Cleaning Dishes in Prison

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    Old memory came back to me: I went to Hunstville, Texas / Sam Houston State for a Criminal Justice meeting while in college. You could do one of three tours as part of your stay: The death chamber where inmates are killed, death row in prison, and something like a work farm. I chose a tour of death row at the Ellis Unit.

"clean dishes, early september" by cafemama is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

     Anyway of all the interesting stuff I saw, inmates got to go outside if they volunteered to clean pots and pans. So they sat under a gazebo outside, no soap or water, just lightly scrubbing a pan with steel scouring pad while they talked and looked around, because I guess you wanted the pan cleaning to take the entire amount of time they were out there and the didn't have water that far away from the building.

     Another highlight of the trip, besides death row:  We were on the outskirts of the prison, but still on prison property.  Our driver/fellow student was driving a full-size truck with us in the back.  He managed to get stuck in the ditch trying to turn around.  Per chance there was a group of trustees near us.  They walked over, picked up the rear of the truck on the road and we were back on our merry way.

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