Chapter 4 七

Toms New Arrivals Maybe a psychopath. He killed them, that's all. And I'm here.' As simple as that. And he was condemned to spend the rest of his life in Shawshank or the part of it that mattered. Five years later he began to have parole hearings, and he was turned down just as regular as clockwork in spite of being a model prisoner. Getting a pass out of Shawshank when you've got murder stamped on your admittance-slip is slow work, as slow as a river eroding a rock. Seven men sit on the board, two more than at most state prisons, and every one of those seven has an ass as hard as the water drawn up from a mineral-spring well. You can't buy those guys, you can't no, you can't cry for them. toms store As far as the board concerned, money don't talk, and nobody walks. Pc other reasons in Andy's case as well .. but that belongs a little further along in my story.