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Treatment of incarcerated offenders. Possibilities and problems
1Department of Psychology, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 70609.
Acta Paedopsychiatrica
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The author discusses in detail the operations of a prison treatment program for youthful offenders. Although a model program and an exception to the typical prison, the treatment program had problems. One is the inherent difficulty of working with anti-social people. The other, analyzed in detail, is the unpleasant nature of many of the prison staff, several of whom were unqualified to work in a treatment setting. Suggestions are made for humanizing the staff.