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Corrupting Testimonials
January 8, 1891 issue

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It is informed that the difference between a State prison or penitentiary and the tombs is that the two former are places of punishment, while the tombs is a place of detention in which persons are confined while awaiting trial or the execution of the death penalty, or in default of bail. The inmates of the Tombs, too, are a much smaller number than those of the penitentiaries, and therefore, on this account, that prison presents fewer difficulties of administration. It is opined that the character of jailer should in some degree depend on the character of his prisoners, and that if they are mostly riffraff, such as find their way to the Tombs for want of bail, anybody is good enough to take charge of them.

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PRISONS; CORRECTIONAL institutions; PRISONERS; INMATES of institutions; CAPITAL punishment; PRISON administration
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