Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house has two apartments, both with plenty of room to accommodate large families. Each apartment has three bedrooms, and each is equipped with a kitchen, food, linen and TV. There are no guards to interrupt the family's privacy, and for the duration of the visit the prisoner is allowed to put away his convict's uniform and wear his own clothes. Common law wives are not permitted so far, but the possibility is still under discussion. The intent of the program, explains Governor Ronald Reagan, is to "develop family strengths to sustain ex-inmates as they complete...
JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON (Columbia). Ex-Con Cash recorded these songs at California's Folsom Prison, and the echo of prisoners' applause against concrete walls adds a bitter and powerful background. A guard's announcement that "88419 is wanted in Reception" serves as sharp counterpoint to such lyrics as "The newspapers called it a jailbreak plan,/ But I know it was suicide." Most chilling song: 25 Minutes to Go, a swinging minute-by-minute account of an execution by hanging. In its own way, a sad, brilliant album...
...daughter of a German theologian, niece of another and sister of two more, Elizabeth Harre decided to break the mold slightly and take up social work. After her fiance was killed during World War II, she studied sociology and law, then worked at a women's prison as a lawyer. She soon decided that it was male criminals she really wanted to work with. "Female criminals," she says, "are not the 'poor devil' kind. They are beastly and hysterical." Young men in trouble, however, "are pitiable subjects in need of a mother, a woman or a girl...
There she got to know every prisoner, memorizing names and family backgrounds and urging them to talk out their personal problems. Named deputy warden two years ago, she helped start a prison newspaper, made no objection when the paper began making suggestions for prison reform and criticizing prison personnel. Also in 1966 she established a "halfway house," a special section of the prison for boys whose terms were almost up. The doors were unlocked, the windows unbarred. During the day the boys worked at jobs in town at regular pay; on weekends they were allowed to go home to parents...
Last month, Hans-Gûnter Hoppe, head of the West Berlin justice department, announced that "Mother" Harre, 41, had been appointed warden -the first woman ever to boss a male prison in Germany and one of the first such women wardens anywhere in the world. Turning to Miss Harre, he added: "Your female intuition and your motherly understanding-plus your toughness-assure me that our juvenile prison is in good hands. I am tempted to say that you are the right...