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Habaneros felt that their dark, dank, dungeonlike women's jail was no place to send a good-looking girl. There were no individual cells; inmates were mainly crowded into six foul, ground-level wards, as many as 25 to the ward. Each ward had one unshielded toilet in the corner. No one was more dissatisfied with Guanabacoa, or worked harder to get a modern jail, than Director Dr. Carmelina Guanche. In 1945, the government began to build such a prison...

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

...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 »

Desseau was next seen Tuesday morning in the Union Common Room. A freshman reported seeing the missing student asleep on a sofa. A toilet kit which he had taken when he left Stillman on Sunday was beside him. Wednesday he was found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing Freshman Turns Up, Will Leave College, Go Home | 1/21/1950 | See Source »

...unidentified freshman reported he had seen Desseau in the Union Common Room after breakfast Tuesday, sleeping on a sofa next to a kit of toilet articles. Except for this, no one has seen Desseau since he left Stillman Sunday--not even his roommate or closest friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student States Desseau Last Seen Tuesday | 1/19/1950 | See Source »

...Sunday morning he told doctors he wanted to study, and left the Infirmary with some toilet articles and a German text. When he failed to appear at his room for several days, the Dean's Office called in the police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student States Desseau Last Seen Tuesday | 1/19/1950 | See Source »

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