Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drawing p. 11); An unholy light filled the wide courtyard of Colorado's State Penitentiary at Canon City, the glare of floodlights and searchlights playing on Cellhouse No. 3. Two other cellhouses, the prison chapel and the messhall, were blazing ruins. In the prison "bull pen"-a sunken space at one side of the yard-some 400 convicts cowered in sullen terror, their shadows moving nightmarishly on the stone walls of the enclosure. From Cellhouse No. 3 where Danny Daniels, burglar-murderer, and five desperate comrades were inducting the worst prison revolt in Colorado's history, came sporadic...
Last week General Cesare Rossi, thin, prison-pale, and with a scraggly beard was brought to trial. He was allowed no witnesses...
Five trial judges deliberated less than half an hour, then brought in their verdict: Thirty years in prison, of which three years are to be spent in solitary confinement...
...unreserved," as his countrymen frequently referred to him, found it hard to believe his "Seiyukai soldiers" could betray him thus. Most crushing denunciation of his régime fell three days before his death, when his right-hand man, Heikichi Ogawa, vice president of Seiyukai, was put to prison, after his bank account showed 2,000,000 illicit yen ($960,000) purported to be derived from promotion of private railways projects while he was Minister of Railways...
Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing, who is also attending the prison congress here, said in an interview today that he is opposed to capital punishment because it does not act as a deterrent but topds rather to make heroes of criminals...