May 5, 2024 • 10 mins
Today on the podcast 'Brick City Face Mask' is back with more stories from behind the walls of New Jersey State Prison. This time he's talking about being 'Double Locked' (sharing a cell with someone else) and why its an issue.
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(00:02):
It's good with it. You alreadyknow that there is. It's brick City
face man from New Jergia State Prisons. It's a few reasons why I hate
being double locked and why New JergiaState Prisons to stop double locking inmates.
And one of the reasons is afew years ago, I was placed on
a unit full right, which isa double locked unit, and they put
(00:23):
me in a cell with the Mexicangang members, who I referred to as
JP. That's not a real initials, but for this for the purpose of
its recording, we gonna refer tothem as JP. The unit full right
is one long hallway with double lockedcells on both sides. The cell was
a propimility the square footage of aaverage four star bath from it was hot
(00:48):
ceiling similar to a horse stall,basically with like a huge arch at the
top, two bedses right next toeach other parallel, with a little bit
of room to walk like in themiddle. Now, if two people try
to walk past that's at the sametime, they would have to turn sideways
in order to make it through.They're like to have to shimmy paths to
avoid bumping into each other. Sothere was one window in the back of
(01:11):
the cells directly over the sink,which became the subject of frustration or conflict,
or however else you want to callit. A long story short,
it was winter time and although theheat was turned on, it was extremely
cold outside. Unbunknown to me,the DUJP was from Wyoming, where cold
(01:34):
temperatures and rigid temperatures was normal outthere, and because of that, he
preferred the window open. I hatecold weather. I prefer the window closed.
I'm a summer baby. I lovethe summer. I love the heat,
so I hate being cold. Andthis particular time he was in the
(01:56):
room together one super cold night,the wind blew so hard that I couldn't
sleep. Now you could hear thewind tapping against the window, and I
couldn't sleep. So I got upand I closed the window. JP woke
up and opened the window. ThenI got up and I slammed the window
shut harder, and this led toan argument that escalate it. Now.
(02:22):
I don't know what he was thinkingor who he was in the room with,
but I saw him send a noteto a friend of his next door,
and I assumed that he was tellinghim to send a shank. A
shank is basically a jail made knifefor those who don't know. Now,
I wasn't afraid of him, but, like I said, you never know
(02:45):
who you were in a room with. I know the possibility of a situation
escalating and what it could lead to. So I was afraid of the situation.
So I also sent the note toone of the Muslim brother that I
know that I'm close with for someprotection with the hopes of not happening to
use it. So I also sentfor a shank or a prison made knight.
(03:08):
Now, in the end, Iconfronted JP about sending him for a
shank, and his fear matters waswhen he said, Nah, that was
not the case, bro Like,I ain't like, I ain't send a
note for no knife. Man,What you talking about? Bro? Like,
I don't want those kind of problems. Now, he broke down and
(03:28):
really started to like like like tobecome vulnerables. I kind of felt bad
for approaching him with aggression like that. So then he explained to me that
he got jumped by some officers andwhy yo, man, like how he
was bleeding from his brain and hehad mental issues, so he used to
like show aggression, but it wasn'tbecause he looked for conflict. It was
(03:49):
because like he had mental problems.But at the time I didn't know that
until the situation on folded. Sowe de escalated the situation and he moved
to another unit later on on likeit maybe like a few days later or
later that day. But the factthat I could have lost my life for
a window is one of the reasonswhy I'm so adamant in contesting double locked.
(04:11):
Anything could have happened if he wouldhave got a knife, if I
would have got a knife. Wethinking that it like the other one is
trying to stab one of us,like we both could have been Both could
have been stabbed up, and bothcould have ended up dead. Now,
that was one situation that happened whenI was in prison. Before I even
got the prison, I remember beingin the county jail where double locked stalls
(04:33):
was the size of like a walkingcloset, like a small walking closet.
Now the rooms was it was bunkbeds, one directly or the other.
