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...JESSICA MITFORD...
...funeral directors of America, still smarting over The American Way of Death, must now line up behind the nation's wardens in the goodly company of those well stung by Jessica Mitford. "Our great 'know-it-all' on prisons," the American Association of Wardens and Superintendents has muttered through its collectively clenched teeth at the author of what might be subtitled The American Way of Injustice...
...latest Mitford gadflight began three years ago as a quick assignment for the American Civil Liberties Union. But by the time she had finished, the formidable Miss Mitford had visited all the prisons, from California to Massachusetts, that she could get into−jail doors, she discovered, can slam in two directions−and even spent a simulated prisoner's night in the Women's Detention Center in Washington...
...more she saw, the less she liked. The Quakers who founded the first American prison in Philadelphia in 1790 may have thought that rescuing sinners from a wicked world and putting them in solitary with a Bible was more humane than flogging, branding or the stocks. But Miss Mitford can find no Christian words for the costs, theories and failures of a punitive system that has since swelled into a coast-to-coast community of 1.33 million incarcerated Americans...
Prisoners today furnish virtually the entire pool of subjects for the initial human testing of all new drugs in the U.S., Author Jessica Mitford reported recently. Not everyone is happy about that fact-least of all Superintendent Hoyt Cupp of the Oregon State Penitentiary. In the Walled Street Bulletin, the prison's newspaper, Cupp argued that the poverty or prisoners as well as the reality of their incarceration meant that it was impossible for them to be truly "free agents" when asked to participate in medical-testing programs. For those reasons, all the Oregon prison's experimentation programs...