The balls are whacked against a brick wall with a stout wooden bat until the prisoner confesses.

In reality, the plot had been "uncovered" when a prisoner (being held for unrelated crimes) confessed to it and implicated members of various noble houses.

A prisoner would sometimes even confess to having at one time - for a short while -been a Jew.

The captured German prisoners confessed that the attack had demoralized the German infantry garrison.

She remembers hearing other prisoners confess.

Before signing off, Tom asked if the prisoner in the Shopton jail had confessed yet.

When the man who had been John Smith's landlord in 1877 identified Thomas as his former tenant, the prisoner confessed his crimes.

If they could not make prisoners confess, they would transfer them to the hot unit.

Four police officers set to work to force the prisoners to confess.

But what if the prisoner hadn't confessed?