How many inmates are going to Saint Ives? So, we have controlled movement. For breakfast and dinner you can sort of come and go from the dorm to outside once they call your unit, until they close the chow hall. Then they have a one-way move back to the units, and, as they like to announce, "The compound is closed".

So for the morning, once they have served breakfast, the hardy souls out at Rec can then return to the units.

Then at 7:20 AM they start the work calls. First it’s UNICOR, AKA the "factory". Each Federal prison has a UNICOR that makes different things. Our humble factory makes ergonomic-type chairs. That involves about 300 inmates.

At 7:25 AM they call Facilities. Those are plumbers, electricians, painters, etc., about another 200 inmates.

Then at 7:30 they call General Work Call and all the Generals go to work. Actually the General Work Call is for all the rest of us.

You asked, do you have to work? Allegedly yes, but most of the jobs involve very little "work". It is just a question of how bored you want to be and where you want to be bored. But we will get back to that.

So once they are done with work call and they check that all of us inmates are where we are supposed to be, then they run the two-part moves at 8:30 AM, 9:30 AM, and 10:30 AM.

Two parts you ask? Yes, due to the overcrowding. We should have about 1,200 or fewer inmates (present population is over 1,600). So we have one-way moves. The first is one way to the units; the next is one way from the units.

So at 10:30 AM we all head back to the units for lunch. Well, not all of us.

I hope you are keeping track of all this. There will be a pop quiz at the end and you will have to figure out exactly how many inmates are going to St. Ives.
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