Harris County Jail

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

A continuing story from the post called "City Jail!"  I arrived at the Harris County Jail at about nine-in-the-morning.  Saturday morning.T c transported me. An experienced cop and a new hire from out of the Houston area.  I know that because when he seen the homeless people near the jail, he was shocked!



We went into the jail and they searched me. Asked me a few questions and took me to a large room with about a hundred other prisoners.  There we got a health screening and my orange prison jumpsuit.

After several hours we were then marched a long way to a holding cell.  There was about a dozen of us together.  It was a good group.  I was up about thirty-six hours at this point!



We were in that holding cell till around ten in the evening. While we were there we were feed supper. A soybean patty covered with beans with carrots and a small piece of cake.  We all got double portions!  The food was nasty, but I was hungry and there was a lot of food.  Nobody went hungry there!

The guy with the dominant personality was a homeless guy.  He was very talkative and open with everything.  He told everyone that he was a homeless guy and if you have anything that the other guys didn't want.



It was then my turn to see the jail psychiatrist, everyone has to see her.  I walked in and she motions me in her room.  She is a very sweet middle-aged Hispanic lady.  She was very impressed with me.  I am clean-cut and respectful.

When she asked me how much education I had, I responded that in a few weeks I would receive my Master's degree and that my Master's thesis was published on Amazon, she really was impressed.  She looked up my book and immediately bought a copy!  It was my first paperback book sale!



When I got back in the holding cell, I tried to get some rest.  You cannot sleep because they never turn off the lights, and its always noisy in jail.  I laid on the bench with others on the floor.  When I tried to turn around, I feel off and landed on two other prisoners!

Not long after that, I got bonded out.  It still too about four hours to finally get out the door and onto the street.  I was there for twenty-one hours!  Thirty hours total with the city jail time!  After calling my brother Robert and my mother, they came to pick me up!

Brother Roop

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