Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty-six prisoners in the Scioto County jail, Portsmouth, Ohio, were last week guests at a farewell party given by Fellow-Convict...
George Remus, onetime bootlegger king. Mr. Remus, clad in white coat, white apron, Palm Beach pants, celebrated the last day of his sentence by personally serving fare more elaborate than the regular prison diet. It was Mr. Remus' third banquet in his 30 days in jail...
...tobacco-shop proprietor, who took part in a flinging of eggs, ice, bottles, epithets, at Cambridge police in Harvard Square, last winter (TIME, Feb. 21, et seq.). Each of the roisterers was required to give surety of $100 "to keep the peace and be of good behavior." Jail sentences which had been imposed by a lower court were not mentioned; hence, were dropped...
...people steal, cheat, and kill?" he asked his audience. "Does punishment keep them from doing, these things? So far the world have always been poor," and with wonderful irony, "rich people don't go to jail because they are all good...
...Palazzo di Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death penalty for attempts on the Premier's life is not retroactive (TIME, Nov. 15, 22), and would-be-assassin Tito Zaniboni faced, last week, a maximum penalty of 27 years in jail. His bravado was prodigious...