Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Mott Osborne '84, the wellknown advocate of prison reform, will speak on "What the Criminal Thinks, in Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society at 7 o'clock tonight...
...Osborne has for the last fifteen years been interested in a reform of prison conditions, especially in New York State. In 1913 he spent several days in Auburn Prison as a convict in order to study the life of a prisoner. The conclusions which he reached at that time he put into effect shortly afterwards when he became Warden of Sing Sing. His actions, however, brought him into conflict with certain elements in the political parties of the state and resulted in his resignation as head of the prison a few years ago. During the past few years...
...Thomas Mott Osborne '84 speaks on "Pending Prison Legislation" at First Parish Church...
John S. Codman '90 and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn will speak on the Sacco-Vanzetti Case under the auspices of the Student Liberal Club in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock Monday evening. Sacco and Vanzetti have been put in prison charged with complicity in hold-ups, charges which their supporters claim were directed against them because of their radical opinions...
...Debs has said that he came to prison with his convictions and that he will leave prison with them. I am afraid he will but not alone. I am afraid that six men will have to carry him to that place where all convictions, whether acquiescing or dissenting, thrive unnoticed and unmolested; to that place of infinite and final freedom, the grave. Then perhaps Mr. Mason, and all others who think as he does, will rejoice with me. J. J. DOLX...