Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most successful prison reformer in the country, Thomas Mott Osborne '84, will speak this evening in Peabady Hall, Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock on "Crime and Criminals". This lecture, which is open to all members of the University only, is being given under the auspices of the Harvard Christian Association...
When Thomas Mott Osborne '84 speaks at Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening on "Crime and Criminals," members of the University will have an opportunity to hear one of the most noted prison reformers in America...
Always a progressive, Mr. Osborne has from the first met with violent opposition from the old school of prison administrators. He was appointed warden of Sing Sing Prison in December, 1914. He wiped out the rank corruption among the officials and improved the unbearable living conditions of the inmates, but his activities aroused jealousy and fear among his political opponents, who made an attempt to remove him from his position...
Forbes paled. The starch apparently melted out of rotund Mr. Thompson. The maximum penalty is two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Mr. Forbes' attorney at once made a motion for a new trial. James Hamilton Lewis told his client that he would carry the case to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the defendants remain at liberty on $10,000 bail...
...Osborne is the author of many widely read books on prisons and prison reform. The best of his writing include "Within Prison Walls," "The Adventures of a Green Dragon," and "Society and Prisons...