PRISON REVELATIONS.

Shannon News, 12 October 1923, Page 3

PRISON REVELATIONS.

Recent -revelations of prison, conditions throughout United States made public in toe newspapers and in books written by men who have investigated the facts, offer a timely subject for the motion picture screen. The matter is presented in particularly, intorcstiinf -narrative form, in the Fox production, “Boston BUckie.V starring William Russell, whichwill be shown at the People’s Theatre ito-night and to-morrow nigiht. The film was adapted from the story by Jack Boyle, “The Water Cross.” It deals with the punishment of prisoners by a method as torturous _as .any of the refinements used during the Spanish Inquisition. The water cross advocates tied a man upright against a wall with arms outspread and then turned a high pressure hose agrinst his midsection. This treatment tore the tissues under the prisoner’s flesh and disabled him for weeks, if not permanently. Just such inhuman handling of men, has Caused the searchlight of the press to be thrown on the cruelties still in practice in various prisons. Each community .lias its own penal problemto solve. After an unusually exciting spites of adventures) which include the pleasing performance of Eva, Novak, Boston Blackie effects a, prison reform that argues a convincing brief for humanitarian methods in American prisons.