FIREARMS & FAMILIARITY
FEATURE OF AMERICAN PRISONS LONDON, Oct. 19. Mr. Alexander Patterson, Commissioner of Prisons, described his recent - tour of American' prisons in addressing j the Howard League for Penal Reform j on Wednesday “Discipline in American prisons is an | extraordinary combination of familiarity i and firearms,” he declared. “As you : go through the gate of a prison you see j a veritable armory of rifles, machine- ! guns, gas bombs and tear bombs—which ' are used. They put 70 bullets into one man. | “Yet in the presence of that armory, as a prisoner goes forward or backward a guard will say, ‘Morning, Joe,.’ arid , back comes the reply, ‘Morning, Bill,’ ”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17640, 2 December 1931, Page 9
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109FIREARMS & FAMILIARITY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17640, 2 December 1931, Page 9
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