Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crusader Van der Elst assembled 65,000 signatures to a petition for a reprieve; offered to hire a brain surgeon to prove that Brigstock was insane. Nonetheless the trap was due to drop under Brigstock at 9 a. m. one day last week in South London's Wandsworth Prison...
...material is present for several exciting novels and a monograph on prison reform but unfortunately the two various themes are so interwoven in this biography of the pioneer prison reformer that it is all much time wasted by the reader who wants to carry away any definite impressions...
...this "made inevitable his election to the Hasty Pudding Club, the college dramatic society that was the goal of all undergraduate Thespians." This sort of slush continues throughout the volume but after a hundred pages the reader starts on the account of his work as liberal politician and prison administrator...
After page 150, the book becomes interesting, and after 250 pages have been covered, the reader enters the relevant part of the discussion on prisons which gives the book its only claim to value. The narrative becomes animated and gives the impression that the writer knows what he is talking about without being deceived by the worship of years. The Mutual Welfare League of Auburn and Sing Sing is discussed in a manner interesting to all who have considered the problems of prison administration either from a governmental or sociological view...
...book, where he deals with Osborne's problems in a convincing manner. Still it is "the great Osberne," but he has reached a position where, the attitude is more justified and the narrative springs to life with primary source experiences. The warden goes from Ossining to Porstmouth Naval Prison and experience the same trials because of his advocacy of liberal methods, but again comes away victoriously...