"With Friends like These,Who Needs Enemies?"

Abstract

Earlier in 1974 the author of this address shared the platform at a University of Illinois lecture series with Norman A. Carlson, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Nagel's address called attention to three things basically wrong with the Bureau: its withdrawal from "creative federalism," its rejection of total sys tem planning, and its reliance on outmoded and futile institu tional efforts to deal with the nation's crime problems.