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Volume III, Number V

CASTLE ON THE CUMBERLAND

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Nevember 15, 1963

 

ADMINISTRATION
The Honorable BERT T. COMES, Governor
WILSON'W. WYATT, Lt. Governor

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

 

JOSEPH G. CANNON, Commissioner

MARSHALL SWAIN, Deputy Commissioner

Dr. HAROLD BLACK, Director of Institutions
W. Z. CARTER, Director of Education

BOARD OF PARDODB 8c PAROLES

 

Dr. FRED MOFFATT, Executive Director
WALTER FERGUSON, Chairman

SIMEON WILLIS, Member

'ERNEST THOMPSON, Member

Mrs. LUCILLE HURT, Member

PENITENTIARY ADMINISTRATION

 

LUTHER THOMAS, Warden

LLOYD ARMSTRONG, Deputy warden

W. T. BAXTER, Captain of the Guard

Rev. HOUSTON E. INMAN, Protestant Chaplain
Rev. THOMAS CLARK, Catholic Chaplain
HENRY E. COWAN, Supervisor of Education

WILLIAM EGBERT, Vocational Instructor

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

Castle News
Chaplains' Corner

Editorial

BOOM STATES ON ROUTE 66
A PENAL REVOLUTION?

OUR PART IN GREATER SOCIETY

EXOhange Page

Tall Tales
Department Reports
Cartoon Feature
Crossword Puzzle
Statistics & Movies

The Castle Laughs

 

CASTLE STAFF

 

Lawrence Snow, Editor

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Harold Arnold, Associate Editor

James McKinney, Art Editor

John Busby, Multilith Operator

 

 

 

 

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Exactly a week after he took command of
Kentucky's muchucriticized penal system,
Commissioner of Corrections Joseph G.
Cannon made his first inepection tour of

C‘YAecompanied by Dr. Harold Black, DireCm

tor of Institutions, warden Luther

‘1 homas and Deputy warden Lloyd Arm~
tstrongs the Commissioner poked into
[every department of this 80-year-old
.~Sprison, inepected the crowded "shOps"
‘ bthat serve as dayrooms for hundreds of
{hue prisoners, and ate a meal in the

‘ messhall. The
Nbetter part of a dayo

tour took the

Cannon, a veteran of 1h years with
Ohio's correctional system and holder of
a master's degree in social work from
left a job as
Mmber 2 man in Ohio's Department of
Corrections to take Kentucky‘s t0p penal

‘slot at the request of Governor Bert
Combs o
Idleness is the biggest problem in
Ibntucky's prisons, the PADUCAH SUN

MEMORAT quoted Commissioner Cannon as
saying after his tour° He also stressed
the need for more academic and vocaa
tional training and a program of group
discussions that would let inmates work
mm their own problems and attitudes une

der the direction of trained instrucm
torso He said a similar "basic
' philosophy’I course had been in great

demand in Ohio prisons.

About parole and the new parolemreform

r bills Cannon is quoted by the newspaper
as saying, "A man in prison reaches a
P01nt, maybe after one year.9 two years

or four yearss when he's ready to go out

aminmke a good adjustment to.societyo
If the rules are too rigida the parole
board can't release him, and the man

deteriorates in the next few yearso He
“111 perhaps never again be as good a
Parole risko"

The parole bill allows
release prisoners whenever

the board to
it believes

 

 

COMMISSIONER CANNON INSPECTS PENITENTIARY, TELLS OF IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED IN SYSTEM

they are ready to live in normal socie-
ty, regardless of their actual sen-
tenses.

Other facets of Kentucky's prison setup
discussed by Cannon, according to the
Paducah paper and later stories in the
LOUISVILLE TIMES;o were:

1. The need to increase the strengthg
quality and pay of the guard force, and
provide them with in~service training.

20 The need to hire teachers, instrucw
torss caseworkers, psychologists and
psychiatristse

30 Increased pay for working inmates,
who now draw only 8¢ a day. Cannon
termed this wage "ridiculous," said he
would ask for money to pay a sliding

scale of from 10¢ to 50¢ a day.

no A plan to hire an additional deputy
wardens to be in charge of individual
treatments at Eddyville and LaGrangeo

5° A definite plan to upgrade food at
both prisons and provide inmates with
knives and forks in addition to Spoons.

