Elizabeth was raised in an industrial school and rarely saw her mother. She remembered she was often kept from her sixth grade classes to scrub the floors, chop wood or peel potatoes. That year she missed about 70 days of school. Once she got to Peacock Lane, Elizabeth didn't go to school at all. We had cells and we didn't have toilets, we had pots and we were locked in from the outside. You could only open your window maybe an inch or two when the lights were out. The lights used to go over in pitch dark. We'd be standing up there chatting to each other above nothing. We were just talking rubbish.