Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week Murderer Leopold, incarcerated at Joliet Penitentiary, seemed in a fair way to stand trial for the murder last year of a prison warden by six convicts who, last week on the eve of being electrocuted, gained reprieve by crediting Murderer Leopold with their plan of escape...
Died. William Maxwell, 88, "oldest convict in the world"; in the Wisconsin state prison at Waupun. Fifty-five years ago, aged 33, he defended a woman's good name by killing a dance-hall roisterer. Other roisterers, irate, hung Mr. Maxwell to a tall tree. Forthwith, a sheriff arrived, cut him down, took him to jail. He was sentenced to life imprisonment; refused several offers of parole...
...talk. Jack is a scholar, Jack has the manners of a gentleman." Jack (John Wilkes, 1727-1797) was also a rowdy, a beerhouse brawler, a blasphemer, a fornicator, a publisher of lewd and libelous literature. He was expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, deported and cast into prison when, upon his return, King George III refused to pardon him. . . . But Whigs, great, rich, respected, thronged his prison cell, for Jack was a Hero. The freeholders of Middlesex had four times elected him to Parliament and four times the Commons had denied him a seat. One of the severest crises...
...Before one can understand the Mexican situation one must face the problems of Mexico" Frank, Tannenbaum, economist, educator, and prison expert, told a Crimson reporter yesterday. Mr. Tannenbaem had been in Mexico for over a year and returns to lecture on the problems of Mexico with the endorsement of that country's council general. "And before one can understand the relationship between Mexico and Nicaragua one had to understand that all the problems of Mexico are the problems of both Central and south America...
While in the monasteries the doctors studied the effects of diet on segregated men, at Sing Sing (New York state prison, Ossining) where men live under similarly "controlled" conditions, Dr. Amos T. Baker has set up a psychiatric clinic to learn the cause of imprisonment. Each day he will unravel the characters of three men to learn 1) their intelligence. 2) vocational possibilities, 3) future outlook on society. Said Warden Lewis E. Lawes of the project: "Some of the men we have here are pretty smart birds, and I expect some occasionally to put one over on the doctor...