Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force a man to testify against himself. We must strengthen the police and prosecution by giving them means of making criminals talk. In England, as soon as a man is arrested, he is brought before a judge, and forced to testify. If he refuses, he is thrown into prison for contempt of court. Some such system here would help to avoid errors...
Regarding the investigation of the Norfolk Prison Administration, as a result of which a hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 6. Professor Warner emphatically stated that Howard B. Gill '13 was "the best prison administrator in the whole state of Massachusetts." He characterized Mr. Gill as an able, honest, and enthusiastic man. "Mr. Gill is an idealist, and is interested in saving the souls of men. His only fault was that he was not interested in paper work, and should have had a capable deputy to control this part of the prison's affairs...
While cocky Mr. MacCracken was getting his habeas corpus writ. Col. Brittin, gaunt and bespectacled Spanish-American and World War veteran who had learned to fly at 55, began his prison sentence in the dingy red stone District jail. The warden asked him what he could do. He said he knew clerking...
...going to spend the night with his wife at Boston's best hotel. When she failed to appear with the bail he declared: "It is nothing. It is a small matter. One more night after all these years makes no difference. There has been a misunderstanding. ... In prison I learned humility. . . . Good night, gentlemen...
...radio announced martial law. A police doctor dressed his wounds, testified he was not likely to die of them. Forty-eight hours after his capture, three after his sentencing, bandaged Munischreiter, still protesting that he had never fired his rifle, met Herr Lang and his noose in the Vienna prison courtyard. He was cut down seven hours later at midnight, and replaced by Dr. George Weissl, heroic commandant of the Socialist fight in the Floridsdorf suburb. Said he: "I die with no regrets. I am a worker and I have fought to save my home...