subs. (prison).—See quot. 1877.
1862. The Cornhill Magazine, vi. 640. [Criminals] count by many thousands…. In prison and out of it … ‘doing their SEPARATES’ at Pentonville and among the rocks of Gibraltar, wherever they are they develop and increase criminal tendencies, and spread criminal knowledge.
1877. W. H. THOMSON, Five Years’ Penal Servitude, v. 333. A new large prison at Dartmoor, in which convicts could be confined in cells to do their ‘SEPARATES,’ as the first eleven or twelve months’ probationary imprisonment is termed.
