Latest / Privycast / Ep. 144 Prison Toilets feat. Glock Dookie
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- 0:01>> Hunter Hoover: You know, dirk's a turd. He probably
- 0:04vapes. He probably vapes in the bathroom and
- 0:07doesn't respect his mom like an idiot.
- 0:14Welcome back to privy. Privy is
- 0:17a podcast about bathrooms
- 0:20recorded in my home
- 0:22bathroom. I'm your host, hunter
- 0:25Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
- 0:27Welcome back, everyone. It's strange,
- 0:30uh, if you're hearing this, it's only. It's been
- 0:33the same normal amount of time since I last
- 0:36was here with you on the podcast, but it has been
- 0:39well over a month. I had a little peek behind the curtain. I
- 0:42had a little bit of stuff banked, and I have started
- 0:45back at the high school. Um, and
- 0:47my banked episodes are now gone.
- 0:50So, um, here I am, late night. Not
- 0:53super late, but late for me. I am an old man.
- 0:56Um, late night record, uh, just
- 0:59to get caught up here and get
- 1:01back into the swing of things. The good news
- 1:04is that we are well on our way out
- 1:07of the heat. The awfulness that has
- 1:10been the heat of summer. The trees are starting to turn a
- 1:13little bit red. The pumpkin spice
- 1:16is back in stock and in
- 1:19season, and things are looking
- 1:22up for fall consequences of
- 1:24pumpkin spice. It seems to have gotten
- 1:27more expensive, as did everything. And also,
- 1:30pumpkin spice, when it is. When it is in the
- 1:33form of coffee, seems to just fly
- 1:36through me at a rate that. I mean,
- 1:39coffee does that, but the pumpkin
- 1:42spice variant seems to fly through me at a rate that
- 1:45is. That is unique to pumpkin spice. I don't know
- 1:48if the pun. If it's the pumpkin or the spice, I'm gonna blame
- 1:51the vegetable, as I usually do. Uh,
- 1:53but, yeah, it just seems to really cruise right through me.
- 1:56And. And now, you know, more than. Than you
- 1:59ever hoped or. Or could ever possibly
- 2:02dream to know about pumpkin spices
- 2:05effect on my. I would
- 2:08say gut health. Um, yeah, gut health
- 2:11is good. Or gutted. Gut
- 2:14unhealth, depending on how you look at it.
- 2:17As I said, I'm back to work at the high school,
- 2:19and, um, one of the things.
- 2:22And the bathroom calls have already been happening.
- 2:25I was but two weeks in, and I'm standing in the hallway,
- 2:28and a girl comes out of the bathroom, and she tells me that, um,
- 2:31there's blood everywhere. And I'm like, first of
- 2:34all, I used to be a janitor. So, like,
- 2:37I know I have that, like, this guy has seen some
- 2:39stuff in the bathroom look. But, like,
- 2:42I'm sitting here thinking, like, as a young lady,
- 2:46I would have wanted to tell anybody but a male
- 2:49adult about any sort of blood in the
- 2:52women's bathroom. Like, that's just in my
- 2:54brain. I would not want to cross
- 2:57that. But, man, she had no, she had no problem
- 3:00letting me know. I get on the horn to the, to the
- 3:03custodian, like, hey, um, hate to be this
- 3:06guy, and I bet you're wondering why this radio
- 3:09call is coming from, again, adult male. Um, but
- 3:11yeah, there's report of blood in the, in the girl's bathroom.
- 3:14It's just this, it's just this crap that, like,
- 3:17I'm almost thinking, like, go find a female
- 3:20trusted adult and tell them about the blood.
- 3:23But happy fall.
