Yes, must be a weird experience for both sides. For the two inmates, exactly fitted out in the same way, even the padlock fixing their belly-chain being on the same central spot at the back, right above their ass. Only that of the left inmate is swinging to the left, that of the right inmate to the right. As if the guards had looked for symmetry!
It must be weird to stand their, while even your handcuffs stay locked on, connected to your belly-chain at the front. Presumably they will even here wear leg-irons too, as this is mandatory for each step that prisoners take outside their cell-block. Par example, when inmates have to work outside, doing community work, also when it’s not a real chaingang. I came across a nice series at tumblr that illustrates this.
At first glance, from a distance, this looks like just a normal work crew from the municipal field service, cleaning the roadside in their usual brightly colored orange uniforms. A normal scene thus.
But what the hell in that case is this uniformed guard doing there??? He is even armed! Why that? How many passengers in passing cars will wonder about this?
Only if you get much closer, get out of your car, and walk onto the shoulder of the road can you see what’s hidden from view by the tall grass in the distance: these workers are in a rather special way secured. They are prisoners, and as such are all wearing leg-irons, and this makes them safe. Indestructible locked around their ankles, the short connecting chain between the cuffs forces them to make only small steps and thus prevent them from suddenly running away.
They not only prevent this just in a practical sense, it also does in a mental way, as even the knowledge you’re in leg-irons already prevents the idea of trying to escape from even taking hold, as they with each step reminds you to the fact that you’re a prisoner now.
Only when they leave the grassy verge and walk along the road itself, accompanied bey their armed guards, you can see the leg irons—and probably hear them too, every time the rattling chain between their shackled ankles hits the asphalt with another step.
But even then, you have to look closely; it’s only noticeable at second glance, you will not recognize it immediately. Or did you in this pic?
Now, in that classroom, there are just two of them, shackled and dressed the same. But in their new ‘normal’ life at prison home they mostly are part of a bigger group of inmates when marched by the guards to and through or on their way to some special prison van.
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