Word: morelia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Genaro was a Morelia carpenter just come to the capital when, on Oct. 3, 1920, he bumped his head getting off a streetcar and fell beneath the wheels. He lay in the street while Mexico's Red Cross and White Cross (then hot rivals for every body found in the streets) argued about who should get him. A woman stepped from the crowd and applied a tourniquet; but gangrene set in, and when the doctors were through with Genaro, both legs were gone at the hips. With a hot rage against life in his heart, Genaro got a little...
...serape is hung in the doorway, the room is busy. The women need not be married to the prisoners but must not be syphilitic. Sometimes unmarried convicts take a fancy to girls among the prison visitors, says Sociologist Hayner, "and are able to make the proper arrangements." At Morelia about 13%, and at Guadalajara about 20% of the men enjoy visitas conyugales, which can extend all night if they wish. To women prisoners the privilege is denied. Concludes Hayner...