The Reformatory Summary

Dr. Summer had ignored the request from the reformatory as long as possible and, a week later, decides to make the trip to Albuquerque on a cold December morning. Dr. Summer finds the reformatory to be a somber place in the middle of nowhere and he wonders what a young girl must think as she is driven past the guard and into the gated walls. The interior of the facility has the look and odors of all state buildings drenched in cleaning solutions and old coffee.

Dr. Summer encounters sullen guards and mazes of hallways until he finds the office of Dr. Thomas Levering, the psychiatrist who had requested his help. Dr. Levering wants to know everything that Dr. Summer knows about Hatter and is disappointed to find out that Dr. Summer's only encounter with Hatter had been in the jail...