Volume 18, Number 4 · March 9, 1972
Prisons: The Menace of Liberal Reform
By Jessica Mitford
Struggle for Justice: A Report on Crime and Punishment in America
prepared for the American Friends Service Committee
Hill & Wang, 179 pp., $1.95
Maximum Security: Letters from California's Prisons
edited by Eve Pell. and members of the Prison Law Project
Dutton, 250 pp., $6.95
Struggle for Justice, a report by a Working Party of the American Friends Service Committee, forgoes the well-worn theme of what's wrong with prisons; instead it dissects the theory and practice of prison reform to show why most of the panaceas now being discussed would only make things worse. Maximum Security is a collection of letters from inmates undergoing the ultimate 'correction' in the Adjustment Centers of the California prison system.
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