Bugs Under The Toilet

Indio jail is by far the most disgustingly filthy jail I have ever been in. And as a rule, jails are pretty disgusting. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that this jail is as close to the Mexican border as I have ever been (in jail that is). I would imagine this place is an exercise in sanitation compared to an actual Mexican jail. I have been confined here in "isolation" (a cell by myself) for over 15 months now and though I have asked several times to have my cell cleaned, or even to just be given some cleaning supplies so I can do it myself, I have received neither. So I use a thin wash rag that I bought on commissary, and a bar of soap, to clean everything from the walls to the floor and even the toilet (which has some strange black mold growing in it that quickly spreads if I don't keep it washed out). When I first moved into this cell they told me they "cleaned it out" for me. But, the walls were not touched and were spattered with food and body fluids (goobers and probably semen). The floor had goobers too that I had to soak for several minutes in order to remove, not to mention layers of black and grimmy crude that to this day I have still been unable to clean out of all the corners (though I keep trying). Well, actually this is the fourth different isolation cell I have been moved to here in Indio (they only have four) and I have meticulously cleaned them all. This one (cell 19-4) was by far the filthiest. Now at least I have it under control. I can't do much about the grime and bugs (pincher bugs, crickets, and little black things) that live behind and under the toilet. I leave the crickets alone usually (unless they start getting a little too bold and I find them crawling on me-then it's down the toilet they go along with all the pincher bugs I find). But at least the walls are cleaned up to as high as I can reach. I just have to ignore all the blobs of toilet paper stuck to the ceiling and on the light up there. So I manage. And now the only really disgusting filthiness I have to put up with is when they take me to the shower cell where there are regularly 50 or more flies on the walls, and maggots crawling out of the cruded over drains in the floor. In the shower I have too often seen blood on the walls and floor, used bandages, and all kinds of other refuse that tends to build for weeks at a time before being swept out (not cleaned at all). And worst of all...poo! Oh well, at least the water is copiously warm.