Quiz Number One: 
The Pennsylvania 
Putrid Prison Quiz

By: George St. George

This short quiz is about prison and prison life in Pennsylvania. The answers have been researched by our Editor and are authoritative. We will award a collectible art print to the first 12 persons who send the correct answers or to the 12 entrants who, in the opinion of our judges give the best answers.

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  1. What punishment is officially authorized for a prisoner who opens a bar of soap he's bought in the prison commissary?
  2. What punishment and charge is officially imposed upon a prisoner whose 12 year old prison mattress is discovered to have a hole in it?
  3. In which Pennsylvania prison are more prisoners physically abused than in any other, and how many are abused annually? 
  4. When the taxpayers footed the $6000 bill to have 8 dogs and 17 guards search SCI-Smithfield for illegal drugs, what was the street value of all the drugs discovered? 
  5. On average, in Pennsylvania how much unencumbered space in square footage is provided for each prisoner where the federal mandated minimum is 72 square feet? 
  6. To what conditions, intrusions and invasions must a wife submit in order to visit her imprisoned husband? 
  7. When a Pennsylvania prisoner places a collect long distance telephone call (the only kind permitted) to his family, how much of the total fee charged to the family member goes directly into the state treasury? and how much is a windfall profit (more than the amount charged of other collect calls) for AT&T, the telephone service monopoly? 
  8. What benefits are provided to prisoners who are over 65 years old and unable to work in a Pennsylvania prison? 
  9. What is the legal sentence imposed upon a Pennsylvania life prisoner for spitting on a guard who has assaulted him? 
  10. What is the cost to the taxpayers for each guard and member of the prison staff for wages and benefits, as averaged out between all employees? 


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