Word: prisoners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...District Court in Indianapolis, was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1902. A few years later, after a decision which displeased the President, Mr. Roosevelt said that Judge Anderson was "either a fool or a knave." In 1912 he sentenced a group of labor leaders to prison for long terms on conviction of conspiracy to transport explosives in passenger trains. In 1919 it was he who issued an injunction against coal guilty of forging hundreds of fraudulent notes. He is guilty of obtaining strikers. Last week he added to his reputation by saying from the bench...
...signing, a recent bill calling for prison reorganization. Governor Smith has accomplished for the state of New York what the Legislature at Boston refused only a few weeks ago to consider for Massachusetts. The new plan which "provides for a modern industrial system in prisons under as competent a Superintendent as private industries demand", is probably one of the most progressive steps in punitive legislation ever taken in the United States. If successfully administered, it will mark the end of an era in prison management which has lasted in this country since the days when the only goal in Connecticut...
...little coming into actual existence. The dreary descriptions penned by Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde, among a score of other forces working to the same end, are apparently effecting their purpose with a slow but steady persistence. The idea of a convict being a mental invalid and of a prison being properly a remedial hospital for his cure which would have aroused nothing but blank amazement in the minds of Judge Jeffrey's and his contemporaries, is accepted at the present day by most people with only momentary qualms. Teaching a man a trade and allowing him to work...
...Eaton was imprisoned with "bishops, priests, princes and a drug peddler" in a Bolshevik prison for two months and undoubtedly underwent harrowing experiences. Said he: "I was arrested in Moscow on a charge of being a spy, although I have no idea where the rumor originated. . . I was brought before the most remarkable woman in Russia, Simanova, known as 'The Merciless,' and the real chief of the Foreign Department. She is less than 30 years of age, beautiful, and a blonde with blue eyes. After questioning me she demanded that I confess that...
...Warsaw, Poland, arrived Archbishop Zepliak, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, released from Soviet prison as a result of the Pope's strenuous representations to the chancellories of Europe. He was penniless, ragged, emaciated...