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Abstract
The Surgical and Social Rehabilitation of Adult Offenders Project (SSR) is a three-year experimental research program initiated two years ago and designed to evaluate the rehabilitative effects of plastic surgery on disfigured prison inmates.
The subjects were inmates of the New York City correctional system who requested cosmetic or reconstructive operations during their incarceration. Operations were performed after the inmates were released from custody. The 237 subjects, aged 21 to 50, were predominantly chronic misdemeanants, and more than two-thirds were narcotic addicts. Table 1 presents some demographic characteristics of the subjects.