 | Richard Harvey Phelps - American Confederate voluntary exiles - 1876 - 138 pages
...together, good and bad, young and old to brew mischief, and to teach new vices to those unpracticed. Their midnight revels, as may be supposed, were often...impute blame to the officers or guard of the prison. Although they were many times in fault, still, as the prison was constructed, and in the way that service... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - American literature - 1876 - 524 pages
...could never make devils into men." The prisoners educated one another in crime. "Their midnight revels were often like the howling in a pandemonium of tigers, banishing sleep and forbidding rest !" Nearly all the county jails had what were called "dungeons," or cells not fit for hum an beings,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - American literature - 1876 - 508 pages
...could never make devils into men." The prisoners educated one another in crime. " Their midnight revels were often like the howling in a pandemonium of tigers, banishing sleep and forbidding rest !" Nearly all the county jails had what were called "dungeons," or cells not fit for human beings,... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - Democracy - 1885 - 550 pages
...well suited to make men into devils.' The prisoners educated one another in crime. The midnight revels were often like the howling in a pandemonium of tigers, banishing sleep and forbidding rest ! " At Northampton, Massachusetts, a dungeon is described, only four feet high, without window or chimney,... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1886 - 552 pages
...well suited to make men into devils.' The prisoners educated one another in crime. The midnight revels were often like the howling in a pandemonium of tigers, banishing sleep and forbidding rest ! " At Northampton, Massachusetts, a dungeon is described, only four feet high, without window or chimney,... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1887 - 396 pages
...well suited to make men into devils.' The prisoners educated one another in crime. The midnight revels were often like the howling in a pandemonium of tigers, banishing sleep and forbidding rest ! " At Northampton, Massachusetts, a dungeon is described, only four feet high, without window or chimney,... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1893 - 582 pages
...well suited to make men into devils.' The prisoners educated one another in crime. The midnight revels were often like the howling in a pandemonium of tigers, banishing sleep and forbidding rest ! " At Northampton. Massachusetts, a dungeon is described, only four feet high, without window or chimney,... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Industries - 1928 - 536 pages
...could never make devils into men." The prisoners educated one another in crime. "Their midnight revels were often like the howling in a pandemonium of tigers, banishing sleep and forbidding rest !" . . . Worse even than the overcrowding was the indiscriminate association, in the American prisons,... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - Travel - 2005 - 433 pages
...well suited to make men into devils.' The prisoners educated one another in crime. The midnight revels were often like the howling in a pandemonium of tigers, banishing sleep and forbidding restl "At Northampton, Massachusetts, a dungeon is described, only four feet high, without window or... | |
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The system,' says the writer quoted above, ' was very well suited to make men into devils.' The prisoners educated one another in crime. The midnight revels were often like the howling in a pandemonium of tigers, banishing sleep and forbidding rest... 