Word: stated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Responsible for the President's program was Sanford Bates, U. S. Superintendent of Prisons, selected as a man of "advanced ideas" by Mrs. Willebrandt shortly before her retirement last spring. For ten years Mr. Bates was Massachusetts' Commissioner of Correction, fought many a fight to modernize that State's penal system. No sentimentalist, he believes in prison reform, rehabilitation of society's sick-minded. One of his methods for relieving U. S. prison congestion is to increase paroles, now limited by the scarcity of probation officers. President Hoover last week promised him more of these officers...
...Prison congestion worried State as well as U. S. executives. The New York World made a survey of the 22 largest prisons in the U. S. outside New York, received reports that 15 of them were "dangerously overcrowded." The percentage of population over capacity in important local prisons was: Indiana State Prison, 79%; Eastern Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, 77%; Nebraska State Penitentiary, 61%; Missouri State Prison, 42%; Rhode Island State Penitentiary, 31%; Kentucky State Prison, 31%; Maryland State Prison...
...Maine State Prison was 16% below capacity, the "emptiest...
...Kentucky's Governor Flem D. Sampson last week signed death warrants for two murderers, to be executed in September. At the same time he issued a proclamation calling attention to their crimes, their punishment, which he ordered read once a week in every prison and jail in the State. It began: "May the Lord have mercy upon the souls of these unfortunate men who are about to pay the extreme penalty for their transgressions...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Victor Louis Berger, famed Milwaukee Socialist. Twenty-two days prior he had eluded an automobile, run afoul of a street car, suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs. His body lay in state in the Milwaukee City Hall. Municipal offices were closed the day of his funeral. He it was who had nursed Wisconsin Socialism from a pink Fauntleroy to a ruddy, vote-mighty brawnyman...