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...Having been inside Sing Sing and other penal institutions (as an inspecting grand juror), I advise deliberation in assessing the Attica riot. Commissioner of Correction Russell Oswald made the only possible rational decision. He was facing primitive hysteria, obviously inflamed by subversives. He gave the same order that any field commander facing a public enemy in battle would have given...
...Sorry I lost you 30 sure votes, Best Wishes Captain Medina." And, from New York, "Much interested in your penal control and rehabilitation program, Stop. Regard incident at Attica, Stop. Please send info on intriguing Tiger Cage Idea. The Governor...
TROUBLED by the worsening crisis in the U.S. penal system, we sent correspondents to visit penitentiaries across the country nine months...
...penal system in which "authorities" are able to confine a man for as long as they desire, or until he is "rehabilitated," has got to be a poor one indeed. Certainly political prisoners exist in this country today. The authorities do not consider you sufficiently rehabilitated until you have lost all traces of any millitancy you once possessed. It reminds me, frighteningly, of George Orwell's 1984. DAVID SKINNER Santa...
ATTICA is certainly not the worst of the 4,770 American prisons and jails. It has too much competition. But it is, nonetheless, fairly typical of a penal system that almost everyone agrees is a disgrace. Almost everyone, that is, but Vice President Spiro Agnew, who, in a spasm of Podsnappery, argued on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times last week that "our penal system remains among the most humane and advanced in the world." By and large, the penologists-not to mention the prisoners and ex-convicts-would go along with Senator Edmund Muskie, who told...