![]() But public backlash, particularly a Houston Chronicle exposé in 1989, spelled the beginning of the end of the services in Texas and had a ripple effect across the country. Programs across the country had similar results when matched with social and vocational services for the inmates, Stone notes. A 1967 study done at New York’s Riker’s Island correctional facility concluded that inmates who had plastic surgery had a 42% recidivism rate, as opposed to 75% recidivism rate in the general population. Starting in the 1930s, prisons such as New York’s Sing Sing provided inmates with elective plastic surgery-face lifts, liposuction, scar and drug track removals-in order to give them a better chance of rehabilitation upon release. ![]() Journalist Stone ( The Future of Science Is Female: The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century) details how prisoners about to be released were able to change the appearance of their faces in her riveting and well-researched latest. ![]()
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