Ron May wrote:
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> What about the Spanish? Does anyone know if they had penitentiaries?
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> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
And I take it the Indians were too civilised to inflict such punishment
on their fellow humans. If the penitentaries of early America were
anything like the "model prisons" of the Australian convict system, it
is beyond me why anybody would want to lay claim to having been the
first.
John Hyett
"Great great great great grandson of William Hyett and Ann Carol,
transported for seven and fourteen years respectively for stealing
clothes from a lodging house and food for her childrens mouths"