Chapter 185: Prison Entry Team
Before He Shu went in, he went through the formalities again. The physical examination was stricter than before, and there was no care.
No one here knows what he is doing here. He is just an ordinary first-time prisoner.
Spin around naked, do some squat jumps, then kneel facing the wall with your head in your hands and your legs spread wide.
The physical examination doctor carefully checked every hair and recorded each item on the record sheet.
The cold rubber gloves carefully searched any place on his body where something might be hidden.
Although this was not the first time he had experienced this, He Shu still couldn't help but shed a tear.
Dignity had long been eliminated from his world...
After that, I had my head shaved, took a cold shower, and was given a set of prison uniforms with numbers on them.
After everything is done, I enter the supervision team.
The prison entry team is similar to a detention center, but stricter than a detention center. It is where all newcomers must stay.
There is also a cell leader in the cell , also known as the number leader, who is responsible for managing new inmates.
Think about it, this prison houses all the inmates from nearby towns and counties, from all walks of life.
This is a separate society, and the ways of the world are fully reflected in this place.
The first day in prison was fine, the environment was not worse than that in the detention center.
The dormitory head didn't give him any pressure or ask any questions. He just arranged a place for him to sleep and a place to put his belongings.
Faced with the new environment, He Shu was very obedient. He knew that as a foreigner he had no one to rely on here and no connections.
He kept in mind what Tang Can and Brother No. 24 had said to him.
Tang Can would no longer come to see him in the name of interrogation. For the next year and a half, He Shu could only rely on himself.
The next day, all the newcomers started standing in line after breakfast.
This lasts for the entire morning, and is also the time when the newlyweds formally meet each other.
Those who were from the same hometown, classmates, or had some reputation in society were called back to the cell one by one by the dormitory head.
People like He Shu, who had no relatives, stood for the entire morning without being able to move, their heels aching and their calves stiff.
He Shu only had a bowl of clear porridge for breakfast. After standing for a whole morning, he finally made it to lunch time, but he was only given a steamed bun the size of a child's fist.
After eating the soft and fluffy steamed bun, it felt like nothing.
Serving meals is an easy job, and only the squad leader's confidant can do this job.
They are very accurate and have good eyesight. They can tell who to scoop food from the bottom of the bucket and who to skim from the top with just one glance.
For He Shu, the juice is naturally skimmed from the top and poured into the bowl, clear as water.
Being hungry is not the most difficult thing. Going to the toilet is still the biggest problem.
The toilet in the prison entry team is larger than the one in the previous detention center. It is not connected to the cell and has more than one squat toilet.
But it was the dirtiest toilet He Shu had ever seen. Because there were so many people, the flushing was timed and not timely.
The smell there is so irritating that I can't even look down.
Moreover, there were no partitions between the squat toilets. There were people watching from the opposite side, and there were people on both sides. There were also people queuing at the door who kept urging them to come in.
The toilet times are fixed, once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
No matter whether you are big or small, each time should not exceed three minutes.
It is said that people have three urgent needs that cannot wait, but once you are in prison, even shitting and farting have to be done within the specified time. This is the price of breaking the law, and what you lose can no longer be described as freedom.
In the prison entry team, He Shu still looked like a student. A month in the detention center had not changed his temperament, which made him look the easiest to bully.
The so-called bullying was not the beating and scolding that He Shu was afraid of before, but in life.
Whether eating, bathing or going to the toilet, he is always the last one and the one who gets the least food and time.
When standing in a queue, he always stands until the end of the time.
He Shu had to stand for the longest time even if he was not full. After only three days, He Shu felt dizzy from hunger.
Fortunately, his sentence was short and he didn't have to stay here too long. On the fourth day, He Shu, who was pale and increasingly thin, was taken away from the prison entry team and entered the new prison of the labor brigade.
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The environment in the new prison is more relaxed than that in the prison entry team. What makes He Shu happiest is that he doesn't have to stand in line anymore.
The food I eat is much better than before, at least I don’t feel dizzy from hunger anymore.
Because when you arrive at the new prison, you have to start working and learn how to do the work in the work area.
These transition periods are mainly to help prisoners better adapt to prison life.
The newcomer supervision is also called the labor brigade, which trains newcomers to learn how to work, and the work involves operating sewing machines.
In addition to studying ideological education every day, we have to go to the factory in the prison to study after breakfast, and work eight hours a day.
You should try to go from a novice to an experienced one in the shortest possible time, and then when you are transferred to the old prisoners' ward, you can exchange your labor for points.
Points are an important condition for obtaining a sentence reduction, but for people like He Shu who are sentenced to one or two years, there is little chance of a sentence reduction.
Only those who have been sentenced to more than ten or twenty years, or even life imprisonment, can earn points by working hard, doing more tiring and complicated work.
Young people like He Shu are basically assigned to operate sewing machines or carry heavy tasks, while older people, or those with disabilities or illnesses, will do easier tasks.
For example, cutting threads or organizing and folding clothes.
The newcomers don’t know how to operate sewing machines, so there are special old prisoners to guide and teach them.
Several people gathered around a sewing machine, first looking and listening to the explanation, and then trying it out with scraps of cloth.
In this way, He Shu slowly began his life of working in prison.
He did not fight or compete, focused on his studies, performed the best, and was the most obedient. He was like a nobody in the cell.
But in a place like this, being honest and obedient does not mean you will be treated preferentially.
On the contrary, no matter how strict the rules are, there will still be people who bully others. But whether He Shu was pushed away before he finished peeing in the toilet, or his only dry food was taken away during dinner, he chose to remain silent...
On He Shujin's fourth day in the new prison, his life took a turn for the better.
A big guy came to the cell, he was in there for intentional killing.
This big brother is a local and is quite famous. He Shu heard someone call him Brother Feng, or maybe Brother Feng?
Because many people here don't speak Mandarin well, He Shu wasn't sure what he heard and could only temporarily assume it was Brother Feng.
The captain and other local people all know Brother Feng. Brother Feng is the kind of person that even if you have never seen him, you have heard of his name.
Brother Feng looks to be in his thirties or forties. He is not tall, but very imposing.
This time he was imprisoned because he beat someone to death accidentally. For some reason, he was only sentenced to 20 years in prison.
People like Brother Feng are very successful both inside and outside the society.
Unlike a nobody like He Shu, the eldest brother didn't even have to operate the sewing machine. The head of the group assigned him the job of sorting clothes.
He just sat there, folding a few things if he wanted to move, and just sitting there if he didn't want to.
You can add more dishes when eating, and there are separate stir-fried dishes to eat. The taste is very tempting in the cafeteria.
Brother Feng is also very generous. After work, he will give snacks and cigarettes to the people in the cell.
Of course not everyone has it, but only those who are around him have it.
In this way, He Shu watched as his eldest brother recruited a new group of younger brothers in the cell just a few days after he came in.
He Shu originally thought that he would never have anything to do with such a person because he couldn't bring himself to flatter him.
Even though he had never had a full meal since he entered the second prison.
But on the third day after Brother Feng came in, he took the initiative to find He Shu.
