Short Stories : A Story Of A Short Story

dark cold place with no light, running water, and bed. the guards make the prisoners strip in The hole with little amount of food and

The inmate reaches the soup and is able to taste freedom. The other inmates are immediately jealous as they witness the “criminal” reach the soup cauldron and enjoy what they wanted. Almost instantly, the prisoner is killed. Their starvation causes a change in behavior. The men and women of the concentration camps are

The island had over one hundred buildings on it. Everything within the prison walls was called the Bull Pen. In the center were two rolls of six buildings with one building on the end. Twelve of these were the barracks. They were two stories high with the first floor divided into multiple rooms and two kitchens. Later the kitchens and mess rooms were removed to another building. Men would be assigned two to a bunk and bunks would be three tiered. These buildings were not sealed but weather-boarded. It did not give much protection against cold or snow. Due to poor ventilation, the men would cut small holes in the walls, normally by their heads, to get some air.One stove was provided to heat the room but was inadequate. Very little wood was given to the prisoners a day. Many times the stove would not be burned during the night due to not enough wood. Every available chair or box and even parts of the bunks were burn. Prisoners would even form a circle around the stove and

“All work is stopped, all assemble there, nobody leads the cows out, the cows are there with the rest. At midday, the roll of drums. Soldiers have marched into the prison in the night, and he is in the midst of many soldiers. He is bound as before, and in his mouth there is a gag—tied so, with a tight string, making him look almost as if he laughed.” He suggested it, by creasing his face with his two thumbs, from the corners of his mouth to his ears. “On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife, blade upwards, with its point in the air. He is hanged there forty feet high—and is left hanging, poisoning the water.”

At one end of the hall was a small opening through which we could videotape and record the events that occurred. On the side of the corridor opposite the cells was a small closet which became "The Hole," or solitary confinement. It was dark and very confining, about two feet wide and two feet deep, but tall enough that a "bad prisoner" could stand up. An intercom system allowed us to secretly bug the cells to monitor what the prisoners discussed, and also to make public announcements to the prisoners.

This prison had cells that were 8 by 12 feet, and prisoners were kept in them for 23 hours of the day. When the prisoner was given their hour of exercise inside of another small area, they were not able to have any contact with other inmates or outside world. The officers would use a small slot in the door to give the inmates their food, and there was the very minimum light that came from a small window in the cell (Kupers, 2017). The reasoning that this prison was first started was to hopefully rehabilitate an inmate through the use of being isolated from everyone else. The use of isolation was supposed to give the prisoner time to think about the crime they committed. Shortly after the Philadelphia prison started, a second prison that used solitary confinement as a form of punishment opened. The Auburn Prison of New York gave the nation another view of solitary confinement. It was said to not be as harsh as Philadelphia but it was still considered a tough punishment. When a prisoner would be around another inmate or guard, they had to be

Soon after undergoing procedures they found out people where going insane and even taking their own lives. These customs of confinement where retired for a long time until about the 1920’s when they made a comeback at Alcatraz off the San Francisco Bay. The jail is known for housing some of the most notorious prisoners in the country and they wanted to keep the upper hand and not have anything go wrong. They created a whole prison block called D-Block which housed dozens of prisoners in confinement.If you were to break any rules while in confinement you would get sent to the “hole” which was worse than solitary confinement because you would not receive any clothes or any food other than bread and water. (http://www.alcatraz101.com) Robert Stroud was one one of the prisoners at Alcatraz in his lifetime he served 42 years in solitary confinement. While in another jail he was confined and found a group of birds which he housed later on in his years in jail he publish a couple books one called Diseases of Canaries. He was a very intelligent man with an IQ of 134 but while being looked up he was later diagnosed a psychopath.(Robert Stroud/wikipedia.org) Many prisoners go into solitary confinement perfectly fine and come out different due to the lack of human

In Andersonville, GA, there was a 16.6 acre prison. The prison housed the Union soldiers captured by the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Reports from a man who entered the camp said the men whom were held as prisoners looked as if they were skeletons. People would ask questions such as, “Can this be hell?,” or “God protect us!” The prison was a rectangular style prison. In the center, approximately three or four acres, stood a swamp. The swamp was used as a “sink” for the prisoners. Around the edge of the swamp was excrements of the prisoners¬- the stench was suffocating. There was an area of the prison known as the “Dead Line,” a no man-zone. The prison was undersupplied with food, not only for the prisoners, but also for

First of all, at Colorado State Penitentiary, they call it “administrative segregation” rather than solitary confinement. This is because their goal is supposedly, just to cut them off from physical contact until they are determined to be safe around other people. The feelings projected by the men being interviewed in the documentary tie in with the feelings that Stanley “Tookie” Williams expressed in his book, Life in Prison. All of the inmates, including Stanley, acknowledged that solitary confinement, or the hole, causes people to go crazy. Stanley complained of the small cells and how it made many men go stir crazy. In the film, they showed exactly how small the cells are and the limited room for activity that the inmates have. The images in the documentary of the men getting strip searched further supported Stanley’s statements regarding the embarrassment of strip searches. It showed one of the men

A number of procedures were devised to prevent communication in any form. In the dining halls, for example, "prisoners were seated with their backs toward the centre so that each looked only at the backs of others; in movement, the 'lockstep' formation was exclusively employed." (Cloward et al., 1960: 26) The lockstep formation entailed "marching in single file, placing the right hand on the shoulder of the man ahead, and facing toward the guard." (http://www.britannica.com) Constant activity when out of the cells was key to prisoners adhering to the rules. These devices may be understood as instruments used to suppress interaction among prisoners.

The prison was believed to be escape proof because of it being on an island with cold waters and strong currents. The prison was designed to hold very dangerous criminals who

Convicts were housed below decks on the prison deck and were behind bars. In many cases they were restrained in chains and were only allowed on deck for fresh air and exercise. They were cramped and they slept on hammocks.

Conditions in early correctional facilities were despicable, and depictions of them are hard to envision. As prisons were progressively utilized to restrict hoodlums, as well as to detain those with maladjustment and poor people, packing turned into a difficult issue. One 1767 portrayal of an early prison in Charlestown (Boston) detailed that 16 borrowers were housed in a solitary 12-foot by 12-foot room. The cell was crowded to the point that one of the detainees passed on of suffocation yet couldn't be evacuated until the greater part of alternate detainees were made to rests so that the dead

the cell but they were not isolated enough to where the other inmates could not see me.

I woke up the next day to the sound of walkers banging on the door. I was still kinda sleepy but immediately jumped to my feet and grabbed a knife. I grabbed my bag with a little food and water and barged through the door. Walkers snarled and snapped at me but i was too quick for them. I ran through the woods and only stopped when I was on a road. Far in the distance I saw a town that filled me with hope, and I started walking to it. I started clearing houses,but as I did I grew more and more tired. My cuts bled more and moreso I had to stop. It’s funny how hope can come and go so easily. I set up camp in the road. It wasn’t nighttime but I was exhausted. I made a small fire and sat there. Staring out at the horizon and feeling like shit. I still wasn’t going to give up on Rick, Carl, and Judith. They were tough and wouldn’t die so easily. So, I decided neither would I. I got up and angrily destroyed my camp. I got my knife and supplies and started running down the road.