Correcting Corrections

About the Book

It's all in this book, the FOLLY of society to fix our social problems, for now and in the future. As it stands now the general consensus is NOTHING WORKS, but we continue to finance thousands of useless solutions that they hope will someday become a cure all. As taxpayers we never receive an accounting as to the effectiveness of any of these solutions, with the exception of ridiculous statistical figures that can never be questioned or validated.

Now, comes the hard core reality that had to be experienced by the author of this book over a period of time with hands on involvement, much of which came from working as a superintendent of an institution of corrections, also as an auditor of felon case files and finally as the coordinator of all Ohio Half Way Houses in the State of Ohio. All of the above experiences cover thirty three (33) years of government service plus extensive training in Ohio's Correctional Academies.

Rather then sign off in retirement the author Mr. Lander has formulated a recipe for a remedy that not only covers the criminal aspect of American culture, but will impact all of the problems concerning American multiculturism in a way similar to that experienced by past generations that migrated to this country during the last 150 years.

About the Author

I graduated from Fenn College in 1949 as a sociology major. I was hired and placed in the recreation department of the city of Cleveland under the supervision of Commissioner John Nagy. My job as a recreation director was to set up a recreation program for Woodhill Homes, a federal housing project. The goal was to bond neighbors and to respect each other starting at age three (3) to age eighty-five (85).

This goal was accomplished, and I was in a position to study all the factors that influence the association of various group peers and the makeup of the interaction of neighbors in that federally sponsored housing project. (Site of the former Luna Park Amusement Complex).

I was doing all of the above, while at the same time attending graduate school at Western Reserve University under an audit program for social group work. This study was a tradeoff of cooperation with the university by supplying and organizing groups of children for the field practicum of the graduate school students of W.R.U.

From being the director of recreation at Woodhill Homes, I moved to the Board of Education in Cleveland working for Gus I. Kern, the supervisor of evening school recreation conducted in the school buildings on Cleveland's east side. The school assigned was Sowinsky School near East 79th Street.

I then left the field of recreation because of the low pay and entered employment in industry. Then, in 1972 I entered the field of corrections for the state of Ohio by opening and developing the Cleveland Reintegration Center. This was a no lock-up corrections facility that housed anywhere from twenty-five to seventy-five inmates (men and women still doing prison time) for monitored employment, social, and recreational supervision and adjustment prior to final release to their home neighborhoods. This center or institution was in operation for fourteen (14) years with me as superintendent and director.