The Early Days Of Devil’s Island: An Occupational Hazard>Act 7

One in five prisoners attempted suicide & succeeded every three days during Old Black Devil’s two-year regime>Devil’s Island factoid

A strange yet powerful stench seems to permeate the air in and around Devil’s Island lately. Some say the namesake of Devil’s Island is back to pay a friendly visit, while still others say it’s payback time for her untimely demise.

In the early days of Friendly Island, it was quiet. Things around Friendly Island ran smoothly. There were no complaints. Everyone was friendly with each other. There were no such emotions as anger and hostility. It was considered illegal to harbor such feelings.

Then one day when no one expected it, a rather grey, dreary, dark & black thick fog rolled across Friendly Island and out of the thickness, stepped Groggleman and a great-horned she-devil, whom most referred to as Old Black Devil.

The attitudes on Friendly Island changed forever from the day forward. For a time afterwards, Va-Va-Voom’s mood changed from rainbow bright to haunted forest green.

Friendly Island slowly began to change, from an island where happiness & joy were abundant, to its current name Devil’s Island where chaos, anger & hostility ruled the roost solidly for the next two years.

Together as a team in more ways than one, Groggleman & Old Black Devil shaped the policies & rules that would dramatically decrease the prisoner ratio on Devil’s Island. Not only did Devil’s Island see an overnight increase, as high as 80 percent in the number of prisoner suicides, but attempted and successful prison escapes too.

Greg & Gracie Goon were instructed by both Groggleman & Old Black Devil to intimidate, harass, threaten & embarrass, and in some cases follow & wiretap specific prisoners & their cells.

Executions were talked about more frequently. Prisoner abuse was out of control. The more Old Black Devil applied pressure, Groggleman followed suit, as did upper prison brass.

It was beginning to look a lot like Hades-On-Earth, as far as the prison population was concerned and not many could stomach this new self-imposed and self-styled Marshall Law taking effect on the prisoners.