The top bed is occupied by half of the inmates (the lucky ones). The other half is bottoms, where you risk golden showers of urine, as well as the possibility of vomit and/or feces, not to mention the risk of larger men crashing through the top and flattening you. This sort of thing happens all the time. Some jails have gone to 3-hi beds. The middle bed in such cells is the equivalent of the middle seat on a plane. You can smell the flatulence of the inmate below you and the diarrhea of the one above you.
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Silky Terrier Dog Breed Playing AroundIf someone in the block above you plugs their toilet, even those on the top bed can get it. As a result, higher floors of jail towers are eagerly desired and granted to the “good” convicts. If you’re in a cell on the second floor, it’s literally raining sewage all the time because at least one person on the 15 stories above you is constantly clogging up their toilet… and it all follows gravity. The jail equivalent of the flight attendant call button on a plane is clogging up the toilet.
Personal space while locked up is going to be very very limited. Imagine you were locked up in which bed you would prefer the top one or the bottom one? Of course, you will go for the bottom bed. No one wants to be at the top. I even ask the prisoners who have served some time in prison that they would prefer to be on the top bed or the bottom bed. They responded that every prisoner prefers the bottom bed. They also prefer the bottom bed as prime real estate when you are serving time. Nobody wants to be at the top bed.
Let me tell you some cons of being on the top bed.
You have to climb up every time you want to get up there.
You got to jump down every morning. You want to go down for something because your fellow prisoner might be sleeping and you don’t want him/her to wake up.
You don’t have privacy and anyone can see what you are doing. It will be like sleeping in the middle of a busy street, and anyone can look at you anytime they want, and that can be really uncomfortable.
You will be in direct contact with the cell lights, which can cause further discomfort and it can prevent you from falling asleep. If you are at the top bed, those lights are pretty much all you ever going to see.
Now the last con. You know that the lighter gas moves up, and you know which gas I’m talking about. Yes, it’s the fart. When someone farts, the fart gas moves upward because it’s lighter, and you are going to smell farts most of the time if you are going to sleep on the top bed.
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