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Prison

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

A place of confinement of by way of punishment; a public a place for the detention of debtors sons charged with offenses, and confinement of persons sentenced for an ofifense. Prison bounds: which a debtor released under bond the act of a prisoner in escaping confined; the act of breaking into so escaping.