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...Crimes for which the penal code inflicts life imprisonment, namely: high treason, incendiarism, causing explosions or floods and damaging railway lines shall be punishable by death. Similarly capital punishment may be inflicted in a case of lesser treason, for inciting to riot and committing acts of violence in connection therewith...
Nobody was surprised when one Arthur Maillefort, automobile thief, strangled to death last June chained in a "sweat box" (board casket) in a Florida prison camp. Notorious is Florida's rough penal system, exposed in 1929 by the crusading old New York World...
...ended last week, the prosecutor produced no evidence linking Senora Mariana de la Torre Mendoza to the attempted crime but proved up to the hilt that she has often voiced antagonism to President Machado. That was enough for the court martial. It sentenced all the accused to 14 years penal servitude each...
...Twice as many criminals are now in detention for violation of Federal statutes than were in jails and penal institutions five years...
Transferred to Auburn, then to Elmira, he saw the Penal System in all its severity, saw that severity alone would never work. After eight years of it, he obtained leave of absence, began to study Social Reform. Soon after, he was appointed overseer of the New York City Reformatory at Hart's Island, in 1915, and then began his true career as a liberator within bounds. After a year he had moved his Reformatory boys away from Hart's Island, up the State to New Hampton, housed them in barracks without surrounding walls, built a New Reformatory...