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Such was the startling testimony Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell secretly gave the Senate Judiciary Committee early this month and made public only last week. He had been called before the Committee to discuss the advisability of a Senate investigation of Prohibition. Instead, he talked of prisons. Since last summer's riots, President Hoover has been pressing a $7,000,000 program to increase U. S. prison facilities (TIME, Aug. 19). The House passed a batch of bills to put that construction into motion. The Senate has done nothing. The facts and figures of prison congestion which "General" Mitchell...
...increase in prison population since July 1, 1929. as detailed by Attorney General Mitchell...
Senators were left with the distinct impression that any campaign to stiffen Prohibition enforcement by the Department of Justice must be preceded by wholesale prison construction...
Thus began a terrific fire in Ohio's chief prison which Warden Preston E. Thomas was sure had been started by desperate inmates to effect a wholesale delivery. A second fire was kindled mysteriously in the Catholic chapel, a third flashed up in the woolen mills. Into the prison yard poured thousands of screaming, shouting, swearing prisoners, cowed by the flames, tempted to dash for freedom. Troops, state and federal, augmented the prison guard, pricked the crazy mob into sullen obedience with bayonets. Fire chiefs threatened to let the whole penitentiary burn down unless the warden would guarantee...
...west wind swished the flames from the west block across the entire prison. The bellowings of trapped men, grilled alive, ceased when the west block roof collapsed. Guards and prisoners worked shoulder to shoulder dragging out the dead and dying. The first fatality estimate leaped from 20 to 100, then to 200, then above 300 as body after body was lugged out of the still fiery debris...