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No, I wasn't. It was the the time when I when I when I came closest to being
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broken was when I was in class in classification at Pereimal Prison. That was the we went out to Perry the next
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day. Um and the environment in class was so bad. There was so much tension in that and that cell block. Um and we were
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locked up 23. You see the when I was on Ramand I was locked up 20 hours a day in
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class you're locked up 20 hours a day and when you're out there's so much
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tension there's young young no hope young buggers um trying to young ball busters trying to make names from
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them and standing over people and there was always that tension and that really got to my head. It really gets to your
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head when you got nothing to do but think >> and and listen to people being abused
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and stood over and and being bullied around and it didn't happen to me but you know just it was just a horrible
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horrible horrible environment >> and uh it was then that I I felt I was going to lose the plot and I was going
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to break that's when I went to the chief officer to John Jackson and Hob and uh
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Sid The ward said to me, "Right," and I told him exactly what was happening in
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my brain. He said, "All right." He said, "I'll I'll send you over. You could go
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over to Ablock tomorrow." Just like that. Just like that. And you know, when
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he said I could get I said he said, "Where do you want to?" I said, "I want
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to go anywhere. I want to get out of class. [snorts] You know, put me in the pound. Put me in solitary. I I can't
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handle anymore." So they put me over and and suddenly it all disappeared. You know, all the
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stress, everything just disappeared in a in an instant.