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L. Ron Hubbard’s The Way to Happiness is used in over 300 correctional facilities to help rehabilitate personal pride and values, giving inmates the opportunity to embark upon new, crime-free lives.

In one juvenile program alone, wherein 80 percent of the young offenders were routinely rearrested, out of those completing The Way to Happiness course, 98 percent were not rearrested for further offenses. In comment upon such an unprecedented success rate, Chief Probation Officer Daniel O. Black of Butler County Juvenile Court in Greenville, Alabama, stated: “The Juvenile Justice System is in great need of a workable community-based first step program. The Way to Happiness fills that void. We start with basics: a good moral foundation based on honesty, integrity and trust; that is The Way to Happiness.”

That is also, in essence, the totality of everything L. Ron Hubbard stood for in the name of humanity. True, this world is faced with moral, criminal and biochemical crises the likes of which history has never known. True, too, annual statistics suggest only bleaker years to come. But for all his failings, his violence and degradation, declared Mr. Hubbard, man is nonetheless basically good; and so, he further tells us, “Wherever man strives, wherever he works, whatever he does, the good he does outweighs the evil.”