The Waydug Way;
Rehabilitation That Doesn't Work


By: Elmer Miller

Adolf Waydug is a famous prison guard. He's employed in the visiting room at the renown Podunk-Drool State Correctional Institution in Central Pennsylvania. He cannot be said to "work" since he's even more lazy and dimwitted than most of the other inbred denizens of the guard-force. Laziness, however isn't what has made Waydug the apple of the correctional eye.

Waydug is goofy, but he's also brutal, aggressive, even hostile. He wants prisoners to know that they are inferior. He holds them in contempt. Waydug has become famous in guard circles for his arrogance. For 3 years running he won the coveted Himmler Prize for arrogance among the mentally challenged.

For the past 25 years, Pennsylvania prisons has scrapped the whole silliness of "rehabilitation." Very recently, however, the Waydug Way has been recognized as the standard for prisoner rehabilitation in the state.

The Waydug Way is elegant in its simplicity. Prisoners are urged to emulate guards such as Waydug. Prison guards become the examples which inmates are expected to follow. The better the prisoner is, the more like a guard he will behave. As a result, upon his release, he will be sure to instantly return to prison.

Waydug and his fellow "Correctional Officers," are selfish, lazy and arrogant. They hold prisoners and the public in contempt. Prisoners who emulate these sterling Waydug traits are sure to fail when they are released on parole! They come right back to prison!

Waydug is a guard because he couldn't make it on the streets and he was too scared to be a real crook. By adopting his ways, a prisoner, too will fail.

Rehabilitation of Pennsylvania prisoners is a sure flop. The examples (like Adolf Waydug) don't work.


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