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reg's jail journals ... Sleepy Hollow Correctional Centre

Punishment – the Hole

For 2 days and nights I laid on the floor of a 6’ x 7’ perpetually luminated cement cell staring at the shit stained walls and breathing in air that reeked of urine.  The cell contained only a filthy toilet and a mattress that oozed of a brown foul smelling liquid.  I was allowed neither books to be read nor cigarettes to smoke (and I understand that is a right of most if not all other such institutions in this country). 

To be locked in there alone is punishment enough, but without cigarettes for me, it was torture.  I know it’s a cliché, but I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy and I don’t understand how the punishment can be handed out as loosely as it was by Mr. Graves  It was beyond all reason and I am bitter about it.

January 6, 1999