Shooting an Elephant

How did Orwell describe the prisoners' conditions?

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The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been Bogged with bamboos – all these oppressed me with an intolerable sense of guilt.

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Shooting an Elephant