 Why was it advantageous to the prisoners to make noise constantly?
He was a captain of guards in Estates-General Correctional Institution—better known to its inmates as the Jug—and if he hadn't been able to detect the scent of trouble brewing a cell-block away, he would never have survived to reach his captaincy. When you're in it, you don't much care what it is called; it is a place for punishment. She was in a detachment of three unfortunates like herself, convoyed by an irritable guard, climbing the steel steps toward Block O from the floor below, when she heard the yelling. "Owoo-o-o," screamed Sauer from one end of the cell block and "Yow-w-w!" shrieked Flock at the other.
 It drew attention away from their escape plan.
 It convinced the guards and others that they were crazy, and to leave them alone.  It intimidated new comers like Bradley.  It drew attention away from their escape plan.  It annoyed the guards, and made them go through their routes faster.