The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - Barbarous Prison Customs

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(source: NIU Libraries)
Online Full Text: Northern Illinois University
Series: Good News v. 14 no. 343 — page 8
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: Good News, v. 14, no. 343, November 28, 1896 (Issue)
Date: November 28, 1896
First Sentence: When the prisoner in Morocco hears the doors of the jail close behind him, he knows if he be poor and without friends, however trivial be the offense for which he has been imprisoned, that he may possibly not leave those walls alive.
Last Sentence: When a prisoner is an absolute pauper, and unable to purchase food, the authorities give him a small piece of coarse bread, provided by religious endowment, sufficient to prolong the agonies of starvation.

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