A Cautionary Tale for Expats in China – a Guest Post by Lionel Carver
Apparently, however, homosexual encounters do happen in a Chinese prison (as they do in U.S. prisions too).
One night I crawled up into my top bunk preparing for bed. I tried to fall asleep but the other inmates were still shuffling around and talking; one young man lit up a rolled piece of newspaper and began smoking it in lieu of actual tobacco.
Eventually everyone turned in for the night in spite of the fact that the lights stay on all night—I have learned that the Chinese can sleep through anything.
I thought I was the only person still awake when I heard one guy whispering to another.
Five minutes later, my metal-frame bunk bed began rocking back and forth. At first, I thought my bunk mate below was just getting up to take a leak, but the rocking never stopped.
Moaning and slapping noises ensued.
– rape inside American prisons –
Daring to peek over the edge of my bunk, I saw one guy atop another. When the top man had finished, he slid off and another inmate came over and climbed on top of the same bottom man (seems risky with that close-circuit camera watching what goes on inside the jail cell).
I didn’t know if I was witnessing a rape or if this threesome was consensual, and I was glad I wasn’t going to be in Chinese prison much longer to find out.
Overall, life in a Chinese prison is very boring. We never left our cells, and going outside was not allowed.
There are no sports.
We did exercise but to a short training video on the cell’s TV where we start off marching, swing our arms around, then touch our toes, and then perform jumping jacks.
There was no library, so books were very hard to come by; I was lucky to find an English book, one of those woman’s romance novels with a long-haired beefcake on the cover , which isn’t the kind of reading you want in a men’s prison.
Continued on October 8, 2011 in My Experience as an Inmate in a Chinese Jail – Part 5 or return to Part 3.
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