail. There's really no way around it. The three meals that we ate every day were loaded with carbohydrates and you would have to speed walk around the day room 24/7 to get rid of the calories. When we were taking a shower it became all too apparent whose commissary account was padded. The only food you could buy in jail was filled with unpronounceable ingredients along with red dye #4 and yellow dye #2. If you had lots of money and your jail sentence was long enough I believe you could die from the carcinogenic snack food that the jail sold you or from morbid obesity. It is no accident that prison snack food is healthier for you than jail
food. They have to keep you longer, and preferably alive.

Once I figured out that there was a market for my artwork and payment was in the form of Snickers Bars, Milky Ways and Reece's Peanut Butter Cups my reasonably svelte physique gained 20lbs and to date I am still trying to lose the extra weight.







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    I'm a transplanted Brit. living in Mexico painting and writing my way through life. I  live as warmly as possible.

    In 2011 I spent six months in Key West Detention Center and one more month in Glades Co. Detention Center awaiting deportation.

    One would think it would have been a nightmare and sometimes it was. Mostly it was boring. However, I read more good books than I've ever done. I drew and painted on a daily basis and often jail was downright hilarious. I also made a friend for life.

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