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.  

from WeInterrupt