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State law ordinarily forbids the sale of prison-made goods outside the physical boundaries of the prison, but PBH has secured permission to act as agent for interested buyers and later make the official purchase within the walls of the prison...
...show is the second in the history of the state. The first, held last year by PBH, attracted 1200 spectators...
...show, which was previewed last week at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Framingham, is a supplement to the regular PBH program of teaching in the state's five prisons. David C. Miller '64, chairman of the prisons committee, said the main value of the show was that it "gave the inmates a chance to be exhibited as artists, and not as freaks...
Because of a lack of space in the prisons, PBH can use only 65 volunteers a year, although over 500 students have indicated an interest in teaching. Last year Bruce Chalmers, Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy, delivered a talk on crystallography to a class at the maximum security institution at Walpole...
...achievement is very important to this style. They are active within the existing system. Recognized in high school by students or teachers, perhaps high scorers on national tests, they often major in functional subjects like Government, History, Economics, and above all, science. They chip away at PBH, at coed political clubs, at publications. Or else devote themselves intensely to getting high marks. They justify their behavior on pragmatic grounds, and worry most about careers and graduate school...