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Marlowe Kennedy jerked in surprise when one of the trustees yelled her
name loud enough to be heard over the noise of the hundreds of sewing
machines in the room.
Turning, she saw Yanisa scowling at her from just inside the door. She
didn’t immediately move because the last thing Marlowe wanted was to get
into trouble. Trustees were prisoners who’d been given a bit of power over
their fellow inmates. One word from a trustee to the guards and a prisoner
could find herself in solitary. Most of the women here were scared of the
trustees, and Marlowe couldn’t blame them.
The ratio of guards to prisoners in this awful penitentiary in Thailand
was something like twenty to one thousand. It was fear, or simply a lack of
will, on the prisoners’ parts that kept them from uprising. Most of the
women had been sentenced to life, Marlowe included.
It was unbelievable that barely a month ago, Marlowe had been an
esteemed archaeologist working on a dig not too far from Bangkok. She’d
been respected and considered an expert in her field. But now look at her.
She was a convicted drug dealer, according to the Thai government, thrown
away as if she was a piece of trash.
Her days were spent hunched over a sewing machine, stitching cheap
blouses, and her nights sleeping in a room crammed with at least a hundred
other women, lying shoulder to shoulder on a thin mattress that didn’t do a
damn thing to cushion her from the hard concrete floor.
“Marlowe!” Yanisa yelled again, more impatiently this time. She
gestured with her hand for her to come.
Standing, Marlowe made her way through the other women, who
seemed not curious in the least why she’d been called out by the trustee. Or
maybe they just knew better than to draw any attention to themselves by
stopping what they were doing.
When Marlowe got close to Yanisa, the woman reached out and
grabbed the front of her light-blue prisoner’s shirt and shook her. Marlowe’s
first instinct was to smack the woman’s hand off her, to shove her
backward, but if she did that, she’d go right back to solitary. It was
forbidden for any of the other prisoners to touch a trustee. But of course that
didn’t go both ways. The trustees could do whatever they wanted to the
women in their charge. They frequently kicked, punched, and sometimes
sexually assaulted others in the dark of night.
Such was life in this overcrowded and underfunded prison.
Yanisa turned, with a fistful of Marlowe’s shirt still in her hand, and
started walking toward the administrative building.
Dread rolled through Marlowe. She didn’t like anything about the
main building on the prison grounds. It was where the guards hung out. And
where interrogations took place. Marlowe had spent more than enough time
in one of the small rooms in the large brick building.
When she’d first been brought to the women’s prison from the
archaeological dig site, she thought she’d be able to explain that the yaba
pills found in her belongings weren’t hers. She thought she’d get a chance
to explain her side,
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