Turning Lives Around: Wartime Treatment of Military Prisoners (Book)

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Turning Lives Around: Wartime Treatment of Military Prisoners : AuthorHouse : 9781420860924 : 1420860925 : 19 Sep 2006 : "The Fort Knox Story: Wartime Therapy of Army Offenders is an account of a remarkable experiment during World War II that gives us a blueprint for an effective correctional community in the Twenty First Century. On the rolling hills of Kentucky, not far from the Fort Knox Gold Depositary, Col. George L. Miller led an intrepid band of Army reservists and mental health professionals in a seminal fight for the hearts and minds of thousands of general prisoners, returning a significant number to combat duty.The Fort Knox Story tells us what went on in this battle - in its patched-together shacks, training halls, and combat fields - that presages those to come when we campaign to win back our prisons. Basic to both is a prison, a secure place of containment,but also of recovery from alienation, personal and social. There, as we wrest control of the cliques and gangs - thr

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