मेरा आजीवन कारावास / माझी जन्मठेप (स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकर - काले पानी का ऐतिहासिक संस्मरण)

progeny was designated as 'free', to distinguish it from their immediate and remote
prisoner-ancestors. Today these later generations contain some well-educated and decent
persons. The last stage was to build a big and self-contained prison-house where
prisoners from India could be straightaway confined for a stipulated lives on period and
freed or not freed to live their own the island, according to the sweet will of the Officers
in charge. The local criminals were also confined in this jail. This prison has come to be
known all over the place as Silver Jail or Cellular Jail wherein it was meant that political
prisoners should spend their long term in solitary confinement, and not a sound of their
groans and agonies was to reach from it to the world without. But providence had willed
it otherwise. And today it is the political prisoner's cry that is heard resounding on the
shores of India.
End of Chapter VI