My Jimdo Geocities Lifeboat
===============================
PRISONERS: From editorials proclaiming love for democracy to calls to be released from prison in order to fight overseas, the initiatives seem to have been at least partly inspired by the incarcerated people themselves. Though some correctional administrators sneered at prisoners’ patriotic proclamations, interpreting them as little more than a ploy to be released, parolees were among those killed in action. They chose risking their life to fight in the war over safely sitting out a few years behind bars. The myriad ways people in prison contributed have barely been preserved by history, but contemporary prison newspapers documented them extensively.
===========================
CHINA
Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence tweeted “Pray for Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90 years of age, who has been unjustly arrested by the Chinese Communists, and for all those in the world who suffer for their Catholic Faith. Though separated by distance, we stand in complete solidarity with today’s heroes and martyrs."
Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler responded to Tobin by tweeting, “Thank you Bishop Tobin and others for your support of Cardinal Zen….let us pray that all bishops, priests, deacons and faithful join us in prayer and call for Justice for Cardinal Zen.”
In a tweet, former member of Congress Dan Lipinski [D-IL] took aim at the Chinese Communist Party for Zen's arrest.
“The Chinese Communist Party apparently fears 90 year old Catholic Cardinal Zen so much that they arrest him for his pro-democracy work,” Lipinski said. “It’s appalling that China has taken over democratic Hong Kong while the world watches, mostly in silence.”
Melissa Chan, a reporter and former VICE News correspondent, tweeted that “It's hard to explain to those who've never lived in Hong Kong just what a fixture Cardinal Zen is in the city.”
She added, “Even for those who are not Catholics, he symbolized for decades moral fortitude, goodness, and so much of what was great about Hong Kong. Now he's arrested.”
Shibani Mahtani, the Southeast Asia bureau chief for The Washington Post, tweeted that “Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing faction always highlights the vandalism, Molotov cocktails and violence of 2019 as a reason for the national security law — so why have they used it to go after veteran critics and dissidents, including now 90 year old Cardinal Zen?”
Hong Kong Law Fellow at the Georgetown Center for Asian Law Eric Yan-ho Lai tweeted that “The arrest of Cardinal Zen @CardJosephZen, echoed the arrest of Cardinal Kung Pin-mei,who was jailed by the Communist Party as he refused to surrender to the state controlling the Church in 1950s. Many Catholic bishops were persecuted on the mainland, and now #HK.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251203/cardinal-zen-arrest-a-roundup-of-reactions?utm_campaign=CNA%20Daily&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=212896150&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9lVzYNKBiYKsMn0EjYJAJOMOV70sFjYDKDAiw9zQRybT6YFj1bz-IM0IruSfos9s_34QTRxu-tPDO3nSjg54Gqkh9LxA&utm_content=212896150&utm_source=hs_email
============================
================================
American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside
Search 1,556 items in this collection
Just search for:enter ↵
Author or creator:
Title:
Description:
On March 24, 1800, Forlorn Hope became the first newspaper published within a prison by an incarcerated person. In the intervening 200 years, over 450 prison newspapers have been published from U.S. prisons. Some, like the Angolite and the San Quentin News, are still being published today. American Prison Newspapers will bring together hundreds of these periodicals from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions. Development of the collection began in July 2020 and will continue through 2021, with new content added regularly.
Development of the American Prison Newspapers collection began in July 2020 and will continue through 2022, with new content added regularly. The source material for the collection is being provided by numerous libraries and individuals from across the country. The collection was made Open Access in July 2021 thanks to the funding contributions from libraries listed here and a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Reveal Digital will undertake diligent efforts to protect the privacy of individuals depicted in the pages of the publications in this collection, and will take steps to notify the individuals and institutions that have contributed to the publications in this collection. If you are a writer, editor, or other contributor to a publication made available as part of American Prison Newspapers and encounter personal information of any kind that should be removed from view, please write to us to request its removal:
Reveal Digital
101 Greenwich St, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10010
+ 1 212-358-6400
support.revealdigital@ithaka.org
Please include an address or any other contact information at which you can be reached, and we will respond as soon as possible.
Feel free to contact us at support.revealdigital@ithaka.org with any further questions about the availability of the newspapers in this collection. More information about this collection can be found here.
Reveal Digital legal notice:
American Prison Newspapers aims to create a faithful digital reproduction of the collective works as they originally appeared in print and pursuant to 17 U.S.C Section 201(c) of the Copyright Act. Please note that if content items in the American Prison Newspapers collection reference permissible terms of use, such as a Creative Commons license, users may make use of such items in accordance with the stated terms of such license as further detailed in the JSTOR Terms and Conditions of Use.
https://www.jstor.org/site/reveal-digital/american-prison-newspapers/
==========================
On March 24, 1800, Forlorn Hope became the first newspaper published within a prison by an incarcerated person. In the intervening 200 years, over 450 prison newspapers have been published from U.S. prisons. Some, like the Angolite and the San Quentin News, are still being published today. American Prison Newspapers will bring together hundreds of these periodicals from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions. Development of the collection began in July 2020 and will continue through
https://www.jstor.org/site/reveal-digital/american-prison-newspapers/
=========================
Criminal Children
How were criminal children dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Over this hundred-year period, ideas about the way children should behave - and how they should be corrected when they misbehaved - changed dramatically, and Emma Watkins and Barry Godfrey, in this accessible and expert guide, provide a fascinating introduction to this neglected subject. They describe a time in which 'juvenile delinquency' was 'invented', when the problem of youth crime and youth gangs developed, and society began to think about how to stop criminal children from developing into criminal adults.
