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...Convict Water C. Huff, 21, serving a year for reckless driving, testified: "I came here with two other boys and after Captain Clay took off my handcuffs ... he busted me in the mouth with his fist and my teeth are loose now. Big Jim kicked us and put two picks on us. Captain Clay . . . then took us back to the little house in front of the pigpen and beat me up. He made me bend over the bed and he let loose. ... I was so sore I had to lay on my stomach. . . . The beating was on Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia's Middle Ages | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...convict had mailed ten books to his brother & sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WARTIME LIVING: . . . Nor Iron Bars a Cage | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

Despite its Hollywood flourishes, Mission to Moscow has power. Even its most one-sided re-enactments of history, such as the Moscow "purge" trials (which uncompromisingly convict Trotsky of collaboration with Germany and Japan to destroy the U.S.S.R.), carry authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Goes to Moscow | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Vanishing American. In Deer Lodge, Mont., state prison guards hunted for an Indian convict, James Comes at Night, who went at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 19, 1943 | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...started criminal action against black markets wherever they could be found. Also California prison officials got State permission to graze cattle in Palomar State Park, the meat to go to Folsom, San Quentin and Chino prisons. Quipped the Los Angeles Times: "How to obtain plenty of meat-become a convict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: California's Black Meat | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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