xt7v416t213p https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7v416t213p/data/mets.xml Kentucky 1962 newsletters English Eddyville, Ky.: Kentucky State Penitentiary This digital resource may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Physical rights are retained by the owning repository. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws. Please go to https://exploreuk.uky.edu for more information. Castle on the Cumberland Kentucky State Penitentiary -- Periodicals Journalism, Prison -- Kentucky Castle on the Cumberland, June 1962 text Kentucky State Penitentiary v.: ill. 28 cm. Call Numbers HV8301 .C37 and 17-C817 20:C279 Castle on the Cumberland, June 1962 1962 1962 2021 true xt7v416t213p section xt7v416t213p

ﬁésf éiié?
a)???”

Rffﬂuzmow THE
undue" I‘Ian’h

June 15, 1962

The Innis Publiontign of The
Kentucky State ..Pan£tontinn.
Eddyvﬂlo, Xantuoky

Voim I Dunbar 12

IN THIS MONI‘H'S CASTLE:

Daiauty Warden's Page 1

Castle News 2

The zagterial Side
$366191 Section
Gamma 0N CRIME

hrt Is, Joe Paulhus Common-be

On REHABILITATION 7'
Part II: The Editor Comauta i
021 ENTION BY MUTION 8 1
Part III; Chuck Garrett
Cements on MAINS ; 10,
Part IV: A Journalist

Comments On CORRECTIONS 12”
Penal Prose Exchange I 1).;
Meet {the Pris mere 15 :
Tall Tales . .~ ' 16 2
Department Reports 17
Hightkeaper'a Ropbrt I 19
Hmr and am: I '21
Life From the Pen “61‘ Jones 22
statistics & 11mm 23
The Last Word I 23

,Ce lebrating our mm $111.1 39.49.11...
‘yub-liaatiﬁn ﬂaunt}: ---g------ ;

UBRAQV

UNIVERSITY OF K‘

'NTUCKY

,—
L...

Volune I June 15, 1962 Number 12

;_‘ : ,anaﬂo o~ we momma:

The Honorable Bert 1'. Combo, Governor
Hilson We. Wyatt, Lt. Governor W. C. Oakley, Welfare Commissioner
Marshall Swain, Deputy Welfare Commissioner
Dr. Harold Blank, Director of Corrections
Luther Thomas, Harden Lloyd '1'. Amatrong, Deputy Warden
Kathlyn Granny, Bus ineos Mamgor W. T. Baxter, Guard Captain
Reverend Paul Joggers, Chaplain
Henry 3. Bowen, Supervisor of Education William Egbert, Vocational Inn.
BOARD 01“ ”3113113 & PAROLES
Dr. Fred Eoﬁ‘att, Executive Director
Welter Ferguoon, Chairman
Rimeon ﬁllies, Member Ernest Thompson. Member
6mm STAFF
Lawrenoe anew. Editor #1113; Howell. Bporte Editor

Stanley Brenner, Lithographer Gnarlee Garrett, monetary

The amok ON 2m ommmm‘n is published monthly by the inmates of the Kentucky
state Penitentiary at Eddy-ville. tubeormtlom. one do liar a your. payable by
money order at: 0mm 0N om GUMBMMND, Bnbeoriptione Dept., Kentucky State
Penitentiary, momma, Kentuoky. am by inmates at the Ohio! clerk'e Ofﬂee.
Artieleo are conceited, but the W138 reaervee the right to reject. edit. or
revise any material submitted. Opiniene expreued in this meme do not nee-
eee-arﬂy reflect those of the anninletration. Permission 1e h‘ere‘oy granted to
reprodnee any part of thin magazine. provided proper credit in given. there
poeeibl‘e. a. marked copy of the quoting publieatlon 1e reqneeted.

