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CONVICT SNOBS.

DEMAND FOR SEPARATE...TABLES.' '.'■ There has, been- a recent movement 'for separate-tables at-meals Among the convicts at the prison "hotel" at .Camp Hill, Isle of Wight, whore an attempt is made to reform convicts by special, privileges. Meal times at Camp Hill ■ aro social functions, which the warders are not permitted to disturb.. These old habitual criminals who have- ' been '-'granted ■ many comforts by- the authorities..':. have..' after-dinner ■ chats which are often of a strictly confidential nature. / - .: .Lately a distinct "caste"'feeling has "sprung up. - The more ■ notorious men have formed a clique. They decline to discuss subjects with men of. less repute. ■ Apart from this purely professional jealousy there are sharp cleavages of opinion, religions, moral, and political, which have he-en so marked ■that further controversy on gentlemanly lines is out of the question. The rns'ult is that things have not- been so happy as formerly at the leng tables in the dining-room. Several men have tho habit of leaning across! tho tnblo confidentially -and ignoring their, n-eigte bourn altogether. These slights have not'been unheeded, and thus the demand lias arison for the abolition of .the old'boarding-house maimer and Cm j pro-vision.of smaller tables.. At present the authorities have d-c-clined to make any-, change.

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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1958, 15 January 1914, Page 8

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CONVICT SNOBS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1958, 15 January 1914, Page 8

CONVICT SNOBS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1958, 15 January 1914, Page 8

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