Behind Bars; What a Chaplain Saw in Alcatraz, Folsom, and San Quentin,

Published by Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1965

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Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA)

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This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has rubbing and wear to the spine ends, corners and edges. There are a couple of smallish edge tears and the rear dust jacket panel has ground-in dirt and some light toning. "A California rabbi who rejects completely the existing outlook on crime which "puts men in prisons instead of hospitals. " has resigned as Jewish chaplain at San Quentin, Folsom and Alcatraz prisons. Because society "has not yet learned that crime is but another form of mental or emotional disturbance, " being a prison chaplain was "so futile, " said Rabbi Julius A. Leibert, that he could no longer continue. "All I could do was listen with never a say where it mattered for the men. ""Prisons are a carry-over from the dim, cruel, unenlightened past, " he asserted, adding that such institutions should be called "hospitals, " with inmates considered as receiving treatment rather than punishment. He called inmates of San Quentin "poor, sick persons" who were "compelled, time after time , to commit crimes" because they were "inadequately treated as sick persons. " (from Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Aug 29, 1957).…

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Title
Behind Bars; What a Chaplain Saw in Alcatraz, Folsom, and San Quentin,
Author
Leibert, Julius A. & Emily Kingsbery
Publisher
Doubleday, Garden City, NY
Publication year
1965
Condition
Very Good+
Dust jacket
Very Good-
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition; 1st Printing.

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