:55:02
...get new books in here,
"Mr.Dufresne, if you please."
:55:06
I'll ask the warden for funds.
:55:09
Six wardens have been through here
in my tenure, and I've learned...
:55:13
...one immutable, universal truth:
:55:16
Not one born whose asshole...
:55:17
...wouldn't pucker up tighter than
a snare drum when you ask for funds.
:55:23
- The budget's stretched thin as it is.
- I see.
:55:26
Maybe I could write the state senate
and request funds from them.
:55:30
They have only three ways to spend
the taxpayers' money for prisons:
:55:34
More walls, more bars, more guards.
:55:37
I'd like to try, with permission.
A letter a week.
:55:40
- They can't ignore me forever.
- Sure can.
:55:43
But you write your letters
if it makes you happy.
:55:46
I'll even mail them for you.
How's that?
:55:50
So Andy started writing
a letter a week...
:55:53
...just like he said.
:55:59
And like Norton said...
:56:02
...Andy got no answers.
:56:11
The following April, he did tax returns
for half the guards at Shawshank.
:56:17
Year after that, he did them all...
:56:20
...including the warden's.
:56:24
Year after that, they
rescheduled the intramural season...
:56:27
...to coincide with tax season.
:56:31
The guards on the opposing teams
all remembered to bring their W-2s.
:56:36
So Moresby Prison...
:56:37
...issued you a gun,
but you paid for it.
:56:40
Right. The holster too.
:56:42
That's tax-deductible.
You can write that off.
:56:45
Yes, sir!
Andy was a regular cottage industry.
:56:48
In fact, it got so busy at tax time,
he was allowed a staff.
:56:53
Could you hand me
a stack of 1040s?
:56:56
Got me out of the wood shop a month out
of the year, and that was fine by me.