STROLLED OUT AT NIGHT

Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 17

STROLLED OUT AT NIGHT

PRISONERS IN GUERNSEY DANCING AND JOY RIDING Frets Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 12. As illustrating the truth, of the philosophy that stone walls do ■ not a prison make, it has been revealed that prisoners, in Guernsey have been strolling out almost every night for two years andi returning for breakfast. The disclosure followed the discovery that a prisoner was missing from a cell late at night and returned at 5 a.m. He was serving a long term, and his privileges included an unlocked cell at nights because he stayed up after the warders Had gone to bed laying fires and washing dishes. He also occasionally washed l the gaol keys, of which he took impressions and duplicated them in the prison workshops. He shared the keys with his fellow prisoners, averaging four to eight in'number, who spent the nights _ dancing, visiting their homes, and joy-riding in stolen cars.