Word: penalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pledge: "I hereby agree not to join any organization bordering on or pertaining to labor unions." Vexed, NLRB's Wisconsin Regional Director Nathaniel S. Clark vowed he would not be "buffaloed by a bunch of farmers," rooted out a Wagner Act section which makes interference with NLRB a penal offense...
...years some of the world's most lurid, blood-curdling "true-story" prison tales have come out of experiences, real and embellished, gained in France's famed penal colony in French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America. Horror stories deluxe have told of men working stark naked in the sizzling tropical jungle, of lust, greed, murder, homosexuality in prison cages crammed with killers, rapists, thieves. Other tales have told of years of maddening isolation in "bear pits" on one of the three Iles du Salut (variously translated as "Safety Isles" and "Isles of Salvation...
France's unsentimental penologists have remained singularly unimpressed by these horror stories. Two years ago, however, France's Popular Front Government started to do something about the penal colony. Last week Premier Edouard Daladier by decree prescribed a slow death for it. No more prisoners are to be sent there, but on the other hand, none of the 5,000 there now will be repatriated. Since the convicts die at the rate of about 500 a year, it will take about ten years to liquidate the penal colony...
...week their knock was answered. Governor Moore appointed 25-year-old Mrs. Cromwell, who made a tour of southern resettlement projects last year with Mrs. Roosevelt, to be a member of the N. J. State Board of Control of Institutions & Agencies, to help supervise the State's 21 penal institutions, hospitals and State homes. In prospect for briskly confident Mr. Cromwell, who told a Congressional committee last year that all income, gift, estate and corporation taxes should be repealed in favor of a manufacturers' sales tax: membership on a New Jersey tax-revision committee...
...thirds of the state budget in normal times goes for penal and mental institutions," Major Robart, Chairman of the State Parole Board, told 40 P. B. H. Freshman social service workers at a banquet in the Union last night...