Howard Hall is the most closely guarded building in St. Elizabeth's (mental) Hospital, Washington. All its 175 patients are criminally insane. Many are paranoid: hostile, suspicious, frightened, withdrawn into their own delusions. Last spring one inmate suggested starting a newspaper. The doctors approved, and the Howard Hall Journal was launched. Last week, as the fifth issue of the Mimeographed monthly (grown from ten pages to 20) went to press, St. Elizabeth's called it therapeutic journalism.
One of the Journal's staff members is a former linotype operator who always wanted to be a reporter. He saw in the Journal a chance to achieve...
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