Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decades as a professional burglar, gaunt, nervous Steve Rumnoch had done nicely at his specialty-breaking into houses. His score: 800 jobs, no arrests. But he had been caught four times for breaking into stores, had spent 15 years in prison. Life behind walls was intolerable to him and he grew morose and hopeless in "stir." Nevertheless during his last stretch, 34 months at the Iowa State Penitentiary, he forced himself to plan a better life for the future...
When Tito's minions in 1946 tried and convicted Roman Catholic Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac on trumped-up treason charges, Stepinac did not confess. Apparently the Kremlin never gave Tito the secret of the "monstrous method." Last week there were rumors that Tito might release Stepinac from prison...
Vocational Training. In Salt Lake City, officials learned that Forger Mearle L. Markely had whiled away his year in state prison by printing up bogus checks in the prison print shop...
...driving was postponed until he finished fixing the roof of the police station. In Jefferson City, Mo., Willard Drayton, a tower guard at the state penitentiary, was found to be a parole violator from California. In Salt Lake City, Escaped Convict Allen J. Carbis, returning to the Utah State Prison after voluntarily calling up the warden to say "I'm coming home," explained: "I had no right as a man or a convict to let him down that...
...Miriam Van Waters, head of the Framingham state prison for women, brought her state-wide campaign to arouse public interest in modern penology to the Canterbury Club (Episcopal) last night...