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...bench. "It has been said that the courts never assign first-class lawyers to defend poor men charged with murder. I can give testimony that this is not true in New York City. ... I say this in the interest of a fair view of a great subject." Lewis Lawes, warden of Sing Sing, also present, indicated that he was op posed to capital punishment...
...upon the doctrine of "a 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...
Mountfort Mills, senior warden of St. Marks-in-the-Bouwerie (classic dancing church of Dr. Guthrie) is head of the Bahai movement in New York. Bahai hopes to capitalize present denominational differences. Further conferences will be held...
Somewhere in the South Atlantic, cruises the Blossom, three-masted schooner, 109 feet over all, with a 24-foot beam, bearing George F. Simmons, of Houston, Texas, formerly game warden of his state and professor of ornithology in the University of Texas and in Rice Institute...
...There have been radical changes in prison conditions during the last century", said Warden Hendry of the Massachusetts State Prison in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "No longer are prisoners bolted to walls in their cells, made to walk lock step with a ball and chain around their foot, or fed on bread and water and forced to live in a dungeon. The life of a prison inmate today corresponds to average everyday life with of course necessary restrictions...