Between the beatings from the guards and the “group shower aerobics,” inmates find themselves with plenty of time to think and use their imagination. Some write poetry, some take classes and attain their high school degrees, and others, well, they come up with creative ways of making “hooch.”
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, “hooch” is slang for moonshine, or any home-made alcoholic concoction that will get you drunk.
In a strange twist of events, a prison on the Isle of Portland in Dorset installed numerous alcohol-based hand gel pumps, in an effort to combat the H1N1 virus, or swine flu. The idea was a good one, as hand-washing is the No.1 method of preventing the spread of flu germs. But the key ingredient in the hand-wash is alcohol, and some imaginative prisoners decided to get their drunk on by ingesting the gel. Some drank it straight-up, while others mixed it with sugar and fruit to make “hooch.”
Prison officials had to remove the wall-mounted hand sanitizers mere hours after installing them, thanks to a drunken fight between inmates. As it turns out, this whole mess could have been avoided, had the prison gone with a non-alcohol based hand foam which did the same job. Only it was more expensive than the gel, and was disregarded.
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I find this story hard to believe. Prison Hooch takes longer than a few hours to make. Your story does not make clear how they accomplished this, unless they were eating some sort of sugar, fruit, soap mixture.
Sure, it sounds cool, but there are no hard facts to verify.
The only thing about prison hooch that takes a long time to make is the alcohol. If that part is already done for you in the form of a alcohol-based hand-wash then all you have to do is make it palatable – instant hooch.
I find this story hard to believe. Prison Hooch takes longer than a few hours to make. Your story does not make clear how they accomplished this, unless they were eating some sort of sugar, fruit, soap mixture.
Sure, it sounds cool, but there are no hard facts to verify.
The only thing about prison hooch that takes a long time to make is the alcohol. If that part is already done for you in the form of a alcohol-based hand-wash then all you have to do is make it palatable – instant hooch.
… or any home-made alcoholic concoction that will get you drunk. … The weapon in question was a milk carton full of feces. …
These sentences caught my eye. I’m doing research(writing a book- one chapter about liquor)and have already glanced over “jail house hooch”. Even included a recipe for Raisin Jack, but not Pruno. I ran across some information that suggested that: some South American Indians had learned to boil human feces (full of fermenting carbohydrates), thereby extracting nearly 80 proof alcohol. The source said that they been doing this for 1000 yrs and were still doing so. It may sound “fishy”, but is perfectly feasible at the same time. I’m looking for any proof or veracity that I can find. Any constructive comments welcome.
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It sounds an interesting book, one that I am sure would interest readers of this site. I would be happy to review it for you once it is written if you are able to send me a copy (digital or otherwise).
… or any home-made alcoholic concoction that will get you drunk. … The weapon in question was a milk carton full of feces. …
These sentences caught my eye. I’m doing research(writing a book- one chapter about liquor)and have already glanced over “jail house hooch”. Even included a recipe for Raisin Jack, but not Pruno. I ran across some information that suggested that: some South American Indians had learned to boil human feces (full of fermenting carbohydrates), thereby extracting nearly 80 proof alcohol. The source said that they been doing this for 1000 yrs and were still doing so. It may sound “fishy”, but is perfectly feasible at the same time. I’m looking for any proof or veracity that I can find. Any constructive comments welcome.
Cactusbush [at] gmail [dot] com
Note: I removed the “@” and “.” from your email account to make it less accessible to web spiders.
It sounds an interesting book, one that I am sure would interest readers of this site. I would be happy to review it for you once it is written if you are able to send me a copy (digital or otherwise).