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Prison Hanging Conundrums

Given that i have never been to jail Been locked up or spent any time in a cell be that even overnight So this poem i write is solely based on logic or endless television crime based shows But the other night deep in discussion with me old mum the Epstein suicide case came up Now when you are processed and taken in to to custody and placed in a holding cell on 24 hour suicide watch They confiscate any means of said person being able to use anything as a form that enables hanging oneself Again now if you indeed wish to hang oneself and commit suicide by means of hanging as so many prisoners do Surely you then need 1 of 2 thing's 1 something to hang yourself with 2 something to hang yourself from And if they took everything and left you with nothing to hang yourself with And put you in a cell with nothing to hang yourself from How on earth can anyone hang themselves in the 1st place Or am i being obtuse Or is Redemption doled out on the concourse by a jury of one's peers As even criminals know right from wrong have standard and a code of conduct And do not wish to live nor reside beside Such twisted deviants Who even the devil won't miss or fails to acknowledge

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Date: 11/18/2020 3:35:00 PM
Where there’s a will there’s a way Christopher, some folks on death row Have found ingenious ways to cheat the executioner, some stand on their bunk and nose dive with neck twisted into the concrete floor, crude but effective way of snapping one’s spinal cord, the Epstein predator, was not observed properly on suicide watch so had enough time to use bedding as ligatures, boy you come up with some crazy great stuff, cheers David
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 11/23/2020 11:04:00 AM
Cheers David I especially love your comment about the crazy stuff i come up with. Admittedly i am if nothing else perennially crazy mad
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 11/20/2020 12:33:00 PM
Cheers David Wow so thats how they manage to do it. Pretty Grimm

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