Prison-wise or stir bug?

Year Published: 1959

Creator: WTTW Chicago Joseph D. Lohman John C. Burke Alan Sweetow Chalmers Marquis Hans W. Mattick John H. Gagnon

Format: 16mm

Description: In this program, Criminologist Joseph D. Lohman outlines the personality types produced by a prison environment – the “Prison-wise” man who does “easy time” by adjusting himself to life as a prisoner and may be unable to readjust to life in society, and the “stir bug” who is unable to adjust himself to the routine of the prison and consequently does “hard-time.” A “prison-wise” inmate is interviewed. With Burke he discusses the covert effects of prison on men’s lives, pointing out that prisons often maladjust inmates, rendering them useless or turning them into professional criminals.

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