Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail doors. Newshawks had scarcely finished writing of what he would be expected to do as a prisoner in Second Division-scrub his own cell, wear prison clothes, work eight hours a day "at light labor" (library or clerical work)-before Lord Kylsant, just like any U. S. convict, was out again, released on $50,000 bail, pending appeal in October...
...arthritis and arteriosclerosis. To keep him in a dry climate and out of humid Washington's jail, a considerate judge changed his sentence to a year & a day. This technicality gave Attorney General Mitchell authority to designate the New Mexico penitentiary for his imprisonment. The change also brought Convict Fall under the Federal parole law which meant he could be released in four months. Still pending against him, however, is a $100,000 fine. To clear that debt without paying it, Bribee Fall must remain an extra 30 days in jail and take the pauper's oath...
...last week Linda Gaddy Bilbo, tall, thin, grey-haired wife of the stocky little pecan-growing Governor of Mississippi, summoned her Cadillac to the front door of the Bilbo home at Poplarville, Miss. To her Negro chauffeur, an ex-convict pardoned by her husband, she named her destination: West Point, N. Y. Then away she drove to visit her son. Cadet Theodore Gilmore Bilbo Jr., a plebe at the U. S. Military Academy...
...sentence of more than a year rnakes a convict eligible for parole after one-third of its execution...
...many of them splendid women. . . . The prisoners give only the street address of the prison in Ossining and often elaborate on the views from the windows and the beauty of the Hudson River. . . . The unsuspecting feminine reader enjoys the letter and is soon writing out her soul to a convict lover, thus building up a tremendous problem against the day of the prisoner's release into society...