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When my sentencing date finally arrived, I found myself shackled in the court room with a few others from the Boulder county jail. I felt rather fly in my blue jumpsuit and imitation Chuck Taylors. I would be leaving the county jail soon after and was pleased to finally have this portion of my ‘experience’ [...]
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Over the course of the next 9 months, I was visited by my lawyer on numerous occasions, underwent a pretrial evaluation to determine if I was “suitable” for prison or community corrections, and attended several meaningless court sessions. I mastered the games of pinochle and Scrabble and devoured book after book in an effort to [...]
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I had only been in jail about a week when the day of my second court appearance arrived. The room was small and all of the inmates were crammed tight behind a thick glass partition, separating us from those who didn’t call jail home. We had been ushered from one holding cell to the next [...]
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The gym floor at the Boulder County Jail was a bit slippery. If you didn’t want to play basketball, your only other option was the weight machines. I’d take basketball over lifting weights any day of the week. Basketball had been my life for several years. Never far from a pick-up [...]
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The Boulder County Jail was unlike any I had ever experienced. It was splendiferous in comparison to those I had been an occupant of in Texas–I didn’t have to step over snoring drunks in holding cells, avoid eye contact with other inmates, or be prodded with needles. The place had normal chairs, a [...]
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