Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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States Lines." It went on to tell, in. seven more paragraphs, how Stowaway Salaza-check had been discovered aboard the Leviathan on her last eastern trip, clapped into Bargate Prison for two and one-half days, and shipped back again on the Leviathan...
...hope but in despair, in the weighing of different deaths, in a whisper passed with a plate at mess, along a file at exercise, in a package slipped under the table in the visitors' room, a stolen knife, a gun under the grey clothes?so prison breaks begin, nobody knows just how. One morning last week at Auburn. N. Y., an appointed moment came. Father Donald Cleary, the prison's young chaplain, found a strange party in one of the corridors...
...time when 200 segregated prisoners, under special watch for taking part in the attempted break and prison-burning less than five months ago (TIME, Aug. 5), were supposed to be having lunch. They were not eating. Some of them had handcuffed six guards and marched them back to the punishment cells to set free their comrades. They had sent a message to Warden Jennings and he was there now, manacled and trembling, a white-haired man with a lined, anxious face, a hostage. The prisoners waited for their leader, Convict Henry Sullivan, to tell them how the guards and troopers...
...working on the problem now. I would name a fourth if it would do any good." He announced that seven captured rioters would be tried for their lives. He promised to make special penal recommendations to the legislature next month concerning: 1) A five-year building program to increase prison accommodations by 3,000; 2) Construction of a new 1,000-men model prison at Attica; 3) Increase in prisoners' daily ration allowance from 21¢ to 26¢ 4) Work for every prisoner, with pay for all work...
Author Markovits writes from his own experience: he was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1915 and spent six years in Siberian prison camps. His book, which made little stir on its first publication in Transylvania, was taken up by Budapest critics, is now being published simultaneously in nine countries...