Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delay-had dutifully returned to the legation. Otherwise, the court heard defense witnesses out with obvious fascination, and when the prosecution began to present its witnesses, their statements frequently sounded more like letters of reference than like hostile testimony. "I know criminals when I see them," declared the prison warden. "These men are no criminals...
...NEEDED. Then Dr. Richard H. Brooks spelled out his call for 25 prisoners to receive injections of human cancer cells in both arms, and concluded: "Anyone interested in volunteering for research on our yet most baffling problem of our age is requested to send a 'kite' to Warden Alvis." Kite is prison slang for a note, and last week Warden Ralph W. Alvis got 120 of them from convict-volunteers...
Some 40 of them also volunteered a reason for signing up-most explained that members of their families had died or were suffering from cancer. "Four or five," added the warden, "simply said they had been stinkers all their lives and wanted to do something worthwhile...
...answer to such criticism, the Prison Commission points to the shock centers record: during 1952 and 1953, no fewer than 237 boys were discharged at Kidlington, but up to the end of 1954, only 74 of them had reappeared in court. Say; Kidlington Warden F. (for Frederick) Vernon Elvy: "We help some boys to find themselves. It is only by experiencing the satisfaction of a tough effort that these boys realize a sense of a job well done; it gives them the sense of achievement they need. I don't say we have the complete answer to the problem...
...quiet prevailed at Walla Walla this autumn as officials longed for the day when new facilities would be built to contain men like the July rioters. When state legislators finally approved funds for desperately needed construction, it seemed the situation might finally be brought under control. But last week Warden Lawrence Delmore received crushing news from the State Supreme Court: the legislature's' prison appropriation was unconstitutional...