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...Rivera's first acts was to pardon (in 1923) disgraced General Berenguer, then under sentence of 20 years' imprisonment. In 1924 the Dictator again kept the General out of jail, allowed him to spend a pleasant month in a remote Spanish castle in lieu of serving six months in prison, as did several of Berenguer's friends, for the crime of denouncing at a public banquet the Dictature...
...will not have in my house nor in sight of my eyes a magazine that will print the sort of thing which appears on p. 13, col. 1 of this week's issue (TIME, Jan. 20). Are you editors crazy? Do you think you can stay out of prison five minutes if you give currency to such words as these? I'm almost too astounded and shocked to hold my pen and you can see how my hand is shaking...
...Passed five Federal prison reform bills...
...Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. supper begins promptly at 3:10 p. m. Reason: the institution is so overcrowded that eating must start early to get the last convict fed before bedtime. To remedy this and many another condition of convict-herding, which goaded U. S. prisoners to riotous fury last year, the House of Representatives last week approved a batch of bills to start President Hoover's $7,000,000 prison reform program. Among other things they provided...
...ascendant curve of crimes and misdemeanors, the inadequacy of American legislative procedure and, as a comparatively recent development, the numerous prison breaks during the past months, have focussed national attention on the penal system of the United States. The prevalent opinion that there is something manifestly hampering the prevention and correction of crime has given rise to several investigations by political bodies. Charges and counter-charges fill the air but as yet the actual attempt at reform remains at an impasse...