Elaine survived twenty long minutes in extreme fear.
As soon as the twenty minutes were up, Elaine rushed to the public phone next to the field immediately.
Many inmates watched coldly when they saw Elaine running desperately. Although many of them were already eager to teach Elaine a lesson, their free time had just started, and many prison guards were keeping an eye on them at this moment. So, these inmates did not dare to attack Elaine immediately.
According to the prison guards’ practice at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, they had to keep a close eye on the group of prisoners in the first fifteen minutes and last fifteen minutes of the one-hour free time. This was because according to experience, the most frequent point of escape would usually be during the process when the prisoners were passing through different areas.
The journey from the prison cell to the dining room, the dining room to the field, and from the work site back to the cell were processes that were generally the high-risk stages of prison escapes. There would often be incidents where there would only be nineteen prisoners left when there had initially been twenty prisoners at first if the prison guards were inattentive.
Therefore, when the prison guards would spend fifteen minutes counting the number of people when they escorted the prisoners to the field and before they brought the prisoners back to their cells from the field, they had to observe if there were any abnormalities among the prisoners, and the prisoners would then be left with a free time of about half an hour.
It was almost impossible to avoid fighting in prison.
Therefore, for the prison guards, it was also a very important control method for them to set aside a little time every day for the inmates to resolve their conflicts.
If these inmates were not allowed to resolve their conflicts for a long time and if they had to continue holding in their dissatisfaction and hatred, it would often lead to great chaos. If they were given the opportunity to fight every day with their bare hands, nothing serious would really happen.
Over the past few days, Elaine usually used this half-hour free time to build up her prestige continuously to maintain her title as the Ferocious Ghost of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
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