i actually spent six hours in an nyc holding cell last september for posession and everyone i met in the cell was really nice to me. there were like 11 of us in there, all hauled in at the end of the 9-5 shift and left to wait while the greedy pigs logged overtime dragging their asses to run our prints and everything.
i was in for simple posession, as were like three others. there was one dude for petty larceny, a guy who beat up his pregnant baby momma at the hospital, and a bunch of crackheads.
the petty larceny dude was dropping serious hustle knowledge about flipping wholesale timberlands on the subways. the dude who beat up his girlfriend used his one phone call to call her, and they started fighting so the officers hung it up, and he started trying to beat them all up, then they knocked him back in the cell and he kept kicking the bars and rattling the walls and shit. so this one officer comes rushing in with a spray bottle of something yelling "EVERYONE CLOSE YOURE EYES CLOSE YOUR EYES NOW!", and sprays the dude, and then starts laughing and high fiving his buddies because it was actually just water and we all cowered like little bitches.
yeah, after six hours i had pretty much gotten enough jail to last me a lifetime.