PRO FIT DYER DRIVER
No Nintendo,' says the burly truck driver with a weary sigh.") The story describes how Matthew was brusquely treated when "booked," and then after a game of checkers with his dad during "free time," one guard, posing that evening as a prisoner, began "shouting in cell 3C06, as if he a convict gone berserk. (He was caught and fined $75.) Matthew was there because his father, frustrated with his inability to control his son, wanted to scare him straight.
The other function this open house performed for its 97 bed-and-breakfast inmates was a dramatization of life inside, personalized for the Time readers via the story of fourteen-year-old Matthew Ostler, a teenager with some form of an attention-deficit disorder, and a previous run-in with the law resulting from his attempted theft of a bike. However, unlike that moment in Roger and Me where the Flint, MI, social elite have a costume party in the new county jail (complete with a band playing the obligatory "Jailhouse Rock" and women dressing up in riot gear), this open-house at the Salt Lake City Adult Detention Center served a different purpose-Sheriff Aaron Kennard said "with a missionary's zeal that the public needs to 'see what my people are going through,'" the "people" being his officers and civilians who will be in charge of the inmates. There was a one-page story on page eight about how a new prison in Salt Lake City was opened to the public before the prisoners arrived. As I finished Joel Dyer's The Perpetual Prisoner Machine and was gearing up to write the review, I happened to pick up an old (January 31, 2000) issue of Time magazine while sitting in the dentist's office. Review of Joel Dyer's The Perpetual Prisoner Machineġ. Cohen: Review of The Perpetual Prisoner Machine,
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