Product code: One Hundred Years At Hard Labor high quality Book
Hard to find Centennial Edition copy of One Hundred Years high quality At Hard Labor: History of Marquette State Prison by Ike Wood from 1985 Good preowned condition for its age as photographed, typical wear "Around the turn of the century, judges would sentence felons to 100 years at hard labor when the crime warranted. Later, the terminology changed to "Life Imprisonment" but the intent was the same; to keep the offender in prison for the rest of his natural life. Sometimes the defendant would ask the judge for leniency, pleading that he couldn't do all that time. The judge would often replay, "do as much of it as you can," or "the first hundred years are the hardest."".
Hard to find Centennial Edition copy of One Hundred Years high quality At Hard Labor: History of Marquette State Prison by Ike Wood from 1985 Good preowned condition for its age as photographed, typical wear "Around the turn of the century, judges would sentence felons to 100 years at hard labor when the crime warranted. Later, the terminology changed to "Life Imprisonment" but the intent was the same; to keep the offender in prison for the rest of his natural life. Sometimes the defendant would ask the judge for leniency, pleading that he couldn't do all that time. The judge would often replay, "do as much of it as you can," or "the first hundred years are the hardest."".