- 3:26One of my coworkers at the high school, um, she often
- 3:29says something that, that
- 3:32rings very true, and that is, is
- 3:34that this, this coworker, she doesn't like to go to the
- 3:37bathroom in front of people, which is a fair, which is a fair
- 3:40thing. Um, to not like. It's not that I don't like, it's
- 3:43not that I like going to the bathroom in front of people. I
- 3:45just. I'm kind of agnostic on that point. Like,
- 3:48I'm. I'm kind of bathroom fluid, if you will. I'll,
- 3:51I'll go to the bathroom if there's people in the bathroom, if there's people
- 3:54outside the bathroom, if the stall doors open,
- 3:57it's really all the same. Uh, the experience
- 4:00is, I guess it's a little different. Most people are more afraid of
- 4:03you than you are of them. If you don't shut the stall door, is what I
- 4:05found. But she doesn't like to go to the bathroom in front of
- 4:08people. And she has remarked that that fear of
- 4:11having to use the restroom in front of people you do
- 4:14nothing know is what has kept her
- 4:17out of prison. Now, the us
- 4:20prison system has fallen under
- 4:23much scrutiny. Some at the
- 4:26criticism of bad premises, that the
- 4:29prison system fails to do what it is supposed to
- 4:32do, um, which seems to say that there aren't really
- 4:35any real crimes and people are just the product
- 4:38of their circumstance, la deda, so forth and
- 4:41so on. Prisons, however, do serve a
- 4:43purpose. Um,
- 4:46some have questioned the purpose of prisons. Do
- 4:49they do what that purpose is? Um,
- 4:52the idea was that they were to reform people and give a
- 4:55chance to, uh, uh,
- 4:58perhaps come out of prison better than they went in,
- 5:01I think was one of the desires and goals.
- 5:04But others have questioned how effective
- 5:07is prison? We here on
- 5:09privy desire and plan
- 5:12to tackle none of those problems this
- 5:14week. Rather, if you do the
- 5:17crime, you do the time, but while
- 5:20you do the time, you will have access to a
- 5:23toilet. And this week on privy we're
- 5:26talking all about that access
- 5:29as we dive into the world of
- 5:31prison bathrooms. Prison toilets.
- 5:41If you're listening to this episode from a
- 5:43prison bathroom, I don't know if you're allowed to send
- 5:46emails, um,
- 5:49but email us. Privycastmail.com
- 5:52um, the idea of prison bathrooms and where
- 5:55you would go if you went to jail.
- 5:57Uh, prisons prior to the
- 6:0018 hundreds were less about
- 6:02changing those who had done wrong and reforming
- 6:05them. That's where this idea of reformatories comes in.
- 6:08But the prison system prior to the 18 hundreds
- 6:11was really less concerned, um, with
- 6:14that. Rather, it was more
- 6:17about holding the person in prison
- 6:20and in jail until they were either
- 6:23sentenced to their full punishment, killed,
- 6:26or removed to some other
- 6:29place that, you know, who knows where they end up?
- 6:32It's difficult to say. You know, back then,
- 6:35there wasn't this big push to really keep
- 6:38track of where everything was and where everyone was.
- 6:41But it wasn't until there was a shift in
- 6:44seeing what changes prison
- 6:47or penitentiaries could make in a person,
- 6:50whether they could make them penitent
- 6:53penitentiaries. Um,
- 6:55and for a lot of the history of prisons, it wasn't
- 6:58until those changes took place that the
- 7:01idea of where they went to the bathroom was of a chief
- 7:04concern for a lot of history
- 7:07and a lot of the history of prisons. Uh,
- 7:11your toilet was often a plastic
- 7:13bucket placed in your room to be used
- 7:16for all of your functions, top, top, bottom,
- 7:19and bottom, round two. And that bucket would be emptied
- 7:22once per day. And that was in the good situations.
- 7:25There were some situations in those
- 7:28pre prison era prisons where you
- 7:31were expected to skeet it in the corner, you have to establish
- 7:34a pea corner. Dwight Schrute taught us that.
- 7:36Um, but it is reported
- 7:40that the American Bar association
- 7:43states that those under
- 7:45incarceration, so those who have been incarcerated
- 7:48have the right to regular access
- 7:51to public bathroom amenities at any
- 7:54time. And those public
- 7:56bathroom amenities must be
- 7:59reasonably clean, have reasonable
- 8:02function, and have a minor level of
- 8:05privacy under the 8th amendment of the
- 8:08constitution, um, barring
- 8:10the use of cruel and unusual punishment.
