The Providence Journal

Cambodians’ plight led Allen to rights quest
August 6, 2007
By Karen Lee Ziner


PROVIDENCE — Cambodian refugees were streaming into Thailand in 1980 when Scott Allen — then 17 — ran away from home and signed up for relief work in the border camps. There he learned about the reverberating effects of torture that would steer his adulthood as a physician.

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George Street Journal

Off Hours: Scott Allen: clinical assistant professor, singer-songwriter

By Scott J. Turner

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For Scott Allen, M.D., life is about making people feel better. He does his healing through medicine and music.

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The Providence Journal

1.18.2001 00:21
The doctor will see you now

By VAUGHN WATSON
Journal Pop Music Writer

In his spare time: Allen works as an internal medicine physician. Finding time for music has always been a challenge, he says. "It's such an important part of my life and an important release. It's just like anything else, you have to budget some time for it."

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The Providence Journal- Front Page

NOVEMBER 2004

ACI's top doctor quits, says inmate was abused

Dr. Scott Allen says prison director A.T. Wall mishandled an incident in which an inmate was injured by prison staff.

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And going WAY back...

The Hartford Courant

Friday, June 20, 1980

Teen-Ager Working in Thai Camp

Page A-2

By DEBORAH PETERSON

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The Boston Globe and The International Herald Tribune Op-Ed

Our duty to war detainees
By Scott Allen and Stephen Xenakis  |  January 22, 2007

AT LEAST 112 detainees have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2002 and 2005, according to military documents and press reports. Many of these deaths appear to have been preventable. Given the public record of detainee abuses and history of weakened administration support of detainee rights, the possibility of preventable deaths in US custody warrants careful review.

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The Providence Journal Op-Ed

Abuse in prison: Stanford revisited, By Scott Allen

01:00 AM EDT on Monday, July 17, 2006

IN 1973, two Stanford investigators conducted a landmark experiment that came to be known as the Stanford Prison Experiment. A group of healthy, emotionally normal college students were randomly assigned to roles as mock inmates and mock guards in a mock prison exercise. The study, originally planned for two weeks, had to be aborted after six days because of significant pain and psychological trauma experienced by the participants.

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The Providence Journal Op-Ed

February 13, 2006 Op-Ed by Scott Allen

We need 'creatively maladjusted' teens


01:00 AM EST on Friday, January 13, 2006
IT WAS the novelty story at the end of a week. A 16-year-old Florida boy runs away to Iraq without telling his parents.
The story of Farris Hassan, the Florida prep-school teen who managed to get himself all the way to Iraq before anyone could figure out where he was, intrigued people. How could anyone be so foolish? Didn't he know how dangerous it is over there?
While the story generated a great deal of discussion from columnists, bloggers, and folks around the water cooler, I took note of the fact that most observers had no idea what may have been going through the young man's head. I think, at least in some way, I do. And if Farris was foolish, then 25 years ago I was, too.

Scott Allen '84 and Kanya Duong. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.