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...There have been radical changes in prison conditions during the last century", said Warden Hendry of the Massachusetts State Prison in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "No longer are prisoners bolted to walls in their cells, made to walk lock step with a ball and chain around their foot, or fed on bread and water and forced to live in a dungeon. The life of a prison inmate today corresponds to average everyday life with of course necessary restrictions...
Princeton colors on Sing-Sing prison...
...Pedro. It was charged to the I. W. W. Los Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being a non-union city than any other place of its size; memories of the McNamara dynamiting help to keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution of the United States. He was promptly arrested and released on $500 bond. Mayor George E. Cryer had refused permission for the meeting, and denied Sinclair's " constitutional rights," charging that...
...strangest of song recitals was given here the other day. The soloist was a recently released convict who was billed with no further name than his prison number -562. He sang half a dozen songs in a magnificent tenor. One of these, dedicated to his wife, was a' member of a group of 150 compositions that he wrote in prison...
...time a well known opera tenor. He committed a crime, the nature of which is not revealed, and was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. To the jail in which he was incarcerated came a soprano of prominence to give a recital for the prisoners. No. 562 volunteered to join her in a duet. She sang with him, and was astonished at the power and beauty of his voice. He told her something of his history, but kept his name from her. Now he is free, and has embarked upon a recital career. But still he keeps his true identity...