Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such warnings of cattle-herding in U. S. prisons provoked no action in official Washington. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, for eight years the Assistant Attorney-General responsible for prison conditions as well as Prohibition and tax cases, spent more time worrying about the conduct of Federal wardens than prodding Presidents Harding and Coolidge to get more cells built...
...over capacity in inmates at the present time and Leavenworth is 87%, all of which is the cause of infinite demoralization and the direct cause of outbreaks and trouble. . . . Our plans necessitate an expenditure of about $5,000,000 and will comprise some additions and revision of the old prisons and probably a new prison somewhere in the Northeastern States...
Figures told the story of U. S. prison-crowding. Atlanta was built to hold 1,712 men. Its present population is 3,787. Leavenworth's capacity is 2,000, its population, 3,758. Chillicothe, Ohio, has 250 more prisoners than its capacity of 1,000. Only McNeil Island, Wash., is below capacity. As of June 1, U. S. prisoners were incarcerated as follows: In Federal prisons?10,200; in State prisons?1,200; in county jails?...
...guards and two other prisoners the Ford wheeled over the 40 miles to the State Farm. His one rheumy eye (the other, albino, is blind) for the first time saw automobiles, a steamshovel, a road roller, skyscrapers, an airplane in flight. He licked his first ice cream cone, drank his first bottle of ginger ale. His only question: "Aren't there any more horses?" So violently did new sights and sounds impinge upon his prison-warped senses that he was left almost speechless...
...found dead in an unspeakable condition. Pomeroy, then 15, was arrested, tried, sentenced to be hanged. The whole East seethed with outrage against his sadism. After many a delay Governor Rice, because of his youth, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On Sept. 7, 1876 Pomeroy entered Charlestown Prison to pay a penalty not yet finished. A violent prisoner, always attempting escape, he was moved to Concord in 1880 in chains and handcuffs, was returned to Charlestown...