The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-17

born.) England gives a twenty year sentence for carrying a re- volver without Q permit Kissing the villain in the movies is Q puIl- ishable offense in, Fort Worth, Texas.
 One of the oldest prisons in the world is the Santa Monica Women's Prison ct Lisbon, Portugal. It used to be a convent. (When a woman is tains a nursery. (When a woman IS sentenced to prison in Portugal, she brings her children with herD
 .. At Sing Sing, twenty-one cents a day is spent on food for each prisoner The average Ameri. can murderer has had little or no education. GA recent survey showed that out of almost 400 Enurderers, only 38 had gone to high school and only six had ever been to college.)
 You can be arrested in Cali- fornia for peeling an orange in a hotel.
 At Alcatraz, prisoners don't re- ceive any pay for their work Sing Sing inmates earn from five to twenty-five cents a day, but only half can be spent for cigarettes and other luxuries (the rest is held for them until their release) The biggest torture for Alcatraz prison- CTS is the noise of the machine guns when the guards practice shooting them every day between 5 and D. m. (It drives the prisoners screwy) :. During the last ten years, the rackets have shifted from the out side world into the prisons. (pro- lection rackets are flourishing in the prisons.) Tn Siam, capi- tai punishment Is carried out with a machine gun.
 In most prisons, convicts must roll their own cigarettes. (Tailor- made cigarettes and cigars are contra band) -. Under California law, a girl who tries to get married before she's 21 can be thrown into @ re- form school until she comes of age Italy has the highest murder rate of any country in Europe A man can be sentenced to ninety days imprisonment in Connecticut for writing love-letters to @ girl whose mother has forbidden him to see her.
 Alcatraz prisoners aren't permit ted to read newspapers or news magazines, and their visitors musnt tell them any news of the world outside It costs $2,000 to de- tect, arrest. try and convict a pris- oner Folsom started out origin ally as private lock-up for the Southern Pacific Railroad Os- car Wilde wrote, "A day in prison on which one does not weep IS a day on which ones heart is hard, not a day on which ones heart is happy"
 According to the law in Virginia you can be put to death If you fail to attend church for three consecu- tive Sundays =. According to J. Edgar Hoover. society in this country is threatened by more than 4.600,000 criminals. GA horde larger than any of the barbarian hosts that overran Europe and Asia in ancient times.) New York city's first jail was called the City Tav- ern. ct was replaced by the Tombs.) It costs $400 to keep e man in prison for one year.
 According to the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, domestic quar- rels over trifles are responsible for three times as many murders as gangster killings You can be arrested in Waterville, Maine, for blowing your nose in publici Contrary to popular belief. ex.con- victs aren't persecuted by their enl- a matter of fact, most Of the time they have the advantage of their boss sympathy Alca- traz prisoners see only four movies a year You can be arrested for borrowing water in Ohio The