Word: penal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freight train at Paint Rock, Ala., accused of raping two white girls who turned out to be common tramps. It carried him past the shadow of the electric chair three times, through the highest courts of the land and deep into the hard, rotten heart of the Alabama penal system. But in July 1948, Haywood Patterson finally made it. He escaped from Alabama's Kilby prison, crossed the Mason-Dixon line and hid out, a fugitive, an almost forgotten speck on the national conscience-the eighth of the Scottsboro Boys to get out of jail...
Next week the State Legislature will get a chance to bring the penal code up to date. The Friends of Framingham Reformatory, formed originally to help Dr. Miriam Van Waters in the smear campaign against her, have introduced a bill to change some of the present archaic statutes and to bring them in line with modern sociological knowledge...
Speaking before an audience of 50 people in Littauer Auditorium, Dr. Van Waters urged the adaption of modern scientific methods in penal institutions. New gains in psychiatry and social work she claimed, can be used to help educate prisoners and give them a feeling of self-respect and responsibility...
...thus be sent to the penal institution without having committed any crime, and is forced to mingle with hardened criminals...
...would assure private counsel for defendents. The hearings would be before a special session of the superior court, which would assure special and complete attention to the cases. To remedy the transfer system, the students have made up a list of certain crimes which would allow admission is the penal institution. This would insure that all patients committed to the correction institute would be dangerous criminals