Three Feet

Every day we officers must show up 12 minutes before the beginning of our shift for briefing. It is here that we learn of the updates, incidents at the jail, and proper procedures we must follow from departmental policy.
One particular week, we were being schooled on the procedures we must follow for those inmates who have been placed into the safety cell. More often than not, the safety cell is used for suicidal inmates. Sometimes for extremely aggressive and assaultive inmates. We always seem to have a ding-dong in one of the 5 cells that we have for this purpose. There is a 36-hour maximum time that the inmate can be placed into the cell.
On the first day, when the officers were asked if they had questions, officer Rich sang out from the back of the room. "Where did they come up with three feet of toilet paper?" This was in reference to allowing only three feet of paper when the inmate requests it for relieving himself. No one really had an answer, but it generated a few comical responses. One of which was, "three feet would never be enough for officer Cane." This generated a good heehaw.
The following day, the briefing sergeant gave us a scenario in which we were to provide the continuum of steps to be taken for a particular situation. He said, "If you are walking by the safety cell and notice that the inmate has a bump on his forehead and he has smeared feces all over the walls, what do you do?" Again, from the back of the room, officer Rich said, "Give him three feet of toilet paper!"