Martinez Detention Facility

Ever notice that the state is in the habit of hiring fat pigs with the personality of a toilet seat? Wanna know what the workers here are like? Just think of DMV but worse. These are the kids in school who got beat up and their milk money taken.
I do realize jail is a punishment and it’s not meant to be nice. It is a deterrent so people don’t make the same mistake twice. I read about people on here complaining about the food. It’s not that bad believe it or not, it could be worse. The only thing that I hated were the workers. Can’t answer a question and you can tell they hate their lives.

Fuck this place! Dirty as hell no matter how hard they try to clean it, the food (or so it’s called) taste like shit while the deputy’s have kitchen food, the inmates are selfish assholes and are always trying to hustle you for anything, everything on commissary is stupid expensive just so the people running it can make a buck off of you. The pay phones are expensive and they limit you to how long you can use them, most of the deputy’s act like thugs just because nobody is going to be there to stop them. They wonder how the inmates are getting illegal narcotics and other types of contraband and its some of the deputy’s themselves smuggling it in. The legal system is all shot to hell, now it’s all about money rather than justice.

I understand this is not a delightful place to be. However, I’d expect to be treated like any other institution/​place of business would with courtesy. I am new to the protocol and process of picking up a detained person– I don’t need a snooty attitude when answering my questions –especially when I’m consciously being polite.
I get it. Bad people are known to come here– however, all persons working here can afford to learn the act of civility toward others.

The guards learned of the charges filed against me and presumed my guilt. This resulted in regular harassments including throwing away of my personal property (such as letters), intimidation, and specific moderate physical assaults that didn’t leave marks. These were coupled with confused challenging projections such as, «You think you’re a tough guy?» I’d had the general impression that the inmates were the ones to be wary of, but the officers in Martinez Detention Facility were the real threat due to institutionalized power and mutual vouching for one another against wrongdoings. The most glaring blind spot to justice is that when this type of abuse of power is the case, there is absolutely no recourse to the inmate while incarcerated as these same guards are also the gatekeepers of the sole form of correspondence afforded to inmates: a blank half-​page form with no information indicating to whom to address grievances.