Judges: Living with Gault

In casual fashion, juvenile judge got to know juvenile delinquent. Wearing sports shirts and slacks or shorts, 32 judges took long walks, played ball and sipped sodas with 33 youths from the Lookout Mountain School for Boys, a reform school in Golden, Colo. And the jurists learned a few things.

One youngster told about smoking through green peppers: he said he pushed out the core of a green pepper, inserted a cigarette and got high from the smoke's drawing across the pepper seeds. The judges learned the inmates' definition of "spot" and...

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