Just like prison, but you are free to leave the ni...

Just like prison, but you are free to leave the night shelter anytime. Have to check your bag in and be there by 6:30 to get a bunk. Have to carry your clean clothes in like a refugee. No plastic bags allowed in to carry clean clothes in and carry dirty out after a shower. 4 to 5 hundred men a night, and showers are closed on one side. Can only shower every hr. on the hour, then after 5 to 15 min., they close the only showers left down till the next hr. The staff refer to their homeless clients as in mates, and some staff are confrontational and hostile. I have been using that homeless shelter for over 3 years. Some things are better. I slept on the floor with just my jacket the first two winters. They got rid of the bedbugs and there are enough bunks for about 500 men.