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...Sonny finally got lucky. For the first time, he was sent to one of California's most liberal penitentiaries, the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi. The prison's superintendent is G.P. Lloyd, a penologist whose philosophy is "I trust everybody until they show me different." Lloyd got to talking with Sonny about music. In April of 1967 he let Sonny start a prison band and chorus. Sonny called the group the Fallen Sparrows, and Lloyd decided it should be allowed to travel the state and perform...
...this usually amounts to what Penologist Howard Gill calls "birdshot penology." All the bands, baseball, radios and rodeos cannot gloss the fact that real rehabilitation is rare. Caging still outranks curing; short funds dilute short-stay effectiveness. And prison job-training is a scandal. Federal prisons do well; yet only 17% of released federal inmates find jobs related to their prison work. Most state prisoners get no usable training because business and unions have rammed through laws preventing competition by prison industries. At least one-third of all inmates simply keep the prison clean-or do nothing...
...North Carolina courageously put young felons into an open prison camp staffed entirely by group-therapy veterans-recently paroled California convicts. It worked, until the legislature nervously stopped the money. (The head parolee later became a professional penologist.) Several states profitably rely on Author Bill Sands (My Shadow Ran Fast), a reformed California armed robber, whose Seven Step Foundation sends ex-convicts into prisons to counsel inmates and runs "freedom houses" to help re-leasees. Of 5,000 Seventh Step graduates so far, only 10% have returned to prison. An ex-New York prisoner named Hiawatha Burris has carved...
...everything had. One day after a legislative committee issued a scathing report on conditions in the penitentiary, the warden shot himself. The state director of corrections left soon after, to be succeeded by Fred Wilkinson, 59, former deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons and the first professional penologist ever to run the sprawling (seven institutions, 3,476 inmates) Missouri system...
...move which astounded even members of his own party, Governor Volpe announced hat he would not reappoint George McGrath as Commissioner of Correction, despite Volpe's statements on at least six occasions that McGrath had done a good job. With rare unanimity, the virtually, every newspaper, prison superintendent, and penologist in and out of Massachusetts...