Today was my turn to urinate into a plastic cup...
This evening, shortly before 6 o’clock, I was told to report to the “D-Block” area. There would be a correction officer waiting for me. Another man from my housing unit was also asked to do the same. We knew what it was for. Random drug testing.
This happens periodically whether you’re labeled as a chronic drug abuser, or you’ve no interest in using narcotics. My name came up. So off I went to provide the testing officer with a sample of my waste, which I did.
In all my years of incarceration, I must have handed over dozens of cups of my urine for this purpose. I was escorted into a nearby latrine, handed a clear cup with my name on a small label that was glued to the side of it, and with the officer standing alongside me, I undid the zipper of my pants, and urinated. With the approximately two-ounce cup now full, I affixed the lid to its top, and handed the specimen to the guard.
From here I was led out of the latrine and into a waiting room to eventually be escorted back to my cell block. While the urine sample, however, was placed into a nearby freezer where it will soon be tested. My sample was also recorded in the prison’s urinalysis logbook. They keep a record of everything here. I know the test will turn out negative. It always does.
D. B.
This happens periodically whether you’re labeled as a chronic drug abuser, or you’ve no interest in using narcotics. My name came up. So off I went to provide the testing officer with a sample of my waste, which I did.
In all my years of incarceration, I must have handed over dozens of cups of my urine for this purpose. I was escorted into a nearby latrine, handed a clear cup with my name on a small label that was glued to the side of it, and with the officer standing alongside me, I undid the zipper of my pants, and urinated. With the approximately two-ounce cup now full, I affixed the lid to its top, and handed the specimen to the guard.
From here I was led out of the latrine and into a waiting room to eventually be escorted back to my cell block. While the urine sample, however, was placed into a nearby freezer where it will soon be tested. My sample was also recorded in the prison’s urinalysis logbook. They keep a record of everything here. I know the test will turn out negative. It always does.
D. B.
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