Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Art imitates art. Who needs life?
As idiotically told by CNN:
The inner core of the West Block is potentially diggable concrete. You could conceivably dig out of the end cell (32) on each range (the red wall in this simplified model), but you would only get through the wall of the core. To be exact, you'd climb out of the cell onto the catwalk where the screws are constantly patrolling. Long before your opening was large enough to crawl through, the process of digging would have been obvious to the screws.
And an honor farm is not "what's called an honor farm." It's an honor farm. There's no other name for it, except maybe "the place that real-life prisoners actually escape from."
In Stephen King's 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption," the last we saw of fugitive Andy Dufresne, he was enjoying life on the lam fixing up his fishing boat in Mexico. But for real-life counterpart Frank Freshwaters, an actual Shawshank Prison escapee who spent the past 56 years on the run before being recaptured this week, there won't likely be any tropical sunsets in his final act. Freshwaters, who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter charges stemming from a 1957 automobile accident, initially got probation. But he was sentenced in 1959 to serve up to 20 years at the Ohio State Reformatory, also known as Shawshank State Prison, after a parole violation. Just as Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, benefited from being a favorite of Shawshank's warden and prison guards, Freshwaters was "quickly able to earn the trust of the prison officials," according to Peter Elliott, the U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio, earning the Akron native a transfer to what's called an "honor farm," according to Elliott. That's when Freshwaters plotted his escape. But unlike Dufresne, who spent nearly 20 years digging a tunnel with a worn down rock hammer, Freshwaters managed to escape after only seven months. The details of that escape have not been divulged.Verrrrry interestink. Well, sorrrrrt of interestink. But totally wrong. OSR wasn't "also known as the Shawshank State Prison". Shawshank was strictly and purely fictional. Some of the movie was filmed in the now-abandoned OSR, but the plot wouldn't make sense in the actual OSR. There's no way you could dig into a sewer from a cell. The inner core of the East block is steel, not diggable at all.
The inner core of the West Block is potentially diggable concrete. You could conceivably dig out of the end cell (32) on each range (the red wall in this simplified model), but you would only get through the wall of the core. To be exact, you'd climb out of the cell onto the catwalk where the screws are constantly patrolling. Long before your opening was large enough to crawl through, the process of digging would have been obvious to the screws.
And an honor farm is not "what's called an honor farm." It's an honor farm. There's no other name for it, except maybe "the place that real-life prisoners actually escape from."Labels: Jail mode
¶ 5:05 AM