- 8:13So, in other words,
- 8:17in time,
- 8:20as the prison systems have changed, so too
- 8:23have the laws, uh, that
- 8:26surround and the rights that the people in those
- 8:29systems have. Now,
- 8:32we're not here to make an argument about whether or
- 8:35not those rights should exist and to what extent.
- 8:38Rather, we are reporting what is the
- 8:41history of prison toilet. One of the
- 8:44solutions they have undergone in
- 8:47many prison facilities where there are sufficient funds
- 8:50to do so, um, is they have just opted
- 8:53to put, like,
- 8:55open faced toilets. Toilets in
- 8:58each cell. Well, not open face. That's a different situation. We're gonna get to
- 9:01that. But, like, toilets in each cell, for
- 9:04individual inmates to have their own toilet.
- 9:07Now, this makes prison
- 9:09facilities legally abiding with that bar
- 9:12associations ruling about toilets. But in a
- 9:15world where prison inmates love
- 9:18being in their cell, because my understanding is, is when
- 9:21you tell a person, hey, you need to sit in this box and you're not allowed
- 9:24to leave, nine times out of ten, they really enjoy it.
- 9:27Right? Like, they're. They're super happy about that.
- 9:30No. Um, um. For the audio only
- 9:33viewer, you didn't see my. My stupid face,
- 9:35but no, they don't.
- 9:39And these toilets, you would then
- 9:41presume, would be a source of relief to the inmates
- 9:44and those guarding them. All parties involved have
- 9:47a place to drop a stack. But prison
- 9:50toilets end up being
- 9:52the source of much trouble and frustration
- 9:55to the prison staff, especially
- 9:58in these individual cell toilets known as
- 10:01wet cells. Wet
- 10:04cells. Speaking of wet.
- 10:07Yeah.
- 10:10Oh, it's got a grip and
- 10:12rip. We gotta keep things moist here on the show,
- 10:15you know, just keep it real damp.
- 10:19But wet cells often come equipped.
- 10:22Wet cells sounds bad, by the way. Wet cells
- 10:25often come equipped with a toilet and
- 10:28a sink, which both share a
- 10:31water line in some way. Um, usually
- 10:34these toilets and sinks are often made from stainless
- 10:37steel. Think, uh, about, like,
- 10:39parks and recreation bathrooms if you've ever been to,
- 10:42like, a park or a campsite, that. That
- 10:45stainless steel vibe. Yeah, they do it for a
- 10:48reason. As was noted, many prisoners
- 10:51don't like to be in prison. Get
- 10:53it? I know it's weird, but as
- 10:56a way to get a break from their cell, these wet
- 10:59cells, they would clog the toilet, make it
- 11:02back up or flood into their cell. So then they would have
- 11:05to be removed from their cell while it
- 11:08is being cleaned. In situations where maybe
- 11:11they share a cell with a cellmate,
- 11:14this is done sometimes to get back at the
- 11:16cellmate or to get away from the cellmate for some
- 11:19time. It's really a roll of the dice,
- 11:22though. I think prisons should have a set of
- 11:25rooms that are just slightly less comfortable
- 11:28than the regular cells, where the inmate will have
- 11:31to live until they can correct the problem they've
- 11:33caused. Like, if you. If you
- 11:36jam, like, pillowcase after pillowcase and. And
- 11:39you're just wadding toilet paper all up into
- 11:42that. All up into that toilet, and you just jam pack
- 11:45that g just like Bink
- 11:48and it's just stuffed full,
- 11:51and then you flood your
- 11:53cell, you should not get what you want
- 11:56like, put them in a slightly less comfortable
- 11:59cell while it's cleaned. Not permanent. It's just a holding
- 12:02pattern. Um, and maybe they'll do it less
- 12:05often. I don't know. That's just my thought.
