1. It was an iron bed with two folded blankets on it and a thin straw mattress. 2. As night fell my mother and sister found a thin mattress and went to sleep on the floor. 3. He is sitting in bed, a blanket folded beneath his legs to relieve the discomfort of his thin mattress. 4. He slept on a cot with a thin mattress rather than on a concrete floor, as is customary for new arrivals. 5. Inside, on cots covered with thin mattresses, were prisoners, some wearing bright-orange jail uniforms, others shirtless. 6. Prone on a thin mattress atop a slanting, plywood bed. 7. Segregation cells are shells with only a cast-iron bunk and a thin mattress, a toilet and a sink, both of stainless steel. 8. Some men are permitted two of these covers, so one can be rolled into a pillow or used as a thin mattress. 9. The cells are tiny, a tiled slab and thin plastic mattress for a bed, and a stainless steel toilet and sink. 10. The immigrants slept on thin mattresses. |