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John Boone had been the warden of the federal Lorton prison in Washington, D.C., and changed it radically before coming to Massachusetts. Though the changes he recommended were already tested, not new (Mississippi had permitted furloughs for years), Boone was the first commissioner to put them together in one system...
...escapades he has never hurt anyone. "In some of his periods of frustration, he may have been slightly threatening," says Lou V. Brewer, warden of the state penitentiary at Fort Madison, where Bobbie is presently incarcerated. "But he's never followed through on any threat. He's just a big old affable...
Substitute Family. Bobbie likes his fellow cons and he likes to work, mostly as a janitor. "I think he knows us better than anybody else," says Deputy Warden Paul Hedgepeth. "Maybe we're the substitute for things that he lacked in life-ike a family...
...Bobbie may also remind people that he is articulating what many other prisoners feel but cannot express. They are terrified of the outside world and its demands, and they commit crimes-sometimes violent ones-to be returned to the security of prison. "Bobbie's case is extreme," says Warden Brewer, "but you'll find his story in every prison in the country...
...further chided for neglecting to mention any "idealistic" or "effective penologists." I did mention quite a few of these and told what became of them. Examples: Tom Murton, prison warden brought to Arkansas in 1967 by Governor Winthrop Rockefeller-fired by Rockefeller (and blacklisted in his vocation) for disclosing his findings of widespread corruption and brutality to the press. Dr. Frank Rundle, psychiatrist of Soledad prison-summarily dismissed for refusing to turn over the confidential psychiatric file of a prisoner-patient to the warden. Edward F. Roberts, correctional officer at Raiford State Prison in Florida-who testified before a congressional...