After a few weeks I got a job as a cleaner so at least I got to spend a good bit of time out of my cell. Once you worked you got paid a few pounds a week which you could add to your canteen account (how you buy things like phonecards, sweets, smokes, shower stuff). Some people there would spend the whole day just hanging around in their cell - but I wanted to be out of it as much as possible.
QUOTE]............................................................................................. I hear you, we tried to operate the factory as much like an outside factory as possible. The inmates told me it was like getting out of prison for the day. All I ask of them was "don't fuck shit up, for the rest of us". I was just trying to do my program, and go home, just like them. We all knew what we had to get done for the day, I had no reason to treat the guy's poorly, they were my employees. Even inmates, once you found a good one, you hang on to them. If a worker wasn't pulling his weight on the floor, the other inmates had to carry him, & they would check him much harder than I could! lol! Here in Cali I had a Florida st trooper on my crew for many years, he was in for double murder. Many times police officers will be shipped to another state to do their time. If a guy did a good job working for me, I was the first one standing up at his parole hearing, trying to help him get out. Other inmates would see this & work even harder for me. I was well liked by my inmates, I was the 'good guy' to work for. Some, I consider friends to this day.....