Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ward Road Jail. What claims to be the largest prison in the world, the Ward Road jail, capacity 8,000, stands on the edge of the Japanese part of the International Settlement under crossfire from both sides for over a week. Shells crashed right into the building last week, killed eight prisoners in the cells, wounded 70, drove several others insane. Volunteers from the International Settlement last week finally arranged for the prisoners to be evacuated in busses to the outskirts of the Chinese city. A morning's load of 500, guarded by British and U.S. armored cars...
...Gretna will rise three round units connected by an underground passage, each bounded by a 33 to 39 ft. reinforced concrete wall. One will house prison work shops, and probably a factory where inmates will make soap for 54 other State institutions. Another will contain recreation facilities and latrines. Centre circle-672 ft. across-will contain a hospital, an auditorium and six separate cell blocks, with accommodations for 592 prisoners, each in a private cell. The cells will be so arranged that any inmate who chisels his way out will find himself in either the next cell or a corridor...
...organization in every State of a farm-hospital-prison where all cases of constitutional psychopathic states-sex offenders-can be kept for life and forced to earn their own maintenance...
...Castration of every individual on commitment to above institution. It has been shown that short prison sentences, fines, commitment to hospitals for the insane, and even sentence to death, are not feared sufficiently by these persons to cause them to stop their sex-criminal tendencies. But, if they knew that after the first offence they will be castrated, and placed in a working institution for life, they will at least migrate to some country that is more kind and lenient in the treatment of their crimes. There is nothing these criminals fear more than castration (this does not mean simple...
...Negro cook as a jury to decide who should be pitched overboard. Holmes and friends had jettisoned seven men and women before they were picked up by a passing vessel. Brought to Philadelphia for trial, Holmes was convicted of manslaughter with a recommendation for mercy, served six months in prison before going back to the sea. Seaman Holmes's story, radically transformed by the crack team of Scenarist Grover Jones & Director Henry Hathaway (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine) and magnificently photographed by Academy Award Winner Charles Lang (A Farewell to Arms), makes...