he found he said everything about clemens bewildering and shocking.the lack of privacy about the foul mouths and the stinging quirks of the field bosses, the demeaning nicknames bestowed by the guard, bug eyed, tar baby, learning what he described as his old plantation songs that helped ease the work and pass the time. by the 1940s, formal wedding had been prohibited, but officers and more commonly their convicts enforcers known as building tenders engaged in a whole panoply of punishment for all manner of disciplinary infraction. for very cotton picking, a prisoner might be order to ballot for three hours on a two by four called the rail. forbade i a guard he might have to stay up all night shelling peanuts only to be encountered if you began at dawn. for a sold or for more serious, or more serious rule violation, convicts would lose points towards parole or get what they call it tuneup which involve slapping and verbal abuse in the majors office. but for something more serious, assault on a guard or attempted to escape from an inmate could extend ex