Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...More responsible for prison congestion than any other law-is the National Prohibition...
Fire descended upon an Ohio prison and some three hundred charred bodies are the penalty. Again the public press calls for stricter methods of repression, and, as the Baumes Laws resulted from agitation to keep confirmed criminals in prison longer, so will this uproar probably have the effect of stiffening the already too severe regulations of our penitentiaries...
...next move in modernizing prisons--and all these experiments have been carried out more or less successfully in Europe--is to apply the indeterminate sentence to all criminals. Under this system a prisoner is placed on parole as soon as he is fitted for the responsibilities of civilized life. And he is not released until a competent examiner is fairly certain his disease is cured. A confirmed criminal will therefore die in prison--a separate prison where he will not contaminate his fellows--and society is saved the trouble of his crime and his recapture...
...this system to be fair and practical every effort must be made to place the criminal as gradually as possible in the routine of a normal human being. In the countries where the indeterminate sentence and segregation are the penal practise, work is provided for all prisoners, who are paid the usual rates for jobs accomplished. In America indolence is the rule in many prisons and the cause of much disorder, owing to trade union, jealousy of free prison labor. But work under normal wages would obviate this objection as well as making less abrupt the prisoner's release from...
James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired heavyweight fisticuffer, was shown through the Tombs Prison, Manhattan. To reporters said he: "I don't know whether I should talk to such ungentlemanly fellows as you. You are not independent. You are biased. You write what the public wants. I consider the Press reaction to my meeting with Hugh Walpole, the English novelist, when he arrived in this country, to have been ungentlemanly in the extreme. . . . Really nice people instinctively steer clear of you." Of "Texas Jim" Baker, inmate, self-confessed mur derer of nine, commented Fisticuffer Tunney: "A strange person, yet apparently charming...