- 12:08But as a way to get a break, they'll sometimes do
- 12:11this. Um, and
- 12:15this doesn't always work. In some prisons, they have
- 12:18begun using a vacuum plumbing system,
- 12:21which we're going to be discussing a little bit as a solution to these
- 12:24problems. Another problem
- 12:27with prison, uh, toilets is
- 12:30the overuse of water.
- 12:33It's estimated that inmates flush their
- 12:35toilet anywhere between 35 and 65
- 12:38times a day. Now, it is not that they are dropping
- 12:41that many piles. Rather, it
- 12:44seems that
- 12:47this act of flushing the toilet is an
- 12:49act. It's something they can control about their
- 12:52surroundings. Um, it's also like, I
- 12:55imagine you get bored of, and if you're bored, you're going to
- 12:58look to all sorts of things to entertain yourself.
- 13:01And for many inmates, flushing the toilet is one of the
- 13:04things that gives them some sort of feedback.
- 13:07Prison toilets are constructed, as I noted, out of this stainless
- 13:10steel, often to cut down on vandalism.
- 13:13If you bust up a porcelain toilet, you're going
- 13:16to have shards of porcelain that could
- 13:19very well be used as a weapon. And as you can
- 13:22guess, the toilets cause problems in
- 13:25more ways than just clogging. Prison
- 13:28bathrooms, much like bathrooms
- 13:30literally everywhere on in the universe,
- 13:34can be a means of disposing of all sorts
- 13:37of types of things. I've told the story on the pod before
- 13:40about how I had to, like, scissor
- 13:43a diaper, uh, out of an s bend of the
- 13:46toilet. People will flush all sorts of
- 13:48nonsense, crappy shreds, you know,
- 13:51toilet paper, sometimes feminine hygiene products don't do
- 13:54that. Wipes evidence in
- 13:56contraband. When you're getting ready to be searched,
- 13:59can be flushed down prison toilets.
- 14:02Prisoners with access to toilets
- 14:05have access to the means by which they can flush
- 14:07evidence or other contraband down those toilets. Now,
- 14:10I'm not saying that prisoners should not have access to toilets. They
- 14:13absolutely need a place to drop a stack.
- 14:16But the truly sneaky of them who have come
- 14:19by some sort of string, could even tie it off
- 14:22in some way, flush it, and then retrieve the
- 14:24contraband later. In some prison
- 14:27toilet systems, prisoners, uh, can actually
- 14:30send messages to one another via the
- 14:33prison toilets. One simple way is to
- 14:36empty out the water from the toilet, like the
- 14:38bowl itself. Um,
- 14:41and then you can kind of talk
- 14:44into the toilet,
- 14:46uh, whose water has been
- 14:48emptied that shares a
- 14:51main plumbing line with yours. You know, those, like,
- 14:54weird, like, playground message
- 14:57tubes with the cones at the end of it.
- 15:00And the yellow jackets love to nest
- 15:03in those cones. Um, and then you go
- 15:06up, and then you, like, stick your face up to it and you shout into
- 15:09the cone, praying to God in heaven
- 15:12that the yellow jackets don't fly out at your face. Um,
- 15:15and so that way, your friend, who is 30ft away,
- 15:18who, by the way, obviously just heard what you said because
- 15:21you're 30ft away and you screamed it, um,
- 15:24can pretend like he didn't hear you outside the
- 15:26comb, but he heard it through the
- 15:29comb. Um, and then you stick your ear up to
- 15:32it again. See? Yellowjacket comment from
- 15:34before. And then he pretends to, like,
- 15:37scream into the cone. Well, this
- 15:40toilet phoning like thing is kind of like that,
- 15:43except for you're shouting into your toilet
- 15:45bowl. They can also pass things to each
- 15:48other using this, this emptying the toilet bowl
- 15:51method. Um, it's called
- 15:54toilet fishing. Instead of catching
- 15:56fish, however, or passing turds,
- 15:59inmates will attach pieces of paper or other
- 16:02material to a string called kites and
- 16:05flush them down the pipe to the person
- 16:08down the plumbing line to receive them.
- 16:12It is noted some inmates have been known to
- 16:14pass drugs, weapons, and food in this way. And you might be
- 16:17hearing this and thinking, how do they catch it?
