So let’s begin to build a Federal Government Dictionary. Controlled Movement - Basically, we are only allowed to go from one place to another once an hour on the half hour.

The day starts with a one-way move to the Rec Yard for those that want to exercise at 6:00 AM! You stay there until breakfast is over. If you do not go to Rec, you wait until they call your unit to chow.

We have three "V" shaped housing units, each four stories tall. They are sub-divided into four sub-units on each side of the V, and each are two stories each.

I live in the Poplar unit, the other two are named Oak and Pine. The Poplar subdivisions are Pop-A-Upper, Pop-A-Lower, Pop-B-Upper and Pop-B-Lower.

They use a three-letter code for each division and the brain surgeon that picked the unit names did not notice that Pine and Poplar both start with the same letter, so depending on which system you are looking at, Poplar is referred to as either "R" or "A", so I live in RAU.

Why they could not pick three trees that started with different letters is beyond me. Even the staff gets confused.

Here's a quick quiz to see if you have been paying attention: which unit is PAL?

OK, stop scratching your head - it is Pine-A-Lower.

So the reason that this is need-to-know information is because each week they rate the twelve sections on cleanliness and give out points. The highest points get you to chow first.

For breakfast, this means somewhere between 6:00 and 6:30 AM, but for lunch on burger or fried chicken day this could mean the difference between 11 AM and 12:30 PM.

The chow hall only seats 250 people and we are currently at 1,650 inmates, so you do the math. Luckily there are 300 or so inmates on average that do not eat each meal.  ¶ 8:31 AM