Tahlia Isaac

And when you're processed into the prison, they make you shower.

They make you strip, search you, take note of all your body markings, your piercings, your tattoos.

Like write them all down, your appearance, how long your hair is, et cetera, et cetera.

They take everything from you.

So jewelry, clothing, underwear, shoes, you have nothing, no hairband.

You have nothing that is your own and they give you what they allow you to have.

So they'll basically give you like a pair of pants, a shirt, undies, a bra, thongs, socks, and a pair of sand shoes.

And they will give you a cup, a bowl, a plate, an eye fork and a spoon.

And they give it to you in this like bag with some sheets in there for your bed.

They ask if you want a buyout pack.

So it's basically like one envelope, a writing pad, a pen and

a token for the soft drink machine and you go into debt to do that.

It's like $17 or something.

So you start from negative $17 in your prison account and then you're like never saying no to that because a token for a soft drink when you've been coming down in the watch house is- It's gold.

It's like drugs.

Yeah, yeah.

And so they give you that.

They do this like really weird risk assessment and like-

Also, you have to know that when I got arrested, I'm smoking so much gear at this point and taking Fana and, like, you're just plucked off the street and you are coming down hard, you know, like really hard.

I spent the whole time going between just sleeping for 27 hours to inhaling food and going back to sleep and, like,