Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arrest. Captain Kendall Fielder, of the headquarters staff in the District of Columbia, early one morning last week strode into an apartment building known as the Anchorage, and made an arrest. The prisoner was his friend, Colonel William Mitchell. The prison was the District of Columbia which Colonel Mitchell was ordered not to leave during the period of his court martial...
Thomas Mott Osborne '84, famous prison reformer, will speak in Peabody Hall. Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock Monday night. His subject will be "The Purpose of Prisons" and the lecture will be open to all members of the University...
...talking with a prisoner recently released from a New York prison,' Captain Armstrong wrote, "he told me of many improvements for which Mr. Osborne was entitled to credit...
...Osborne is especially famous as the founder of the Mutual Welfare League, which he organized in 1911 when he was warden of Sing Sing Prison. He first spent a week in Auburn prison as a convict under the name of "Tom Brown." and the knowledge gained thereby, coupled with the results of years of study of prison reform, caused him to organize the Mutual Welfare League among the prisoners...
...Osborn became very much interested in the prison situation and in 1913 he was appointed chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform. A year later he was made warden of Sing Sing...