Prisoners' life in Victoria Prison

The prison lights went on at 6am every day. The inmates would get out of the cell blocks carrying 2 buckets with them, one for water and the other one with their excrements. The inmates needed to clean their excrement buckets, made up their beds and lined up at the dining hall for breakfast. Victoria Prison served as a reception centre in the 1960s, so the inmates were not required to work.