Ex Crime Kingpin Turns The Table – 3/3 – Serge LeClerc
2 Apr
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UnTwisted – Chapter 7
26 Mar
The Charter of Rights made prisons immeasurably more violent and dangerous, and among other things, laid them wide open for unchecked drug use.
Under the new ideology, prisoners could not be called convicts anymore; they had to be inmates. Nor were they referred to by number. Everyone must be called by his name.
I wouldn’t let the guards call me by name. I only answered to my number: 7777. If I liked the guard, I would say, “I’ll give you a break. You can call me ‘Four Sevens’ for short.”
Nor would I use the term ‘resident’ or ‘inmate.’ To this day, prisoners are convicts to me.
Numbers were removed from uniforms which had also changed. Now we wore green pants and light green polyester shirts. Coats with linings were issued to replace the pea jackets, and for recreational wear we were given golf shirts and khaki pants. (more…)
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