- 16:21I get the one guy passing it, but how does the next guy get
- 16:24it? The inmate receiving the items will
- 16:27shove a bit of bedding and clothing down into the toilet,
- 16:30clogging it. And when the sending inmate passes
- 16:33by, when it runs through the system, because it's
- 16:36like a connected line, it gets caught and then they
- 16:39just pull it up through with the clothing.
- 16:42Apparently this is evidenced in a Netflix
- 16:45drama called jailbirds not seen. It probably won't.
- 16:48Too much tv to watch,
- 16:50and I just don't care. But the
- 16:53inmates in this, who are also
- 16:56somehow contestants. Reality tv is weird, but
- 16:59it makes you really question the quality of prison systems here in
- 17:02the US. I'm just saying. But. But these inmates on the
- 17:04show will actually try to date each
- 17:07other. Like they're going on.
- 17:10Like they're sending each other like
- 17:12salacious toilet
- 17:15kites through their various correspondence,
- 17:18sent through these pooper pipes. It's a wild
- 17:21world that they live in, but
- 17:24it's wild beyond belief.
- 17:26Prisonmingle.com TMTM
- 17:28TMTM Other, perhaps less
- 17:31nefarious uses for the prison
- 17:34toilet include cooking, unsanctioned, um,
- 17:37food, or food purchases from
- 17:40the commissary or otherwise. Many of these
- 17:42concoctions scream of
- 17:45an incarcerated witch's brew. They're a mix of a
- 17:48lot of things together. Whatever you can get, toss
- 17:51it in. There's many famous
- 17:54prison toilet bowl recipes. One
- 17:56famous toilet bowl recipe is to make prison
- 17:59wine. Toilet wine. Um, or as it's
- 18:02called, prison hooch.
- 18:05Colloquially, it's known as pruno. One
- 18:08famous recipe for pruno calls for a one gallon
- 18:10plastic bag, ten oranges, 8oz of fruit
- 18:13cocktail, some sugar cubes, six teaspoons of ketchup,
- 18:16and a towel. I want to note
- 18:19the trash bag in this recipe is used
- 18:22in place of the toilet bowl. Nothing
- 18:25like mixing up a batch of prison hooch in your toilet
- 18:28bowl. Maybe something we need to try
- 18:31sometime. Stay tuned.
- 18:34Some inmates will do their laundry in the toilet if they
- 18:37don't want to wait until laundry day, or
- 18:40they're cooking to freshen things. Uh, or they're
- 18:43looking to freshen things up. Perhaps one of their
- 18:45toilet note passing dates. Uh, meet
- 18:48me at yard time. You know what I'm saying? It is
- 18:51fascinating. Yeah, it's weird.
- 18:54Others might use their toilet to stay
- 18:56cool, the water in the bowl being
- 18:59cooler, often dunking their head in it.
- 19:04It's a tough look. It's a tough look. They'll
- 19:07use this cooling ability to chill their milk. They'll put
- 19:10things that they want to keep cooler down in the toilet
- 19:12water. You got to do what a baby's got to do. What
- 19:15a baby's got to do. There's a number of
- 19:18problems surrounding prison
- 19:21toilets, and we've noted that. But before
- 19:24we look at some of these problems and maybe some
- 19:27possible solutions, um, it is
- 19:30important, I want to share a few
- 19:32bathroom related prison
- 19:35slang as it relates to bathrooms.
- 19:37So, some prison bathroom slang
- 19:41includes the term porcelain
- 19:44termite. A porcelain termite is a
- 19:47prisoner who breaks their toilet or sink
- 19:51when they get angry. Not m sure where this
- 19:54one comes from, but the name is outdated, as prisons have
- 19:57pretty much gone away from porcelain. So this one's
- 19:59probably not used too often anymore.
- 20:02Another one is the term roadkill. Roadkill
- 20:05refers to cigarette butts picked up by the side of
- 20:08the road by prison work crews. They're brought back to the
- 20:11facility, and the collected tobacco
- 20:14is re rolled with toilet paper, thus, uh, creating your own
- 20:17tobacco cigarettes. So, that's fun.
