Word: penalities
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...providing thrillers more bizarre and stories less credible than my play On The Spot." When a young London shoemaker, one Arthur Cox, was hailed into Old Bailey for shooting at two bobbies (whom he missed), the Magistrate showed himself Legs-conscious. After sentencing Shoemaker Cox to ten years' penal servitude for "shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm," Mr. Justice Wright said: "It would be an unfortunate thing for this country if the use of firearms became common. I feel it the duty of this court to visit such conduct as the prisoner's with condign punishment...
...rich coal and farming country, near the Susquehanna River within a few miles of Shamokin Mountain, it will be the first Federal penal institution in the northeastern quarter of the U. S. Not casually was Lewisburg selected for the honor. Abundant fuel and water supplies, the joint accessibility by many railroads from Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and the eastern seaboard, healthful climate, a long agricultural season for working convicts and the persuasiveness of Senator David Aiken Reed were all factors in the choice. Also, Lewisburg is the seat of the Federal Court in the Middle District...
...especially apt, Il Duce reintroduced it during the argument again and again. "We are creating moral order, not police order," he added earnestly. "We are not reactionaries: quite the contrary." A little plaintively, knowing well that he will always be considered ruthless, the Dictator spoke at last of his penal islands (notorious as "Devil's Isles" but recently shown by a neutral investigator to be much as Il Duce proceeded to describe them...
...Passed a bill to construct two federal penal institutions, one a reformatory in the West, one a penitentiary in the Northeast. This bill completed legislation for the Department of Justice's new prison program...
...this system to be fair and practical every effort must be made to place the criminal as gradually as possible in the routine of a normal human being. In the countries where the indeterminate sentence and segregation are the penal practise, work is provided for all prisoners, who are paid the usual rates for jobs accomplished. In America indolence is the rule in many prisons and the cause of much disorder, owing to trade union, jealousy of free prison labor. But work under normal wages would obviate this objection as well as making less abrupt the prisoner's release from...