Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find it impossible to agree with your editorial in the CRIMSON in which you disapprove of our President's meritorious conduct in refusing to release Eugene V. Debs from Federal prison. Apparently it is a manifestation of the modern so-called "liberal" tendency in our modern undergraduates which finds outlet in a general plea for the "under dog" no matter why he is "under...
...public interest than the newspapers prepare for an orgy of "startling disclosures", for blazing headlines containing the names of men in the highest ranks of public and private life. For an expectant reading-public there are graphic accounts of untold wealth secured by graft, of prosperous men off to prison, via the hastily called Grand Juries. All this publicity is exciting; but it may do more harm than good. By the time our numerous investigating committees have concluded their affairs--if ever they do--the country may expect much improved conditions. Publicity can help in achieving this, and so long...
...expressed attitude of President Wilson and that presumably held by Mr. Harding toward the release of Eugene Debs from the Atlanta Prison seems entirely too narrow for persons of their calibre. That a man should suffer for his honest beliefs for ten years after the final clearing up of the matters that led to his punishment, is entirely against the principles of a democratic country. Mr. Debs was sentenced to a ten-year term in the Federal Penitentiary for a violation of the Espionage act. At the time, a speech such as his against the Selective Service Bill, might have...
...serving a sentence, marked by good conduct on his part a sentence which, for a man of his age, amounts to a life term. As an example to others, his imprisonment is no longer necessary, for the offense which caused it cannot at present be committed. His influence in prison is greater than it would be outside, as can readily be seen by the increase in votes he received for president in 1920 over those polled by him in the 1912 elections. A million Americans backed him in November, many of them because they felt his imprisonment unjustified after...
...Portsmouth naval prison presented the most difficulties and hindrances possible to such a plan from the nature of the Congressional ruling regarding military prisoners. Formerly sailors who had served a sentence at Portsmouth could not return to the service and were thrown on their recources, branded criminals often for offences of comparatively slight importance. Commander Osborne, however, secured a channel for pardons, and instilling into his men a spirit of good citizenship, sent 2700 of them back into the service, after shortened terms, during his three years in office. A very small proportion of these men, despite the prejudice...