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TIL that in 1987, a prison inmate, Ronnie Lee Gardner, broke a glass partition and knocked out the lights in the prison visiting area to have sex with a woman who was visiting him. The other inmates cheered and barricaded the doors. Gardner later claimed breaking the glass was an accident.

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