Editing Leopold and Loeb (section)

== Imprisonment ==
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-12794, Nathan Leopold und Richard Loeb.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Leopold (upper) and Loeb (lower), 1924]]
Leopold and Loeb were initially held in [[Joliet Correctional Center|Joliet Prison]] and did menial labor, Leopold working in the prison's [[rattan]] factory and Loeb in the chair factory. Although they were kept apart as much as possible, the two of them managed to maintain their friendship. Leopold was transferred to [[Stateville Correctional Center|Stateville Penitentiary]] in 1925 for an appendectomy, where he worked in the shoe factory and then in the library as a clerk for the prison's Protestant chaplain. He was caught violating prison rules and sent to solitary confinement many times, at one point possibly being involved in the escape of seven prisoners.<ref>Rebain (2023), p.122</ref> In Joliet, Loeb worked in the yard delivering messages before being promoted to clerk for the deputy warden. He was transferred to Stateville in 1930, where he began to work in the prison's greenhouse and landscaping the prison yard.<ref>Rebain (2023), p. 133</ref> Once Leopold and Loeb were in the same prison, the pair began to spend much of their time together. They did sociological research together and expanded the prison's school system, adding a high school and junior college curriculum.<ref name="prison" >[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/loeb/7b.html ''Life & Death In Prison''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070330225758/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/loeb/7b.html |date=March 30, 2007 }} by Marilyn Bardsley. Crime Library&nbsp;– Courtroom Television Network, LLC. Retrieved April 11, 2007.</ref>

=== Loeb's death ===
On January 28, 1936, Loeb was attacked with a [[straight razor]] in a shower room by his fellow inmate James Day; he died in the prison hospital soon afterward. Day claimed that Loeb had attempted to [[sexually assault]] him, but he was unharmed while Loeb sustained more than fifty wounds, including defensive wounds on his arms and hands. His throat had been slashed from behind. News accounts suggested that Loeb had propositioned Day;<ref name="Linder" /><ref name="prison"/> some praised Day for his actions.<ref>''Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century'' {{ISBN|0-25206829-7}} p. 301</ref>

Though several prison officials including the Warden believed that Loeb had been murdered, Day was found not guilty by a jury after a short trial in June 1936.<ref name="Linder" /><ref name="prison" /> There is no evidence that Loeb was a [[sexual predator]] while in prison, but Day was later caught at least once in a [[sexual act with a fellow inmate]].<ref>''Leopold, Loeb & The Crime of the Century'', p. 302</ref> In his autobiography, ''Life Plus 99 Years'', Leopold ridiculed Day's claim that Loeb had attempted to sexually assault him. This was echoed by the prison's Catholic [[chaplain]], a confidant of Loeb's, who said that it was more likely that Day attacked Loeb after Loeb rebuffed his advances.<ref>''Leopold, Loeb & The Crime of the Century'', p. 293</ref>

Several weeks after the killing, [[Mark Hellinger]] wrote in his [[syndicated column]], "I must tell you of the line that came to me from an unknown correspondent in Chicago. This anonymous contributor said he had the absolute low-down on the recent slaying of Dickie Loeb. Seems that Loeb made a slight mistake in grammar. He ended a sentence in a proposition..."<ref>''[[Syracuse Journal]]'', February 19, 1936</ref> While some sources state [[Edwin A. Lahey|Ed Lahey]] had previously written in the ''[[Chicago Daily News]]'', "Richard Loeb, despite his erudition, today ended his sentence with a proposition",<ref>{{cite web |author=Ink |first=Dr. |date=August 23, 2002 |title=Ask Dr. Ink |url=http://www.poynter.org/archived/ask-dr-ink/2048/bold-leads/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022005706/http://www.poynter.org/archived/ask-dr-ink/2048/bold-leads/ |archive-date=October 22, 2013 |publisher=Poynter Online }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book
| publisher=Follett Pub. Co
| last = Murray
| first = Jesse George
| title = The madhouse on Madison Street
| year = 1965
| page =344
}}</ref> no evidence has been found that this was ever published, and actual copy from that date reads otherwise.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Farrell |first1=John Aloysius |title=Leopold, Loeb and the Curious Case of the Greatest Newspaper Lead Never Written |url=https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/john-farrell/2009/12/01/leopold-loeb-and-the-curious-case-of-the-greatest-newspaper-lead-never-written |access-date=June 26, 2019 |newspaper=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |date=December 1, 2009 |archive-date=June 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626032138/https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/john-farrell/2009/12/01/leopold-loeb-and-the-curious-case-of-the-greatest-newspaper-lead-never-written |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Leopold's years in prison ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10970, USA, Nathan Leopold in Stateville Penitentiary.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Leopold in the [[Stateville Correctional Center|Stateville Penitentiary]], 1931]]
Leopold continued his work expanding the school and teaching after Loeb's death. In 1944, Leopold volunteered for the [[Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study]]. He was deliberately inoculated with [[malaria]] pathogens and subjected to several experimental malaria treatments.<ref>Higdon, H. ''The Crime of the Century'' (1975). New York: Putnams. {{ASIN|B000LZX0RO}} pp. 281–317.</ref> He later wrote that all his good work in prison and after his release was an effort to compensate for his crime.<ref name="prison" />

In the early 1950s, author [[Meyer Levin]], a graduate of the University of Chicago, requested Leopold's cooperation in the writing of a novel that was based on the murder of Franks. Leopold responded to Meyer Levin's request by stating that he did not want his story to be told in a fictionalized form, but offered Levin a chance to contribute to his own memoir, which was in progress. Though the pair met to discuss the possibility, Leopold rejected Levin's help and Levin went ahead with his book alone, despite Leopold's express objections. The novel, titled ''[[Compulsion (Levin novel)|Compulsion]]'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Levin |first=M. |title=Compulsion |date=May 21, 1996 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=0786703199 |location=New York}}</ref> was published in 1956.

Levin portrayed Leopold, under the pseudonym Judd Steiner, as a brilliant but a deeply disturbed teenager, psychologically driven to kill because of his abnormal sexuality, troubled childhood and an obsession with Loeb. Leopold later wrote that reading Levin's book made him "physically sick... More than once I had to lay the book down and wait for the nausea to subside. I felt as I suppose a man would feel if he were exposed stark-naked under a strong spotlight before a large audience."<ref>''In Nathan Leopold's Own Words''. [http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/LEO_LEOW.HTM UMKC archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101172214/http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/LEO_LEOW.HTM |date=January 1, 2018 }}.  Retrieved August 1, 2014.</ref>

Leopold's autobiography, ''Life Plus 99 Years'', was published in 1958<ref>Leopold, N. ''Life Plus 99 Years'' (1958). New York: Doubleday & Co. {{ISBN|1131524608}}</ref> as part of his campaign to win [[parole]].<ref name=Baatz/> His book was on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list for 14 weeks.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 7, 1958 |title=The New York Times Best Seller List |url=http://hawes.com/1958/1958-07-06.pdf |access-date=October 15, 2023 |archive-date=December 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228112547/http://hawes.com/1958/1958-07-06.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> While the book received generally positive reviews, some accused him of writing the book solely as a means of rehabilitating his public image by ignoring the dark side of his past.<ref name="Larson">Larson EJ. ''Murder Will Out: Rethinking the Right of Publicity Through One Classic Case''. [http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~review/vol62n1/Larson_v62n1.pdf Rutgers Law Review archive] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707184157/http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~review/vol62n1/Larson_v62n1.pdf |date=July 7, 2010 }}. Retrieved February 11, 2015.</ref>