Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sing Sing prison John Santanella, a trusty, had only 55 more days to serve on his sentence. Yet he fled. Philip A. Brown, who wants to become a policeman, found him roosting in a tree, bayed until guards arrived, who took John Santanella back to prison, where he risks spending seven to 15 years more for his defection...
...Passed a bill to construct two federal penal institutions, one a reformatory in the West, one a penitentiary in the Northeast. This bill completed legislation for the Department of Justice's new prison program...
Ralph Leo Richards, half-brother of skilled Tennis Professional Vincent Richards, was sent to prison for an indefinite period (one day to three years), convicted of unlawfully entering a Manhattan apartment three months...
Best Reporting: $1,000 to Russell Owen of the New York Times (Byrd expedition) and $500 to W. 0. Dapping of the Auburn, N. Y. Citizen (Auburn prison mutiny...
These faults were most noticable in Lysle Talbot as Robert Graham, the wronged boy, and Messers Clarenodn and Shields, prison authorities. William Ingersoll and Thais Lawton, Warden and daughter respectively, were adequate, although the latter came to grief in the last act with a bit of weeping a la spasm. John Junior, a doctor, probably gave the best performance, although he appeared very infrequently...