Doing Time in Whatcom County Jail

Short review of Whatcom county jail or what I call “Jailingham”.

This is the area where you are process for booking.

Uniforms and a cup is given to you, make sure to ask for a pin# before you are sent up to your cell as that will be hard to get later on, also if you have bad remembering phone numbers ask if you can get all that information from your cell phone or wallet before being sent up.

This is the office for the officers in the jail tanks in most cases they aren’t there usually they are doing something else somewhere, so if you’re getting beat up or gang rape in your tank, one cannot assist on helping you, you become a statistic. Whatcom Jail cells are not monitored by cameras. Guards watch at intervals from a distance, behind two layers of plexiglas.

This is what it looks like on any given day in this tanks, blankets covers the table for playing cards. The scene of an officer in the tank usually means that something happened and has locked the inmates in their cells for investigation.

This is what it look like when I was there and this is what it look like right now I’m sure.

This jail has that of L.A county fell into it. You’ll notice that many of the inmates had been in and out of the system much of their short life and I can almost guarantee this homie calls this place home. Other inmates to survive the jail will often act-out what they had seen on t.v like the reality t.v shows. Much of this thugs know each other on the streets and if you aren’t one of them you best find a game of survival, kissing ass is not an option, though commissaries work on getting along with them, best to have money on your book. Another is to give some of your food to them or work out and show them what your made of.

Tried making this diagram of the tank I was on base on my memory. Natural sunlight are block, place has a dungeon like feel into it and concrete flooring/ceilings have cracks on them, one good earthquake could bring this building down and cause some serious injuries