Ok, so. Forgive me, but this is gonna be long lmao.
When I was booked into jail, I was put on suicide watch in the west tower/psych ward (#WestTowerBestTower) and in a single cell. They stripped me completely naked, no blanket, no nothing. I was in there for two days until I saw a psych doctor who determined that i could leave and be placed in the psych ward area with other people (8 people per cell). Now yāall know me, I have agoraphobia like a motherfucker. I canāt handle being around too many people. But I toughed it out and dealt with being placed in a cell with 7 other people. I was cool with that.
However, the psych doctors decided to put me on all kinds of drugs instead of contacting MY doctor to prescribe me the meds i usually take at home. The medicine they gave me made the entire right side of my face hurt like hell ā my eye was drooping, the medicine was literally dripping from my nose, and it made me sick. I was looking like Justin Bieber when his face froze up or some shit. So I told them to take me off ALL that shit because the side effects were so horrible.
However, because I kept denying my medication, they figured that I no longer belonged in the psych ward, and so they transferred me from my cell with 7 other people to general population. General population is basically JAIL jail. 64 motherfucking inmates per pod. My agoraphobic ass only lasted 5 hours in that pod before I had a mental breakdown and told the officer that I felt myself getting ready to go OFF. I said, āmaāam⦠can you please help me get back to the west tower, because they should have NEVER transferred me from there because i have severe mental issues and i feel myself getting ready to have a meltdownā¦ā and she was like, ādo you fear for your life?ā And i was like, ā⦠kinda, yeahā¦ā and she said, āyou either do or you donāt,ā which meant that if I didnāt tell her that I did, they wouldāve kept me there. I knew that if I told her i was suicidal and homicidal, I would be put back on suicide watch and have to go through that humiliation all over again. So I thought about it for ten seconds and i was like, ā⦠yes, i do fear for my lifeā¦ā (what i REALLY meant was, āif you donāt transfer me back to the psych ward and get me away from all of these people, i am GOING to hurt myself or someone else, and iām not trying to catch another caseā¦).
She then told me to pack my bag and to sign a paper that explicitly said that i fear for my life and mental health. She then called the officers in the control center and told them what i said, they came and got me, and they had me sign some paperwork to see the psych doctor before putting me in a ātime outā room. The officers in the control center thought i was JOKING because they had JUST transferred me in there five hours prior. One officer said, āmaāam, you look like you can beat half the peopleās asses in there. Youāre just saying this because you want to go back to your friends,ā or whatever. I said, āmaāam. With all due respect, I have mental fucking issues. Iām in here for attempted homicide. Either you let me speak to the psych doctor and transfer me back to the west tower, or someone is going to fucking die.ā
So, they put me back in time out until the psych doctor was ready to assess me. She asked me some questions, i told her what was going on, and afterwards i had to wait outside of the nurses office until another doctor from the west tower came to assess me again and determine if i should go back. I was then put on suicide watch again. Hereās where the incident with this old schizophrenic lady started.
Because the jail was overcrowded, there was absolutely no room for me to go back to the west tower and be put on an actual suicide watch. So, i had to sit there and wait for THREE DAYS for them to come get me. And who did i have to sit next to? The old lady. She was in ācrisis modeā because, like i said, she was having mad delusions and screaming and pissing herself and throwing stuff at people. She was calling the officers retarded, hoes, stank pussy bitches, sluts, accusing them of kidnapping and raping kids. She would look at my tattoos and scream the words out loud. She was spitting and coughing and sneezing on everyone who walked past her. Of course she called me a fat bitch but i was laughing the entire time and mocking her (she believed that she was pregnant with triplets and that everyone was tapping into her phone and shit). She was a nightmare. And because, like i said, the west tower was overbooked, i had to deal with this bitch for 20 fucking hours.
So finally, a fight broke out in pod H. They had to call backup after backup after backup. Damn near every officer, sergeant, chief, deputy, everyone had to go running in there to break up that fight and pull them out. Now hereās where it went down with this old crazy bitch.
After the girl who started the fight in pod H was dragged out, the officers put her against the wall and started questioning her. The old lady decided to get in their business and was still cussing at the officers and screaming and interfering with their business. Thatās when the sergeant who was questioning the girl who had that fight ā oh man⦠a beautiful, testosterone fueled, tough as nails black woman ā had enough. She fucking snapped. She turned around and said, āis this the one in crisis mode???ā And everyone said yes, and the sergeant told the officers to grab that chair that they strap people like her down in and move her away from the other chaos.
However, when the officers were pulling her out of her wheelchair, she was spitting on them, biting them, hitting them, basically giving them hell. The sergeant then said to the officers, āi give you permission to mace her.ā They whipped out that mace and sprayed that bitch like she was a roach and it was a can of raid. I know that shit fucking hurt. When she got maced, all of the officers who were holding her down started coughing and shit, thatās how strong it was.