Discipline and security in aniinstituw?
tion are almost the same thing, ‘ strange.

as it may seem. In my opinions“ if good

discipline exists in the personnel and__
in the inmate body” a big step has been

taken toward good securityo In my six:
teen years of penal works, in most cases

where an innate escapes it has been due

to the negligence of some prison offim

cialo Everyone is familiar with neglig-

genoe, and it is not present where there
is good discipline.

some employees lose control of inmates“

by being too familiar with thong, getting
too friendly with them, or letting them
know in some way that they are no better
than the inmate himselfg especially morn-v
allyo

I think that an inmate is due ayes or
no answer when he asks a questiono I
doth think that a prison official
should say, ““1911 check on its” ”let me
see about it,” or ”Maybe we wills"8 and
then go off and forget about it and
leave the inmate to wonder if .he has
been forgotteno

I think that any prison should have a
set of rules to go bye I don"t think.
they should be too complicated, especia-
ally to the point where the officers
cannot understand them much less the
inmates. I thinkthat when you make a
lot of petty rules you are creating more
disciplinary troubles. I also think
that prison rules should be made and

Lloyd T. Armstrong
Deputy Warden

studied before being published to see if
they will work under the peculiar layout
of each imtitutiono I also think that
rules should be made to be fair for each
and every inmate alike.

I am a firm believer in strict discip-
line that starts at the top and works to
the bottom In my opinion, the order
can't be reversed. I read a lot about
security in prisons 9 some of which are
good and others that I personal 1y don't
think too much ofo

In my opinion, if the right kind of per-
sonnel with the right kind of discipline
exist in a prisons it is not too hard to
ﬁnite good discipline in the inmate body;
and if you. have good discipline in the
personnel and imam body, security is
not a major problem.

We all realize that there is always a
chance when you are working with a large

number of men outside the walls that you.

are subject to have an occasional escape
where negligence probably isn't in-
volved. But I would say that if an in-
mate escapes from this institution from
inside the compounds it is due almost
3.00% to negligence.

I think that it should be made clear to

all inmates first what a violation is

and second what will happen to them when

they violate certain rules. I do not

think you gain respect of inmates by be-
(Please turn to Page 21?

Page 1

CASTLE 0N TIE CUMBERLAND

______?

g‘ A 4~\ ,4“ a !“ A ,A

~—__,

889126 UGWB

MERE BOOKS ARRIVE FROM UNIVERSITY

Some 200 books arrived last month at the
prison library from individuals and
organizations at the University of Kenn
tucky in Lexingtono The books were in
addition to several boxloads of books
already received from that institutiono

Early in the month several ROTC text»
books, many of them containing material
of interest to civilians, were shipped
to the library' by Captain James S.
Meedorg Materiel Officer of the Air
Force ROTC unit t zereo At a later date,
John Williams, president of the Student
Council, personally delivered seven
large boxes of books collected by the
council and by Harvey Sherer of the
administrative officeso Some 100 of
these books were contributed by the Com»
pus Bookstores

The books included fiction, texts, and
popular works inapsychology, sociology,
end the sciences, poetry, and antholo-
gies, histories, and other books of'wide
general interesto

Thanks, U0 K0 Youﬁte been more than
good to usﬁ

Tm IIWETE‘S RECESEVE TIME} QUTS

“I just can“t tind words to express what
I f3©1cm

That was the toy ‘Williom Woolly” Quens
expressed. his reaction to the news that
his sentence bod been out from life
without privilege of parole to natural
lifeo The stunned Qwens had already
served some 15 years of his sentence
when the May parole board brought him
the EQWSO

Also receiving a cut from life without
to life was AndyﬁMotthews, another long»
tenn inmateo Both.men'sere asked to row
port to the parole board in 90 days for

spossible action that would effect their

releaseo

KS? OFFICIALS, “momma mmo," u-
TEND 28TH ANNUAL commons cormsss

Top prison and} corrections officials

from thirteen states were in Louisville
last month for the Central States Cor-
rections Conference held.May’13 to 16 at
the Brown Hotel. Included among the
visitors were KSP's Whrden.Luther Thomas,
Chaplain Paul Jaggers,’ Institutional
Parole Officer J. D. Moore, Business

Manager Kathlyn 0rdway, Imrs. "Dcrothy
Bennett, and Mail Censor Touxie French.

