Talk:Harold A. Littledale

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  • ... that Harold A. Littledale's 1917 report on "medieval" conditions in the New Jersey prison system led to a state inquiry and the 1918 Pulitzer Prize? Source: "... Pulitzer’s Forgotten Classics ... ABUSES IN A NEW JERSEY STATE PRISON Harold LittledaleNew York Evening Post [Pulitzer Prize for] Reporting, 1918 ... Harold Littledale wasn’t the first journalist to go undercover and prompt reforms; the pioneering Nellie Bly had famously spent 10 days in an insane asylum in 1887. But Littledale spent months inside the Trenton, New Jersey prison he described as 'medieval' ... Less than two weeks after his story appeared, the New Jersey legislature had empowered Governor Walter E. Edge to establish a Prison Inquiry Commission. The following month, the commission produced a report with nine recommendations, including bricking over the dungeons and giving prisoners access to open air during the day. It also acknowledged the near complete failure of the prison labor system." from: Fitzgerald, Michael (8 August 2016). "Pulitzer's Forgotten Classics". Nieman Reports. Retrieved 26 December 2021.

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