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Prison Plastic Surgery

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

CHAPTER

Plastic Surgery Is a Precursor to Eugenics

In 1910 in New York City the prison commissioner there he started giving kind of very soft plastic surgery to some of the people in prisons. The idea that a man's physical condition makes it easier for them to steal a dollar than to earn one is still popular today. Dr. Leo Stanley was the medical doctor for San Quentin prison in California and this was you know a similar kind of time frame so across the states different people all are having like an idea of maybe the reason someone is in prison is more than just what's written on paper.

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