    
Title: Stephen Dennison Description: Stephen Dennison (Stephen Heath Dennison, b. 1911), who was imprisoned at age fifteen in 1926 for violating a parole from a questionable offense one year earlier (reportedly stealing a few candy bars from a road stand), sent to New York's Elmira Reformatory and was forgotten; he was transferred to Napanoch, where he was abused by guards and prisoners, until, in 1936, he was judged insane and sent to the criminal wards of Clinton Prison, where he languished until released in 1960; he was given an award of $115,000 for wrongful imprisonment, but a higher court reversed the award; Dennison's fate represents one of America's classic cases of injustice. Category: Crime Keywords: crime, criminal justice, criminology, law enforcement, innocent persons, wrongly convicted Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2400 x 2191 (5.26 MPixels) (1.10) Print Size: 20.3 x 18.6 cm; 8.0 x 7.3 inches File Size: 15.06 MB (15,792,954 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001511 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
