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In
that little corner of the prison that was walled off from the rest
of the prison the Women's Quarters was located. In the early days all
convicted women were confined here. Beneath their dormitory type
building the main floor was not a part of their area. It was used for
the captain of the yard's office, often referred to as The Porch.
There were other offices on this floor also, mainly the
Identification Bureau. On the far corner was the clothing shop, where
the clothing for inmates was kept, and issued out. These offices were
completely sealed off from the women's yard.
The
clothing shop was directly beneath the women's dormitory. An
ambitious young convict, working in the clothing shop succeeded in
cutting a hole in the ceiling of a closet in the shop and gained
access to one of the rooms of the women above. Such a visitor, with
obvious amorous intentions was very welcome to the female inmate of
the room.
But
eventually good things had to come to an end, not because guards
discovered the door in the ceiling, but because jealousies developed
among the women who would like to get into the act. They eventually
disclosed the plot and it of course was immediately corrected.
Author:
William J. Duffy, Jr.
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