Word: penalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
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...
Governor Ely's investigation of Massachusetts' penal institutions brings again to public view the problem of what is to be done with those who break laws. It is interesting to note that the investigation is warranted in large part by two allegations diametrically opposed in spirit. One charge is that women in Sherborn are made to shovel coal, the other, that men married during their terms are allowed honeymoons from the prison. That is to say, objections are made on the one hand that the system is too cruel, on the other, too kind. It would seem from other reports...