Preface: I write from my experience of seventy-five (75) days in the Troup County Jail. Most of my jail-time was in Booking 704 then Booking 703. I was under a potential suicide watch for part of my time in the system.
The Troup County Jail staff puts the safety of all inmates at the top of their list of priorities. People who are vulnerable to physical abuse are kept out of the general population and usually isolated in either the Isolation suite of cells or Booking. I was fortunate enough to be able to observe the jail staff use what I term the “Group Hug” (from the PBS show the Teletubbies). The group hug is used to subdue a potentially violent inmate by three or more staff slowly converging on someone acting out with at least one with her/his Taser drawn and ready if necessary. The inmate usually submits peacefully to this combination of action and rational talk.
The food is limited to approximately 1800 calories per day. The nutrition is of acceptable quality and is pretty good but often server cool rather than warm or hot.
Author: jamespatewilliamsjr
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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