Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...income-tax evasion, informed on Browne and Bioff-and was soon paroled. A year ago, bored with the stuffy interior of the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Browne and Bioff squealed, too. Their words convicted the Chicago mob. Afterward, they were moved to the security of the "squealer's prison," a U.S. institution at Sandstone, Minn. Last week, three years after their conviction for eight and ten years respectively, a grateful Government put them on probation, gave them their freedom...
...have five sons) and launched himself on a dual career as editor and high-school teacher. After ten years of teaching he finally entered the service of the Church as pastor of the little parish of Hurdalen, 40 miles from Oslo. Six years later he became chaplain of Botsfengslet Prison in Oslo...
...were an unceasing struggle for subsistence. Traveling among them, the Bishop learned to endure with the best their hardships and long loneliness in the Arctic night. Gay and friendly, an expert hunter and fisherman, he won and returned the love of his people. As his work in the state prison had given him compassion and insight, so his life in the north added toughness to his body and fiber to a character already intelligent and alert...
These things, this Christmas Day in his log-cabin prison, Eivind Berggrav surely knows...
...verdict: "Guilty of conspiracy to defraud the Government of the U.S. . . ." which carries a maximum sentence of $10,000 fine, two years in prison. When he heard the verdict, Joe Canella wheeled without a word, sat down beside his wife, dropped his head in his hands...