PRISON BARBARITIES.
DISCLOSURES IN CANADA. MEN HOSED TILL UNCONSCIOUS. (By Cable.—Pices Association—Ccpyright.) OTTAWA, Decomber 5. Extraordinary prison barbarities aro alleged by the Prison Investigation Committee 6 to have taken place at Kingston, Ontario. Convicts declared that when slight insubordination had been shown a hose was turned on them till unconsciousness supervened. Their cells wore walled up in order that the men would be unable to escape the icy cold water. One of the convicts was paralysed for three days after being hosed. Another declared that the water tore the flesh from nls arms and chest, and showed the ecars caused in this manner. Other punishments, such as strapping men to the cell bars by the hands, were described.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14843, 8 December 1913, Page 7
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118PRISON BARBARITIES. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14843, 8 December 1913, Page 7
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