Cages—at Home

Fort Dix Stockade: Our Prison Camp Next Door, by Joan Crowell. New York: Links Books. 250 pp.

Joan Crowell reports in conscientious detail on the history of the June 1969 uprising in the Fort Dix stockade. She writes of the cruel conditions that led to the uprising—of degradation, starvation diet, beatings, and torture. She tells of the sufferings of the five young soldiers accused of having led the uprising, of their trials and their long, hard road to justice and rehabilit...