The cell department is described in the novel as follows: "... brick instead of wood, with a horrible bare metal roof that glared in the summer sun like a delirious eyeball. Six cells inside, three on each side of a wide centre aisle, each almost twice as big as the cells in the other four blocks. Singles, too." Besides this description it is worth noting that the floors are of lime green colour that has given the block the name "Green Mile". In the movie the block was looking like this:

Almost all the main events happen on the cell department. This is natural, as the prisoners spend their 90 days in this part of the block. They only leave their cells when going out, to wash themselves and when they are executed.

If you look at the ground plan of the cell department you can see that the cells are numbered from 1 to 6. The numbers aren't in any way "official" cell numbers but I put them there to help you to understand the following. Even if the novel didn't give a clear picture of in which cells where the prisoners situated (well, it isn't that important either...) I pictured the following:

- In cell I was Arlen Bitterbuck or "the Chief" as he was called because was an indian.

- In cell II they held William Wharton. His nicknames "Wild Bill" and "Billy the Kid" describe him very well.

- Cell III was empty during the whole time.

- Cell IV was Arthur Flanders who was called "the Pres". His death penalty was later on turned into a normal life long sentence and he was transfered to D-block.

- Cell V was Eduard "Del" Delacroix's and later on also "Mr. Jingles".

- Cell VI was habited by the wonder man, John Coffey "...like the drink, only not spelled the same way".

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