C61 You Have to Abide by the Rules

Life inside the cell block was monotonous. Being short-term inmates, we didn't have access to the work programs that could shave time off a sentence like in other prisons. Our days were spent eating three square meals and then killing time with nothing to do.

The food was notoriously subpar, despite the nine yuan per day national subsidy. What we actually got was a far cry from that amount