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. . . just outside their prison walls, in case they made it over and needed to complete a quick getaway. The U.S. Constitution bars "cruel and unusual punishment," so penitentiary authorities lived by the motto, "You've Gotta Give 'Em Hope." Though most Lifers did not get reunited with their vehicles until after they completed their sentences, OVER THE WALL documents how "Benny Vigo" was the rare exception to this rule. By using a fake gun Benny escapes the state pen, and sure enough his car's there waiting for him with a fully-charged battery. (Doubtless prison officials supervised the trustees in their motor pool to keep every potential getaway vehicle in top-notch running order.) Then, as now, Papal Emissaries had the Final Say to rewrite how History happened for movie stories. Therefore, once Benny's gas-guzzling getaway car runs out of fuel, he bumps into the prison priest on the golf course. This Ecclesiastical Duffer soon convinces Benny that the food is too bland, and the tomatoes are smaller in the Real World than those to which he's become accustomed behind bars. So Benny joyfully rides back to jail for better grub.