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...behind the men and women who had to go, but I don't know the reasons why they had to go and I don't think I care," says Vietnam veteran Warren Quinlan, who is wearing an "Operation Desert Storm" T-shirt given to him at the Bedford Veterans' Administration Hospital from which he was discharged that...
Steinberg, who says he was discharged early from the Veterans' Administration hospital in Bedford in order to make room for the wounded from Operation Desert Storm, says the government is always more responsive to veterans who are physically handicapped than to those mentally disabled...
...artists who make other artists famous. A striking case in point, in America, was Albert Pinkham Ryder. This somewhat reclusive visionary was born in 1847; grew up in the whaling town of New Bedford, Mass.; studied in New York City; spent most of his working life there and died in 1917. As far as is known, he painted fewer than 200 works. Yet a succession of American artists has looked up to him as a sage, a holy man: the native prophet who linked tradition to modernism...
Women, to be sure, share many of the problems of male prisoners, notably overcrowding. The California Institution for Women at Frontera currently bulges with 2,500-odd inmates, instead of the 1,011 it was built to hold. At the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, N.Y., many inmates are double bunked; a visitor can easily see beds sticking up over the half walls that separate individual cubicles. With two lockers and two small metal closets filling up the narrow confines of each space, prisoners barely have room to turn around...
...prison. "Is incarceration the most rational way to deal with a woman who is a drug addict?" asks commissioner Sielaff. The country would do well to invest in programs for drug abusers, for battered women, for incest survivors and for the children of inmates, says Elaine Lord, superintendent at Bedford. But instead, the nation's prison systems, much like the overburdened school systems, have become the social program of last resort, a catchall for society's neglected troubles. "It's a very expensive way to deal with social problems," notes Lord. And an ineffective one that breeds recidivism...