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Everyone knows what prisons are supposed to do: cure criminals. Way back in 1870, the nation's leading prison officials met in Cincinnati and carved 22 principles that became the bible of their craft. "Reformation," they declared, "not vindictive suffering, should be the purpose of the penal treatment of prisoners." Today, every warden in the U.S. endorses the ideal of rehabilitation. Every penologist extols "individualized treatment" to cure each inmate's hangups and return society's misfits to crime-free lives. But the rhetoric is so far from reality that perhaps 40% of all released inmates (75% in some areas...
...example, they would immediately impound his car or license and make him walk home. Conversely, a cash theft might be dealt with not by jail but by a stiff fine equivalent to reparation. Another possibility for changing criminal behavior is "aversion therapy," which is used, for example, to cure bed wetting in children. Instead of chiding or coddling the child, the therapist has him sleep on a low-voltage electric blanket linked to a battery and a bell. Urine, which is electrolytic, then activates the bell, the child awakes and goes to the bathroom. A cure usually follows soon...
...writing and the rest. Today, 13 of Grant's men are doing the same work outside. One former illiterate is getting a doctorate, one man heads a poverty-research company, two are federal poverty officials. Only one is back in prison. To Grant, this shows that criminals can be cured by trying their best to cure other criminals?an idea confirmed by many other experiments and selfhelp groups like Synanon and Alcoholics Anonymous...
Colossal Mistake. It is unlikely, though, that legislation in and of itself would afford much of a cure to the ills of creeping secrecy. Considerably more important is a different approach by Government in all its branches and at all levels. The State Department could, and should, be far less bending to the secrecy pleas of allied and client governments in such matters as disclosing long-secret U.S. special bonuses and other payments for Thai, Korean and Philippine forces sent to Viet...
...companies pay more for major surgery than they do for diagnostic procedures. And he frankly describes a surgeon's key motive: impatience. "The guy that goes into surgery," he writes, is the fellow who doesn't want to sit around waiting for results. He "wants the quick cure of the scalpel, not the slow cure of a pill." Even the scalpel can be too slow. "For God's sake, will you cut?" asked the surgeon who supervised No-len's first timid incision. "At the rate you're going, we won't be into...