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...country for sex offenders, although experts disagree on how much recidivism can be curbed among these chronic offenders. The emphasis is on making the rapists take responsibility for their behavior. "I used to think of myself as a good guy," admits Walter, 34, who is in therapy at Lino Lakes prison in Minnesota. The former college halfback raped a woman after the date he was waiting for stood him up. "I have no illusions now. Good guys don't do these things...
Minnesota established the Lino Lakes program in 1979. About 30 sex offenders attend three group-therapy sessions a week, read books and articles dealing with their addictive behavior, and see movies showing the feelings of victims. Rapists must swear off hard-core pornography, which one psychologist describes as being "like a shot of whisky to an alcoholic." Since the program began in 1979, only four of 96 inmates completing it have been jailed again for sex crimes...
...FILM'S FINAL skit, the writers refer by name to a true pornographic movie. A middle-aged swinger, played by Lino Ventura, finds a dusty little black book, with entries that remind him of the adventures of his youth. While his wife is out of town, he decides to rediscover a few of his old flames. Unfortunately, the most he--or any of us--come up with are a few glowing cinders and a lot of smoke...
...Camp David peace talks," declared an American official last week, and so it seemed. For more than two days, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Sol Linowitz haggled vigorously with senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem. Finally, after his last two-hour session with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Lino witz emerged with an unmistakable ex pression of satisfaction on his face. Less than a day later, the reason became clear...
...range of jobs is wide, from assembling solar energy panels and setting type to milking cows and, in Colorado, building a new $6 million prison near Canon City. Convicts in Thomaston, Me., cannot keep up with demand for their sturdy hardwood furniture. A production line at Minnesota's Lino Lakes penitentiary repairs Toro Trimmer-Weeders, outperforming the company's own employees. Not all these employed prisoners are male; select inmates at the Colorado Women's Correctional Facility, for example, spend their days operating computers...