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The 1930s were not a period of great consequence in the history of penology, at least not in terms of advancements in rehabilitation or the development of new methods of punishment. The death penalty was readily available for a variety of offenses ranging from rape to murder and was employed in virtually every state of the union and by the federal government. But there were problems that, left unattended since the late 1920s, had begun to surface in a way that stretched the nation's prison systems to the brink of their capacity. Prohibition had quickly become the single and foremost offense for which people were incarcerated in the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. In April 1930 Attorney General William Mitchell appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to beg for extensive revision of the Volstead Act. Rebuking Congress for failing to provide President Hoover...
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