1. PRISON TRAIN.
- Author
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English, Richard
- Subjects
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FIRST person narrative , *PRISONERS , *CRIMINAL sentencing - Abstract
The article relates the author's experience on his trip with a group of prisoners sentenced to serve at California State Penitentiary in San Quentin. He cites that deputy F. P. Dickerson went from seat to seat and fitted the leg chains on each prisoner's ankle. He narrates that some of the prisoners could not comfortably sleep because of the leg chains fitted on them. He states that prisoners and their commitment papers were turned over by Dickerson to the receiving office of the California State Penitentiary.
- Published
- 1948