| The abiding impression left by the book is the way the prison system reduces prisoners and screws to animals. |
| David Brown says the Royal Commission helped end the violence against prisoners which existed in some jails. |
| The possibility that the jailbreak was planned jointly by the prisoners and at least one of their jailers is also being investigated. |
| It was an amazing place which was full of sadness, and you could feel the very wairua of those prisoners who had been there once. |
| Nearly all the 1,300 prisoners were undoubtedly guilty of treason, for which the sentence was death by hanging, disembowelling, and quartering. |
| The offices in Talo Udang Bay became the headquarters of the warden and in June 1941 the first group of 500 prisoners arrived. |
