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Starting in 1824, Britain sent convicts to Bermuda to supplement the slave labor working on the dockyard project.
The publicity of private hair is a long story; it figures in the willingly shaven heads of ancient priests and modern skinheads, in the punitive shearing of male convicts and female French collaborators, in huge powdered wigs and elaborately extended curls or braids.
Critics say they are grateful for these final installments, which concern a vigilante who blows away 17 paroled convicts.
In Florida, for example, the legislature has a bill under consideration that would restore convicts' right to vote one year after they complete their sentence.
It isn't just a convenient dumping ground for convicts, he tells us, with the ticklish pride so typical of the expatriate (Carey lives in New York).