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Illustration showing British prison life in 1907: men walking on a treadmill for hard labor at the top, and at the bottom, a prisoner tied to a post being whipped with a cat-o-nine-tails while a guard watches.
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British prisoner on a penal treadmill being struck with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
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