I have just started reading the Osher Life Long Learning Reading Circle book selection for the month of October, "In The Sanctuary of Outcasts" by Neil White. Mr. White committed a white collar crime (he used checking accounts to steal money from banks to try to keep his business afloat) and was sentenced to a year in a Federal Correctional Facility. The facility to which he was confined was the Carville, Louisiana facility which was co-located with the national Leprosarium. Now called Hansen's disease, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002323/ the myth and horror of this disease is still not understood well by the general public.
I have just started this book. I suspect I will learn a great deal about humanity and suffering and ostracism.
It will be an interesting read.
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