In an introduction, the author details the origins of his interest in corrections and summarizes the major developments in his career. The individual stories focus on a female inmate's violent outburst upon being denied her request for transfer to a different residential unit to be with a friend, the experiences of an inmate whose personality was between the extremes of the aggressive predators and the weak individuals who are found in all prisons, and a prison bootlegging enterprise. Other stories describe a group of American Indian inmates, the experiences of a youth after leaving a juvenile training school and parole, and a male administrator's experiences at a woman's prison.