CHRISTMAS IN PRISON
Christmas Day counts as a Sunday at Dartmoor. A prisoner rises at 7 instead of the usual 5 n.m. After making his bed and tidying his fell, the convict has his breakfast —a pint of tea. eight ounces of brown bread and half* an ounce of margarine or butter. He takes exercise between 9 and 10.15; then there i> a service in the chapel, which is decorated in the usual Christinas fashion. This must depress the men, whose thoughts cannot help reverting to happier times. Later there comes the Christmas dinner, but the every-day routine is still followed. Tf Christmas Day falls on a Tuesday the convict gets mutton; if on a Sunday cold j oined beep and a piece of plum pudding, etc. At three- o’clock there is another service, and then supper, which consists of eight ounces of bread and some cocoa. The convict must hate Christmas Day!
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2675, 22 December 1923, Page 1
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153CHRISTMAS IN PRISON Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2675, 22 December 1923, Page 1
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