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Hell Hole: Monifieth's links to San Quentin State Prison's hated jute mill


Hell Hole: Monifieth’s links to San Quentin State Prison’s hated jute mill
Updated: April 19, 2021, 9:20 am
Some of California’s most dangerous prisoners were trained by Tayside engineers to make sand bags at San Quentin.
The jute mill was the prison’s most detested industry and was equipped with machinery from the Monifieth Foundry of James F Low and Co Ltd.
Monifieth machinery powered the jute mill at San Quentin State Prison which was hated by the prisoners.
Opened in 1882 as a means to offset the cost of running the prison, the 85 looms in the mill turned out 30,000 jute bags a day. ....

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