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...Australian prison ship which poked its ugly prow from city to city a year ago was decidedly a success as a side show. For a paltry half dollar the most virtuous could experience the fifth and gloom and foul air handed out to eighteenth century culprits. But while there was much exclamation of horror and much averting of noses there was relatively little conception of the ideas upon which such punishment was based...
Besides having been great in turning men out of prison, he has also been great at keeping them from getting in?a very successful criminal lawyer...
...Terre Haute, it was reported that Warren T. McCray, onetime Governor of Indiana, who was sentenced to Atlanta penitentiary for using mails to defraud (TIME, May 12), is now functioning as a teacher in the prison Sunday School...
...life for a life." Henceforth, however, the part which the death penalty should take in an enlightened system of law will be discussed in the light of "new psychology." Said Dr. George W. Kirchwey, formerly Dean of the Columbia Law School (1901-1910), and Warden of Sing Sing Prison (1915-16) : "Judge Caverly met the issue presented to him like a man of the modern world. He may not have known much about the new phychology -few of us do-but he was not, like the State's Attorney, content to repose in the wisdom of the 19th Century...
...sentenced to 20 years in prison, one to 15 years, two to 10 y ears, ten to 5 years and one man's case was left undecided...