3 days down, 7 to go

I was able to drive myself to 'camp' last night, I had to be there by 7 pm. The parking lot for tent city is on Gibson, which is different from where you self surrender on Lower Buckeye. This means if you drove yourself to self surrender you have to walk a little over a mile back to your car.

After I tried to call my hubby's mobile and was turned down, the maricopa sheriffs office called him and he was able to put money into an account, so now I can call from inside tent city and reach him, which is nice.

The weather was nice last night, so basically it's like camping out and at least you have a bathroom. The bathrooms are not too bad, fairly clean, but no doors or privacy. They do give you razors and soap. There is a washer and dryer for furlow girls who have to stay for awhile.

85% of the ladies at tent city are there for first time DUI's Extreme or Super Extreme. The furlow ladies are in for either 2nd + DUI's or other crimes. I was taking to one lady that was in for aggravated identity theft. She figure out how to make her own credit cards on the computer and got away with it for 5 years before the caught up with her. Everyone here (I'm talking the inmates) are very nice, we are all in the same boat. We just compare how we happened to be there.

One of the girls I first came in with was only 18, she had an extreme DUI of .155 which is within the 10% margin of error and was able to get it reduced to a regular DUI, so she only had to spend 24 hours. She was scared and very sweet, she stayed close to me and another lady who had a really bizzare story. That lady was pulled over for speeding and when the officer asked her if there was anything else he should know, she admitted she had, had one glass of wine. He told her she should not have told him that. Anyway they gave her a breathalyzer that registered at .082. She hired an attorney and fought it all the way to jury trial, while her jury was out deliberating over lunch one of the jurors was hit by a drunk driver and had his shoulder and arm broken. An alternate had to be called back in and about 15 min later they declared her guilty. Bad timing. What is also rather interesting about her case is she got her DUI back in March and DMV suspended her license for the 90 days (30 completely, 60 work only), which she did back right after her DUI. Because she took her case to trial and lost, the court is now suspending her license for a second time under the mandatory sentencing law, since the DMV suspension was done previously to the sentencing. Besides all the penalties, she is out $7,500 for an attorney who did absolutely nothing for her. There are alot of attorneys out there who take peoples money and do nothing at all for them, so beware of hiring an attorney.

More tomorrow.