Word: penalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exclaimed pious Catholic Smith: "The present penal law is not adequate to prevent public mingling and exhibitions of naked men and women. If such action is not an offense against public decency, this league will ask the Legislature to speedily remedy this defect in the law and make it so. It seems to us inconsistent to take a stand for decency on the screen and ignore this latest challenge to the enforcement of decency in reality, We cannot overlook indecency in the substance while condemning it in the shadow...
...designed to prevent a slave rebellion. These "Atlantic Six" are now out on heavy ball. Because of Miss Burlak's deflant challenge to the existing order, and the support she is able to win from her audiences, she has acquired a fairly thorough knowledge of the United States penal system, and mention of her name produces a startling effect upon any member of a "radical squad...
...Under the McElroy management the East Cambridge Jail has become a veritable bastille of the dark ages," said Ralph W. Robart, Democratic nominee for sheriff in one of his recent campaign speeches. And so, in the light of the recent exposures of conditions in penal institutions in various parts of the country, the Crimson deemed it advisable to look into the matter, which bids fair to start some cub off on a career of muckraking...
...jury, thought Prosecutor Foley, which would not convict on these facts. But an extortion verdict with a possible sentence of 20 years in Sing Sing was only the secondary motive behind the District Attorney's elaborately constructed case. His main idea war to keep Bruno Richard Hauptmann in penal storage until New Jersey could gather evidence, extradite and indict for murder...
Under his now unlimited powers as Realmleader, Adolf Hitler prepared last week to give the Fatherland a penal code sharply revised ''to conform with Nazi ideals of jurisprudence...