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上海龙凤shlf最新地址were either hung or put in gaol. And if you were sentenced to gaol, you did not go to an 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址institution. No, you dug your own gaol with a spade provided to you by the Province of 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Maine. You dug it as wide and as deep as you could during the period between sunup and 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址sundown. Then ,they gave you a couple of skins and a bucket, and down you went Once 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址down, the gaoler would bar the top of your hole, -.row down some grain or maybe a piece 

of maggoty meat once or twice a week, and maybe there would be a dipperful ; barley 

soup on Sunday night You pissed in the bucket, and you held up the same bucket for 

water when the gaoler came around at six in the morning. When it rained, you used lie 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址bucket to bail out your gaol-cell ... unless, that is, you wanted to drown like a rat in a 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址rainbarrel. 

No one spent a long time 'in the hole', as it was called; thirty months was an unusually 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址long term, and so far as I've been able to tell, the longest term ever spent from which an 

inmate actually emerged alive was served by the so-called Durham Boy', a fourteen-year- 

old psychopath who castrated a schoolmate with a piece of rusty metal. He did seven 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址years, but of course he went in young and strong. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址You have to remember that for a crime that was more serious than petty theft or 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址blasphemy or forgetting to put a snotrag in your pocket when out of doors on the 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Sabbath, you were hung. For low crimes such as those just mentioned and for others like 

them, you'd do your three or six or nine months in the hole and come out fishbelly white, 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址cringing from the wide-open spaces, your eyes half-blind, your teeth more than likely 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址rocking and rolling in their sockets from the scurvy, your feet crawling with fungus. Jolly 

old Province of Maine. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Shawshank's Solitary Wing was nowhere as bad as that... I guess. Things come in three 

major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make 

subdivisions. 

To get to Solitary Wing you were led down twenty-three steps to a basement level where 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址the only sound was the drip of water. The only light was supplied by a series of dangling 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址sixty-watt bulbs. The cells were keg-shaped, like those wall-safes rich people sometimes 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址hide behind a picture. Like a safe, the round doorways were hinged, and solid instead of 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址barred. You get ventilation from above, but no light except for your own sixty-watt bulb, 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址which was turned off from a master-switch promptly at eight p.m., an hour before lights- 

out in the rest of the prison. The wire wasn't in a wire mesh cage or anything like that. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址The feeling was that if you wanted to exist down there in the dark, you were welcome to 

it. Not many did ... but after eight, of course, you had no choice. You had a bunk bolted 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址to the wall and a can with no toilet seat. You had three ways to spend your time: sitting, 

shitting, or sleeping. Big choice. Twenty days could get to seem like a year. Thirty days 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址could seem like two, and forty days like ten. Sometimes you could hear rats in the 

ventilation system. In a situation like that, subdivisions of terrible tend to get lost. 

If anything at all can be said in favour of solitary, it's just that you get time to think. Andy 

had twenty days in which to think while he enjoyed his grain and drain, and when he got 

out he requested another meeting with the warden. Request denied. Such a meeting, the