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there are now five cent in in living groups throughout California, including the Oakland House where 500 residents, most of them ex drug addicts play the game, the famous scene in inward for a no holds barred group discussion where participants may say anything they want to each

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other. Physical violence is forbidden. There are also non addicts here called lifestyle ear's who live in and play the game but hold down regular jobs on the outside. For the past month, there's been a unique group of lifestyle. Ear's bunking in its synonym Sheriff's deputies. If

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you were to watch them go through the lunch line, you'd hardly know they were cops unless you were con wise as so many synonym residents are. And that's one of the main reasons for this experiment. To expose law enforcement officials to so called character disordered people

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and to expose them to the game. Eight deputies took part in the program at no cost to san Francisco taxpayers working at the jail in the daytime, playing the game on their time off. All of them. Members of the newly formed Deputy Sheriffs Coalition, which represents

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67 of saN Francisco's 250 deputies. The deputies received a farewell send off by cena non residents and Sheriff Richard who thought up the experiment and also lived here for the past month, gave this assessment of what was learned institutions or ventures such as cinnamon. Do a

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lot to show us the way in which we must work to go from this one of an ineffective wasteful, costly and inhumane institution to another type, which will humanely efficiently effectively address itself to the problem of crime and urban society. Second, I think that we have

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had some small opportunity, but not enough to look at the reasons the ways the techniques that synonym uses to achieve the results that it does. Looking at these results. Looking at these methods, namely the cinnamon game has been exciting. There's been a lot of fun. I'm

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sorry you couldn't share it with us. Some of us really don't want to leave yet because we're still enjoying ourselves immensely and we've made commitments to ourselves to use the synonym game to iron out our own staff problems and to help us to develop harmony more

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within our own organization simply because it is an effective tool for doing just that all admit they come from a more politically and philosophically liberal mold than the majority of the san Francisco sheriff's department. But all insist the synonym approach can work for everyone. Deputies and

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inmates not only in the game, but outside of the game, we've we've learned to work together as being the only way to survive that's fine for you fellas, what does it do for the jail And for those inmates drying out on drugs. First of all, jails

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are totally outmoded and if you can take the people in jail and put them in an environment like sin and on where they have, you know, good food, good surroundings and then they go and have a job and sin and become very, you know, it's a

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profitable thing for them, you know like they've never had this before, they got a job and they become worthwhile part of the community. People dealing with drugs and dealing with addicts have a tendency to feel that these people are stereotyped, they're sneaky maligning people who would

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do anything to get their dope shoot up, you know, dope things. But like what I experienced coming into sin, I had a hard time trying to find the dope fiend, I could, I could not figure out who was a dope fiend and who was not a

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dope fiend. Dad, I had to stop asking like, hey, where are the dope fiends around Sheriff? Hang Giusto hinted strongly that deputies and inmates at the san Francisco County jail will soon be playing the synonym game on a volunteer basis. Mike lee, eyewitness news, Oakland