6. Plans for erecting farm dormitories
at Eddyville and LaGrange and,9 laters to
build a separate prison for l7=tom2h
year old inmateso

But, Cannon saids he doesn‘t believe in
spending large sums on elaborate build»
ingso He stated that he would rather
see the money go into hiring more and
better personnel,9 a policy he considers
basic to any real accomplishment toward
building a more effective correctional
systemo

NINE NOW IN INTERSTATE AGREEMENT

 

Californias Montana and Nebraska have
joined Michigans Connecticut, New Hamp«
Shires New Jerseys New York and Pennsylé
vania in the new Interstate Agreement on
Detainers3 allowing prisoners ' with den
tainers to request immediate trials

  

 

' to the LOUISVILLE TIMES. She

WOMAN IS FOURTH PAROLE BOARD MEMBER

 

An attractive young widow with impres-
sive educational and professional quali~
fications has been appointed to Kenw
tucky's newly enlarged parole board.

Mrs. Lucille Hurts 359 was named to the
$10,000 a year position last month by
Governor Bert Combs. ' Mrs. Hurt was
special judge of Jefferson Countyls
juvenile court when her appointment ‘was
announced.

Born in Hazards Kentuckyg Mrs. Hurt took
a law degree (1952) and a masteer de-
gree in social work (1962) at the
University of Louisville.‘ She was a
social worker in a Louisville childrenVs
home for lfi- years before taking on the
job of supervisor of probation for the
juvenile court, a position she held for
three years. She was appointed special
judge this spring.

Mrs. Hurt, widowed last year. has a
teenage daughter of her own. according
is Terry
Hurt. 1h, a sophomore at Sacred Heart

Academyt

The parole board was enlarged to five
members 'by a bill passed in special
session this summer. The bill also
raised parole board salaries and prom
vided for the release on parole f
prisoners at any time the board feels
they have been rehabilitated. regardless
of'their actual sentence. Mrs. Hurt.
first new member to be appointedg joins
incumbents walter Ferguson (Chairman).
Simeon'Willis and Ernest Thompson.

"Mrs. Hurt°s training and experience
will provide additional impetus to the
developing concept of rehabilitation.
training and earlier release of those
who are in our State prisonsg" the TIMES
quoted Governor Combs as saying of the
appointment.

The fifth and final member of the parole
board had not been announced at pressm
time.

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OUTSPOKEN CITY JUDGE JOHNSTONE EXPRESSES
HOPE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM WILL CORRECT

 

One of the most refreshing
many months addressed the
pre-release class last month.

speakers in
school and

He is Edd Johnstones practicing attorney
and Princeton City Judge mm a talls rawe
boned young lawyer who pulled no punches
as he discussed the legal status of the
alcoholic0 the Kentucky judicial and pen
nal systemsa and cases he has tried.

Johnstone went on the city bench when he
became interested in the Princeton
Alcoholics Anonymous chapter. Far re-
moved in attitude and personality from
the typical judicial personage,
Johnstone nevertheless has stayed on tho
bench because. as he puts it, he be-
lieves he can do some good there.

He said alcoholism is treated as a crime
when it is in reality a disease. He
added that in. his opinion the Kentucky
commonwealth attorneys and legislators
who consider it a crime are "way behind
times in their thinking."

Speaking of the need for penal reform in
Kentucky, he said that the penitentin
arise and reformatories are supposed to
be correctional institutions. "But I
doubt if they do much correcting." he
stated. He expressed hope that the new
parole laws and the appointment of a
professionallybtrained man um Joseph
Cannon of Ohio mm as Kentucky Commisw
sinner of Corrections might solve some
of the problems.

Johnstone. who has had long experience
as a defense attorney ("Robbersg rapists
and murderers are my' friends um they
keep me fed"), gave the assembled inn
mates some practical advice on relations
with their lawyers. and noted that while
the prosecuting attorney has all the re-
sources of local, state and federal law»
enforcement agencies at his command to
help win his oase‘9 the defense counsel
we especially when appointed to the case
of an indigent defendant -w must work
largely in the blind.

