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IT BEGAN AS America’s most modern penal institution, and, for generations, the Vermont State Prison reflected the changing ways by which we thought we should punish our wrongdoers. Then, a tormented era and a ghastly crime combined to end its old career, and give it a surprising new one.

A newsman returns to a classic work by a famous predecessor and finds that Mark Sullivan’s vanished America has something to tell us.

HOW A NATION BORN OUT OF A TAX REVOLT has, and especially hasn’t, solved the problems of taxing its citizens

TODAY, NEARLY HALF a million men and women serve two-thirds of the country in a crucial volunteer service that began only recently, and only because a nine-year-old boy had witnessed a drowning.