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...whose "walls were covered with posters explaining that freedom and justice could only be found within its bars, that outside was only disorder, strikes, uncertainty, unemployment, and exploitation. . . ." It differed from the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing only in that "a talented inmate can work himself up to be warden, which would be impossible in Lansing...
...story in TIME (Feb. 5) of the boy brutally tortured and killed in Seattle's King County Jail is one that should rouse to action every juvenile officer, jail warden, mayor, policeman and governor in the U.S.! It comes as a climax to the stories already being spread by investigators all over the country as to local jail conditions and the pitiful care being given juvenile delinquents...
What kind of a warden or caretaker is in that King County Jail, or any other jail, that would turn a deaf ear to the screams of an inmate? And a blind eye to wounds that must have been evident from the cruel beatings given...
...addition, at operations for other injuries, "the anesthetist remarked time & time again on the dirt in the pharynx and trachea [throat and windpipe]. Standing out in my memory are two in which the inside of the trachea was quite black and dry with dust. . . . An air-raid warden . . . told me that several of the dead found by his rescue party had been suffocated by dust-the mouth, nose and throat being completely blocked...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, senior warden of St. James's Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, N.Y., was presented with a 120-year-old family Bible, once owned by the second wife of his maternal great-grandfather, Warren Delano. It was found in the attic of the old Delano house in New Bedford, Mass...