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...state. Although it is impossible to estimate in dollars the yearly cost of inebriety to the Commonwealth, yet an idea of the expense may be obtained when it is considered that the cost arising from 63.4 per cent of all arrests and 67.6 per cent of all commitments to prison made during the year, together with a considerable percentage of the cost of probation, trial and transportation of prisoners, are due to public intemperance. More important than cash expense is the great economic loss to the state which lies in the idleness of capable men, and in the reduction...
...report, it was submitted that mere imprisonment is an inadequate treatment for inebriety, that it is greatly desirable that habitual drunkenness be no longer considered as a crime, but as a form of disease, and that accordingly the state should adopt an immediate substitution of the hospital for the prison. These suggestions the legislature is considering now and it is probable that great improvement will soon be made in the treatment and prevention of inebriety...
...hearing yesterday, Langley was found to have a long prison record having served time in New York, Boston and Cambridge. He works under several aliases, among which are Wilson, Jackson and King. He was sentenced to one year's labor at the State farm...
...plot of "We, the People" is based on an actual episode in the real life of a convict. Every effort has been expended to secure realism, both in action and scenery, one of the settings being a replica of the rotunda in the Charlestown Prison...
...their places will be acted "The Three Strangers," an adaptation by Leonard Hatch '05, of Thomas Hardy's like-named story of Wessex, and "Ygraine of the Hillfolk," a poetic drama by R. E. Rogers '09. The first tells in humorous, racy and exciting fashion of the escape from prison of a fugitive who is to be hauged for the theft of a sheep. The second is a story of revenge set in the Viking days with an injured woman as the central figure. The dates of the performances remain unchanged...