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Oscar Castro

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Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

Like maybe 10 minutes after we would put it in his coffee, he was out like a light.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

So we made it a normal routine to every day after we got locked in our cell at 7 p.m., you know, we would, you know, make a sandwich, coffee, hot chocolate.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

You know, we'd have like a little snack.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

And there was always one guy that he always prepared everything.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

He would do the hot chocolate, coffee, whatever.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

And he knew to put the drops in this guy's coffee.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

So that's what we did.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

And we would do that not every single day, but probably three or four times a week.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

We would do that.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

He would knock out and we would get to work.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

We were able to bring down this wooden cupboard and we would start cutting because we got a saw in.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

that we paid for and we would start cutting the walls.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

So the wall there, it was like, that jail is probably like 130, 140 years old.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

So this is like plaster.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

And if you get hot water, you know, you get in a little bucket and you start splashing it and you start hitting it with this, you know, little saw or like we had like a Phillips head screwdriver as well.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

These little chunks would just start coming off and it would just start disintegrating.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

And we could actually wash this in the sink and it would just go, it would turn, basically it turned into like sand.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

So we cut the hole.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

You know, it took us, I don't know, I would say maybe two, three months to do it every day.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Survived 7 Years in the World’s Toughest Prison

We also had to put it back, secure it.