Realize that you have completely lost your status which you had on the freedom: now you are treated as a nonentity by all jailers – from the ordinary to the warden. Remember this and do not be offended. Prepare yourself for the gloomy, quite oppressive view both the prison facilities and the jailors.
In the storeroom take a mattress, a pillow, blanket, bed linen, spoon and cup – everything which will be offered. Do not be intimidated by going to the camera: the feeling that you are in the hell, in the criminal hangout will pass. Shaved sinister men after half an hour can make you feel comfortable.
The quarantine is your first camera in a prison. Here all are common, do not be afraid to take anything off the table, nobody will reproach you. There are no dirty tricks among prisoners. Here somebody will explain to you a set of the prison rules. But do not forget that there may be a decoy. Don`t penetrate the infinite respect and trust to the cellmates: it is possible that you are the most educated, the most intelligent and the most powerful from all of them, but they only seem like seasoned. Try to find your own place in the chamber. Realize that you can be useful to others. Sleep whenever possible, when you`ll see plank-beds free. Do not worry for the things, nobody steals them. In no case do not use the prison slang, stay here a person.
How to live a normal life in a prison?
Going into the camera, say hello, ask where you can throw a mattress. You can be checked, that`s why other prisoners can show you the place near toilet. Smile and put the mattress on any place, but not near the toilet. Calmly wait until somebody will tell you where and when you can sleep. The chambers are full, so the prisoners are sleeping in a turn. When you will be invited to talk to the corner of the camera by very menacing people and offer to share or change the things, do not settle for one or the another, even without explaining the reasons, say that you do not want to do this. Do not be afraid of these people, they are formidable only in appearance.
Remember, none of your items (including the transmission) no one will take without your consent and nobody can take them away from you: the right of the ownership is sacred in the chamber. Do not forget about this too, do not touch the things of someone else without asking a prior permission. Do not be dependent on anything or anybody: give up the bad habits, for example, smoking. The dependence on smoking hardly is the one main cause for man to fall in a jail. Carefully take care of yourself: as soon as possible wash your body, wash clothes, make the haircut, etc. Lead a rational lifestyle, eat balanced as it`s possible (if you have transfers), regularly consume the vitamins, check all your diseases when you feel unwell.
Try to stick to the regime which is possible: it is desirable to sleep at night. Move more, try to be active. Remember that the chamber is your home for a few months, or even years. However, try not to get used to any cell or to the people, because transfer to another chamber (which often practiced by the prison guards) did not become a tragedy for you. Stay independently. If you felt that you found a man (two, three), with whom you will more comfortable, try to unite with him (them). But do not be in hurry with this. Avoid converting yourself to a slave owner: you may be asked for “a slave” orderly. You can go down in the prison in two ways: to become “the mistress (a slave)”, or become the owner of “the hostess”. Be aware: you are in the law enforcement millstones, they grind you not because of hostility to you personally, but because of its inhumane gist, for this they were created. In a prison, you should understand that.
Remember that on the freedom people, who love you, don`t forget about you. And if in the prison information vacuum, you create the impression that you’re buried alive, that’s not true, your friends and relatives remember about you and do everything for your release. Do not think only about your problems, don`t focus on your current situation, drawing it terrible and impossible for others. Remember that no matter what happens, even if you will be condemned, the life does not end. And in a front of you is waiting for a meeting with your wife, appeals, amnesties. Remember that all horrors that you drew in your mind about life in the chamber, there are in fact, but it is not so terrible, because their degree of awfulness depends on you. The taboo of the chamber life, which exist, are often humorous in nature, if you treat them calmly. The real chamber laws are simple: the inviolability of a private property and personal non-resistance to the will. These principles can protect you and be your enemy too. The main enemy for you in a chamber is the temptations of your weakness and your bad habits. Do not succumb the new bad habits. One of them is drinking “the chifir”. Do no change (clothes, things, food) with the cellmates. Never ask for anything other people. Never get involved in a showdown, if nobody asks you to do it. Do not pick up any rebellion against the orders of the chamber, however, wild they may seem to you, live by your own. We wish that the changes will come by themselves after a while, because others will see your example and understand that in a prison everybody can be a man.
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