I’m kinda on risk for being put into one, so I kinda wanted to learn some stuff about how is it inside those. I think my biggest fear there is boredoom. Like, will I be able to videocall friends and/or listen to music there? Will my mp3 player/portable chinese retro emulator/phone/any eletronic be confiscated there?
all of this, yes. yes and yes.
I haven’t been to any location that ever allowed cell phone use at all. they did allow people to use the landline to call out but only certain times per day and to specific numbers they cleared.
otherwise everything you said was spot on.
and please take the clothes thing seriously, and put your full name on the tags. the clothes they give you will probably be two sizes too big or small and the staff will tell you it’s all they have (which is a lie, they always “found” something better when someone from the outside brought it up with mgmt).