WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — For inmates and the sheriff’s deputies assigned to keep them in line, Christmas Day was similar to most at the Sedgwick County Jail.

Lt. Rhonda Freeman was the highest in the jail’s chain of command on Friday. At a morning squad meeting, she urged deputies to be kind because some of the jail’s 1,000 inmates might be a little depressed spending Christmas in custody.

The Wichita Eagle reports that with no court dates, services or programs that day, most inmates spent the day in their cells as the deputies handled an influx of nearly two dozen people arrested on Christmas Eve.

One inmate preparing lunch for others on Friday says he also spent Thanksgiving behind bars.