Oops… prison accidentally labels area “execution yard”

by November 18, 2010 1643 Views

Lincoln Prison, you'll want to avoid the yard.


Russian speaking prisoners might be forgiven for having thought that there was more to British prisons than meets the eye, when a handbook distributed to them accidentally called the exercise yard the “execution yard”.

The nomenclature FUBAR was not the only complaint raised about the aging Victorian penitentiary in a report by the chief inspector of prisons.

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by C. S. Magor - Nov 18, 2010

by C. S. Magor - Nov 18, 2010

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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