Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Senate Bill to permit state regulation of interstate trade in prison-made goods...
...Russian army by hard work and through the influence of a kindly general (George Fawcett). Ivan worships the general's haughty daughter (Camilla Horn), but she treats him as peasant swine. One night, he accidentally falls asleep in her boudoir and is degraded and cast into prison for his ungentlemanly mistake. The prison gives Mr. Barrymore an opportunity to put on the grease paints and a beard, to look horribly woebegone. The Red Revolution releases him from prison and he becomes a peasant dictator. He refuses to be a party to the execution of the haughty daughter, runs away...
...Indictment. Every year France sends a dismal shipload of some 700 convicts to her penal colony in French Guiana -north of Brazil, southeast of Venezuela. Here the condemned, one-half of whom die in the first year, eke out a prison sentence with hard labor, followed by continued exile; the avowed purpose being: "expiation of crime, regeneration of the guilty, and the protection of Society." That the purpose has been sadly travestied is common gossip abroad, but Blair Niles went to see for herself...
...Witness. Author Niles achieved unaccountable permission to inspect gang prisons of the mainland and individual cells on the rockbound islands. She chatted with convicts, and followed the trails so many of them have hacked in vain through the jungle. Everything she saw was evidence of the demoded prison conditions that a twentieth century government tolerates...
Honor Bound. A southern woman (Estelle Taylor, also known as Mrs. Jack Dempsey) shoots her first husband and allows honorable John Ogletree (George O'Brien) to go to prison for manslaughter. She marries again, persuades her second husband to use honorable Convict Ogletree as a chauffeur. One fine evening, she makes advances to honorable Chauffeur Ogletree; but he repulses her and wrecks the automobile while doing so. She is injured; her husband suspects honorable Wrecker Ogletree, sends him back to prison to labor and be flogged. In the end, honorable Hero Ogletree finds a virtuous nurse and Mrs. Jack Dempsey...