Cell 19C on Cell Block Carolina was the latter. It was a gymnasium-style cell, which in this case was literal — the room was built to be a gymnasium. It was a high-ceilinged chamber with a couple dozen men in it and its own built-in toilets and showers. The bunks was stacked three high, and there still ain’t always enough room for all the mofos they shove in there. Some niggas gotta lay they head down on the floor.
Tyrell’s bunk was on top of a three-bunk stack. There was a little shelf attached with some of his personal belongings on it. Tyrell had outfitted his bunk as well with a piece of plywood sticking out at one end — Tyrell was almost seven feet tall, so he ain’t fit in the bunk without some extra plywood to give it more length.From Tyrell the Ex-Con
Buck lined up with the homeboys of 19C. He was the only white feller in the cell, on account of Warden got a noyed at Buck’s hillbilly bigness, so’s he put Buck in 19C with all the black Bloods. But Buck was in good as grins with the Bloods anyhow, and he got no hate in his heart fer black boys. He was too barrelly fer the black ones to mess with him regardless-like, so’s Buck be doing fine in 19C.