Bed Check

Every night for the last five years at Denver Rescue Mission's 48th Avenue Men's Shelter at 8:30 pm is bed check where if you want to keep your bed you have to be in it to check in You can leave after if you insist that you have to relieve the pain of addiction with drugs and alcohol work the night shift or are lucky enough to share a bed for the night with a loved one at home with hopes of reunion and redemption you can't get back in until 8 the next morning Bed check is a constant like meal times the weekly laundry line and the random outbursts by the clinically insane that help the 450 homeless men contained in the repurposed warehouse know they are still alive