Absolutely riveting. Thank you so much for sharing this experience with us, I will definitely be reading each of your prison posts from here on out. You've got my respect for making it through that and emerging a better man on the other side! I live just a short ways down the road from a prison surrounded by giant walls that prevent any view of the inside, and have always wondered what it might be like being an inmate there (I live in Japan, not the US, so I'm sure it's not exactly the same, but still...).
I am curious about what happens at night after 10 pm lights out, so can you expand a bit on that? Is it just that everybody gets kind of rowdy and parties at night? I imagine a kind of dorm room atmosphere with people going back and forth between cubes, socializing into the early hours of the morning, etc.
Its pretty much what you said! Some ranges are quieter than others. They have an older people range and eventually I moved there.
Sounds like a tough thing to get used to. I was also surprised at your picture of what the range looks like. I guess I always had this stereotypical assumption that all prison cells are cold, stone or metal rooms with floor to ceiling iron bars like the movies. The reality looks quite different!