I feel you breh, I remember my first time in Central Bookings in NYC during 4th of July...
Shyt was horrible, I felt like I was straight 3rd world status. Locked in a big ass cell with about 30 heads, I was hungrier than a muthaphuka.
After about 15 hours, CO finally came with food...boxes of frosted flakes and milk, we all ran like zombies in the Walking Dead, sticking our arms through the cell to grab the cereal. I'm not a big dude, so I had to use cunningness to walk away with two boxes of frosted flakes and milk.
I slept on a hard ass floor, using my yellow Polo T, as a pillow. One dude stepped over this white boy and aggressively brushed his foot on white boy head. White boy mumbled something and that's when the dude got real aggressive.
When White boy got up, he had to be about 6'3 350lbs easy!!! And he was ready to throw down, dude who started it was selling wolf tickets though and didn't want any.
When I finally saw a judge and was released. I go to De Kalb Avenue station, no money for train fair. I see two cops, one white, one black. I explain to the black cop my situation and he tells me I can't go on the train.
Had to call me homeboy, who promptly arrived in 30 minutes and picked me up.