Elaine endured a long twenty minutes in darkness and fear.
As the twenty minutes passed, Elaine rushed to the public phone on the side of the playground.
Seeing her desperately running, many prisoners watched with cold eyes. Although many of them were eager to teach her a lesson, they were just starting to let loose. There were many prison guards staring around, and they didn’t dare for a while to immediately act on her.
According to the practice of the prison guards at Bedford Hills Correctional Institution, in the first fifteen minutes and the last fifteen minutes of the one-hour release time, it is necessary to focus on this group of prisoners, because according to their consistent experience, the most frequent node of escape from prison is in the middle of the prisoner’s journey through the different areas. From the cell to the restaurant and from the restaurant to the playground, and from the workplace to the cell, these processes are generally the high-incidence stage of prison escapes. It often happens that there are 20 people just now, but they pass through a certain area and note that there are only nineteen left.
Therefore, after they escorted the prisoners to the playground, and before they were ready to bring the prisoners back to the cell from the playground, the prison guards spent fifteen minutes counting the number of people, and observing whether there was any abnormality in numbers.
As for the middle half an hour, it is the prisoner’s free time. In prison, fights are almost impossible to avoid. Therefore, for managers, it is also a very important control method to set aside a little time every day for prisoners to resolve conflicts. If the prisoners are not given the opportunity to resolve their conflicts for a long time and let the prisoners squeeze out their dissatisfaction with hatred, it is often easy to cause big troubles.
If they are given the opportunity to have a meal with their bare hands every day, then basically nothing big would happen.
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