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say what's it like being an inmate? What it was like was that I was just an ordinary bloke
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in the jail and no different from anyone else, but I was studying and they the inmates [clears throat] liked it.
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They well, you know, respected it. They they used to when I was studying at during the day
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they'd they'd keep turned down their radios. They, you know, oh and they'd bring me a cup of tea at
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smoke-o time. Knock on just on my door. Excuse me, dream dealer. Do you want to come Would you like a cup of tea?
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Thanks, mate. Yeah, sure. Yeah, mate. And they'd bring me in a cup of tea. And and they'd keep their keep their
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radios down and all that, you know, so that I could study. They were fantastic. And the screws were amazing as well, you
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know? The screws were the same. They knew I was studying and they and they'd
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just come and they'd knock on my door when they wanted to do a cell search. Excuse me, Newbolt.
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No, they'd call me Greg actually cuz we're all on first name terms up there.
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Um [snorts] we're first name terms with the screws and they would and they'd say, "Excuse me, Greg. Mind
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if we had a have a look around?" I said, "Oh, yeah, sure, Mr. I'll just wait
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outside." And they'd, you know, look around and lift my papers up cuz my cell
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was a mess.