A stain is still sent connected toa toilet, two metal shells built into
the wall, and it was ametal table that made the room feel a
lot smaller. Than it actually was. Now in the county jail, it
(04:55):
may just frequently coming in and goingout. They going home, like depending
on us they are they charges.It's not like prison when people got long
sentences and stuff like that. Soin my time spent there, the man
who's diagnosed with schizophrenia was placed inmy room and he was not taking his
medication, so you know, hewas tripping out all night. All night,
(05:17):
he was hearing voices, talking tohimself, jumping on and off the
top bump. Now, the situationintensified when he began kicking the door at
about two o'clock in the morning,awaking the entire unit up. Now,
I was trying to be understandable becauseof his mental illness, but I could
not take I cannot take him kickingand banging on the door for thirty forty
(05:41):
fifty minutes straight like that was likethat was like one of the most annoying,
activating things that I haven't deal with. Now, I convince him to
tell the officers that he need tobe on a mental unit where it's certain
that he'd be giving his mental vation, because it's not our job to make
(06:01):
sure a mental patient is taking hisneck that's what the medical unity is for.
Now, when a man left,another one took his place. Although
things got better, that was farfrom our deal. Now, the next
guy that came in my room,he was not clean, He wasn't considerate.
He would throw his dirty stocks thathe won for two or three days
(06:21):
in a random corner and his stallwith shit and just leave them there smelling
found. Now, his hijiene becameso bad I had to basically force him
to take a shower regularly and cleanup the room. I had to threaten
him to clean up the room andget in a shower, and thank god
he did it, because you know, the situation would have got worse.
But long story short, you know, the most recent experience that motivated me
(06:45):
to write the story was a salemateI refer to as TM. That's not
his realing issues. But like Isaid, like for the purpose of this
recording, I'm gonna be gonna likecall him TM. Now, he was
extremely fat, extremely obese over waitand on top of that, he suffered
extensive time spent in solitary confining,which resulted in schizophy and other mental illnesses.
(07:09):
Now, when I first engined thecell on unit full left. I
noticed that he had miss lanum imlike like miscellaneous items like random items discarded
all over his side of the room, stacked up like like. It wasn't
me, it was just like throwneverywhere like. So thankfully my side was
clean and the smell like bleached.So maybe he just cleaned it up before
(07:30):
I came. But thank goodness,it was cleaning on my side. That
was That was a good thing.Now I noticed that the cells are identical
to the sales that was downstairs onfull right, full right and full left
is right up right, like Ican see full right from full left.
I can see full left from fullright. I could look up and see
the cells on full right, Imean on full left. Now, I
(07:57):
was moved to that room five daysbefore the holy month Karamadan. I'm Muslim.
I'm a practice in Muslim. Sowhen he introduced it, so I
told him my name. Then Iexplained that I Muslim, and I asked
if he would have a problem withme praying early in the morning before the
sun came up. He's like,nah, nah, nah, I ain't
no problem. That was his answer. Now, this tyal was just very
(08:18):
well man and he was polite thatafter a few weeks in the cell,
I realized he was lazy. Hetended to ask questions that he could easily
find an answer to, or asit almost as if he didn't even try
to think for himself. Now,although the habits displayed were annoying, they
were tolerable, you know what I'msaying, Like they was tellable. I
could deal with that. Now,a few things pushed me to my breaking
(08:39):
point when it came to being ina room with this done. The first
was ta was playing loud music outof his radio during the month of Ramadan
while I was fasting and focused onreading and studying the Koran, so listening
to music's committing in his slam.Now. The second thing was Tyl snored
extremely loud when he slept, Andnot only was like this annoying, but
(09:05):
it affected my sleep pattern, myability to wake up to offer in the
morning prayer. So that was abig deal for me. Like one thing
I try to do is maintain myprayers and like offer him on time and
be consistent with that. Now hecame east snoring all loud. It kept
me up, so, like likeI said, it affected my ability to
get up and wake up to allsome money print. Now last week,
(09:26):
I firmly believe in the quote whenyou give a man a fish, you
feed him for a day, butwhen you teach him how to fish,
you feed him for a lifetime.Now, I taught TL how to do
things on his own so that hecould be independent. Yet he still wanted
me to baby him and do itfor me because I don't have any kids
and he is older than me.It really annoyed me. Now, an
(09:48):
accumulation of all these things land meto freeze double lock, which resulting to
me being intent to already joke.One day, I just was fed up
with it. I packed my bags, packed all my buckets, all my
pray, drop you up. Ileft outside the room and I told the
cops it's around. I'm not stayingover here. Whatever you wanna do,
we could do it like wanna takeme to lock up? Whatever, I'm
(10:11):
not staying over here. Now,this left to me being putting a shake
of housing on it, awaiting myfate with court line. But finally I
was at peace, and the stingingstep
It's good with it. You alreadyknow that there is. It's brick City
face man from New Jergia State Prisons. It's a few reasons why I hate
being double locked and why New JergiaState Prisons to stop double locking inmates.
