Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial was set for the end of January. If convicted, the penalty could be up to five years in prison and a $2,000 fine on each count...
...third such decision by a Southern court in eight days. Fortnight ago, in Wetumpka, Ala., two white men got 45-year prison sentences (TIME, Dec. 13) for raping Negro women...
Natural Causes. Then came another war. When the Japs took Shanghai, young Bill was captured, and in 1943 sent to the Bridge House Prison Camp. A year later his father received word from the War Office that young Bill had died of "natural causes" in the prison...
Young Hutton had annoyed the prison's commander, General Eiichi Kino-shita, by refusing to sign a statement that he had been humanely treated. The general turned him over to one Sergeant Bunzo Yoshida. Sometimes Yoshida's lessons would be taught with water, sometimes with electric shock, sometimes with just the butt of a rifle or the heel of a boot. Then one day Yoshida trussed his naked prisoner up with his head between his legs and his arms strapped behind him, and left him alone. Five days later his fellow prisoners found Hutton stark crazy. Next...
Circles of Hell. The camera first discovers Virginia Cunningham sitting on a bench in the sun. A disembodied voice asks her where she is. She does not know. The camera, following her inside a hulking grey building, discovers (as if through her bewildered eyes) the locked doors, the prison bars, the caged human figures. Casually it takes in such alarming details as a woman giggling to herself, another sitting on the floor. Later, it surveys the rows of beds in the dormitory at night, when Virginia first realizes where she is, while the soundtrack weaves a chilling pattern...