Inmates Stories

Mary and Betty had settled into prison life and were used to working hard in the factory owned by Mrs Carson. Mary had just turned sixty-five and Betty was sixty-six and both remained thankful to Mrs Carson, who was forty-two, that she let them work for her and so they got a rather higher wage than most of the other prisoners. The additional wages, though, led Mary and Betty to be increasingly overconfident about their im...

Mary and Betty walked up the path to the front door, both dreading what was going to happen to them over the next couple of hours. Mary was sixty-four-years-old and Betty was sixty-six-years-old and both were partway through their prison sentences. Most of the prisoners worked at the prison for just a very low nominal wage which they used to buy special items, but Mary and Betty very were two of the lucky ones offered emp...