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Like an old fighter, Sonny Brown struts across the green grass at Tehachapi, grinning in the morning sun behind bopster shades. A blue knit cap rides his head like a fez. Sonny always wears the cap; it sets him apart from the retinue of convicts who surround...
...only touched his two kids but romped with them on a broad green lawn. For three days and two nights, he was father and husband again, living with his family in a pleasant duplex ranch house on the grounds of California's State Correctional Institute at Tehachapi...
...began Tehachapi's "family visiting program," one of the boldest experiments in the history of American penal reform. Some prisons in Europe and Latin America have long allowed their inmates to receive brief "conjugal visits" from wives and girl friends for the purpose of sexual release. In Mississippi, the state penitentiary at Parchman has allowed similar visits for at least fifty years (TIME, Aug. 18, 1967). The California scheme goes much farther. Granted to well-behaved prisoners nearing the end of their terms, the family visits last 42 hours, take place in a former staff residence surrounded...
They Went Ape. It is too early, of course, to measure the experiment's results, but its effect on Tehachapi's 1,320 inmates has been electric. "When this first came over the rumor wire, we couldn't believe it," says Fred Long, 25, who has been in and out of prison for the past nine years. "Then when the guys found out it was true, they just went ape. The bachelors were screaming, 'I knew I should have got married, I knew it!' One guy told me he was getting married as soon...
...warmed up, Brown took off on a daylong, 500-mile swing through the heavily Democratic coast and valley country north of California's Tehachapi Mountains. At San Luis Obispo, he was confronted by 600 angry California State Polytechnic College students, demonstrating in protest against a state-levied, $9-per-quarter parking fee for students with cars. Speaking without a microphone, Brown raised his voice to drown out the hecklers, eased the tension with a quip: "Now I know how Nixon felt in Caracas. This is my first crisis, but I'm not going to write a book about...