And one of the reasons is afew years ago, I was placed on
a unit full right, which isa double locked unit, and they put
(00:23):
me in a cell with the Mexicangang members, who I referred to as
JP. That's not a real initials, but for this for the purpose of
its recording, we gonna refer tothem as JP. The unit full right
is one long hallway with double lockedcells on both sides. The cell was
a propimility the square footage of aaverage four star bath from it was hot
(00:48):
ceiling similar to a horse stall,basically with like a huge arch at the
top, two bedses right next toeach other parallel, with a little bit
of room to walk like in themiddle. Now, if two people try
to walk past that's at the sametime, they would have to turn sideways
in order to make it through.They're like to have to shimmy paths to
avoid bumping into each other. Sothere was one window in the back of
(01:11):
the cells directly over the sink,which became the subject of frustration or conflict,
or however else you want to callit. A long story short,
it was winter time and although theheat was turned on, it was extremely
cold outside. Unbunknown to me,the DUJP was from Wyoming, where cold
(01:34):
temperatures and rigid temperatures was normal outthere, and because of that, he
preferred the window open. I hatecold weather. I prefer the window closed.
I'm a summer baby. I lovethe summer. I love the heat,
so I hate being cold. Andthis particular time he was in the
(01:56):
room together one super cold night,the wind blew so hard that I couldn't
sleep. Now you could hear thewind tapping against the window, and I
couldn't sleep. So I got upand I closed the window. JP woke
up and opened the window. ThenI got up and I slammed the window
shut harder, and this led toan argument that escalate it. Now.
(02:22):
I don't know what he was thinkingor who he was in the room with,
but I saw him send a noteto a friend of his next door,
and I assumed that he was tellinghim to send a shank. A
shank is basically a jail made knifefor those who don't know. Now,
I wasn't afraid of him, but, like I said, you never know
(02:45):
who you were in a room with. I know the possibility of a situation
escalating and what it could lead to. So I was afraid of the situation.
So I also sent the note toone of the Muslim brother that I
know that I'm close with for someprotection with the hopes of not happening to
use it. So I also sentfor a shank or a prison made knight.
(03:08):
Now, in the end, Iconfronted JP about sending him for a
shank, and his fear matters waswhen he said, Nah, that was
not the case, bro Like,I ain't like, I ain't send a
note for no knife. Man,What you talking about? Bro? Like,
I don't want those kind of problems. Now, he broke down and
(03:28):
really started to like like like tobecome vulnerables. I kind of felt bad
for approaching him with aggression like that. So then he explained to me that
he got jumped by some officers andwhy yo, man, like how he
was bleeding from his brain and hehad mental issues, so he used to
like show aggression, but it wasn'tbecause he looked for conflict. It was
(03:49):
because like he had mental problems.But at the time I didn't know that
until the situation on folded. Sowe de escalated the situation and he moved
to another unit later on on likeit maybe like a few days later or
later that day. But the factthat I could have lost my life for
a window is one of the reasonswhy I'm so adamant in contesting double locked.
(04:11):
Anything could have happened if he wouldhave got a knife, if I
would have got a knife. Wethinking that it like the other one is
trying to stab one of us,like we both could have been Both could
have been stabbed up, and bothcould have ended up dead. Now,
that was one situation that happened whenI was in prison. Before I even
got the prison, I remember beingin the county jail where double locked stalls
(04:33):
was the size of like a walkingcloset, like a small walking closet.
Now the rooms was it was bunkbeds, one directly or the other.
