 From one end of the shops to the other, it is the testimony of many witnesses that they have passed more than three hundred convicts without seeing one leave his work, or turn his head to gaze at them. There is the most perfect attention to business from...  Reports of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston - Page 29by Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1855Full view - About this book
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...heard ; though the silenoe is such that a whisper might be heard through the whole apartment. "Froiji one end of the shops to the other, it is the testimony...till night, interrupted only by the time necessary to cat, and never by the fact, that the whole body of prisoners have done their tasks, and the time is... | |
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...the table, form in solid columns, and return under the eyes of the turnkeys to the workshops. "Prom one end of the shops to the other, it is the testimony...tasks and the time is now their own, and they can do as they please. "At the close of the day, a little before sunset, the work is all laid aside, at once,... | |
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...the softest sound, they rise from the table, form in solid columns, and return under the eyes of the turnkeys to the workshops. "From one end of the shops...till night, interrupted only by the time necessary to dine—and never by the fact that the whole body of prisoners have done their tasks and the time is... | |
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...the softest sound, they rise from the table, form the solid columns, and return, under the eye of the turnkeys, to the workshops. From one end of the shops...tasks, and the time is now their own, and they can do as they please. At the close of the day, a little before sunset, the work is all laid aside at once,... | |
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