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Amer. Prisons and Prison Customs 223: [T]he severer punishment of the dark cell and the ‘cooler,’ a synonym for the dark cell.at dark cell (n.) under dark, adj.
Amer. Prisons and Prison Customs 223: [T]he severer punishment of the dark cell and the ‘cooler,’ a synonym for the dark cell. Amer. Prisons and Prison Customs 223: [He] was put into the ‘dungeon’ and subjected to cruelties of treatment that horrified the State when published.at dungeon, n.
Amer. Prisons and Prison Customs 75: The board said flat-footedly that the system of a three-grade classification was impossible.at flat-footed, adj.1
Amer. Prisons and Prison Customs 38: Yet in the granting of pardon [...] there lies inherent the great possibilities of apparent favoritism. [...] Politics could ‘get’ to the governor of the State, for it was only by the governor that a pardon could be given.at get to, v.
Amer. Prisons and Prison Customs 62: They become the ‘second-termers,’ the ‘third-termers,’ the ‘repeaters,’ the ‘habituals,’ of the prison statistics.at repeater, n.
Amer. Prisons and Prison Customs 303: Thus did one of the earliest reform schools go on record as intolerant of ‘snitching,’ and of government through stool pigeons.at snitching, n.
Amer. Prisons and Prison Customs 177: [I]t is the earliest instance we have found in the new system of anything approaching the ‘trusty’ system.at trusty, n.2
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