Winters and try to sleep a lot during the sweltering heat of summer. There really is no way to tell time, except for those once-a-day
One loses all track of time within a seclusion room because I survived that ordeal by singing songs and telling myself Once I got ninety days and it almost blew This could be anywhere from a fifteen-day minimum to forever. There were no soundsĪnd no means of communication with anyone for the duration of your The smell in thatĮnclosure after a week was simply incredible. The room furthest away from where you slept. If it was necessary to take a piss or a crap you used the corner of Learned rather quickly to shove that bowl out when the slot opened. If the guy inside was one second late the door would open and aīucket of ice-cold water was thrown in. These were passed through the slotĪnd five minutes were allotted to eat it all and push the bowl out. The food usually consisted of a single bowl of soup andįour slices of bread once a day.
Theĭoor to the seclusion room was made of one-inch-thick hardwood andĬontained two openings - Judas window so that you could be observedĪt times and a slot in the bottom portion of the door for the food toīe passed in. It was a plain, bare room and victims were thrown into it naked. There were no lights, nor were there any sanitary facilities. It was eight feet long, eight feet wide and ten feet Were young, as I was, you knew better than to hit one of them becauseĪ single blow could kill any one of them. Off, cackling madly, while you tried to hold in your rage. Another was to lurk around a corner and when you turned thatĬorner slam a handful of shit into your face. Someone's bed in the middle of the night and urinate on him while he Nothing is lessĬonducive to relaxation than trying to sleep in a dormitory filled Instead I had a bed in a fifty-five man dormitory. Hospitals, but never have I come across that particular odor. I have since been to many jails, prisons and city The smells of disinfectant and drying urine mingled into thatĭistinct aroma that can only be found within the confines of a state Was no difference in the all-pervading stench on Wards Three andįour. Stayed on Ward Seven for two months and then I was transferred to Less than a few seconds passed before she broke the silence. I took all this in while watching her carefully.I blew my stack! The old lady had chumped me off!.I figured she had one of those minds that could absorb a zillion facts and never get one confused or mixed-up. I hated to admit it, but that old lady convinced me that she was what she said she was.I returned to the hospital on Monday morning filled with glee at the thought of having fooled the authorities and also with thoughts of the past month and JoAnne.I've never been able to figure out why we got away with those raids, nor why Sidney led us on them in the first place, but I am sure there are good explanations.He lasted about ten seconds and then screamed that he would tell us. I grabbed him by the arms and everybody started punching him - not as hard as they could, but still hard enough to hurt.I could travel around the whole hospital.I also saw Squeaky, Young Blood and Korea go down with about ten guys stomping them.I lost sight of a lot of the action in the heat of the fight, but I did mange to see some, between getting smashed in the face, falling down and jumping up.It hurt a great deal and it saddened me to feel that we had put that pretty girl through all of that torture only to have failed.