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Thus ended the case of the People of Mississippi v. Charles Shepherd, Negro. The case began when one Sergeant J. B. Duvall, guarding prisoners in a Parchman, Miss., convict camp, whipped Negro-Convict Shepherd. Bruised, angry, the black convict entered the Duvall home, attacked Ruth Duvall, 18, onetime beauty-contest winner. Interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sergeant Duvall, the Negro took a butcher knife, cut the Sergeant's throat, then plunged the knife down the throat he had just slashed. Next he struck the body with an icepick, hitting the back of its head so violently that...
...Every convict is assigned to at least one job. Warden Lawes tells of some difficulties in fitting the assignment to the convict's previous vocation. The skywriting aviator was "given a job painting the smokestacks and roofs; the prison warden was put in charge of the chickens; the radio-announcer was given a mop; the judge was made a waiter in the mess hall; the preacher was given the task of cleaning the chapel each day; the bartender was put to washing dishes; the pugilist was made a fireman in the power house; the masseur was given...
...arising gong sounds at 6 a. m. The parade to the open sewer to dump the slop buckets begins at 6:30. Then breakfast, and the working day from 8 to 4, with an hour off for lunch. From 4 to bedtime, the convict has his fun-baseball, gabbing, movies, reading. Most escapes are attempted during this period...
...Significance. Warden Lawes does not believe in capital punishment. He would substitute life imprisonment for the electric chair. He has great faith in the well-run prison, for long terms or short. To the freed convict, he would have society give a more gentlemanly chance than it now does...
...Author has been seeing prisons from within for 25 years. He was president of the National Wardens' Association in 1922. Many a convict counts him a great & good friend. He works in shirtsleeves when going through a batch of Sing Sing statistics. Usually mild mannered, he becomes for short periods, about a dozen times a year, nervous,, irritable, troubled with insomnia...