Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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California sends her "repeater" convicts to Folsom Prison, a stronghold whose ashen walls command a desolate stretch of the American River valley laid waste by goldseekers. Prisons are gruesome places at best but Folsom ranks with the worst as a focus of human distemper and desperation. Last week, Folsom was the scene of the greatest prison revolt in California history...
Weapons began to flicker in the half-light of the prison-daggers and stilletos wrought out of files, kitchen utensils, shovels, razor blades. One man had an automatic pistol. As Turnkey Singleton stammered his answers, some one shoved a knife in his back. Someone else struck him deep in the stomach...
...baffled breathlessness, that twitching of the limbs and lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...
...Reverend John Roach Straton D. D. of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York City, noted fundamentalist and exponent of divine healing, will debate at the Union next Tuesday instead of Warden L. E. Lawes of Sing Sing Prison, as previously announced...
...Lawes has long been warden at Sing Sing, where his enlightened policy of leniency and prison reform has been largely responsible for raising the standards of justice in New York State...