Editorial February 4, 1980 ISSUE

Protection from criminal mentality

BEULAH M. ROEGGE

The adage "Stone walls do not a prison make" may include a message beyond the traditional: that there is an action of thought which cannot be imprisoned. Walls cannot contain thinking; they can't diminish the mental influence we have on each other.

We can't just stick someone—or many—behind bars and, forgetting them, feel protected from criminality. A criminal way of thinking cannot be confined by prison bars. It is part of the mental atmosphere inherent in mortality.

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