Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been excellent, especially when one takes into consideration the overcrowded condition of the Institution. At one time we had as high as 500 men sleeping in the corridors . . . after all cell and dormitory space had been filled. . . .";?Report of the warden of the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., July...
...Atlanta is 120% over capacity in inmates at the present time and Leavenworth is 87%, all of which is the cause of infinite demoralization and the direct cause of outbreaks and trouble. . . . Our plans necessitate an expenditure of about $5,000,000 and will comprise some additions and revision of the old prisons and probably a new prison somewhere in the Northeastern States...
Figures told the story of U. S. prison-crowding. Atlanta was built to hold 1,712 men. Its present population is 3,787. Leavenworth's capacity is 2,000, its population, 3,758. Chillicothe, Ohio, has 250 more prisoners than its capacity of 1,000. Only McNeil Island, Wash., is below capacity. As of June 1, U. S. prisoners were incarcerated as follows: In Federal prisons?10,200; in State prisons?1,200; in county jails?...
...weeks after Clarke Bros., private bankers, failed in Manhattan (TIME. July 22), the four partners appeared before this double court, pleaded guilty, were sentenced. James Rae Clarke, senior partner, assumed full responsibility for the crash. He was sentenced by the Federal Judge to eight years in the overcrowded Atlanta penitentiary for using the mails to defraud and for conspiracy. Philip L. Clarke, John R. Bouker and Hudson Clarke Jr. each received a sentence of one year, one day. The state judge imposed the same penalties but suspended sentence declaring that the Federal sentences served the cause of justice...
...went his wife, Julia Collier Harris, and together they bought controlling shares of a newspaper, the Enquirer-Sun. All Columbians knew about the Harrises was that he was a son of Author Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus) Harris, that he was a newspaperman who was once managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution, more recently editor of the Paris Herald; that she was his wife. Columbians did not care to know much more, because the Enquirer-Sun was not much of a newspaper to bother about anyway...