Summary

In Chapter 56, Neil and Link joined up after the meeting, just as guards began rushing about. Mrs. Woodson (from the education department) ushered them into the education building where she counted the inmates. After the counting confirmed that someone had run away, Ms. Woodson told Neil he would begin teaching a GED class the following Monday morning.

The next page shows the cemetery at Carville. Many of the stones carried the aliases residents used to protect their families. In Chapter 57, Link was assigned to weed-eat around the tombstones at the Carville cemetery. Link was superstitious, and his fears became more pronounced when another inmate was bitten by a snake. More inmates arrived, and the Department of Prisons planned to take over the entire facility. Link wished he could arrange to write letters to Ella if she was transferred, but she said she never...