Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warden L.E. Lawes of Sing Sing Prison will debate on "Capital Punishment" under the auspices of the Harvard Debating Union next Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, it has just been announced...
...that gives the U. S. the highest crime temperature in the civilized world. In the report of its chairman, Richard Washburn Child, "the most important things" listed for discussion and improvement were: 1) Laws against traffic in stolen goods. 2) Compiling of crime statistics by all the states. 3) Prison labor problems. 4) The pardon & parole system...
...mildest delegates was onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton D. Baker (see POLITICAL NOTES below), who spoke of the U. S. prison population as "just a part of our common citizenship that has been found wanting and taken away." Convicts, he said, are "part of ourselves" and in evolving methods for their rehabilitation "we are dealing with a long procession of men and women who at present are babes in arms; who, as the revolving years come on, are quite certain, under the deadly percentages which the criminologists are beginning to establish ... to lead lives of crime." Mr. Baker...
...Parliament last week reassembled. Its first act was to free four Communist Deputies - MM. Cachin, Duclos, Marty, Doriot-who were imprisoned during the summer for sedition. It was made clear to the four that as soon as the Chamber of Deputies ended its session they must go back to prison and "spend their vacations there." Deputy Franklin-Bouillon and a small party of his friends resigned from the Socialist party and formed the Radical Unionist party, the eleventh in French politics. The session continued...
...McAndrew at all. After him went a Chicago school teacher, Rosalie Didier, to exclaim: "To read that Washington was a rebel was to me a desecration and to learn that the Boston Tea Party was vandalism made me feel that Schlesinger* should be filling a cell in a Federal prison." This last week's continuation of legal irrelevancies and digressions at last made some restive Chicago citizens rebuke the city's administration. A group of 29 civic organizations published a resolution: "Four or five sessions of this trial, occupying as many weeks, have now been held...