Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twain's story of the man who was imprisoned for 20 years and then walked out, having just discovered the door never had been locked, and some of us think it funny. I consider it a some what boring statement of fact. The world at large is in prison, shows many symptoms of dying in prison, and there is nothing whatever to prevent it from walking...
Plucked from Alcatraz Island Prison in San Francisco Bay by the deportation order with which President Roosevelt purged Federal prisons of 151 aliens last month (TIME, Aug. 5) was one William Henry Ambrose, onetime Chicago drug peddler. Before he was shipped back to his native England last week Convict Ambrose gave newshawks a first-hand picture of life inside the great, grey fortress-prison reserved for the most dangerous Federal criminals in the land. Excerpts...
...radios. Not a single newspaper. You can buy magazines, but they come to you with pages and articles torn out. Any article about crime or prison is torn out. No detective stories are allowed. Your letters come to you censored and retyped. Can't get the originals. Out of a three-page letter you get maybe six or seven lines...
...Alcatraz is the nearest to escape-proof that it can be made," concluded Convict Ambrose, who once tunneled his way out of Leavenworth Prison. "It's the toughest pen I've ever seen. The hopelessness of it gets you. Capone feels it. Everybody does. You know you'll never get a parole. There's no chance there for anybody ? only that God-awful silence that gets on your nerves...
...years the District of Columbia has permitted divorce for adultery only. Lately Congress passed a new law adding as grounds for divorce desertion for two years, voluntary separation for five years, a prison sentence of two or more years for a crime involving moral turpitude. President Roosevelt, whose ideas on divorce are liberal, signed the bill one afternoon last week...