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Dunstan Times, Issue 2712, 27 April 1914, Page 8

Convicts at the penitentiary at Perth. Scotland, are used instead ol horses to draw a plough. The farm attached to the prison can ho seen iron the road, and it is said that the convicts resent the public gazing at thenwhile they are compelled to do such work. A correspondent who _ interviewed an official at the large prison at Glasgow was informed, however, that the prisoners are fond of the opportunity of having open-air work, and so fourteen or fifteen convicts are attached to each plough; there is no charge of overwork. They are seen at work by the public at the Glasgow centre, said the official, and rather like sceiin; the people than otherwise. No one < is allowed to take snapshots of the prisoners at work.