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Interview with Ricardo

JM: How many different blocks were there?
Ricardo: There were 8 floors and about 6 blocks per floor that housed about 36 inmates.

JM: Did they have names? If so, what were they?
Ricardo: Blocks went by letters. A-G.

JM: Which types of inmates were housed in the different blocks?
Ricardo: Blacks were seperated and so were the transvestites.

JM: What do you remember being the nicest and worst parts about the different blocks?
Ricardo: The nicest thing about different blocks was that they were all clean, worst was that peoples tempers would flare and fights would break out at the drop of a dime.

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