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...copies, 1,481 of which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist Cobina Wright (no alumni). Inside the walls they are consumed with the avidity of men who have nothing but time on their hands. "The Atlantian must be well received," says Associate Warden Virgil Breland at Atlanta. "We don't find the commodes jammed up with torn copies...
Such rehabilitation is a major aim of the prison press-and most wardens are all for it. Says Menard's Warden Ross V. Randolph: "The prison publication is a morale builder, a source of enlightenment, and a medium to educate the public-on the fact that prisoners are people." For such a purpose, the wardens are inclined to suffer occasional lapses in ethical journalism-such as convicts who send messages to their lady friends outside under the guise of news items...
Addlescence. In Segoville, Texas, Mae Hancock went to police and asked them to arrest her two boys because "I can't do a thing with them," the cops went to the Hancock house, found Warden, 54, and Guy, 52, sprawled out drunk in the carport...
...other examples range from brainwashing techniques of the Chinese Communists to the more beneficent therapies of a Californian penal system. In Brave New World Huxley had his director of Hatcheries and Conditioning use a technique called hypnopaedia, by which subjects got moral training during sleep. In 1957 the warden of the Woodland Road Camp of Tulare County, Calif, was doing just that. With pillow loudspeakers, the warden was able to reach certain delinquents in their sleep, and from a phonograph in his office counsel them to be good. The black arts of hypnosis, subliminal commercials and so on are becoming...
...claim. One reason is that many really unstable countries, e.g., Indonesia, have not signed up. But the most significant reason is that the agreements impress member nations with a sense of responsibility before the world, help make them think twice before permitting or taking any wild action. Says Charles Warden, director of the program: "Our agreement with the country means that the government has taken the first step in recognizing the international morality of contracts. The presence of agreements has a very healthy effect. The absence is worrisome...