Thomas Mott Osborne's account of his voluntary stay in Auburn State
prison. Osborne, the head of a state commission on "the prison
problem," checked into Auburn to personally experience conditions
there. It is really engaging and heartfelt, as well as highly
political. Osborne encountered tremendous institutional and
political resistance to his reform efforts and you get a real sense
of that in this book ... In a review of a biography of Osborne the
New York Times had this to say: Thomas Mott Osborne presents the
phenomenon, not rare among men of genius and high talent, where the
work of the man surpasses the individual. To no one person is the
modem world of prison reform and the whole broad subject of
penology so much in debt as to him. Yet in his own eyes he felt,
near the end of his days, that he had lived an ineffectual life.
With the shortsightedness of disappointment and despair he could
not realize that within ten years of his death biographers would be
preoccupied with the ideal of evaluating him as one of the major
figures in American reform . . .
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