In Jail

While in the monasteries the doctors studied the effects of diet on segregated men, at Sing Sing (New York state prison, Ossining) where men live under similarly "controlled" conditions, Dr. Amos T. Baker has set up a psychiatric clinic to learn the cause of imprisonment. Each day he will unravel the characters of three men to learn 1) their intelligence. 2) vocational possibilities, 3) future outlook on society. Said Warden Lewis E. Lawes of the project: "Some of the men we have here are pretty smart birds, and I expect some occasionally to put one over on the doctor. But I assure you, if you don't know this crowd, they would do that once in a while with any one. . . . Dr. Baker is an even-tempered, easygoing, commonsense sort of fellow, who has had lots of experience with prisoners and isn't likely to be taken in very much by them."