The Boston Globe, October 31st, 1988
PRISON OFFICERS AND THEIR WORLD, by Kelsey Kauffman. Harvard University Press. 290 pp. $30. State prisons are hardly cheery places. They probably should not be. But as described in this chilling study of the lives of prison officers and the riotous Massachusetts prison system of the '60s and '70s, the situation is particularly grim. Author Kelsey Kauffman points out that the two toughest prisons -- Walpole State Prison, as it was then known, and the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and the Treatment Center for the Sexually Dangerous Person in Bridgewater -- were run by guards who spent...
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