Chapter 1
What year was the author, Victor Hassine, arrested?
What is 1980?
What was the nickname for Philadelphia State Prison in Holmesburg?
What is The Burg?
What does the term "Gauntlet of Despair" refer to?
What is The term "Gauntlet of Despair" refers to traumatic experiences that cause emotional, mental, or physical suffering.
What was the name of the physically strong inmate who still ended up losing his mind?
Who is Kareem?
What was the name of the jail he was transferred to from police lockup?
What is the Bucks County Jail?
What did the guards allow to happen inside of the prison due to their fear?
What is violence and contraband?
Why did some inmates lie on the written test?
What is they saw it as a tool of manipulation.
What does Hassine argue the real struggle in prison is?
What is mentally handling incarceration?
What was the Bucks County Jail nicknamed?
What is the "Pine Street Motel"?
What did the prisoners do for protection inside the Philadelphia State Prison in Holmesburg?
What is join prison gangs?
What was the difference between the brown's and the blues's?
What is the blue's were considered to be in quarantine and wore blue uniforms and the brown's were the general population and wore brown uniforms.
What item did Cherokee collect?
What is stamps?
How did he describe the conditions in police lockup?
What is air conditioned with the sound of office activity?
What shape did Hassine describe Philadelphia State Prison in Holmesburg as resembling?
What is an octagon?
What cell block was dedicated to working inmates?
What is Cell Block B.
What was the name of the inmate that received special treatment?
Who is Cherokee?
What event occurred before his transfer that finally made him feel like their "property"?
What is a strip search?
What was the only source of natural lighting inside the prison?
What are skylights inside of the cells?
What specific event happen that led to Hassin giving away his books, magazines, newspappers, art supplies, and easel?
What is he watched another inmate's cell be set on fire with him in it.
What did Kareem go up to Hassine to talk about?
What is Kareem spoke about how he was hearing voices and thought he was losing his mind.