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- noun Plural form of
watchhouse .
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Labourers out of employment were numerous, and contractors were informed by 'Gazette' notice that the services of one hundred prisoners were available for purposes of public utility, such as making roads, dams, breakwaters, harbours, bridges, watchhouses, and police buildings.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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NEW prisoner hoods quietly being rolled out at police watchhouses across Queensland have been likened to an Abu Ghraib torture device.
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NEW prisoner hoods quietly being rolled out at police watchhouses across Queensland have been likened to an Abu Ghraib torture device.
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Queensland Police Service approved the rollout following a 12-month trial at 10 watchhouses in 2007-08, during which the hoods were used 74 times. president Michael Cope said he was surprised to hear the hoods had been introduced without any sort of public announcement.
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Queensland Police Service approved the rollout following a 12-month trial at 10 watchhouses in 2007-08, during which the hoods were used 74 times.
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