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...prison went my father, All innocent of this crime; I could not long endure this, My father doing time...
...Gunter, was being arrested for murder. Convicted on the perjured testimony of Dorothy Louise, he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. Last November, Mrs. Drew's conscience stung her into confessing the murder to Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo who promptly released her father from prison. Last week Mrs. Drew pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Ashland, awaited sentence...
...specificity of these conclusions, made by Dr. Ralph Arthur Reynolds, 38, of San Francisco last week, intrigued doctors and criminologists. Where did he get his data? At California's San Quentin prison where he and Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley, 43, prison physician, discovered that every one of the inmates had some abnormal glandular stigma. Three score they treated by surgery or with glandular extracts. All responded with "surprisingly beneficial" results, suggesting therefore a way of reforming criminals...
...state prison wants a man to speak to the inmates on science or politics. A church committee would like to secure a colored quartet. A men's club could use some magicians. A preparatory schools' conference needs some heroes to worship...
This extraordinary traveler said that his most harrowing experience took place on Devil's Island, the notorious French prison. Here he lived with the prisoners and underwent the hardships of the life that kills half of the new prisoners each year...