 

 

 

 

  

 

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INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT, HALFWAY HOUSE, AMONG CHANGES IN OFFING, MILLS SAYS AT PRISON

 

when Mo R0 "Mike" Mills of Madisonville
announced his intention of running for
the office of commonwealth attorney in
HOpkins Countys a friend called on him
with an unusual requesto He asked Mills
to spend a day visiting the prison to
which he would be sending those he
helped convicto

Mills did that,9 and ever since he“s been
persuading others to do the sameo But
Mike Mills, now president of the Commonr
wealth Attorneys Association and chairw
man of the Task Force on Corrections and
the Commission on Correctionss went
several steps furthero Serving without
salary on both correctional bodiesg he
has also stumped the state like a poli=
tician to campaign for prison reformo
In the past years he and others like him
on the prison groups and in KentuckyVS
courts and public offices have been
reSponsible for more genuine progress in
Kentucky penology than at any other time
in'flw state“s historyo

This was the man who came back to the
prison late last month to explain to us
the complicated legal and procedural
changes that have already' been made and
will soon be made in Kentuckyls prison

systemo
KEY fl) ALL THE CHANGESS Mills Saids is
an entirely new approach to confinement

and treatment in Kentucky we treatment
of the individual as an individualo

"There is no such thing as a criminal
class," he emphasizedo "You”re not
brutes set aparto There are reasons for
ymn°being here and it is our aim.to
find those reasonso"

He said that the old ideas of "paying a
debt to society" and punishment for
PUHiShment's sake have no place in the
new scheme of thingso

ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPTS made poem
Sibleby the parolemreform bill passed
this summer on the recommendation of the
Task Force, ties in with the idea of
'treating offenders as individuals with

 

potentialsa
go into
at the
at the

individual problems and
That is the new policy, yet to
effects of paroling offenders
point of individual readiness,
"psychologically right moment."

"You woth be grouped (for parole pure
poses) as a lOmyear man, a 5~year many"
Mills stated° "You’ll be Joe Smith we
Manl" '
Some of the changes the
will bring about are:

new concepts

10 Every man committed to the prison
will see the parole board within 30 days
to be told what he will be expected to
do to earn paroleo

20 Psychiatric and medical help will be
made availableo

50 An effective system of academic and

vocational education will be set up in
both p ris ons 0
be A "massive attack" on illiteracy

will take placeo

50 A system of monthly progress reports
on individual inmates will be beguno

be Parole will come when the individual

has proved he can succeed in a normal
societyo
To A "halfway house" will be operated

by the state to provide for parolees who

have no other place to live in lthe
crucial period immediately following
releaseo

80 A period of supervision will end
every terms even if only for 2 or 5
monthso No man will be "kicked out with
a $5 billy" Mills saido

These and other changes are now'being
worked out by the Task Force, the Come
mission on Corrections and the Correce
tions Departments Mills saidg and will
be embodied in a report on November 150
The entire program is aimed at presents
ing recommendations to the Governor and

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the legislature to implement laws that
will "help advance a philosophy of core
rectionsy which were never had beforeo"

Speaking of the proposed educational
program and the halfway house idea‘9
Mills said: "Every' man here wants to

make parolea but hels scared of its tooo
welre trying to set it up so you wonlt
have to be afraid of its"

of cost to
commonwealth

But all this wonlt come free
the inmates the dynamic
attorney stresseds

”we have a challenge to provide you with
the atmosphereg facilities9 and assis=

tances" he saido "Your challenge is to
take advantage of every opportunity we
can give youo” He quoted statistics

Which show 90% of all jobs today require
education or skills and indicate that by
1975 there is likely to be no labor mar=
ket for the unskilled mane

"My‘advices our programs
one of you learn a useful skills" he
went ono "From the day a man: walks
through these gatess his parole is going
to be up to himo Itlll be his babyo"

Mills was addressing a crowd of perhaps
550 KSP inmates in the penitentiary
ohapelo When he invited questions from
the floor9 they came thick and fasto
Most of them were bluntg some to the
point of rudeness» but he answered them
all with the courtesy and intelligence
that seem to be his most distinguishing
characteristioso Throughout the discus»
sion9 MillsU sincerity and dedication
were so obvious that inmates later
crowded around him to exPress their
appreciation and gratitudeo

