Word: warder
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...shuffling exercise routine in Mountjoy Prison was noisily disturbed when a helicopter suddenly settled in the yard, scattering prisoners in all directions. One Mountjoy warder thought it was a surprise visit from Defense Minister Patrick Donegan, who is fond of helihopping round the country. Instead, a masked man stepped down and trained a gun on the guards as three prisoners bolted forward and scrambled into the cabin of the chopper, which then whirred away. Freed in the daring daytime snatch, which took only a minute, were three top Provisionals: Seamus Twomey, 54, the former Provo chief of staff; Kevin Mallon...
...down in oval concavities to half their thickness. He shuddered. How many feet must have trodden them in 30 years, how many footsteps must have scraped over them to wear out the stone to such a depth! Of every two who had passed that way one had been a warder, the other?a prisoner...
...Surely it is more frightening when there are no actual horrors; what is terrifying is the unchanging routine year after year. The horror is forgetting that your life?the only life you have?is destroyed, is in your willingness to forgive even some ugly swine of a warder, is in being obsessed with grabbing a big hunk of bread in the prison mess or getting a decent set of underwear when they take you to the bathhouse...
...novel's beginning, its hero, "Y," is incarcerated in a small room from which he is allowed to emerge once or twice a day in the company of a guard-and then only to visit a man who is either his warder or his psychiatrist. Y has come to think of this man as the Hen, and his prison as the Henhouse. At first, the sessions between Y and warder seem to be a form of psychotherapy. But there is something sinister in the Hen's objective; he seems to want Y to wallow in instances of minor...
...them pause to reflect that in France, the most sophisticated country on earth, one could watch the guillotine at work in the public streets with sadistic indifference, while here in New Holland the aborigine, the most primitive of all human beings, burst into tears when he watched a warder flogging a prisoner...