Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these offences, the seven persons--one girl and six boys--were fined $20 each and sentenced to six months of hard labor in the Middlesex House of Correction. Judge George James consoled the would-be patriots by his kindly, "I'm sorry to impose jail sentences...
...Under the McElroy management the East Cambridge Jail has become a veritable bastille of the dark ages," said Ralph W. Robart, Democratic nominee for sheriff in one of his recent campaign speeches. And so, in the light of the recent exposures of conditions in penal institutions in various parts of the country, the Crimson deemed it advisable to look into the matter, which bids fair to start some cub off on a career of muckraking...
...four ended the reporter came with difficulty to the disheartening conclusion that it was his destiny to be a non-muckraker of conditions in the Cambridge jail...
...ornate bed. In California lunch rooms are built like igloos, puppies, derby hats. At California Institute of Technology work Nobel Prize-winning Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and Physicist Robert Millikan. California has more medical quacks than any state in the Union. It righteously keeps Tom Mooney in jail at San Quentin, kneels prayerfully at the feet of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles. California blinks its eyes from the glare of kleig lights in hysterical Hollywood, is lulled by the mission bells of Santa Barbara. Anything can happen in fabulous California. What will happen in California...
...Denver last spring, when the 12-year-old daughter of his landlady-mistress stopped at his room to call him for dinner, John W. Brewer, 38, impulsively enticed the child to bed, raped her. Clapped into jail, John Brewer was last week convicted of this statutory offense, may spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. Nothing more might have been heard of this commonplace crime outside Denver, if its victim had not been left pregnant by John Brewer. The child's outraged mother took her daughter to Denver General Hospital, loudly pleaded for an abortion. That action...