[Mark17]

That’s a wall tower, and that’s how you get your lunch. Since you can’t leave your post, and if you didn’t bring your lunch with you that day, you have someone bring it to you. The officer working the tower lowers the bucket, and his lunch is put it in. Pull it back up, and you’ve got your lunch.

I worked a bunch of towers. I was taking stuff up, like ID cards, and other things, and was letting stuff down all the time, like keys, and other things.

[mass55th]

"I worked a bunch of towers. I was taking stuff up, like ID cards, and other things, and was letting stuff down all the time, like keys, and other things. "

I was second officer for a time on Auburn's roof post which overlooked two yards. Since we couldn't leave, we'd have somebody bring us something from the officers' mess when all the inmates were locked in their cells. We used buckets on a rope. Also, from time to time I had to cover the gas booth in one of the messhalls there. Transferred out of there in '83, and went to work at a medium A prison. We only had one tower there, and that overlooked the front salleyport entrance, and vehicle entrance gates.