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...Dublin the first act of the de Valera Government was not to bring in a bill abolishing the oath to King George, as President de Valera has promised to do. To draft this bill would take a few days. But hot out to Arbour Hill Prison rushed the Free State's new Minister of Justice, James Geoghegan. At the prison he discovered "conditions" which he blamed upon ex-President Cosgrave...
Fond of our prison and our clay...
...death have been pushed in Congress. Last week House and Senate Judiciary Committees promised these measures speedy attention, and the House Post Office and Post Roads Committee reported favorably on a bill making the sender of an extortion letter liable to $5,000 fine, or 20 years in prison, or both...
Arthur Conan Doyle could not have conceived a more fantastic story than that of the Lindbergh kidnapping. In spite of his convincing style, few would have believed that a criminal, regardless of his genius, could from a prison cell manoeuver a kidnapping so that, as the hero of the rescue, he might secure his freedom. The most recent developments of the Lindbergh case put such a story well within the realms of possibility...
...short," he concluded, "the prison problem must be separated from politics; laws like the Baumes law, which, incidentally, have been tried in western states and given up as failures, and which were directly responsible for recent prison breaks, must be repealed; most important of all, the emphasis must be placed on crime prevention, not cure...