supposed to turn myself in in 2005. Jamie: So you were on the lam for three years? Saaphyri: Yeah, I guess you can say that. ''The lam:' Jamie? You know you sound like a real criminal. Saaphyri: So after that I went to court and (the judge) extended my sentence to three years. Jamie: Instead of what? Saaphyri: Instead of two it went to three. Jamie: Was that because you were on the lam? Saaphyri: Yeah, on the lam, Jamie. call them modules. In each module there's about 2- or 300 girls. Jamie: Wow. .Saaphyri: So there are different cells and you eat in that one module. After you're sentenced, they send you on a bus that takes you to prison. In the county jail you wear blue. Once you get to prison, every- body starts off wearing orange when you're first taken in. You stay on this one yard for like two months and you wear orange. Everybody looks like oranges, you know? Jamie: Do you know why it's orange? Saaphyri: Because they wanna see you. The orange is so reflective till they can see you up in the towers so that people can't leave. People go through a lot when you're first processed in prison. They wanna kill themselves, they wanna leave. That's why they want you to wear orange. Plus, so you won't blend in with any of the other inmates. Jamie: And the other inmates wear blue? Saaphyri: Right. Or gray or white because you can wear regular sweatsuits or whatever once you come out of the processing part. Jamie: Did you go through trauma? What were you feel- ing? Saaphyri: I was feeling-oh man. I felt dumb, you know, for even being in prison. Just pain, in general. But at the same time, it's like I have so much faith that I still know 'that I'll be able to get through this. Jamie: So, what was a day like there? .1mean, after what time did you adjust? Saaphyri: When we first got there, when we had to wear orange, I had been in jail with several people for a while. You know, we all end up going to prison at the same time. So it was like, we would be around each other. Wewould sit there and we would talk .... (laughs) All the boys that we ain't gon' get to see. All the food-I mean, Jamie, you wouldn't believe how much we talked about food. It's like, you not gon' get no crab, you not gon' get no steak, you not gon' get no avocados, you don't get oranges . Jamie: (laughs) Saaphyri: (laughs) I'm serious! Jamie: (Iaughter)./ watch old black & white movies. They don't use that lan- guage anymore in prison, do they?- Saaphyri: I don't think so. Jamie: Where did they take you? Saaphyri: Oh, okay: First when they got me from the airport, we went to the substation, like, the LAPD substation. And then you stay there for a couple of days. And then I went to Lynnwood, which is where lindsay Lohan was. She was not in the part everybody else was. It's a whole different regular lit- . tie something prissy. But yeah, they take us to Lynnwood and stay there. For anybody who has never been to jail, it's horri- ble. They only let you take a shower every other day. And when you do get to take a shower. they only want to let you take a shower for like five minutes. Jamie: Oh boy! So you've got to hurry up and rub all the parts. Saaphyri: Exactly. I mean for all the girls that's thinking about doing something, please don't do it. Because if you are like me and you like to look cute and smell good, you don't want to be there. You're not smelling good and you're not looking cute. Jamie: Were you in a cell by yourself? Saaphyri: There's two girls to each cell when you're in the county jail. And they transfer in and out because some people are there for just a couple of days and then they leave. Some people are there a little bit longer. And then you get recog- nized. Jamie: You got recognized? Saaphyri: Yeah. And then it's like you're at the sheriff's department and, quiet as it's kept they did not like me. It's like some of them really loved me or they hated me. Jamie: They didn't know you, but they rec- ognized you from the show? . Saaphyri: Exactly. Jamie: So what happened then? Jamie: Who was there for you? Did you cell anybody? Saaphyri: Yeah, I did. And there was some people that stayed with me throughout the whole ordeal. There was my cousin Van, and a girl from the show-they call her Buckwltd=she been, like, keeping my dog for me like for the last two years. My other friend Chai. So it was between those peo- ple that I was looked out for. Jamie: So, did you eat in your cell? Or did you go to a cafeteria? Saaphyri: Okay, in the county jail, you eat downstairs. It's like you eat in the little-you NOVEMBER 2010 I S2S 61