The runaways were brought back all blue

The day after he had been sentenced in the trial “Stříteský and associates,” Miloslav Bulva was already in Zámrsk. Upon arrival, the hair of the juvenile political prisoners was shaved, which was otherwise only customary for runaways, and scattered among the regular criminal offenders. The convicts in the process with Stříteský and associates were separate in different prisons. Compared to the conditions in the remand prison in Chrudim, where Miloslav spent a month before the trial, the conditions in Zámrsk were better and inmates got more food. Bulva states: “We were sent to cut beet. In doing so, we’d cut some beet for ourselves with those sickles and we ate it there, because they wanted heavy physical work from us and after staying for a month in Chrudim, where the food was inadequate, our physical condition worsened to the state of not even being able to cut the beet”. Miloslav Bulva remembers several attempts to escape on the part of some of the inmates. However, all of them ended with a failure. He remembers: “The runaways took a beating – they usually brought them back with all sorts of bruises and then they still got a few slaps in Zámrsk. I didn't try to run away as it was too far to the Western border anyway." According to Miloslav Bulva, the jail in Zámrsk wasn't so bad compared to what lay ahead of him after his release. He couldn't go back to school and could only choose from inferior jobs.