Now, because i right next to this bitch ā less than 2 feet away from the chaos ā the mace ended up getting into my lungs. I took my shirt and covered my face as best as I could, and one of the officers tapped me on the shoulder and said, āmaāam, do me a favor and go sit on that bench inside inside the nurses station.ā I fucking ran in there and immediately laid down on the bench because my back was killing me from being forced to sit up in a chair for about 20 hours waiting for the psych doctor. I asked one officer if i could just lay on the floor for a bit because truly i was in pain sitting that long, and she was all like, āuh uh, we donāt lay on the floor here sweetie. You have to sit up.ā I hope she dies in particular, but whatever.
I was laughing. Laughing. So fucking hard at this bitch. I was coughing like a motherfucker and my lungs were tingling because that mace hit me just a little bit, so i canāt imagine the pain that bitch was in having got maced all up in her face.
One officer came in and offered me some water to help with that burn, and about five minutes later, that sergeant came in and asked me for my name. I said my name is Moore, and she said, āMoore, got it, youāre the one on suicide watch. Now listen, I donāt want you laying on my bench like this, so what youāre going to do is youāre going to grab two of those mattresses over there and put them on the floor in front of the window, and iām going to let you have your blanket. Technically, youāre not supposed to have it because youāre on suicide watch, but iām going to give it to you and let you lay down and get some sleep until the next shift.ā And I couldnāt thank her enough. I was so fucking blessed by this lady. She went and got my blanket, i put the mattresses on the floor, and I felt so much fucking betterā¦
Then, she brought the girl they pulled out of pod H for fighting and put her in the nurses room with me, and the sergeant asked her, āare you hurt??? Do you need to see the doctor???ā And the girl was like, āwell, i have a headacheā¦ā and the sergeant SNAPPED and was like, āGIRL LISTEN TO ME. WHEN I ASK YOU IF YOUāRE HURT, IāM TALKING ABOUT BRUISES OR CUTS OR SCRATCHES. I AINāT TALKING ABOUT NO MOTHERFUCKING HEADACHE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME? NOW ARE YOU OR ARE YOU NOT HURT?ā And the girl said no and they took her out of there.
I have never. NEVER. Wanted to fuck a woman so bad. That sergeant turned me the fuck ON.
As for the crazy old bitch, they decontaminated her, put a bag over her face because she was spitting on everyone, and left her ass in the corner. After she got maced, she was quiet as a church mouse for a few hours ā long enough for me to get some fucking sleep in the nurses office. But THEN when morning came, she started her shit AGAIN. So a chief finally arrived and told the officers in the control center to expedite her fucking case and get her to the crisis center ASAP. They finally came and got this bitch a few hours later, and she said something like, āthis isnāt funny! This isnāt funny!!!ā And while she was being wheeled away i said, āyes it is!ā And she was like, āno itās not!!!ā And finally⦠she was goneā¦
As for me? I had to remain on suicide watch, in the control center, on the floor with just my blanket, waiting an extra day for me to be transferred back to the west tower. Another beautiful and kind officer walked up to me while i was laying on the floor and asked if i was okay, and i explained my situation. She said, āoh honey, youāve been laying on this hard floor since i left my last shift and youāre still here. Let me see what i can do for you. Go grab an extra mattress for now to have some more cushion.ā
She then spoke to the other officers and looked over my paperwork. There were three other people ahead of me waiting to be transferred to the west tower as well, so that meant that i wouldāve very likely been laying on their floor for a few more days until there was room for me. However, this lady said, āyou know what? Drop the other three people and expedite her to the west tower.ā She hustled to get me back to the psych ward where i was, and put me first above the others.
A few hours after that, she said, āokay, donāt get comfortable now, iām about to transfer you back!ā And oh my god⦠as soon as I was taken back to #WestTowerBestTower, i asked if i could have my old cell back, and another officer said, āgirl of course!ā And i was like, āthank you maāam! Whooo donāt yāall EVER transfer me to one of those ghetto ass towers again lmao,ā and as soon as the doors opened, all of my old cellmates were in the day room and they saw me coming back. I went RUNNING to give them all hugs and shit, and everyone went into my cell to ask me what happened and to hear the HORROR stories that i endured in the south tower⦠they were all so happy to see me but they thought i had been released the whole time lmao.
So yeah. Like they say. #WestTowerBestTower. You KNOW it was fucking crazy when you BEG to be put back in a different cell⦠I initially asked for a single cell because yāall know iām an isolated person, but they didnāt have any. But i wasnāt going to complain. A cell with 8 people that I became comfortable and friends with vs. a cell with 64 people⦠yeah i snatched that shit.
End note: the day before i was released, we were in the day room when we saw ājail SWATā running past us to go handle an emergency. Guess who they came back with, strapped to a chair, with a spit bag over her faceā¦