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The Ordeal of Stephen Dennison

出版	Prentice-Hall, 1970
主題	Art / American / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
ISBN	01363969099780136396901
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=E-Q8AQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"In 1925, sixteen-year-old Stephen Dennison was convicted of having stolen $5.00 worth of chocolates. In 1960, he was still in prison, the victim of inept psychiatrists, legal incompetence, institutional corruption, and a small-town sheriff who had wanted him out of the way...the true story of Dennison's long years of anguish; of his abrupt release; and of the two lawyers who investigated the legality of his incarceration and filed suit for $115,000 against the State of New York. They won the case - only to have it reversed by the Court of Appeals. George Wein, Dennison's attorney, has now filed a brief with the Supreme Court and the case is still pending. Included in this fascinating volume are the actual transcripts of the hotly fought trials, the 'secret' memos written by prison officials, and Stephen Dennison's own recollections of nearly thirty-five nightmare years of homosexuality, brutality, and sadism in an institution ostensibly for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Told with objectivity and perception, tempered with compassion and humanity, this is a dramatic and compelling exposé of America's penal system, as well as a scathing indictment of the society that perpetrated a monstrous injustice"--Jacket.