Word: mitfords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JESSICA MITFORD...
...funeral directors of America, still smarting over The American Way of Death, must now line up behind the nation's wardens in the goodly company of those well stung by Jessica Mitford. "Our great 'know-it-all' on prisons," the American Association of Wardens and Superintendents has muttered through its collectively clenched teeth at the author of what might be subtitled The American Way of Injustice...
...latest Mitford gadflight began three years ago as a quick assignment for the American Civil Liberties Union. But by the time she had finished, the formidable Miss Mitford had visited all the prisons, from California to Massachusetts, that she could get into−jail doors, she discovered, can slam in two directions−and even spent a simulated prisoner's night in the Women's Detention Center in Washington...
Prisoners today furnish virtually the entire pool of subjects for the initial human testing of all new drugs in the U.S., Author Jessica Mitford reported recently. Not everyone is happy about that fact-least of all Superintendent Hoyt Cupp of the Oregon State Penitentiary. In the Walled Street Bulletin, the prison's newspaper, Cupp argued that the poverty or prisoners as well as the reality of their incarceration meant that it was impossible for them to be truly "free agents" when asked to participate in medical-testing programs. For those reasons, all the Oregon prison's experimentation programs...
...have intercourse with Hitler, he instead threw himself on the floor, begged her to kick him and became excited when she finally complied. Rene later killed herself. According to Langer, Eva Braun tried twice to take her life before her final successful attempt, and another Hitler intimate, Unity Mitford, also tried suicide. "Rather an unusual record for a man who has had so few affairs with women," Langer wryly observed...