What the women needed to confirm, most often, was: Had their cellmate, unit mate, work partner, prayer-group associate, friend, fuck-friend, or enemy, had that person hurt a child or turned state's evidence?
The next day, though he was still off his meds and had just confessed to killing a previous cellmate, the manager of the November unit, Misty Olson, a 17-year CCA veteran, decided to place McCormick in a cell with Johnathan. .
But as he was moved from prison to prison, he said, he and his main cellmate, another American, were also held by a unit of Ahrar al-Sham, an Islamist group that works closely with the Free Syrian Army, a rebel umbrella group recognized by Western and Arab governments.
Some in those units have cellmates, but all have limited contact with others and may be allowed outside their cells for only an hour a day.
I remember the first time I walked into the unit and I was making my bed when my cellmate came into my cell and introduced himself.
My cellmate and I were two of the last people in our unit to receive our bags, and we were astonished, to be honest.
In February 2013, when Scortaoili's cellmate was sent "down the back", a prisoner term for Casuarina's detention unit, they requested to bunk together.
The extract came from an observation book for the unit covering the period from January to March 2000, when Mubarek was murdered by Robert Stewart, his cellmate in the Swallow wing.
Two weeks after his punishment ended, he and his cellmate got into a fistfight, and, at the end of August, both boys were transferred to the segregation unit.
A cellmate helped him understand internal politics.
