By H. Toch and D. Grant.
We propose an intervention designed to assist inmates who are chronic disciplinary violators but who are also disturbed or psychologically disabled. A recently completed survey of such inmates in New York Studies of Disturbed and/or Disruptive Inmates, supported by NIMH) suggests that these inmates create problems out of proportion to their numbers and are not deterred through the application of disciplinary penalties.
By Hans Toch
Letter of accepttance: “Dear Hans, I am in receipt of your draft proposal for an "innovative research program" and I think it is an excellent proposal with which I fully concur.
The setting in which you propose to conduct the program may already be available here and in operation. We have a unit called the Diagnostic and Evaluation Unit to which any inmate can be sent from any correctional facility by administrative transfer who is thought by the institutional personnel to be evidencing emotional problems and to be in need of more intensive evaluation and treatment.”
Department Of Correctional Services. Matteawan State Hospital. 1974. 12p.
By Hans Toch and James R. Acker
From the letter of acceptance:
Dear Jim and Hans, I read your article "Accommodation, Sponsorship, and Religious Activities in Prison" with great interest….Your manuscript is the best submission I have received since I began my tenure with the CLB. If one's target Is to fite a first-rate "law review" article, you hit the mark again I wish I had written your article….Hence, I am delighted to extend an offer of publication. If I may, for a short while, I will delay informing you of the issue in which could appear.
Kind regards,
Jim
James E. Robertson, J.D., M.A., Diploma in Law Distinguished Professor of Corrections Editor-in-Chief, The Criminal Law Bulletin Minnesota State University
By Hans Toch
"The prisoner should hold the key to his own cell" is a well-known phrase coined by Captain Alexander Maconochie in the 1830s, before h e embarked for a historic assignment at the Norfolk Island colony, where he invented parole and established the world's very first prison incentive system. A subtitle of a recent book about Maconochie (Morris, 2002) alludes to "the roots of modern prison reform."
Pre-publication. Prison Service Journal. ND. 10p.
By Hans Toch
“In 1924, a town in West Virginia wanted to become the site of the first federal reformatory for women. To attract this prize the town donated 202 acres of prime pasture adjoining a river, a railroad, and a neighboring farm that became available at distress prices.”"
Pre-publication, The Prisonjournal, Vol. T3 No. 1, March 1994 62-12 ©1994 Sage Publications, Inc
