Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

This also produces some mental wellbeing, which is then augmented by a
general desire to want to know and to understand the law as it applies to a
prisoner’s conviction. Hence, the ‘Bluey’ mystery is something that leaves
things up in the air, a kind of secret that needs to be revealed. A man who
kills another man for whatever reason, then admits to the crime can adjust
for the years spent in penal servitude. But there is a nagging doubt about
someone who publicly has his story told and guilt is unresolved. Hence the
questions: Where is Bluey?; Did he ever exist?; Was he a mere drifter who
drifted off after the murder?; or Was he himself done in?
Such questions are asked by CTC inmates when they read that newspaper
article in the Library. Official answers are not forthcoming, which elicits
mental resignation and a fleeing into religious devotion or, worryingly, there
is a determination on some inmates’ part to flush out the truth of the matter
by indirect confrontation with the man who was involved in the whole affair.
Whether the Bluey mystery gains folk-lore status remains to be seen. Still,
prison inmates’ relatives are asked to bother about the Bluey matter. But on
the outside of prison most individuals are not interested in knowing about
the Bluey mystery.
The premier’s promise to be tough on crime acquired a different focus
when he became the object of someone’s frustrations.
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