Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viscount Haldane: "Once, when a burglar in the Exchequer Court asked for an accounting against his partner, the Court clapped both into prison. A man cannot invoke his own wrong-doing against...
Mules Near the black mouth of the prison mine at Lansing, Kansas, a kindly warden stood conversing with his deputy, suddenly turned with tautened lips to watch the sullen file of oil-skinned prisoners shuffle down into the shaft. Defiant of 13 unarmed guards, a seared murderer, a slack-jawed pervert, another and another, turned to gaze with loathing at the man who held four of their number captives to be chastised like beasts for complaining at lack of sheets...
...York was about to change its prison code. Convicts entering Sing Sing on and after July 1 were to be subject to new, stricter parole and commutation rules. In the detention cells of many counties, yeggs and firebugs, stickers and rodmen, auto thieves, foot-pads, forgers and dips were clamoring to plead guilty, waive their defenses, and be let into the big "pen" with all despatch. By the end of the week Sing Sing was crammed like a seaside hotel, its accommodations for 1,540 guests overflowing with 1,561 and more to come. About 1,800, in all, were...
Time spent in jail waiting for sentence cannot now be deducted from terms of a year or less. (Before, a prisoner sentenced to one year in prison after having spent three months waiting for sentence, could get out, with his compensation, in six months...
Engaged. Henry Gibson Brock, 40, freshly pardoned from the Eastern Penitentiary of Philadelphia, to Miss Margaret Burgwin, Pittsburgh heiress, fresh from Dobbs Ferry School (N. Y.). The romance was carried through prison days...