Every morning before going to the canteen the officers search our cell, while they do this we are forced to stand facing the wall and with our hands cuffed behind our backs, they search everything, the sheet, the blanket, pillow, mattress, toilet and anything else they believe we might be hiding something illegal in.
Maybe you're wondering something like “what do they think is illegal?”, well, I can answer that, any weapon, drug or personal item other than a toothbrush and toothpaste, mattress, sheet, blanket, pillow, toilet paper and medicine, can be considered illegal, so even if it's something harmless like a photo or a pencil they can confiscate it, if it's nothing serious there's a small chance they'll just give us a warning, but most of the time they send us straight to the hole.
After searching the cell they search us, this is one of the most humiliating parts of prison life, because we have to let them touch us while we can't do anything about it, it's a real nuisance, they grope our arms, breasts, belly, legs, the officers check if we're hiding anything in our mouths, all we can do is hope it's over quickly, we always have to be careful about what we do, because if they suspect something the officers can do a cavity search, which makes it all the more humiliating and embarrassing, even if it's not so frequent unfortunately the cavity search still happens at least once a month supposedly for “security reasons”, I honestly don't want to talk too much about that part. . at least not now.
Well, anyway, me and Inmate2398 got cigarettes, a bar of chocolate and playing cards smuggled in by the inmates of cell 12, maybe you think we're idiots for taking such a risk, but think about it from our side, we live so bored in our cells that we just wanted a bit of entertainment, something that could make our days a little different and more bearable, even if only temporarily. For the time being everything is okay, we've hidden everything where we believe the officers will never find it ( of course I won't tell anyone where I've hidden it around here), in a little while another one of these searches will take place and I hope they don't find anything.