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Posted: 24 Sep 2016

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prison punishment box

prison punishment box
prison officers are called screws because they could tighten the screw to make it harder to turn the handle

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One of the forms of punishment was to crank a handle attached to a large wooden box. The cranking did nothing, other than turn a counter. The prisoner had to do 10,000 turns in eight hours, equivalent to one every three seconds or so. As an extra punishment a warder could tighten a screw to make turning more difficult. Warders came to be known as 'screws'.

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