NEW LIBRARY HOURS NUW IN EFFECT

 

In an effort to organize his time more
efficientlys Chaplain Houston E0 Inman
has asked that inmates wishing to dies
cuss problems with him make appointments
between the hours of 10 AM and 2 PMo It
is hoped that the change will permit him
to see more inmates dailyo The library
will be closed from 8 to 10 AM to allow
him time for corresPondence and study;

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is that every

D0 SOMETHIM3FUR SELF, POWELL URGES

 

Unless he is "cast in a mold of ignor~
anoeg" every man lives his life in
stagesg said Bill Powell; executive news
editor of the PADUCAH SUN DEMOCRATS last
months He was addressing a meeting of
an inmate organization following the
address here of MC Ro Millsg chairman of
the Task Force on Correctionso

"What a man was when he started,9 and
what he is nowa doesn't have to be what
he"s going to beg" said Powell to meme

bers of the Barons of Good Willa He
urged the men to learn to accept re»
sponsibility for themselves news and

said that there was a time when men in
this country didnlt look to government
to provide for themg when freedom meant
more than it does nowc

The group presented Mro Powell with a
large pencil portrait of himself in ape
preciation of the stand he and his news»

paper have taken on prison reform: The
portrait was drawn by convictwartist
Abbot:

VOLUNTEER WORK KEEPS MRSO INMAN'BUSY

 

Unlike most other ministerls wives‘9 Mrso
Sherlene Inman has no direct role in her
husbandls worko

The attractive young wife of KSPVS
Protestant Chaplain Houston Eo Inman
does not; howevera lead a life of
leisurec In addition to making a home
for Reverend Inmang she does substitute
teaching in Lyon County schools and vole
unteer work with the Health Departrre nta
Presently she is helping with eye and
ear examinations for area childreno

Mrso Inman9 who toured the prison rew
cently with a farm group,9 took her
bachelor of science degree at Mississipm
pi Collagen where she met her husband of
six yearso ‘

 

 

 

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‘ University of Louisville and the

 

' taking a good9

 

FORMER KSP CHAPLAIN DIES IN LOUISVILLE

The Reverend Paul Jaggers, minister,
scholar, and student of human behaviors,
died late last month in Louisville. ;He

was 6’40

Retired earlier in the year when it dens
veloped that a hip ailment was in reali-
ty bone cancer, Reverend Jaggers had
been KSP‘s chaplain for more than 11
years and a minister for more than 140.
graduate of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary in Louis»
ville” the city of his births, and of the
Bryant
and Stratton Business College., His
career at the penitentiary was marked by
his dry wit and keen insight into human
nature.

Reverend Houston E. Inmans who succeeded
Reverend Jaggers as chaplains served as
one of the pallbearers at the :funeral.
Other pallbearers included chaplains
from other Kentucky institutionso

Survivors include
two stepchildreng
five grandchildreno

his wife, a brothers
two daughters and

MICHIGAN PARTIALLY ABOLISHES CENSORSHIP

Gus Harrison is a man who believes in

hard look at traditicno

Harrison is the director of Michigan“s
huge correctional setup, and recently

‘ his habit .of examining penal traditions

that have gone unquestioned otherwise
resulted in the partial abolition of the
old policy of censoring inmates? mailo

About half of Michigan's 89000 convicts
have been. affected by the new rulings
lwhich does away with censorship of mail
in all but maximm~security units.) The
PTOgressive penologist said athe- custom
0f censoring mail is an old ones but it
actually accomplishes little because al»
most all inmates can smuggle out letters.»

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MARYLAND BECOMES SECOND STATE TO ALLOW
PRISO NERS TO WORK FOR OUTSIDE MPIOYERS

 

thployersg prisoners and prison offi-s
cials .. they're all happy with it.

