Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even condemned murderers in death cells may soon feel the motherly touch of Britain's welfare state. Harley Cronin, general secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, recently wrote as follows to the Prison Commission: "After a long spell of waiting, both the prisoner and the staff get thoroughly tired of playing cards, chess, etc., and the provision of wireless would be a boon . . . With careful selection suitable programs could be tuned into." At week's end the Home Office, which supervises British prisons, still had the request under consideration...
Allow me to congratulate you on your article on Larry Gara [TIME, Aug. 15], the Quaker now in prison for encouraging a non-registrant for the draft...
...hoping that none but the Mennonites waste sympathy on a man of such caliber as Larry Gara. In refusing to register during World War II he was but definitely a lawbreaker . . . Let him continue being a martyr and cheerfully spend most of his life as a do-nothing in prison...
Sexpert Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey pushed ahead the frontiers of education. On a month's visit to San Quentin prison to gather data on sex life in jail, he helped pass the time by lecturing the inmates on sex life outside...
Traffic Problem. In Salt Lake City, after this year's 15th escape from the State Prison Farm, somebody planted a sign on the adjacent highway: "Drive Slow, Prisoners Escaping...