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...protection of society, the November Annal of the Academy of Political and Social Science notes that the amount of protection society receives from the death penalty is nebulous and uncertain. No doubt there are some incorrigibles, but the majority of prisoners seem curable. Indeed Warden Lawes once noted: "I know of none released during my wardenship at Sing Sing who reverted to crime...
...basic evil of capital punishment is its discrimination against the poor and against certain racial groups. By virtue of their wealth, the rich can retain able counsel, while the poor usually find themselves with a court appointed attorney. Warden Lawes wrote: "In the twelve years of my wardenship, I have escorted 150 men and one woman to the death chamber and the electric chair. . . They came from all kinds of homes and environments. In one respect, they were all alike. All were poor, and most were friendless. To what end or purpose were these victims sent to their premature deaths...
...Francisco, Warden Edwin Swope brought up a housing problem of another sort. The average cost of rooming & boarding an inmate of Alcatraz, he announced, is now $8 a day-more than twice the rate of other federal prisons, and about the same as a single room in a good San Francisco hotel...
...rector put up a barbed-wire fence around his house. When he tried to sell not only the organ but the church's prized 13th century chalice-to get money for a parish sports program-the parish council refused to approve it. And Nick Bunt, the church warden, a testy-tempered farmer, shouted a plain warning: "If you touch that organ, I'll down...
Nonstop. In Glasgow, Scotland, Barlinnie Prison officials called off the annual in mate-warden rugby game outside prison walls after a study of the records disclosed that eleven prisoners have kept on running when they reached the goal line...