"It" is Maryland's new workarelease
plans a system that allows convicts to
leave the prison by day to work at regu-
lar jObs outside the walls. The plan is
tailored after the North Carolina work:
release program, now five years Dldo

Employers are happy with the program
because they have found that convicts
are good workers and are absent from
work less often than free employeeso
The prisoners n- 19 are participating, 5
of them women «a are pleased because
they are paid prevailing wages for the
work they do. Prison officials like the
plan because it saves money for the
state and helps ease tension in the
prison while aiding in the rehabilita-
tion of the prisoners involvedo

Money earned by the prisoners is split
three wayso Room and board paid to the
prison consumes $2.50 a day. The rest

is used to support the convicts" den
pendants and to provide them a nest egg
for releaseo

One of the convict participants is fore=
man of a crew of men. Another is an
advertising salesman, others are clerks,
mechanicss laborers. To be eligible for
participation.9 the prisoner must have
less than a Smyear sentence and must
have served at least 6 monthso He also
must volunteer for the program and have
a job lined upo

GUARD CAPTAIN 8c WIFE IN AUTO ACCIDENT

Mro 8c Mrso W0 To Baxter were injured
when their car was sideswiped by a
trailer truck last montho Both were

treated in a Princeton hosPital.

Mro Baxter, who is KSPVs Guard Captains
suffered rib and other fractures in the
accidento Mrs0 Baxter was also serious=v
1y injuredo

 "HOODLUM PRIEST93" SUCCESSOR NAMED

 

Exaprisoners who are being given a helpm
ing hand by Sto Louisfl original "halfway
house" have a new supervisoro He is
Reverend Fred L0 Zimmermang Pastor of
Sto Matthews Apostle Catholic Churohg
also of Sto Louisg according to the
KILBY SUNG

A close friend of the late Father Clerks
pioneer of the halfway house idea and
subject of the movies "The Hoodlum
Priestg" Father Zimmerman will continue
the work he started we counseling and
giving financial and moral support to
newly releaSed prisoners who have no one
else to turn too

The Sto Louis halfway houseg named
Dismas House in honor of the Good Thiefg
was founded in 1959 by Father Clark.9 who
died of a heart attack in Augusta 1965o
Since theng several similar institutions
have been founded in other metropolitan
areaSo

 

A0 A0 MAGAZINB‘MAY BE REVIVED HERE

The Alcoholics Anonymous group here in
KSP hepes to revive the old A0 A0 publim
cations THE SEARCHERSO

wayne So and James PC will be editor and.

associate editor of the publication if
and when it' is issuedo Protestant
Chaplain.Ho E0 Inman is the Sponsor of
the A0 A0 group hereo

The projected magazine would be disc
tributed to other A0 A0 groups in and
out of penal institutions and to other
interested individualso

INDIANA COPS BUY GAMBLING STAMPS

 

INDIANAPOLIS me An AP dispatch reports
that the Fraternal Order of Police in
Evansvilleg Indianag was among the or5
ganizations and individuals issued
federal gambling stamps recentlyo

All forms
Indianao

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of gambling are illegal in

‘on the blaaeo

PRISON TRUSTIES HELP FIGHT FIRE

A fire that destroyed 'two unoccupied
houses' and several hundred acres of
field and timber near the prison was
brought under control last month with
the help of two crews of trusties from
the KSP farmo

About 2h prisoners worked with civilian
volunteers and professional firefighters
Interestinglyg one of the
crews-became separated from its guard in
the excitemento They returned to the
prison by "hitching" a ride with forest=
ry personnelo

BANKER SAW NOTHING BUT HONEST FACES HERE

 

A Paducah banker who had. just finished
making an address to a group of men re=
marked that he saw not a single face in
the group for which he would not cash a
check without questiono The group?
Several hundred convicts assembled to
hear his description of banking as it is
practiced in his cityo Oscar Bryants a
vice=president of Peoples First National
Bank and Trusts is said to have made the
remark to KSP officials in his surprise
that Iconvicts doth necessarily look
like convictso

Bryantg accompanied
Davies a retired

here by‘ walker
superintendent of the
Illinois Centralg gave a summary of the
history of currency and bankingo , He
said the Paducah bank for which he works
has about $20. million in assetss of
which 35 to to per cent is usually out
on loano Another 12 per cent is dew
posited with the governments and much of
the rest is in'bondso He explained that
banks are not permitted to hold stockso

0f the $29 millions he remarked furthers
about $1009000 is actually on hand at.
the banko

Bryant“s address followed one by Davis»
who discussed railroading as it is and
has been practiced in the U0 So An
interesting feature of his speech was a
demonstration of the hand signals by
which train crews can "talk" to one
another from great distanceso

