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Interrupted by Deputy Bracke, his one-time schoolmaster, the Premier squelched his old preceptor thus : "Remember I was your pupil ! You taught me the drama of Socrates in his prison...
...survey of Missouri and Michigan State Prisons showed the Catholic percentage about 13% or 14%. A Tennessee penitentiary in the mountains had no Catholics at all several years ago, which corresponds roughly with the district it serves. In Sing Sing this year the percentage of Catholics is 50%. an increase of 10% over last year, with 855 Catholics, 518 Protestants, 177 Jews, 20 Christian Scientists, 8 agnostics, 2 Mohammedans, 1 Buddhist. Chaplain McCaffrey thinks that most men in prison gave up practicing their faith before they were sentenced. Of people who blame crime on environment, heredity, and physical factors...
...frequent question to Roman Catholic churchmen is: why so great a proportion of Catholics in prison populations? In last week's issue of The Commonweal, urbane Catholic weekly, was a reply by Father John P. McCaffrey, Roman Catholic chap lain at Sing Sing. Chief point: prison populations mirror the localities upon which they draw. Father McCaffrey demonstrates by a section in Massachusetts, as follows...
...interstate lottery which he helped organize for the Eagles; in Manhattan's Federal Court. The Government showed that ticket holders put up $1,759,273, out of which Eagle Mann pocketed $230,000 after cash prizes amounting to $75,000 were distributed. Possible sentence: three years in prison, $12,000 fine...
Jamboree (by Jack Black & Bessie Beatty; Elizabeth Miele, producer). Author Black is a graduate of five penitentiaries, was pried loose from a 25-year prison term and helped to overcome his addiction to narcotics by mustachioed Editor Fremont Older of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin. This play is a dramatization of Black's book You Can't Win. A program note testifies: "Every character in this play is drawn from the personal experiences of Jack Black during his years as a criminal or as a prisoner. The types are real and these people actually lived." They...