Prison confines women with care
Miriam Phillips runs the Kansas Correctional Institute for Women at Lansing housing 86 residents inside high steel fences. The facility emphasizes humane treatment and self directed living with unlocked doors and personal room decor. Most residents participate in education and job training while outside, Hallmark Cards Kansas City donates 85,000 Christmas cards for sorting for other institutions.
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John Marshall
Kansas
Lansing
HNL
Kansas Correctional Institute For Women
Hallmark Cards
Kansas City
Miriam
Women prisoners increase faster than men in recent years
A Justice Department LEAA report notes rising female inmates in state and federal prisons from 1972 to 1973, up 5.6 percent to 6,684 in state terms and 21.4 percent in federal prisons, while death row numbers fell from 359 to 162. It lists states with the highest inmate rates per 100000, led by North Carolina and Georgia.
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Washington
UPI
Justice Department
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
SEAA
LEAA
Census Bureau
U.S. Supreme Court
North Carolina
Georgia
Maryland
Texas
Nevada
Florida
South Carolina
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Virginia
Humperdinck Loses First Round in Paternity Suit
In Las Vegas a paternity suit filed by Diane Marie Vincent seeks Humperdinck as the father of her 4 year old daughter. Judge Howard Babcock denied the singer's dismissal request and ordered the case to trial, ruling it would be wrong to discriminate against illegitimate children.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
Engelbert Humperdinck
Diane Marie Vincent
Humperdinck
Howard Babcock
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State Penitentiary
Miriam Phillips
Phillips
Men’s Penitentiary
Raymond Maynard
Peery
Maynard
Truitt
W. Main
Kentucky
W. Cherry
Chanute
FIM
S & Boys
Don Divines Restaurant
N. Santa Fe
Home Appliance Company
Chanute, Kansas
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