Yes, we have heard that censorship of inmates' reading matter and religious preferences is rampant yes, we know that criminal-type-spotting by behavioral predictionists is around the correctional corner yes, we realize that prisoners are monkeyed with by shrinks - Clockwork Orange fashion yes, cons are exploited as guinea pigs for medical research yes, they are used as slave labor for the state yes, they are robbed by the commissaries of their small earnings yes, we have been told that parole, far from being a boon, is a further chain to insure the convict's inability to rehabilitate yes, jail is hell yes, yes, yes. There is absolutely nothing here which has not been said elsewhere (a scattered elsewhere), as she herself tacitly acknowledges by extensive quotation from penal authorities and critics of all stripes. Jessica Mitford's American Way of Death riled up the funeral industry and now she's going to have the prison people on her back - in fact already does, due to excerpts from this book which have appeared in The Atlantic and McCalls.
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