Word: wiegand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treatment Man, by William Wiegand. Part melodrama, part morality play, this novel of life in a maximum security prison is a sharply written exercise in federal penmanship...
...Treatment Man, by William Wiegand. A skillfully written novel about a prison riot that is also a prickly parable of power and evil...
...TREATMENT MAN (325 pp.)-William Wiegand-McGraw-Hill...
...almost as familiar a setting as Tombstone-the hostages with shivs at their throats, the leader in the besieged cell block on the phone to the warden, the Spartacus-in-denims who invariably fails to make it out of stir. Giving the old plot a new twist, Novelist William Wiegand (who teaches creative writing at Stanford) has produced a tale of a prison riot that is at once a violent melodrama, a psychological quiz and a political morality play...
...These things happen in all progressive movements," muses the habitual criminal, Kinney, and there is gruesome comedy in Pryor's hypocritical proclamation of "a new era of sound interrelationships between inmate and administration in the prisons of America." Novelist Wiegand has effectively told a prickly parable of power and evil, but offers no solutions. He leaves Narrator Sharon with a new "case load," and with everything at dear old S.S.P.C. back to abnormal...