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...appeal (as it still is), he moved to Rome for still greater triumphs. But there, last week, the official Order of Doctors denounced D'Angelo to the public prosecutor for "abusive practice of the profession of medicine . . . [in] a series of acts which, apart from their penal unlawfulness, give open and real offense to science. Rome and Italy...
Your unfair editorial pictures Dever turning his back and whimpering "What can I do" when Corrections Commissioner MacDowell leveled 27 complaints against Dr. VanWaters, superintendent of a penal institution. The truth remains that the charges against Dr. VanWaters were filed before Dever took office. The truth remains that Dever acted immediately, appointing a three man panel to hear the case. The truth remains that one of the panel was Dean of the Harvard Law School and that the panel unanimously recommended Dr. VanWaters' reinstatement and the truth remains that immediately thereafter Corrections Commissioner MacDowell asked for and was granted...
...Dever has profited as much as the labor unions, for labor feels it must reimburse him with support at election time. He is building a new state prison, he has virtually outlawed capital punishment. But when he had a chance to prove that he really believes in progressive penal methods, he turned his back and whimpered "what can I do?" This was when his Correction Commissioner attempted to oust the reforming woman superintendent of a state woman's prison, Miriam Van Waters. Massachusetts needs new roads, and Dever is building new roads. But he is doing so at an incredible...
Warden Duffy began one of the most dramatic housecleaning jobs in penal history. He fired the brutish captain of guards and six other sadistic "screws," sternly prohibited the use of clubs, lashes, straps and hoses. He closed up the "hole" -a dungeon of airless, lightless, unfurnished, iron-doored stone cells into which convicts were thrown as punishment for even the most trivial offenses. San Quentin still shaved prisoners' heads and dressed them in numbered uniforms. Duffy abolished both practices. Men were fed out of buckets. Duffy installed a cafeteria and hired a dietitian...
...Duffy's Tavern." He will turn San Quentin over to his first assistant, Harley Oliver Teets, and will become a member of California's parole-fixing Adult Authority. In cleaning up San Quentin, Duffy had become one of the best-known, most admired prison administrators in U.S. penal history. But the most eloquent acclaim came from inside the walls. In the prison yard, a rheumy lifer clutched Duffy's hand and spoke out for his fellow prisoners: "God bless you, warden. You'll never know what you've done...