From a view more meaningful for the few:
The only form of suicide significant is – mental.
Everyone is remembering that every bit of this Daily News, is never actually about the things it seems to be reporting on, but is about the things that go on in your mind? Right?
Once there, life-behind-bars cannot be explained. When you’re in it, you know you’re a’gin it, but you do not actually know why you don’t like it, you just know that you don’t. The inmates who make the necessary adjustment to prison life are those who squint up their eyes; scrunch up their minds, and pretend that the whole thing is not happening. In their heads, they constantly imagine that they are someplace else, even that they are someone else.
There is a secret wing that houses a small number of people who will not totally pretend, nor, in the alternative, make themselves entirely visible to the authorities.
Making fun of fellow inmates is about the only form of fun most prisoners find available to them.
J.