Chapter Ten Finding Norma Grassley The abuses didn’t end that night. The guards took Violet to the lower level of the jail for several nights and tormented her mercilessly until they were finally ready for the screwing to begin. No one knew about these get-togethers except a small cadre of men who weren’t about to spill their nasty secret. The abuse might have gone on for weeks, but on Friday morning, when it was time for Violet’s weekly shower in the ladies bathhouse, the matron in attendance had a screaming fit about the marks she saw on Violet’s body. The battered prisoner was quickly transferred to a different section of the jail, away from the male guards, and where she could be looked after by Fanny, a motherly matron who would have run a knife through the gut of any man who tried

