Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven convicted top U.S. Communists stood up before Federal Judge Harold R. Medina to be sentenced. For conspiring to teach and advocate forceful overthrow of the U.S. Government, ten of the eleven were sentenced to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine each. The eleventh got a $10,000 fine and three years in prison. Robert Thompson, New York state chairman of the party, had gotten a lighter sentence because of his war record: he won the Distinguished Service Cross in New Guinea for swimming a swollen river under fire and, with his platoon, wiping out two pillboxes...
When the last defendant had been sentenced, lawyers got to their feet to make an impassioned plea for bail pending appeal. Judge Medina rejected their plea, ordered the convicted men jailed in Manhattan's federal detention headquarters until the U.S. Attorney General selected the prison where they would serve their sentences. Handcuffed and flanked by a bevy of U.S. marshals, the eleven Communists were carted off to jail, a former garage, while the long and tortuous process of their appeal began...
...slightly dreamy look in his eyes and spotless white gloves on his hands, sat at the defendant's right. Every day as the session opened, the officer stopped before the judges' bench and formally reported that the accused was present in the court. Last week, Lieutenant of Prison Guards Imre Szipzr, 32, warden of the Marko Street House of Detention in Budapest, was himself in the prisoner's dock before a Budapest criminal court. He was under charges, together with six subordinates, of having accepted bribes from relatives of prisoners under his charge...
There were, moreover, aggravating circumstances. "Lieutenant Szipzr," said the court, "impaired the reputation of the country's first house of detention by being responsible for the bad spirit which prevailed in the prison for a certain period." As usual, the Communists were talking upside down: actually, the "bad spirit" was an excess of high spirits...
...court last week sentenced Lieutenant Szipzr to loss of his office and four years in prison. He would have a duller time than his former charges...