Word: penal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under Mississippi's earthy and antiquated penal system, the tougher and more ruthless a convict is, the better off he is. At the 16,000-acre Parchman Prison Farm such bad actors are used as "shooter trusties," equipped with rifles and vertical stripes, and set to guarding their lesser, not so enterprising, fellows. Loyalty (i.e., shooting an escaping convict) is often rewarded with freedom...
...Waters told a special legislative commission studying penal laws the present law limits outside jobs to domestic work only...
Lowall will report major crimes, cover trials, study penal and rehabilitation systems, and look into gambling, racketeering and law enforcement. Explained Publisher Hoyt: "We want to get at the underlying reasons for crime, its implications, the responsibilities of society." Editor Lowall, who likes his crime served up in the smoking hot manner of the '20s, put it more bluntly: "I'm going to be house dick for the Denver Post." His first assignment: the bootlegging business in dry Oklahoma...
...election in November than of playing halfback for Harvard. At 74, after 50 years in politics (four terms as mayor, four as a U.S. Representative, one as governor), he had suffered at one time or another from diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and ingrown eyelashes. He had served two penal sentences (the last, in 1947 for mail fraud) and during his stewardship Boston's debt and high taxes have increased, and its reputation for corruption has not declined...
Directives on penal procedure last spring "wiped out 70 years" of progress, Dr. Van Waters claimed, while her removal from her position for "disobeying directives" was being investigated by a Governor's commission headed by Law School Dean Erwin N. Griswold...