Through a selection of short biographies of child criminals, they give readers a direct view of the experience of children who spent time in prisons, reformatory schools, industrial schools and borstals, and those who were transported to Australia. They also include a section showing how researchers can carry out their own research on child offenders, the records they will need and how to use them, so the book is a rare combination of academic guide and how-to-do-it manual. It offers readers cutting-edge scholarship by experts in the field and explains how they can explore the subject and find out about the lives of offending children.
===================================
Blessed Holy Thursday! And Roe v. Wade movie premieres Tomorrow!
Inbox
Priests for Life <FrFrankPavone@priestsforlife.org> Unsubscribe
Fri, Apr 2, 12:37 AM (4 days ago)
to me
April 1, 2021
J G,
A blessed Holy Thursday to you all. My spiritual reflections on the meaning of this day can be watched here.
I also invite you to tune in to EndAbortion.TV at 10 am on Good Friday and Holy Saturday for spiritual reflections and on Easter Sunday for Mass.
We are happy to announce that the Roe v. Wade movie will be available for streaming, tomorrow, April 2. You can watch the trailer and pre-order on Itunes right now at www.roevwademovie.com.
This movie has been a long time in the making and the Priests for Life team is proud to have helped create and promote this movie. It is produced by Nick Loeb and featuring an all-star cast. Evangelist Alveda King, who leads Civil Rights for the Unborn for Priests for Life, is an Executive Producer. Janet Morana and I provided input to the production team. The film shows people how the Roe v. Wade case came about, and how it was manipulated by the pro-abortion forces.
Characters featured in the film who were key players in this battle and who were friends of Priests for Life include Dr. Mildred Jefferson, the first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School who joined the pro-life forces, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who was an abortionist, and a key player in the strategy that led to Roe vs. Wade and launched the abortion industry in America. He later became pro-life, converted to Catholicism, and became a bioethicist. And of course Norma McCorvey who was ‘Jane Roe’.
I invite you to see our website www.RoevsWade50th.com for more information, resources and books to read to further your knowledge about this case.
Please watch this powerful movie, share it and spread the word. The website www.roevwademovie.com even gives information on how you can host your own screening.
God bless you, and Happy Easter!
==================================
=============
THE CONVICT SYSTEM—TRANSPORTATION.
HC Deb 08 March 1849 vol 103 cc384-424
Some of Mr H A Herberts speech below.
It appeared, from the report of the Inspector General of Prisons in Ireland, that in 1847 there were 12,883 persons crowded into gaols designed to contain no more than 5,655. He regretted to say that of late years there had been, in that country, an increase of crime as well as of distress. In 1845, the number of convictions in Ireland was 7,105; of committals, 16,696. In 1846, convictions, 8,693; commitments, 18,492. In 1847, convictions, 15,233; committals, 31,209. So that between 1845 and 1847, the commitments and convictions had nearly doubled. But there was still a more awful part of the subject. The deaths in gaols were truly frightful. In 1835, they were only 81; in 1836, they were 132; but in 1847, they reached the alarming amount of 1,315
After some statements Mr Herbert continues
He would also mention the case of Kerry gaol, built to accommodate 86 persons, but which now contained no less than 582 prisoners, being six times the number it was designed to hold. Amongst that number were 15 male and 16 female lunatics.
SIR G. GREY said
Previously to 1846 the average annual number of persons sentenced in Ireland to transportation was about 600. But in 1847 and 1848 the number was nearly bordering upon 2,000.
The number of prisoners sentenced to transportation in Ireland at the last quarter-sessions, amounted to 596, being equal to the whole annual average for several years prior to 1846.
SIR J. PAKINGTON
He stated that he saw by the papers laid before Parliament, that the convicts on arriving at the colonies were readily engaged, some as shepherds and some as general servants, some at wages to the amount of 5s. 6d. a day, and also 1l. 16s. a week, and that the general servants received from 15l. to 25l. a year. The same papers also reported favourably of the conduct of those thus engaged, which, except in some few instances, had been remarkably good.
Warsaw Ghetto; Beyond political considerations, the Oneg Shabbat archive was a hastily buried collection of 35,000 documents, many of which were moisture-damaged during years in the ground. In contrast to Anne Frank’s diary or Elie Wiesel’s “Night” — for example — it took scholars decades to decipher the trove, much less translate and publish portions of it.
JAMES GANG
Hansen’s 1983 novel verges on true-to-life biography of the (in)famous bank robber Jesse James, and his assassin, young Bob Ford. Somewhat lacking in the way of action — the James Gang robberies are only briefly covered — it’s mostly a character study of the eccentric James, and his obsessive, devoted minion, Bob Ford.
