“Solitary confinement” is punishment meted out to particularly
obstreperous prisoners or to those under very severe sentence.
_calaboose_ 38.
Guard-house or soldier prison.
_jug_ 38.
Guard-house or soldier prison.
_Ten and a Bob_ 39.
A prisoner’s sentence of ten years and a dishonorable discharge from the
Army.
_The Isle_ 39.
Refers to Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, used as a discharge station
for time-expired soldiers returning from the Philippines after the
Insurrection of 1899-1902. On Angel Island there was also a military
convict station for serious offenders, who had to break stone.
_“the makings”_ 39.