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Prison Plastic Surgery
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
The Plastic Surgery Project in New York City
In New York City in the 1960s we have this plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Lewin and he has been doing plastic surgery volunteer work at Sing Sing prison for a while kind of noses facelift all that kind of stuff. He really wanted to study it like he wasn't prepared to just like be like oh let's just recommend it without the data so he went to the commissioner of correction who said yes I totally get it why don't we do it with Reikers Island population? So they ran a three-year surgical and social rehabilitation of adult offenders which was pretty impressive because there were over 9,000 people involved. The rate of reoffending among those who had plastic surgery was
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