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...sentence for all violations of the Volstead Act, thereby making any infraction of this law a felony whereas before minor first offenses had been only misdemeanors* Several misdemeanors are necessary to deport an undesirable alien. For one felony he may be sent promptly out of the U.S. By this penal change alien bootleggers may be shipped swiftly from the country...
...brutal were these crimes that the French press was led to believe that the long-standing tradition might be broken, whereby no woman has been guillotined in France since 1887. But kindly "Gastounet" ended by commuting all four death sentences to penal servitude for life. They will never go free. "Life imprisonment" in the U. S. often means 20 years in jail, with time off for good behavior. In France it is a sentence that means just what it says...
Investigating he found that the prison's shoe bill was $55,000 a year, or $35 per man per annum. This seemed extravagant. Why should Louisiana pay its convicts $12 per pair for shoes worn out in penal servitude...
...famed colonizing talents to the development of British Guiana. Equally deplorable is the Dutch failure to make anything but a dumping ground for wretched immigrants from Dutch East Indies out of Dutch Guiana. Most notorious of all are the uses to which French Guiana has been put. In the penal settlements along the coast and on the famed lies du Salut, ("Devil's Island") between eight and nine thousand of the most hardened French criminals are left to rot; in fertile and promising French Guiana proper are less than 45,000 sleazy colonists and appallingly diseased natives...
...period of five years last year. Last week the new law operated for the first time, when a firing squad of Fascist Legionnaires shot down one Michele della Maggiore, a Communist convicted of murdering two Fascisti. This was the first execution of an Italian in peace time, since the penal code abolished the death penalty 40 years...