Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed deputy commissioner as a political favor, arrives - complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan.
30 January 1871, Ontario, Canada
9 February 1886, Dublin, Ireland
March 5, 1907 in Warroad, Minnesota, USA
22 November 1897, London, England, UK
April 3, 1872 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
August 28, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 April 1900, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
January 28, 1915 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
December 26, 1878 in New York City, New York, USA
March 14, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
April 24, 1899 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA
November 2, 1893 in New York City, New York, USA
12 January 1907, Mount Vernon, New York, USA (some sources say 1903)
September 22, 1886 in Virginia City, Nevada, USA
17 July 1899, New York City, New York, USA
April 11, 1881 in New York City, New York, USA
1893 in Russia
5 January 1906, North Carolina, USA
June 25, 1875 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA
June 9, 1879 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
June 13, 1885 in New York City, New York, USA
April 12, 1874 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 October 1916, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA
April 9, 1917
5 December 1909, New York City, New York, USA
24 October 1901, Dracut, Massachusetts, USA
29 July 1894, New York City, New York, USA
December 25, 1897 in Hector, Minnesota, USA
May 24, 1916 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
