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Old 2nd December 2021, 23:24   #34
COLVERT
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Originally Posted by MSS View Post
It's amazing what they get prisoners to do these days.

What were you in for?

None of us knew what we were in for when we first started work there.--It turned out to be halves of scissors thrown out of the cell windows above where we were working below plus old socks filled with sh--.

Plus anything else they could lay their hands on.

We had to have a scaffold tunnel erected where we were working with a roof on it to avoid all the missiles that rained down on us.

No gratitude at all came our way and all we were doing was putting hot and cold running water into each cell plus modern toilets and TV points.
Also new heating systems and hot pipes.

Previously it was a bucket in each cell to sh-- and pi-- in to be slopped out every morning.

There were two holes in each cell wall. On up high and the other at floor level. If they were lucky warm air came out of the lower hole then vanished back into the upper hole.

There was on large wood burner in the very bottom of the prison. This was normally working all the time and giving off hot air.

The walls of what was called the undercroft had a row of holes down each side. A hole for every cell for the hot air to rise in.

A bit more detail in the next post if I lose this one.---
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