Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, bewildered by all the outcry their case was creating, the eight blackamoors of Scottsboro sat in death cells at Kilby prison waiting for the Supreme Court of Alabama to review their convictions next winter...
Jails. Child prisoners are lodged in the following Federal institutions, in addition to regular Federal prisons: the Federal Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio; the National Training School for Boys at Washington, D. C.; the National Training School for Girls at Muirkirk, Md.; Federal Industrial Institution for Women at Alderson, W. Va. The U. S. contracts with 24 State institutions to care for young offenders. Declared Dr. Van Waters: "Some jails in the Southern and Southwestern districts are old and unfit. . . . Supervision of inmates is in the hands of trusties. . . . These jails present a situation of filth and misery impossible...
Herr Groepler, a stolid individual whose profession forces him to lead a rather unsocial existence, left his cosy home in Magdeburg last week with a bag of tools and a coil of new rope. He took the train to the Prussian State Prison at Klingelpuetz, near Cologne. In the prison yard he disappeared into a dusty, dilapidated shed. Prisoners tense in their cells heard him hammering, hammering, filing metal all day long...
...last day last week he spent writing letters of apology to the parents of his victims. That night he prayed with the three pastors. At dawn the doors of the shed in the prison yard were opened. Executioner Groepler wheeled out what he had been hammering and filing on all day, a dusty French guillotine, 130 years old, which, with the Code Napoleon was a present from the Emperor to the Rhine states. At 6 a.m. Killer Kuerten walked unmoved to the machine, stretched out his naked neck. Down crashed the knife...
...past three years Britain's Who's Who has repeated that Baron Terrington's favorite recreation is "motoring," has tactfully omitted his address (Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight). Having served three years for swindling $350,000, Lord Terrington regained his freedom last week, resumed his favorite recreation...