Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Take the case of Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck. Some two months ago, she visited with her friends Governor and Mrs. Victor A. Donahey of Ohio. The Governor, noted for his interest in prison reform, wished to find out about prison conditions for women. A friend charged Mrs. Huck with stealing his overcoat. She pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six months in jail. She spent three days in the Cleveland jail amid bummers, dope users and bad food (according to her account); then was sent with a Negress bootlegger to the prison at Marysville. There she lived with female murderers...
...maid at Columbus-telling her employers that she had a prison record. With $15 saved, she went on to Wheeling, W. Va., got a job in a factory at $9 a week and lived on her wages. From there she went to Pittsburgh, where she was a chambermaid in a hotel. The house detective found that she had a prison record, insisted that she be not allowed in the guests' rooms. She was offered a job in the kitchen. "They were pleasant about it," she said. From Pittsburgh she went to Manhattan, arrived with only 43c. The Salvation Army...
...conclusions: "Every prisoner feared the law, and hated it for the punishment it imposed. There is a dread that the fear of prison causes which I am now convinced is beneficial. I formerly thought prisons out of date, but now have changed my viewpoint. They serve a very useful purpose. Only there is not sufficient attention paid to fitting girls to lead a straight life when once they leave confinement...
Startling discoveries of Communist activities were made by the Paris police. In a campaign which sent 120 men to prison, the police entered the house of Deputy Doriot, Communist leader, seized important documents relative to Morocco, including an offensive plan against the French for the Riffian Army and a considerable amount of correspondence from French officers on the Moroccan front, much of which had apparently been stolen. Proceedings against Deputy Marty, another Communist, were pending, for an article which he contributed to L'Humanité, Communist newspaper, in which he incited French troops to disobedience...
...Sporting Chance. Imagine Kentucky and a man with a horse trying to win a race for the heart of the girl who has to save her father from prison by marrying. Kentucky is of course a lovely place...