Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life of an undergraduate gigolo is not an easy one, according to the complaints of students recently hired out as "dancers" by the Student Employment Office. Paid two dollars for attending a three-and-one-half-hour party, some of the hirelings have likened their employment to a prison...
When a British prison commissioner, Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, visited a model U.S. reformatory in 1902, he first became convinced that a bad apple can spoil a barrel. Back in England, he yanked some young offenders out of the regular prisons, moved them away from the older, rottener apples to a Kentish village called Borstal. There he began an experiment in straightening out youngsters gone wrong. Its basic idea: "the gospel of work...
There are Borstals of varying degrees, ranging from Sherwood Prison (a fairly rough place for chronic repeaters and the toughest offenders) to North Sea Camp (more like a farm-school than a prison). English juvenile delinquents, after "weighing in" (sentencing), are sent to Wormwood Scrubs Boys' Prison for classifying. From Wormwood Scrubs they are shipped to the Borstal that best suits their record and personality. They do not always agree with the choice: a recurring Borstal headache is "scarpering" (running away...
Paul de Lesseps, 63-year-old son of the famed Suez Canal builder, was down with heart trouble and a sense of persecution in Fresnes Prison. The French Government said that Prisoner de Lesseps, who owned land in Turkey, had offered to sell it to the Germr 3, for bases from which to bomb Suez. De Lesseps' reply: the Government owed him five billion francs for land confiscated in World War I, now condemned him "to avoid paying...
...detective unfolded a massive sheaf of documents. "He's been in and out of prison most of his life. He's an expert pickpocket, and has 34 convictions...