Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accused of having wrongfully sold some cattle on which a creditor had a mortgage of $1,370, a judgment for $350 was obtained against Edmond Mingo. Unable to pay, he was found guilty of contempt of court, sent to jail on June 4, 1934. Since then Samuel Insull has been tried three times, acquitted. Since then Farmer Mingo's mother, his only close relative. has died. Since then over 500 days have come & gone. Since then Farmer Mingo has stayed in jail. Last week he was still in jail because the jail commissioners, having received a petition from...
...Hanford will introduce the speakers. The liberals on the program are Oswald Garrison Villard '93, who has gained prominence as the fiery editor of the Nation and Roger N. Baldwin '05, who served a jail term as a conscientious objector during the War and is now president of the American Civil Liberties Union...
Baldwin, who is now director of the American Civil Liberties Union, was a conscientious objector during the War and as such served a jail sentence. He is also an official of the American League Against War and Fascism...
Down on Sixth & Greenwich Avenues, Manhattan, there was great excitement in the women's jail last week. On the recreation roof of the House of Detention for Women, one of the best known model prisons in the U. S., a great fresco panel, first of a series depicting The Cycle of a Woman's Life was just finished. Giggling, nudging, shrilling with excitement, the inmates in their brown-&-white-checked house dresses crowded round the small, serious artist with cries of "Ain't it purty...
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...