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... prisons are employed in road making , pasture cleaning , and other agricultural works . In Kingston the streets are ... prisoners , who are brought into the prison under masks as hideous as those of a San Benito , do all the washing of ...
... prisons are employed in road making , pasture cleaning , and other agricultural works . In Kingston the streets are ... prisoners , who are brought into the prison under masks as hideous as those of a San Benito , do all the washing of ...
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... prisoners have the thick iron doors of their cells closed during both the day and the night ; the white prisoners , on the other hand , are confined behind an iron grating , which admits both air and light . To the negro imprisonment is ...
... prisoners have the thick iron doors of their cells closed during both the day and the night ; the white prisoners , on the other hand , are confined behind an iron grating , which admits both air and light . To the negro imprisonment is ...
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... himself at the table below . The prisoner has pleaded " Guilty not " to the infor- mation which charges him with having publicly uttered " certain abusive and calumnious language to the informant 96 COUNTRY LIFE IN JAMAICA .
... himself at the table below . The prisoner has pleaded " Guilty not " to the infor- mation which charges him with having publicly uttered " certain abusive and calumnious language to the informant 96 COUNTRY LIFE IN JAMAICA .
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... prisoner ? W. - No , sa ! C. P. S. - What ! don't know the prisoner ? Did you never see him before ? W. - Oh yes , sa ! C. P. S. - Then why did you tell me you did not know him ? Now be careful ! Do you remember the 10th July of this ...
... prisoner ? W. - No , sa ! C. P. S. - What ! don't know the prisoner ? Did you never see him before ? W. - Oh yes , sa ! C. P. S. - Then why did you tell me you did not know him ? Now be careful ! Do you remember the 10th July of this ...
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... Prisoner ( interrupting ) -What does I says to you ? W. - Hi ! C. P. S. ( to prisoner ) -Hold your tongue , sir ; you will have an opportunity of cross - examining the 98 COUNTRY LIFE IN JAMAICA .
... Prisoner ( interrupting ) -What does I says to you ? W. - Hi ! C. P. S. ( to prisoner ) -Hold your tongue , sir ; you will have an opportunity of cross - examining the 98 COUNTRY LIFE IN JAMAICA .
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