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...MacCormick had lifted the lid off Welfare Island and given city. State and nation a terrifying glimpse into the nether depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left by years of Tammany rule. "The most corrupt prison in the country, physically and from every other standpoint. . . . A vicious circle of depravity that is almost beyond the ability of the imagination to grasp...
...Island "the hardest prison in the world to manage." He points to its unparalleled turnover of 30,000 inmates a year, remarks that it harbors more drug cases (1,200 a year) than all Federal prisons combined,* more homosexuals (200) and alcoholics (1,500) than any other U. S. penal institution. Only untimely bit in Mr. Fishman's article is the cachet he gives Warden McCann for the small number of escapes from the prison. "Such an escape record," says Mr. Fishman, "could be achieved only by a warden dog-like in his devotion...
Meanwhile the Ministry of Justice was in chaos at Berlin as weary German jurists who had scarcely slept for weeks rushed to completion the "Code Hitler," a complete new body of penal law, theoretically effective on New Year...
...purports to be an 1840 atmosphere. Kathie reaches for the high notes with commendable energy but deplorable lack of success; Karl Franz acts like a wooden soldier and sings like a pelican. If the Student Prince is not to be allowed to die, there should at least be a penal law against dragging him from the grave with such brutality...
Recently at Torquay beach, ex-Helmsman Robert Hitchens, now 51, had trouble over another boat. After a quarrel with one Frederick Henley over a little motorboat he shot and pinked Henley. Last week at the Winchester Assizes, Titanic Helmsman Hitchens was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for attempted murder...