 

 

 

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REV° H. E. INMAN, PROT§§TANT CHAPLAIN

 

Since this is my first column and since
I have just begun my duties as a chaps
lain, it would be good to share some of
the ideas that I feel reveal the true
role of the Chaplain in the total pro=
gram of rehabilitationo

There are many areas of concern in a
correctional institutions Each one has
its own Special contribution to the
rehabilitation and welfare of the
prisonerso The Chaplain must work in
complete cooperation with each areas
However, he has a unique contribution to
make which must not be neglected: the
Spiritual resources of the Christian

Faith. The Chaplain is first of all a
man of GOdo His presence reminds the
inmates of the presence of God0 He em=

bodies the community conscience inside
the prisono His role is strengthened
through the worship servicess the Bibliw
cal content of his conversation and by
his approach to human needo

The Chaplain is also a representative of
the Churcho His presence reminds the
inmates that the Church cares for theme
He should conduct himself in such a way
as to communicate the fact that a whole
community of Christians stands_behind
himo He must have Special knowledge of
the nature of man, his needs and of the
Spiritual resources of God to meet those
needsc

It is my desire to keep the above ideals
as the goal of my ministry here at the
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PROTESTANT SERVICES (SUNDAY)

8:00 AM to 82h52 Wbrship Service

8:50 AM to 94.15: Inmate Sunday School
9350 Am to 11:15: Inmate Church Service
OTHER ACTIVITIES (SUNDAY)

1350 PM to 3:00: Alcoholics Anonymous
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REV, THOMAS CLARK, CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN

 

There are many things a chaplain can't
doo There are, however, many things he
can doo He gets many requests to do
what is impossibleo But the primary
reason the chaplain is here is to help
you do that for which you have the

greatest need we love and serve GOdo

Regardless of what our own personal
prdblems may be:9 there is one deep»
seated need which all of uS have in com»
mon: the need to be loved and to know
that we are loved. We want to feel that
what we do and what happens to us, mean
something to somebody else besides our-
selveso Without this feeling that there
is someone who cares about us and cares
a lots life at best will be tasteless
and at vmrst will be frightening an
frightening even to the point of sui»
cideo

Our Christian philoSOphy of life begins
with the conviction that, regardless of
our human relationships, there is Somes
one who does love us deeply and Who does
care intensely about what happens to use
That someone of course is GOdo

We might says humanly Speaking, that God
passed over billions and billions of
souls He could have created until he
came to youo "There," God said, "is a
soul that I can really loveo There is a
soul that I Shall createo" And so you
came into beingo He wanted you and n0m
body else would don ‘fl—

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CATHOLIC SERVICES

 

Mass: 12350 Sunday

Prayer Services To Be Announced (Mona)

OTHER ACTIVITIES

 

Religious Discussions Wednesday

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PENAL CHANGES WILL BRING CHANGED RESPONSIBLITY, TOO

 

For a good many years news informed persons in and around the penal world have
realized that something is wrong with traditional correctional ideas. In Spite
of increasingly stiffer sentencess an increasingly larger number of former inmates
repeat their crimes» seemingly growing worse after each period of confinement in
reformatories and penitentiaries that9 apparently,9 have not been reforming or make
ing penitento Yets in penology as in weathers there has been much talking and
little doing.

But if in the next few months the program discussed here by' Task Force Chairman
Mo R0 Mills goes into effects we here in Kentuckyls prison system may well see
history in the makingo For the changes outlined by‘ Mro Mills are largely the
changes that have been urged for decades by enlightened persons interested in pa»
nologyo

The heart of the new pregramg as explained by'Mro Millsg is a new philosophy of
corrections centering on the individualo This means that an effort will be made to
discover why the individual offender went wrong and to work out ways of eliminating
the reasoE§_behind his behavior and returning him to normal life with an even
chance of staying free° . It means that parole can come at any time the offender is
ready for its and it means thatg following release on parsley he will be given help
to help himself make the adjustment to life in a relatively unrestricted societyo

