In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison
According to the author, what was it like to be in the blackout cell?
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The blackout cell is a cell with no light and used for punishment. A prisoner is only given one bowl of broth a biscuit each day and Abbott describes how dust would choke his lungs and how insects would crawl over him. After twenty three days he was close to a nervous breakdown.
In the Belly of the Beast