Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...underclothing for over five months. Although I had pneumonia and Stanley West, my companion, was even worse off, we were given only bread and a piece of butter the size of a quarter, and a can of green tea holding about a cupful each day. For that the prison commissioners get $1.50 a day per head...
Died. Federal Judge David C. Westenhaver, 63, potent jurist, sentencer of the late Eugene V. Debs to prison for a seditious speech, releaser of thousands of alleged "draft dodgers" after the War; of heart disease; in Cleveland, Ohio...
...Votes (1908) both for and against bills providing prison sentences for racetrack gamblers. Votes (1910) against two bills tightening the gambling laws...
Case 2. A convict named Kalinowski had stabbed and killed the headkeeper of Auburn Prison. Convict Kalinowski was sentenced to death. Defense counsel was arguing for clemency...
Wraith of a dreadful era, Gaston Bullock Means got out of prison last week. Citizens had to tax memory heavily to recall precisely which one he was of the many crooks in the Harding administration...