It was only when Ford was convinced that James would kill him (and when the reward money became too high to ignore) that the 20-year-old killed James in his own home, while his back was turned and his gun holsters removed. Ford figured he’d be a hero, but while he was pardoned by the Missouri governor, he became a bit of an outcast. He was a terribly interesting figure himself, and in fact the final quarter or so of the book covers Ford’s life after the murder.
Hansen noted that he didn’t stray from any known facts or even dialogue; he just imagined some of the scenes and added more detail than was perhaps known. It’s not a quick read, but sure a good one.
CONVICTS Kerry
County of Kerry transp
A List of all convict felons and vagabonds who have been ordered
for transportation in the County of Kerry for these seven years
#PAGE 27
last past, with an account of what money hath been raised for
those purposes, commencing April assizes 1736.
Assizes sixteenth April 1736. Raised for transporting l. s. d.
Maurice Savane and Thomas Savane felons convict,
ordered for transportation 9 18 7
Assizes fifth April 1737. For transporting, transmitting
and guarding William Howran a felon convict, ordered
for transportation
6 10 0
At the same assizes. For transporting James Stack,
Charles Crowly, John Connor, Cornelius Shea and Joan
Carthy vagabonds, presented and ordered for
transportation 30 0 0
Assizes twenty-sixth July 1737. For transporting
James
Marshall and James Agherine, felons convict,
presented for mercy and ordered for transportation 10 0 0
Presented then for the charges of transmitting them 2 0 1
Assizes eighteenth July 1738. For transporting Owen
Sweeny, John Mc. Loughlin otherwise Oltagh and Darby
Downey, felons convict, presented for mercy and
ordered for transportation, and for charges of
transmitting
them 18 18 8
Assizes fourth April 1739. For transporting John
Mc. Jeffry Connell and Daniel Killeghane convicts,
under the like order, and charges of transmitting
them 14 10 10
Assizes nineteenth August 1739. For transporting and
charges of transmitting Daniel Callaghan, Dennis
Downey, John Bromehane and Ally Noonane convicts
under like order 26 2 6
Assizes twenty-second July 1740. For transporting
Dennis Connor otherwise Gunskagh, Daniel Frenighty,
Thomas Doolin, Maurice Doolin, Darby Sullivan,
Charles Rahelly, Dennis Sweeny and Mary Griffin
convicts under like order 40 0 0
For charges of transmitting them to Corke [Cork?] 7 17 3
Assizes eleventh March 1741. For transporting
Matthias Gallavan, Thomas Paradine, Owen Ferris,
Dermot Collity, Michael Collity, James Bourke,
Cornelius Donoghoe, Teigue
Dinaghy and Daniel Dinaghy
convicts and vagabonds under like order 45 0 0
Expenses of transmitting them 8 19 6
Assizes twelfth August 1741. For transporting and
charges of transmitting Patrick Connor, Darby Connor,
Timothy Connor, John Sullivan, Dennis Sullivan, Dennis
Spillane, James Mulcare and John Stack otherwise
#PAGE 28
Crosbie vagabonds presented and ordered for
transportation 49 12 0
Assizes fifth April 1742. For transporting Garret Joy,
John Deneen, Hugh Brosnehane, Thomas Bryan, John
Hease, John Dillane, Maurice Cullane, Florence
Scannell and David Sheghane vagabonds under order 55
0 0
Assizes tenth August 1742. For transporting Daniel
Buohilly, Daniel Breene, Thomas Millone, John Bryan,
Dennis Shea, Murtogh Shea, Timothy Managheene, Daniel
Quirk, Ellenor Mohill otherwise Quirk, Cornelius Lyne
and Cornelius Launy convicts and vagabonds ordered
for transportation 55 0 0
Raised for expences [expenses?]
and charges of
transmitting them 11 1 0
Assizes first of April 1743. For transporting Morgan
Sweeny, Ellenor Connor, Mary Mansfield and Catherine
Fitzgerald vagabonds ordered for transportation 20 0 0
Raised for charges and expences [expenses?] of
transmitting
them 3 0 0
---------
Total money raised
413 10 4
Total persons 68
No money was presented for those purposes at the last assizes.
Dated the seventeenth of November 1743.
Francis Cashell, deputy Clerk of the Crown
for the County of Kerry.
NOTICE BOARDS
TOILET OUT OF ORDER. PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW
AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES:
PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT
BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS
WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY
PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN
AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND
STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD
Over a urinal
WILL BUCKS WITH SHORT HORNS PLEASE STAND UP CLOSE? THE NEXT
MAN MAY HAVE HOLES IN HIS SHOES!
WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY
NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?
health food shop window:
CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS
In a safari park:
ELEPHANTS PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT, THERE IS A
DAY CARE ON THE 1ST FLOOR
THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE, BUT
THE BULL CHARGES.
IF YOU CAN'T READ, THIS LEAFLET WILL TELL YOU HOW TO GET HELP.
On a repair shop door:
WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR --
THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)