PRISON HORRORS
AMERICA’S BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA TERRIBLE REVELATIONS IN PHILADELPHIA MEN SLOWLY TORTURED IN CELLS — By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. PHILADELPHIA, August 24. Investigators sent to the county prison here, following the discovery yesterday of four convicts dead in their cells as a result of a five-day hungerstrike, describe conditions in the isolation block as being like the Black Hole of Calcutta. They believe that the convicts were confined behind steel doors. The windows were closed, the water turned off and radiators heated to the limit so that men died slowly from the intense heat and suffocation. Nineteen other convicts have been admitted to hospital nearly dead. A message received yesterday stated that the hunger-strike began as a protest against what was described as monotonous food. The superintendent of the prison, William Mills, announced that the men committed suicide, but the coroner said that there were mysterious circumstances surrounding their deaths. Their bodies were black and blue, and the skin had been burnt off in places. The coroner declared that the men had been scalded to death.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 7
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177PRISON HORRORS Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 7
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