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It's absurd that they don't know each other


Three generations working at the same facility, the grandfather (Buck) with a rank of Captain, the father (Hank) with a rank of Colonel, and the son (Sonny) was a Lieutenant. They all must have been working there for quite a while to get their "officer" ranks, especially Hank. Leticia told her husband at the beginning of the movie that she has been visiting him for 11 years. Eleven years and she never once met Hank and Sonny during these visits? And in prison, especially, with death row inmates, officers such as Hank and Sonny must have known all the visitors of these inmates. These correctional officers do talk among themselves to pass on such info to each others in order to deal with the inmates' emotion when necessary. Even Buck knew who she was right after she told him her name is Leticia Musgrove.

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I doubt they ever met - not that she was given a grand tour of the death row and the electric chair with a meet and greet of the warden, executioners etc.

This looks like a huge prison facility with lots of guards and inmates, tight security and paramilitary discipline.

-- Mothershytter... Son of an ass!!

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and a lot of times people just walk past each other many times and never notice them...

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Buck was long retired and elderly. He knew of Leticia because he kept newspaper clippings of inmates who were going to be put to death in a bizarre scrapbook. Evidently, Sonny had no such fascination, it was just a job that his dad pushed him into.

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