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TIME'S comment on the editorial record of Francis Stuart Harmon: "Like few other Southern editors he has consistently stood forth against lynching, convict-floggings, local misgovernment" (TIME...
...practical prisoners broke into the canteen and guzzled the warders' whiskey and beer. Somebody knocked the spectacles off the 64-year-old Chaplain's nose. Another convict handed them back. "You'll need these, sir," said he, "you'd best be getting home...
...rich; much of his Y. M. C. A. work he did without remuneration. A heavy debt contracted in his family led him to give up a law practice, take over (with his brother) the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American. Like few other Southern editors he has consistently stood forth against lynchings, convict-floggings, local misgovernment...
...Emperor's army. Later some of the Americans in the war of 1812 found there way to its barren courtyard. At that time Dartmoor established a reputation for cruelty and discomfort which is now almost legendary in its fame. In 1850 the building assumed its present status of a convict prison. With true British love for tradition it has sturdily maintained its original character...
...world is to escape prison riots, convict massacres, and open revolt it must revise its methods of confinement. Prisons must be equipped with the essentials of living, and the environment must be made more congenial. The era when severe physical ordeals were considered the only method by which a convict could "be made a man again" are past. Modern pyschology has found how greatly environment affects character, but these findings accomplish little if not put to some tangible use. America has been troubled by many uprisings of this sort and while they continue the penal system of the nation appears...