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...mixing of sexes in penal facilities is still considered experimental by correction authorities. Making life more pleasant for prisoners is only a side effect. The principal goal is to increase the chance that a prison sentence will reform a criminal rather than alienate him further from society. Explains Robert Vagt, deputy commissioner of community services in Massachusetts: "Our whole thrust is to get incarcerated people into a more normal environment. If it's not coed, then we're preparing them for a situation that they are not going to meet in life...
Also: Detlev F. Vagt '49, the Philip Washburn Prize for an essay entitled "The Trial of the Hebertists and the Rise of Revolutionary Nationalism"; Charles M. Gray '49, the History and Literature Prize; and Ernest J. Meyer '50, the Barrett Wendell Prize...
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