- 20:20That, my friend, is the face of addiction,
- 20:22and I'm the weirdo, uh, for snitching coffee out of the trash. In
- 20:25college, time to feed the
- 20:28warden is another way of
- 20:30saying that you need to go to the bathroom. Well, it's time to
- 20:33feed the warden. I'm not really sure where this comes from.
- 20:36It seems just mean another one.
- 20:40And this is going to transition us into some,
- 20:43some bigger concerns as it relates to bathrooms. Is the
- 20:46term Glock dookie. Glock dookie is
- 20:48just foul. Um, and it's related to other
- 20:51very, very nefarious activities
- 20:54related to control and using what you
- 20:56have, um, to assault or
- 20:59get back at people. One common occurrence in
- 21:02jail is other inmates
- 21:05throwing or using their bodily fluids to
- 21:08assault other inmates guards or
- 21:11as a means of intimidation or power tactics.
- 21:14To my coworker, who says
- 21:17that their fear of going to the bathroom in front of other people is what
- 21:20keeps them out of prison,
- 21:23I get that fear. But for me, the aspect
- 21:25of prison which would be much worse
- 21:28is just people slinging skeet at
- 21:31you or projectile urinating on
- 21:34you in an attack, or to get something from you that's just
- 21:37like, that's just awful. It's
- 21:39wild. But one invention that has been
- 21:42circling the Internet, um, and I believe it surfaced
- 21:45as there was this podcaster that was sharing about his
- 21:48time in prison, is a term called a Glock dookie. Now,
- 21:51a Glock dookie is essentially a water bottle
- 21:54or other container filled slightly with
- 21:57water. And then you poop, pee,
- 21:59whatever into the water bottle. Likely or, um,
- 22:02is likely the case. My turret is usually bigger
- 22:05than the top of a water bottle. And so, like,
- 22:08it's hard to imagine
- 22:12how you don't interface with the turd
- 22:14first to get it into the standard size water
- 22:17bottle. It's not worth thinking about. Maybe you got little sky,
- 22:20tiny, little skinny little pencil turds. Let us
- 22:23know. Privy castmail.com.
- 22:26but you get the turds down into the water bottle,
- 22:29mix it up with all of the other wet that you got in there, and really
- 22:32shake that guy. And
- 22:35then you just like, walk up to the person and
- 22:38it sprays out the stank juice inside.
- 22:41It shoots, hitting them in the face. It's wildly gross.
- 22:44It is assault. And with all these, it's just
- 22:47bad and disgusting. And with all these challenges
- 22:50posed by prison bathrooms and prison toilets, there
- 22:53needs to be something done to cut down on the nefarious
- 22:56deeds that can and often are done
- 22:58there.
- 23:03It should be noted
- 23:07there are other, often less
- 23:09security prisons where it is standard to have the
- 23:12toilets centrally located
- 23:15for all of the inmates to go out and use
- 23:18them, along with showers so the inmates can be tracked
- 23:20coming and going by the guard on post.
- 23:23But one method many prisons are turning to
- 23:27to help cut down on shady bathroom
- 23:30deeds is the use of vacuum centers
- 23:34to help power the water supply and plumbing
- 23:37of prison bathrooms. The way that these
- 23:39vacuum centers works is this.
- 23:42The interface of atmospheric pressure
- 23:45at the point of the toilet bowl and
- 23:48a constant vacuum pressure in the waste piping
- 23:51network provides a highly efficient
- 23:54flush. So, pretty much think of it as,
- 23:57like, when you flush the toilet,
- 24:00there is a vacuum that sucks
- 24:03it out. It's just like. It's really got a whole Luigi's
- 24:06mansion vacuum backpack vibe on those
- 24:08turds. Um, but because of the
- 24:11suction power of the turd vacuum
- 24:14toilets, it uses only about half a gallon of
- 24:17water, which is great. When the push button's
- 24:19activated, the extraction valve opens.
