Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Menotti Serrati, Socialist member of the Chamber of Deputies and director of the Socialist newspaper Avanti, was acquitted from the charge of conspiring against the State and liberated from prison...
...Cornell?but Cornell won by a third of a length of open water." General D�goutte, commanding the French Army on the Rhine: "One Herr Schoene Landiat of Essen wrote me an insulting letter. He has now to pay 10,000,000 marks fine and serve five years in prison...
...features of present day prison life", declared Mr. Hendry, "is the industrial work that occupies the greater part of the day. Instead of the former daily labor of rock-breaking pris- oners are given their choice of what work they wish to do of the many occupations that are being engaged in at the prison. In shops which were built mainly by the prisoners, are facilities for making shoes, clothing, mattresses, automobile registration plates, palls, ash cans and brushes of all kinds. In addition the prisoners may engage in sloyd, and machine, and lathe work. Most of the products made...
...food given the prisoners", Mr. Hendry stated, "in contrast with former prison diets of bread and water and water and bread is as good as furnished by any public institution where over 600 people are fed each meal. Still another feature of the modern penal system is the exact physical attention given each incoming prisoner. Each man is given an exhaustive examination that brings to light every possible defect. In addition to this examination, Bertillion measurements and finger prints are taken so that each man is perpetually classified. If any of the defects can be remedied the patient is immediately...
...Although prison life is far from being Utopian", Mr. Hendry concluded, "it now aims to rebuild men so that once more when they are given their freedom they will have some particular occupation, not as formerly in the underworld, but where they may become honest and self-respecting citizens for the remainder of their lives...