A FLOATING PRISON
SHIP TO CARRY CONVICTS. LONDON, March 29. In spite of an election promise to abolish the notorious penal settlement at Devil’s Island, French Guiana, says a messagefrom Paris, 684 convicts are sh rtly to be shipped there, caged like wild beasts aboard the La Martinier, which is a model prison ship, with steel decks and walls. This will be the first shipment since 1924. Many of the convicts have been reprieved from the guillotine. They will receive good rations, including meat and a bottle of wine every day. Every precaution has been taken against a possible mutiny. Armed guards will continuously parade the iron gratings above the cells, and the ship is fitted with piping, whereby the simple turning of a tap will open jets of boiling water and steam among the prisoners.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 10
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136A FLOATING PRISON Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 10
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