Thwack.

"Dead."

Thwack.

"Dead."

A third medical file joins the first two on the warden's desk. "Dead. If I brought you the records for every prisoner who's displaying the same symptoms as these three," says Dr. Edgerton, his moustache trembling with every syllable, "your desk would collapse ( Read more... )

Jerome “Shredder” Dupay felt like hell. His hands shook and his body ached like he had been worked over by all the hacks that could lay hand on a billy club in this place. He had kept it to himself though. He sucked it up and toughed it out. He had just clawed his way into the kitchen work detail and no way was he going to loose that by taking time ( Read more... )

Arthur Kill Correctional Facility
Prisoner SA438954
Jamie Eddison
8 years for drug possession

1829 - The first experiment in solitary confinement in the United States begins at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. It is based on a Quaker belief that prisoners isolated in stone cells with only a Bible would use the time to repent, pray ( Read more... )

He can hear them. In the walls. Under the beds. When no one else is looking. No one besides Malcom Ravenel, that is. He hasn't found any in a long time, but that's all right. He can wait. Malcom is good at waiting. He's learned patienceOh, what he's learned since he came here ... all those boyhood games with flies and beetles were nothing ( Read more... )

The infirmary of Arthur Kill Correctional Facility is, according to the laws of the State of New York, supposed to be fully equipped and properly staffed in order to care for the medium-security prisoners housed on the Staten Island prison. So many cases of antibiotics. A certain number of blood pressure cuffs, thermometers, tongue depressors, ( Read more... )

Half a year into his sentence, and Jim Hermann had learned the ropes. Never let 'em see you flinch. Never let 'em hear you whimper. He'd gotten good at hiding, too. Hiding was better than fighting when you were under 6 feet and had been sentenced to this medium-security prison for a couple dozen counts of identity theft. Let the big tough guys ( Read more... )

With cold eyes she watches the holographic display before her. Single stranded RNA segments deftly make their way past the cell's defenses and artfully incorporate them selves into the existing proteins. After that transport to the Golgi complex is a matter of simplicity ( Read more... )

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