Word: warden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quentin, Prisoner Mooney left his potato-peeling to hear the decision in the warden's office. Sixteen years behind its grey walls have warped his perspective on the world at large and rendered him ''stir daffy."* Hoping for nothing from Governor Rolph, Mooney declared: "This makes me the outstanding figure in the world's labor movement and a symbol of the struggle of Labor for its rights." In San Francisco his defense committee exclaimed that he "had no chance whatever of receiving a fair and impartial hearing from representatives of as unprincipled a bunch of pirates...
TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS IN SING SING -Lewis E. Lawes-Long &; Smith ($3). Not chance but a childhood in Elmira, half a mile from the New York State Reformatory, brought Warden Lawes to his prison-keeping career. On Saturday afternoons, from a safe distance, the boy watched the Reformatory inmates at work. They did not look very unhappy or dangerous to him. And the uniformed guards were things of beauty, in their way. At 17 he was in an Army uniform himself. Three years of drab post-Spanish-American War service led him to seek a career elsewhere...
...instructions, for the inmates were desperate men, and their treatment was desperate too. Total silence was enforced, the work-gang shuffled from & back to their cells. But it was from these same creatures who once were men, Old Chappleau at Clinton, and Mike the Rat Catcher later on, that Warden Lawes learned new penological lessons behind the parallel bars...
...Hampton, housed them in barracks without surrounding walls, built a New Reformatory. He successfully introduced the honor system, even let his prisoners take part in the filming of a military movie, without guards. None tried to escape; and Lawes's fame spread. In 1920 he became Warden at Sing Sing...
Here and there in every countryside, no matter how green, stand groups of dark buildings inclosed by high stone walls. Within those walls there always lives a warden (in England they call him governor) ; within this warden there sometimes lives a tender heart. When inexorable Law demands that a prisoner be executed, such wardens may pay dear for their sensibilities...