come to ONE's attention thus far. It describes not only local social aspects, but the national activities. of homophile organizations, together with lengthy psychiatirc opinions ("Psychiatrists say homosexuals are not necessarily criminals . . . nor necessarily mentally disturbed. Those who try hardest to expose homosexuals often are themselves latently homosexual, pointing the finger at others to appease their own guilty consciences."). It describes also local police practices against homosexuals, and it was this aspect of Hebert's expose which apparently resulted in the later ACLU action. These police practices of course include raids on "gay" meeting places, but also arrests for loitering and loafing, and plainclothes enticements. A detective said that "as soon as a homosexual touches an officer he is booked for assault and battery." Pointing out that the only Georgia law pertaining to homosexuals forbids the act of sodomy, the ACLU stated:"If the police use illegal pretexts for the arrest of homosexuals, then they are violating Constitutional rights, and we will do everything in our power to stop these violations."
Meanwhile, the CONSTITUTION for Sunday, 1/9, printed a report by Walker Lundy on problems of homosexuality at Reidsville State Prison, in which Warden Dutton is said to have admitted: "We have failed in Georgia in our approach to sex offenders." He is referring to 425 of his 2900-inmate prison, 250 of whom are there for homosexual offenses. The same admission would have to be made by practically every penal institution in the country, the failures in N.Y. State being of monumental (but let us hope, not typical) propor-
tions, as the following report will indicate:
N.Y.'s DAY-TO-LIFERS
New York's NEWSDAY, for 11/30/65, in an article by Ray Larsen, describes sharp criticism by State Courts of that State's sex offender care. State legislation enacted in 1950 "allows judges in the State's criminal courts to sentence convicted sex offenders to indeterminate terms of imprisonment, from one day to life." But then, it is supposedly the immediate responsibility of psychiatric omniscience to study and treat the helpless "patient," and to determine if and when he can be returned to society. But such day-to-lifers, it is reported, can spend up to nine years behind bars without any psychiatric attention, and then find themselves resentenced to another indefinite term. In New York, apparently, indeterminate sentences may be carried into an unbelievable travesty on justice, which the Courts have said "may well be a violation of the U.S. and State Constitutions' prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment." This, however, does not seem to really bother State officials. R. G. Oswald, chairman of the Board of Parole which must issue the actual order for release of a day-to-lifer, merely agrees that the State lacks sufficient psychiatric personnel to implement the intended system," meanwhile unfortunate prisoners may spend years behind prison walls, some virtually neglected according to report, and with no means of re-
course.
THE UTTERLY-UTTER DEPT.
In an undated, unidentified clipping, San Franciscan H. Wm. Way comments on "The Strange City"
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