The Nation - News from Feb. 2, 1986

Nine state lawmakers and a legislative aide in Connecticut said they were relieved to be free after spending 30 humiliating and exhausting hours in the state’s oldest prison to experience life behind bars firsthand. The experiment was sponsored by the Criminal Justice Education Center to introduce those who make laws to what happens to those who break them. Before they were locked up, the 10 “inmates” were strip-searched, given delousing showers, fingerprinted and issued drab prison garb.