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We've been waiting for about five years for a State of California parolee, with enough courage to come to Synanon and stand pat and, in a sense, throw himself on the mercy of the courts in an effort to possibly break this treadmill that so

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many thousands of kids are on. We feel that in the person of George Fawcett we have such a man. What do you think the effect of this court case will be upon the relationship in the future between the state department of corrections and Synanon? We're not

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mad at the, at the Department of Corrections. We're not starving for people to come to Synanon. We don't need the parolees. We have plenty of people there, rather, waiting in line to get into Synanon, but doing this is kind of a public

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service. We would like to to have this case be the beginning of opening up, the whole Pandora's Box, and we'd like to find out with other citizens what happens to that $144 million dollar a year budget, which is being spent ostensibly to do something about

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social problems. And we feel that the methods being used are a little bit out of date. We feel that there have been recent insights and sociology and psychology that could be helpful.