Word: jailers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rehabilitate or Electrocute. A sample committee operation was that on Louisville's county jail. The jailer came to the first meeting with the committee sure that he was being put on the spot. But when he found that the committee's purpose was to help with his problems rather than to seek his scalp, he cooperated enthusiastically. One weekend the committee kept a 30-hour vigil (six-hour shifts of two men each) to observe the jail's routine. Result: 1) a program of wise reforms carried out with the help of individual committee members; 2) public...
...play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...
...justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole which the Marshal is convinced is a peephole. Last month Pétain's jailer added a wicker lounge chair to the meager furnishings, but the prisoner refuses to sit in it. "It's furniture for old people," he snorts...
...When his jailer (named Simon just like Louis XVI's) came in to tell him that some tomatoes which had long been ripening in the yard outside were at last growing red, the old Marshal turned on him. "Bah," he snapped, "they are blushing with shame...
...owner of this somewhat startling face likes to startle strangers by announcing that he was born in jail. He came close to it. His father was the county jailer in Louisa, Ky., a tiny town in the Big Sandy Valley just across the river from West Virginia. When Fred was born in 1890, the Vinsons lived in a red brick, tree-shaded house with the jail in the rear. There was a sign outside which to a casual observer might have applied to home and cellblock alike: "$10 fine for talking to prisoners...