Rolluplostinspace wrote:I was in Strangeways 1985.
4 to a cell that was designed to make one person suffer.
23 hrs a day bang up.
If it rained 24hrs a day bang up.
Manchester is famous for it's rain.
One shower a week officially .... with forty strangers with attitude.
One shower a month if you were lucky .... or unlucky maybe.
Great for those who like a little tension.
One clean sheet a week ... so long as things were running smoothly.
Eat shit piss shave in that tiny space .... all four of you.
Great for those who love a little tension.
The silence at night broken by screams and the sounds of skull being banged to a pulp against the walls .... often the owner of the skull was self harming.
Often to the point of death.
Pecking orders.
You ever lived in violent pecking orders?
You have any experience that would prepare you for such an environment?
At the time the place had Spanish and South African prisoners as well as a few Russians Germans and one Icelandic that I knew of.
None of them could believe the conditions.
They would have preferred to be anywhere ... any neighbourhood on earth but that one.
There's no escape.
It's endless and you're counting the hours.
In some jails they have a telly and the people outside presume it must be a holiday camp.
The young ones and the single ones find it easiest but seem to crawl the mostest.
They speak the loudest about how easy it is how they don't care.
They're just as nervous as you going through that gate.
The tv doesn't remove the pecking order or the screams.
The smell of a human warehouse is dreadful.
The tv doesn't remove that either.
People like the Major and Markey would have very very bad times in these places simply because of their attitudes and a total abscence of any tools to adapt for survival.
The biggest fists are rarely good tools but they can come in handy of course ........... Tension tension tension .....
you do talk a lot of shit , you really do , know of a few that spent most of the their life in and out of prison , one just come out after 22 years , he tells me completely tell to the rubbish you just written .
And me and major would be such a cuns to go to prison in the first place . Your such a low life