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Thomas Mott Osborne '84, famous prison reformer, will speak in Peabody Hall. Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock Monday night. His subject will be "The Purpose of Prisons" and the lecture will be open to all members of the University...
...talking with a prisoner recently released from a New York prison,' Captain Armstrong wrote, "he told me of many improvements for which Mr. Osborne was entitled to credit...
...Osborne is especially famous as the founder of the Mutual Welfare League, which he organized in 1911 when he was warden of Sing Sing Prison. He first spent a week in Auburn prison as a convict under the name of "Tom Brown." and the knowledge gained thereby, coupled with the results of years of study of prison reform, caused him to organize the Mutual Welfare League among the prisoners...
...ever advocated the overthrow of the U. S. Government, or had incited anyone to violence. None the less she was convicted by a jury (composed half of women) because of her membership in the Communist Labor Party. She was sentenced to from one to 14 years in prison. For five years her friends have supplied money to carry on her legal battle. Last week the Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal. Now she must go to jail unless the Governor pardons her. But he cannot do so unless she signs an appeal for pardon, and she has announced that...
...Osborne's career as a reformer, first as chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform and later as Warden of Sing Sing and as Commander of the Naval Prison at Hortsmouth, N. H., has attracted nation wide interest...