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9 BLUE SERGE SUITS FOE STATE , ' "GUESTS." By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Now Vorlt, December 3. The authorities at San Quentin Gaol, in California, ivhero tho averago prison population numbers two thousand convicts, have abandoned tho striped prison uniforms, substituting t'horofor a plain blue serge suit. The convicts wore assombled in tlio courtyard to watch the burning of the old suits, and tho prison band played until all were consumed. Six suits wero kept, to bo reserved for incorrigibles -sentenced to solitary confinement.
The prisoners aro now divided into three classes—ineorrigiblcs, those only ■behaving veil under compulsion, and au "honour class," consisting of men aware of the nature of their wrongdoing, and anxious for reformation. •
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1924, 5 December 1913, Page 7
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116CONVICT UNIFORMS BURNT Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1924, 5 December 1913, Page 7
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