Word: harbutt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long on the list of WPA projects was a bright colorful mural for this Manhattan jail. Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick is an avid psychologist, a firm believer in the use of color in the mental readjustment of female prisoners. So is Prison Superintendent Ruth Elizabeth Collins. She had already accepted a collection of travel posters to enliven the bleak, white-tiled corridors of the jail. So now the prisoners march to their individual rooms, the workshops and mess hall through halls burgeoning with such signs as VISIT SPAIN, TRAVEL IN INDIA, SEE SORRENTO. But both Commissioner MacCormick...
Early one morning last week several carloads of men, led by New York City's thin, purse-lipped new Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick and his stocky aid David Marcus, descended the elevator from the Queensboro Bridge, made Welfare Island a surprise visit. By sundown Commissioner MacCormick had lifted the lid off Welfare Island and given city. State and nation a terrifying glimpse into the nether depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left...