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My Six Convicts is a 1952 American film noir crime drama directed by Hugo Fregonese. The screenplay was adapted by Michael Blankfort from the autobiographical book My Six Convicts: A Psychologist's Three Years in Fort Leavenworth, written by Donald Powell Wilson. [citation needed]
The author, Donald Powell Wilson, tells about his experience as a psychologist who went to Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary for research purposes in the early 1930’s. He had been appointed by the US Government to spend 3 years there doing research about drug addiction and criminality.
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Donald Powell Wilson was born on 18 March 1900 in Minnesota, USA. He was a writer, known for My Six Convicts (1952) and The Faye Emerson Show (1949). He died in 1985 in Orange, California, USA.
Donald Powell Wilson spent three years as the San Quentin resident psychologist; the place was a clinician's paradise. In this period Powell found numerous father...
Donald Wilson provides an insightful and fascinating look at the federal prison system of the 1930s, an era in which newly enacted laws elevated the focus of the penal system from punitive to rehabilitative.
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My Six Convicts: A Psychologist's Three Years in Fort Leavenworth. Donald Powell Wilson. Rinehart, 1951 - Criminal psychology - 369 pages. "'My six convicts' is Dr. Wilson's unabashed...
Donald Powell Wilson was born on March 18, 1900 in Minnesota, USA. He was a writer, known for My Six Convicts (1952) and The Faye Emerson Show (1949). He died in 1985 in Orange, California, USA.
