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(254) NBC Interview w/prisoner 2
I Well, what I really want to get at, in more general terms is
what it was really like. In other words, not but what it
was like to be a prisoner. Did you feel yourself slipping into a
pattern of behavior?
P The first day it didn’t because
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P The second day, I guess I was getting into the prison role in
that I wanted to rebel and I didn’t feel confined…..I realise that I
was there….I agreed to be a prisoner. The second day I decided that
well, I didn’t want to put up with just being hassled, different things
they do, so, the rebellion started the second day. It gradually started
with different people doing different things and it reached a peak for me
when the guards–another cell locked themselves in and we were forced–
Our beds were removed, and at that point I felt that you know, really
being mistreated for no reason whatsoever. I was being mistreated on a
personal level–I didn’t Feel like a prisoner, I felt these people had
no real control over me. But, we were thinking about quitting, talking
with the other prisoners and eventually I got so fed up with it I was
put in solitary for a while for not cooperating and stuff. They carried
me in solitary and I demanded to see a counselor. I wanted to talk to him,
I wanted to talk about the possibility of quitting, probably get
to contact somebody about quitting because as that point I felt that the
guards wouldn’t let me quit if I wanted to. I was told that I couldnt
quit, and at that point I felt that well, it was really a prison. I felt
that I’d been sort of duped into it, and then I had signed a contract, but
When I was told I couldnt quit I felt there was some legal hasslé and that
I couldn’t quit without, you know, being hassled, and so I went back, I think
I was placed in my cell and I wanted to escape. I was going to try to