A stain is still sent connected toa toilet, two metal shells built into
the wall, and it was ametal table that made the room feel a
lot smaller. Than it actually was. Now in the county jail, it
(04:55):
may just frequently coming in and goingout. They going home, like depending
on us they are they charges.It's not like prison when people got long
sentences and stuff like that. Soin my time spent there, the man
who's diagnosed with schizophrenia was placed inmy room and he was not taking his
medication, so you know, hewas tripping out all night. All night,
(05:17):
he was hearing voices, talking tohimself, jumping on and off the
top bump. Now, the situationintensified when he began kicking the door at
about two o'clock in the morning,awaking the entire unit up. Now,
I was trying to be understandable becauseof his mental illness, but I could
not take I cannot take him kickingand banging on the door for thirty forty
(05:41):
fifty minutes straight like that was likethat was like one of the most annoying,
activating things that I haven't deal with. Now, I convince him to
tell the officers that he need tobe on a mental unit where it's certain
that he'd be giving his mental vation, because it's not our job to make
(06:01):
sure a mental patient is taking hisneck that's what the medical unity is for.
Now, when a man left,another one took his place. Although
things got better, that was farfrom our deal. Now, the next
guy that came in my room,he was not clean, He wasn't considerate.
He would throw his dirty stocks thathe won for two or three days
(06:21):
in a random corner and his stallwith shit and just leave them there smelling
found. Now, his hijiene becameso bad I had to basically force him
to take a shower regularly and cleanup the room. I had to threaten
him to clean up the room andget in a shower, and thank god
he did it, because you know, the situation would have got worse.
But long story short, you know, the most recent experience that motivated me
(06:45):
to write the story was a salemateI refer to as TM. That's not
his realing issues. But like Isaid, like for the purpose of this
recording, I'm gonna be gonna likecall him TM. Now, he was
extremely fat, extremely obese over waitand on top of that, he suffered
extensive time spent in solitary confining,which resulted in schizophy and other mental illnesses.
(07:09):
Now, when I first engined thecell on unit full left. I
noticed that he had miss lanum imlike like miscellaneous items like random items discarded
all over his side of the room, stacked up like like. It wasn't
me, it was just like throwneverywhere like. So thankfully my side was
clean and the smell like bleached.So maybe he just cleaned it up before
(07:30):
I came. But thank goodness,it was cleaning on my side. That
was That was a good thing.Now I noticed that the cells are identical
to the sales that was downstairs onfull right, full right and full left
is right up right, like Ican see full right from full left.
I can see full left from fullright. I could look up and see
the cells on full right, Imean on full left. Now, I
(07:57):
was moved to that room five daysbefore the holy month Karamadan. I'm Muslim.
I'm a practice in Muslim. Sowhen he introduced it, so I
told him my name. Then Iexplained that I Muslim, and I asked
if he would have a problem withme praying early in the morning before the
sun came up. He's like,nah, nah, nah, I ain't
no problem. That was his answer. Now, this tyal was just very
(08:18):
well man and he was polite thatafter a few weeks in the cell,
I realized he was lazy. Hetended to ask questions that he could easily
find an answer to, or asit almost as if he didn't even try
to think for himself. Now,although the habits displayed were annoying, they
were tolerable, you know what I'msaying, Like they was tellable. I
could deal with that. Now,a few things pushed me to my breaking
(08:39):
point when it came to being ina room with this done. The first
was ta was playing loud music outof his radio during the month of Ramadan
while I was fasting and focused onreading and studying the Koran, so listening
to music's committing in his slam.Now. The second thing was Tyl snored
extremely loud when he slept, Andnot only was like this annoying, but
(09:05):
it affected my sleep pattern, myability to wake up to offer in the
morning prayer. So that was abig deal for me. Like one thing
I try to do is maintain myprayers and like offer him on time and
be consistent with that. Now hecame east snoring all loud. It kept
me up, so, like likeI said, it affected my ability to
get up and wake up to allsome money print. Now last week,
(09:26):
I firmly believe in the quote whenyou give a man a fish, you
feed him for a day, butwhen you teach him how to fish,
you feed him for a lifetime.Now, I taught TL how to do
things on his own so that hecould be independent. Yet he still wanted
me to baby him and do itfor me because I don't have any kids
and he is older than me.It really annoyed me. Now, an
(09:48):
accumulation of all these things land meto freeze double lock, which resulting to
me being intent to already joke.One day, I just was fed up
with it. I packed my bags, packed all my buckets, all my
pray, drop you up. Ileft outside the room and I told the
cops it's around. I'm not stayingover here. Whatever you wanna do,
we could do it like wanna takeme to lock up? Whatever, I'm
(10:11):
not staying over here. Now,this left to me being putting a shake
of housing on it, awaiting myfate with court line. But finally I
was at peace, and the stingingstep
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