In relation to escapees, ONE notes the possibility that the inmate who says he breaks prison to find female companionship may actually be running, instead, from the far more real temptation of a homosexual alliance; and as for heterosexuals converted to homosexual preferences, all the indications of psychotherapy thus far are that these must have a strong, underlying homosexual orientation to begin with in order for such a transformation to take place. It is to be hoped that additional research will continue into these areas, so as to reach a full understanding of the personality-profiles involved. Meanwhile, Duffy and Hirshberg, not to mention the CHRONICLE, have performed a public service in once more airing the serious sexual problems inherent in our present penal institutions.

FROM INSIDE THE BARS

The NEW YORK TIMES Magazine for 2-28-65, published quite a different version of prison life, by a professional anthropologist who, as a result of a conviction in a security matter, spent 23 months in a Federal Correctional Institution. "My scientific colleagues would call me a 'participant-observer," he comments wryly, but "The U.S. Bureau of Prisons called me an inmate. I served in both capacities, of course, on an involuntary field trip among an isolated tribe of fellow human beings." As an anthropologist, he apparently concerned himself with sex matters only in their due proportion to the total field of prison "culture," and most of his comments about sex deal with homosexuality. He describes the homosexual as "the lowest of the low" in prison society. "The traditional

American intolerance towards sex deviation," he writes, "is increased to fantastic proportions in this atmosphere of tension and sexual deprivation. Inmates with a homosexual record are segregated from the rest of the prison population in a special house within single, barred cells like cages where they can be observed day and night by the officer on duty." Even if there is no homosexual background of record, "speech mannerisms, posture, facial expressions are considered sufficient clues for identifying a new man as a 'fag' (to be) referred to as 'she' ostracized

and victimized (and) routinely accused of crimes against the prison code . . . There are, of course, a number of inmates who sexually use the homosexuals for 'free' or for payment in cigarettes, but that does not change their attitude in public (where they) hide their guilt and shame by loudly condemning the practice, though sometimes indulging in it." In this respect, ONE might observe, such characters among prison inmates have innumerable and precise counterparts on the outside, who form the most rabid of the anti-homosexual elements in modern society.

DEAN RUSK DRAWS FIRE FOR EMPLOYMENT VIEWS

In a letter to the WASHINGTON POST, published 9/14/65, a correspondent writes: "Secretary of State Dean Rusk has put on an appalling display of specious and circular reasoning in refusing to employ homosexuals because 'they present problems of blackmail and personal instability.' The blackmail problem, of course, exists by virtue of discriminatory employment policies such as Mr. Rusk's, since the blackmailer's chief weapon is disclosure with

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