That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 04, 2019

The guard was beginning to get dizzy watching the prisoners go around and around.

Jimmy was offended because Stan just made fun of the way he was dressed.

Guard humming Frankie Valli – “You’re just too good to be true, can’t take my eyes off of you…”

Chuck had asked the guard if once, just once, they could walk counter-clockwise. But had he listened? N-o-o-o. He just treated him like he was some kind of criminal.

“You’ll come back to me, Larry, you know you will. You’ll forgive me and come back………see you back at the cell.”

The guy on the right has just been stopped by the gas cloud emitted by the guy determinedly walking away from the guard who just told him to stop farting around and around and around….

The sequel, The Shawshank Defection, just didn’t have the same pizazz.

well, all right then, have it your way – i just thought that the hokey pokey would be a nice change of pace…

Peter had joined what he thought was a game of Follow-The-Leader, but that was 17 years ago. He was tired of the game, but everyone else still seemed to be into it…

Worst game of musical chairs, ever.

“Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch…..did someone say Niagara Falls?”

For Hank, the worst thing about prison wasn’t the lack of freedom, or the food, or having the same routine day in and day out. It was being forced to wear the the same thing as everybody else. The exact. Same. Thing.

Olive – it’s not the only thing that looks DRAB !

They once tried dressing them like sheep but the guards kept falling asleep counting them.

Well if that’s the way you’re gonna be…..

4,123…4,124…4,125…..What did you say? 1….2….3

“They squeak. 40 pence and they squeak like a church mouse. I’m getting my money back.”

“All roight, you lot – ’oo’s ‘ummin’ the ‘Col. Bogey March’? This ain’t a bloomin’ party !”

All right, if you’re going to be that way I’m going to take my ball and go home - if I can find my ball - if they let me go home.

The prison’s Circular Walking Rehabilitation Program was quite successful at creating productive Round-About Repairmen upon their release.

Rollie didn’t mind playing the prison’s daily Electric Musical Chairs game, as much as he hated their constantly playing Pop Goes the Weasal.

Well, it beats marching up and down the square, although I really would prefer to catch a movie.

Retribution: 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?id=127115 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting (strip has cropped, horizontally flipped image of it), including my just added description.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/frith_william_powell.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=2768 

http://www.all-art.org/history400.html 

http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095836200 

http://www.theknohlcollection.com/portfolio/detail/unknown-artist-19th-century-3/ 

http://www.avictorian.com/Frith_William.html 

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/william-frith.htm 

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/frith/index.html 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/183 

all have info, or links that point to more info. about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 10 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/10/03?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2300 (October 3, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

I hear that whistle blowin’ /it hears me blowin’, too/ an’ if we keep on blowin’/ pretty soon we’ll both be blew/ an’ I’m here in Redding Prison, an’ my cellmate is eight feet tall/ an’ I’m spendin’ ev’ry evenin’/ with my face against the wall…/ …My cellmate is a monster/ my cellmate is a brute/ my cellmate likes to catch me /in my birthday suit../an’ I’m here in Redding Prison/ etc…Apologies to Johnny Cash

The guard wondered if he should report the increased humming of the “Bridge on the River Kwai” theme.

" I say, old chap, can you give me the name of your tailor? His darts are to die for! "

The only chair available was electric, so everybody prefered to stand.

in foreground Thomas was thought of as weird, and left him alone but at nigh everyone loved him.

((“They were worth three packs of cigarettes not one! Shower time will be nighty-night time for him!”))