Abstract

Until recently, prisons have been largely forgotten places. With the advent of prison riots, inmate demonstrations, and inmate hostageholding, however, more and more people are becoming aware of the problems in our penal institutions. My first awareness of prisons and their problems occurred when I was an undergraduate student at Boston University School of Nursing. A professor of mine had been working with a group of inmates at the Norfolk County Jail in Dedham, Massachusetts. I accompanied her several

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