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    Prison Is Already Scary. It's Even Worse During a Blackout

    As darkness fell, nerves got rattled and rumors spread.
    by Derek R. Trumbo, Sr. Apr 20, 2018 4 minutes

    I was sitting on my bed listening to Speedy, who lives several bunks down, tell another one of his tall tales. He'd done prison time in Ohio, Michigan and Texas, according to him, each time for murder charges and each time day for day—one day off for good behavior for every day served. And then the lights went out.

    At first, no one thought anything of it. Prison is a dark place, and the lights go out all the time. In a minute or so, the back-up generators would kick on.

    This time, they didn't.

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