Word: sweatbox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon of June 3, Arthur Maillefert, 22. of Westfield. N. J., serving nine years for stealing $30. was found strangled to death in the "sweatbox" of Duval County's Sunbeam prison camp. A sweatbox is a windowless outdoor solitary confinement cell little bigger than a coffin. According to Florida law it should be 3 ft. broad. There should be ventilation. Arthur Maillefert. called "Jersey" by his prison mates, had passed the previous evening in the sweatbox naked and inside a barrel out of which he tried to gnaw. He had also used a trusty's knife...
Once, while being held in a jail, he tried to poison himself. The second night he was placed in the sweatbox followed his fourth break for freedom. He was not wearing the barrel, but his neck was chained to the roof. His feet were nailed down in heavy stocks. When he was found dead a justice of the peace directed that there be no inquest. The Press stirred up a fury of public indignation over the affair. County Detective Gasque investigated. Murder indictments were returned against Acting Guard Captain George W. Courson, a 285-lb. hulker, and Solomon Higginbotham...
...yellow.' I told him I must be yellow then because I was not going to kill him. I asked him if he was sick or anything and he said, 'Not a thing wrong.' I told him I was going to have to put him in the sweatbox. Jersey said to me, 'I'm going home.' I said, 'No you're not.' He said, 'Well, I'm going to hell then...