Social Control Program 327 Original Airdate: 5/30/1974 Subject Keywords Administration of drugs Afro-American prisoners Drugs - Testing Imprisonment - Psychological aspects Subject Genre Public Affairs: Current Events Personal Names Chorover, Dr. Stephan L. Clapp, Richard Coles, Arnold Rodman, Rev. Edward Corporate Names Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk - Norfolk - Massachusetts Program Description Program focuses on the surgical and psychotropic research being proposed (and in some cases, implemented) to curb violent tendencies via the testing of prison inmates. Host Topper Carew speaks with inmates of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk and two groups of professionals in two separate interviews: the first with Rev. Edward Rodman (of the Episcopal Diocese of Boston) and Professor Stephan L. Chorover (of the MIT Psychology Department) to discuss "psychosurgery"; the second with Arnold Coles (Chairman of the National Prisoners Reform Association) and Richard Clapp (formerly with the Prison Health Project) to discuss drug experimentation. Discussion topics included reactions to the theory of dysfunction in the brain as a source of violent behavior, whether surgery is necessary to remedy behavior, what the political implications of surgery are, what diseases "pyschosurgery" is justified for, what the ethics of "psychosurgery" are, and how drug companies end up doing much of their experimentation in prisons. Producer Topper Carew Associate Producer Barbara Barrow Director Conrad White Writer Dighton Spooner Host Topper Carew Guests Dr. Stephan L. Chorover Richard Clapp Arnold Coles Rev. Edward Rodman Others Henry Johnson (filmmaker) Huntley Nicholas, Jr. (film sound) Dighton Spooner (researcher) Formats Master (WGBH program) 2" videotape A2-00828 Original footage 1/2" reel-to-reel videotape 2945-60 / 3311 Preservation master digital beta cassette AP-01566A Preservation master beta SP cassette AP-01566 Viewing copy 3/4" cassette (item number not yet assigned) Viewing copy VHS cassette (item number not yet assigned) The Say Brother Collection Web site is a production of the WGBH Archives. ©2001 WGBH Educational Foundation.