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Perhaps the best that can be hoped is for prisons to become, in one sense, even worse: a higher concentration of head bashers, heroin warlords, child molesters and murderers???malevolence distilled. There would be no more half-believable inmate excuses. Criminals would effectively decide to go to prison. R.L. Pulley, San Quentin's warden, says as much: "There's nothing to ensure that when an inmate gets out and passes by the 7-Eleven, he won't decide to rob it. That's basic to America, the opportunity to make choices." Inmate Marion Chaney does not make lame excuses...
...another practical example of Skinnerism in operation, a point system for good behavior was set up for juvenile offenders?armed robbers, rapists and murderers???in the Robert F. Kennedy Youth Center in West Virginia. Though no requirements were imposed on the delinquents, they earned points if they voluntarily picked up books, or went to lectures and managed to learn something from them. With the points, they could then buy such rewards as better food, a private room, or time in front...
...shore of Lake Superior, cut off from the world by a dense forest, stands Marquette prison, strong, grim, forbidding. In it are confined Michigan's worst criminals?bandits, kidnappers, murderers???for Michigan has no death penalty. Few of them can hope for an early release; many have no hope of ever being allowed to go free. Marquette is a home of desperate...
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