The Guidance Center Of The Adult Authority

This 1945 booklet on the California Prison System portrays a past so different from the present that the weirdness level escalates more than is usual with artifacts from that "other country."

Read it here.

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Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 27, 2025
Category: Prisons | PSA’s | 1940s

Comments

Cue "Folsom Prison Blues."

Posted by ges on 02/27/25 at 11:28 AM

One thing I'll agree with: if you make your children feel that they can never do well enough, they may unconsciously decide not to do any good at all. Because what's the point?

Posted by Richard Bos on 03/01/25 at 08:43 AM