IN the course of each week, TIME correspondents are accustomed to covering everything from concerts to Cabinet meetings, from labor strikes to society soirees. Seldom have they been faced with an assignment as grim as that demanded of them by this week's cover story on prisons: to provide nation's editors in New York with an inside look at some of the nation's jails and penitentiaries.
The experience left many of the correspondents shaken and disturbed by what they had seen. Strangely or perhaps not so strangely they found themselves identifying with...
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