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Hello several decades ago along with the late Stanley Cohen I wrote a book called Psychological Survival. It was based on

extensive interviews with a group of highly dangerous criminals who were housed in

the notorious Ewing of Durham prison.

Now one of the matters that interested us was the relationship between these men.

Their lengthy sentences of up to 30 years, a penal consequence of the abolition of the death penalty, and the highly confined, even

claustrophobic nature of the E-wing that housed them, meant that criminals from quite different

defending backgrounds, armed robbers, leaders

of violent gangs and individual murderers were necessarily in regular intimate contact with each

other. Now we did hear of internal disputes and even

one stabbing but we also learned the peculiar sort of harmony that seemed to

exist among the significant group of inmates who had dedicated themselves to weightlifting.

As one inmate told us,

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