- 24:22Think like, camper bathroom toilets, they got a little
- 24:25extraction thing, allowing atmospheric pressure to push
- 24:28the waste into the vacuum piping and towards
- 24:31the vacuum center. A water valve is also
- 24:34activated, allowing the toilet to be rinsed and
- 24:36refilled as a result. So, by using less water and
- 24:39implementing that suction,
- 24:42they can help clear the poop from the bowl more
- 24:45efficiently, and, ah, as often the case,
- 24:47quicker. The nice part about these systems
- 24:50is when they are used appropriately, is
- 24:53you can shut vacuums off to inmates cell
- 24:56toilets. Individual like, oh, block 13
- 24:59is getting searched. The toilet suction to block
- 25:0213 is shut off. This is useful if you believe
- 25:05there's contraband. You can shut the toilet
- 25:08flush off, and then they
- 25:11can't flush their toilet and get rid of the contraband
- 25:13that is believed to be there. It's an interesting thing.
- 25:16Likewise, much like a parent taking their teens phone so
- 25:19they can't talk to their loser boyfriend, Dirk, they
- 25:22kiboshed prison pipe dating.
- 25:26You can't date through the pipe. And, you know, Dirk's a piece
- 25:29of crap. You know, Dirk's a
- 25:31turd. He probably vapes.
- 25:34He probably vapes in the bathroom and doesn't respect his
- 25:37mom. M like an idiot.
- 25:40But these vacuum centers are pretty
- 25:42useful. As noted, another technology
- 25:45to decrease misuse is stainless
- 25:48steel toilets and centrally located showers and bathrooms. We've
- 25:50discussed this, and these things cut down on many of the
- 25:53bathroom problems. But these guard controlled
- 25:56toilets have been the discussion of another concern
- 25:59in prisons and prison bathrooms,
- 26:02because it's reported, and I imagine it is
- 26:05happening, that the guards will shut off
- 26:08inmates toilets as punishment or simply just
- 26:10to mess with the prisoners. And while it is
- 26:13reasonable to be able to shut off the water for limited
- 26:16amounts of time, moving inmates searches, et
- 26:19cetera, the American Bar association,
- 26:22as we stated at the beginning of the episode, has
- 26:24noted, um, that
- 26:27they need access to clean,
- 26:30um, water working
- 26:33toilets. And so there's an ongoing
- 26:36discussion about how long the inmate
- 26:38can be kept in their cell with the water
- 26:41off. In fact, in many
- 26:44circles, when this is kept off for too long, it's
- 26:47viewed and likely is a form of torture.
- 26:49It's removing a reasonable,
- 26:52reasonably expected and regular. Right
- 26:55now, I understand that there's an argument
- 26:58that's like, well, the person's in prison.
- 27:01And I understand like, people do stuff that's wrong. And I'm not here to
- 27:03like weigh in on whether or not I think that
- 27:06they should be able to do this. I'm just telling you that there is an argument
- 27:09on both sides that about for
- 27:12and against these vacuum center
- 27:15toilets. The other thing to remember
- 27:18is prisons have changed so
- 27:20much. What was once a bucket and
- 27:23maybe even just a peek corner and something that was
- 27:26viewed as a privilege and a courtesy has
- 27:29now turned into the right,
- 27:32the right to running and flushable water
- 27:35for long periods, if not all periods of
- 27:38time. Prison toilets are
- 27:41weird. They're wild. Who knows what's going on. Apparently
- 27:44we're dating each other through the toilet and I
- 27:46pray that no privy listener makes their way to prison.
- 27:49If you're in prison hearing this again, write to us. We'd love to hear from
- 27:52you. Privycastmail.com. we'd love to get your
- 27:55perspective, share your perspective on the toilets that you experience
- 27:58there. But this is going to bring us
- 28:00to the end of another episode of Privy. Thank you so
- 28:03much for joining us. Um, thank you for being here.
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- 29:10stank. Avoid the Glock dookie. And now,
- 29:14as always, don't forget
- 29:17to flush.