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Word: reclusorio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last month Dr. Guanche's million-dollar new Reclusorio Nacional de Mujeres was ready for occupants. The prisoners who were moved there found it a spacious, sunlit, flower-hedged cluster of white buildings 27 miles west of Havana. For each inmate there was an airy, pastel-tinted cell, with toilet and hot & cold running water. Dinner was eaten, tearoom fashion, at small, flower-decorated tables. Reclusorio has a nursery and playground for children of prisoners, and a basketball court. For trusties, there is even a beauty parlor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Revolt of the Ingrates | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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