The Parole Interneship

To the serious student of parole, a period of interneship affords first hand approach to parole's problems and ramifications.The parole interneship should be an essential part of his professional training.The medical interne's work is established and accepted as a necessary and indispensable part of a physician's training.But the interneship idea in the field of parole is new and not widespread.Simply stated, the parole interneship is established when a graduate student in the social sciences takes residence on a prison reservation or in the living quarters of a penitentiary during a period of his graduate study with opportunities for study and observation, and, more important still, for actual participation in some of the prison's work which prepares for and leads up to parole.This arrangement is made between the prison and university officials.He is necessarily a student who is focusing his studies and research on correctional work and who intends to remain in this field after the completion of his dissertation or dissertations.During this period of prison residence, the interne is presented with a live panorama of the many aspects in the field of criminology.He lives in quarters with prison guards; he associates with prison people during most of the day; he sees the prisoners eat, work, and play; he knows what they think, how they talk, and how they feel; and their attitudes toward parole, guards, officials, and society.He knows why they feel this way.He is able to discount newspaper propaganda and ballyhoo which almost universally surrounds crime in its various phases.His theoretical studies are properly supplemented by an accurate picture of the practical part of the profession.An interneship is further beneficial to the student for he breaks into the work while studying.This makes it less difficult for him to find desirable placement when he concludes his academic work.An interneship may not only benefit the student.Mutual benefits may be derived by the prison in a well set-up plan.Present

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