If this program is begun we and it should be remembered that it will take years to
bring into full effect all the changes outlined me it will take some getting used
tog not only by prison officials and the publics but by those of us in hereo For
the first time in Kentucky penal history‘D the responsibility for earning parole
will rest directly on uso Whereas in the past parole same» if it came at all,
whenever it was thought that enough time had been served for the crimes it can.come
now only when;w3 have proved that we are ready for ito

Whatever happens to the program that has been worked out so earnestly by the Task
Forces we owe a large debt of gratitude to these men who have volunteered their
time and experience and concern in our behalf over the past yearo But if the
changes do comes we also owe it to ourselves to take advantage of theme Fora as
Mike Mills saidg parole will be “our baby" theno

 

 

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Pick up Route 66 in Sta Louisa laet
great industrial center ef the Midneete
Fellow it aoreee Miesouri and Oklahemag
through the deeelate .Panhandle eeuntmy
of Texans and finally over the high paee
west of Amarillog If you like what yen
eee when you eeme down eut ef the
mountaine ageing you wenlt be alonea
For the three states at the end of
famous Route 66 make up what is almeet
certainly the fastest growing area in
the U9 Se tOd‘ye

V Nsw Mexico; Arizona and California ea te
Put them in the order in which hordes ef
west-bound tourietes jobseekere and ree
tirees from the eastern states will see
them .. exploded in population by an
average of almost 5h per cent in the
decade 1950-609 In that times almost
six million people from all over the

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eeuntry‘peured inte thle threeseteteg
§9©etheueandeequareamile arena mere than
five millien ef them inte California
aleneg In that timeg Pheenixg Arleene
inereaeed'ite'pepulatien by mere than
300 per eent te heeeme AmerieaVe fattest
growing eityg and eneeetiny’nlbuquerqueg
New Mexiee mere than doubled ite populaa
tiene Other eitiee in thie area of
epeetaeular eeenery and wideaqpen epaees
have eeen their limits expand time and
time again ae mere and more people,
drawn there’ny a thousand motiveeg left
the Eaet and Midwest behinde And more
and merea whenever people talk of starts
ins fresh ee in or out or the penitentin
ary mm their talk will almost surely
turn to ene of these three boom states
on Reute 66°

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Part or the reason is eoonomioo

  

 

 

tunity is plentifulg if not exactly wide
openg in either of the three stateso
Mining in New Mexico9 rich in uraniums
light industry in Arizonas and aircraft
and Spacewage factories in California
provide room for technicians and skilled
tradesmen of all kindss while the cone
struction industry in all three states
swallows up carpentersg masonsg draftsw
mens and others with building skills by
the thousandso In 1957, the unskilled
but ablembodied laborer coulds by joinm
ing one of the construction unions9 draw
as much as $2075 an hour en plus liberal
fringe benefits we just for carrying
lumber and digging ditches in Southern
Californiao (Today9 the wage scale is
probably even higher9 but the demand for
unskilled workers is not great and many
are idle for months at a timeo) Andg as
at least two national magazines have rem
portedg the signs are right for the
small businessman who cares to go into
service industries and businesses caters
ing to the homeowners '

Climates of course9 is anbther reasono
Although most of New Mexico and large
parts of the Arizona high country get
liberal snowfalls every yearg the wine
tors are usually crisp and dryg

is not uncommon to see a man step out to

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the mailbox or
house in his
lies deep on the ground.
ern Arizona

cross to a neighborVS
shirtsleeves while snow
In‘both South=
and Southern Californiag
nights and early mornings are chill in
winters but days are usually only
pleasantly cools and sometines downright
hoto The snow here is confined to the
peaks of distant mountainso Even as far
north as San Franciscog golfers can
Spend virtually every day of the year on
the greens if they are so inclinedo

As for summertime comfort, many people
who have sweltered in the humids 90¢
degree heat of eastern cities are please
antly surprised to find the drys 100»
plus degree heat of the desert regions
at least as bearable as esPecially with
the westis.wideSpread air conditioningo
In Southern Californias it is even posu
sible to find a climate to suit your
mood =~ from icy ski resort to balmy
ocean breeze to arid‘9 sunny desert mm
simply'by driving a shbrt distance in
the family care Many people live close
enough to all three to enjoy them all in
a single day if they wishl

The boom states are rich in'both history
and scenery as well. Santa Fe,9 New
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