Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time spent in jail waiting for sentence cannot now be deducted from terms of a year or less. (Before, a prisoner sentenced to one year in prison after having spent three months waiting for sentence, could get out, with his compensation, in six months...
...prisoners committed for their second offense is reduced to two months per annum. (Thus, a second offender sentenced to ten years flat cannot get out before eight years, four months. Before, he might be free in about six years.) Prisoners sentenced as habitual criminals must now stay in jail for the length of their natural lives, unless released by clemency of the Governor...
...Court, overcome, sentenced eloquent chef Berthelin to but one year in jail...
GENTLEMEN IN FASCISMO, THIEVES IN JAIL...
...already in jail for participating in an unsuccessful revolution. From his cell he sent forth a manuscript whose seering verses he ordered printed in red ink. He called it Iras Santas (Sacred Furies). Peru was staggered by the sheer brutal power of this song of vengeance, this envenomed protest against civilization and its shams. José, bounding from his cell into the apogee of fame, became in his own words "the singer of America, a poet aboriginal and wild...