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Show PENAL INSTITUTION STUDY COMPLETED In what has been an interesting and profitable study of the men "on the inside" of our penal institutions, Clair L. Stout, graduate student in sociology at the University of Utah, has hail an oppoitunity to make in-iuiry in-iuiry into a part of a criminal's life usually lacking in most popular accounts ac-counts the criminal on the intelcc-tual intelcc-tual plane. Mr. Stout has taught school at the Utah State prison, along with other senior and graduate students of the University of Utah, for almost a year, during which time he has made out the intellectual life of prisoners, prison-ers, men ranging from college graduates grad-uates to illiterates. Most of these men possessed of normal intellectual faculties, according acc-ording to Mr. Stout, and therefore are aware of the severity of their crimes against organized society. Needless to say, most of them are sorry for their conduct, and await a chance to redeem themselves in the eyes of society. Unusual fairness is brought out in their attitude toward their punishment pun-ishment as being something that they deserve. In only a few cases among men thus interviewed did men admit that they would be better off morally were they not brought to account for their anti-social conduct. A few , inmates actually admitted that their sentences had not been heavy . enough to expiate their crime. These men for the most part do not blame society and the social order for their plight but regard it as the result of an improper course early in life. Most of those interviewed life. Most of the men interviewed in loyalty to their homes claimed to have come from good families, and to have had as many chances to make good as any one else. Personal information about the 70 men consulted, however, reveals that most of the men and many of them very young men came from families, famil-ies, of seven or over; that they left home early because of some incon-geniality incon-geniality in the home; and that religious re-ligious training was not what i should have been. |