The Reverend Charles Dismas Clark, tamed
as the originator of the country's first
halfway house and nicknamed the Snoodlun
Priest“ because of his close association
with exnconwicts, was also on hand.

High points of the meeting included a
discussion of the need for total treat-
ment of the inmate from the thne he
enters the instimtion until he is dis-
charged from parole, and the need for
the inclusion on parole boards of a
representative from the prison itself.
At present, the parole board exists as
an entity completely separate from the
prison. Also discussed was the need for
intermediate institutions to fill the
gap ‘between prisons and mental hos-
PitﬂlSo

Judge John S. Palmore of the Court of
Appeals, Professor Charles Newman of the
University of Louisville, Parole Chair-
man “alter Ferguson, Lt. Governor Wilson
Wyatt, Director of Corrections Harold
Black, and Probation and Parole Director
James wells were among other Kentucky
corrections workers on the program.

Father Clark outlined the operation of
his Sto Louis, Missouri halfway house
for the penologists. The halfway house,
an idea that is slowly spreading across
the country, exists to help ex-convicts
who have no other place to turn. Food,
clothing, shelter, and guidance are

given, but, says Father Clark; he doesn't

force pious phrases on.the men.
(Please turn to next page)

0mm ON THE; CUMBERLAND

Page 2

.L
y

wait—fivatmanlayman “5 _ ‘-;r“':." , , , , H .-d,

' halfway house boastso

' to give an invocations

uThese men are antisocial, antireligious,
anti‘supernaturait,"o he said, “You can't

_ talk religion to them.”

What does he talk to them? Usually the

' language of the convicts themselves.

=Hew effective his work has been is indie

cated by_the low rate of failure his
Only 10 of the
1100 men who have received help from the
institution have reverted to crima, as

~compared 'to an average of Bah of all

Signifi-
to work

other released prisoners.
cantly, Father Clark prefers
with multiple offenderSo

"Too many firstvtimers,m he has said,
"still think they can make that one big

Astrike.“

. so .also stressed the importance of
-parole, reminding the correctional works
L are that 95% of men.released from prison
’aon parole make good, while 70% of those
"who have had to serve out their sons

tenses find themselves back in trouble
again.

aﬂPLLIN’S PRAYER son someoromx. MEN
mom ATTENTION or ATTORNEY muesli

During the ‘Central States Corrections
conference last month, Chaplain Paul
Jaggers of this prison was called upon
The prayer he,
offered consisted of only three short
paragraphs, but Attorney General John
Breckinridge was so struck by its mes»

.sage that 'he-took time out to publicly

compliment Reverend Jaggers for it; The

” prayer follows:

-“Graoious and eternal God, we thank theea

for health and strength to do the work
to which Thou hast called us and etc
which we have dedicated ourselveso

“Save us from the phantasy of superiw

,ority, the delusion of supermknowledge,

the tyranny of set, inflexible rules in
dealing with our fellow mane

Castle km

118Give us the wisdom, the grace, and the
courage to be empathetic, compassionate,
and loving in. all our efforts to help
those whom it is our privilege to serve.
Make us good servants of Him who came
not to be ministered to, but to minister
and give His life as ransom for many.a

To which we might add “Ameno”
LIBRARIAN mMPLETm CLASSIFICATION JOB

There are few more pleasant ways to kill
an idle hour than to Spend it browsing
among bookshelves. And, more often than
not, the chronic browser is rewarded by
the discovery of good books he (didn’t
know existed, or by renewing an old
acquaintance with an author he had read
and forgotten years ago.

well, browsers can- still 'browse in the
prison library, but now they can do it
because they want to, not because they
have too The books available to inmates
are now completely dclassified and
labeled, thanks to the efforts of
Librarian Jonathan Parks. Arrangement
is alphabetical by authors, and Parks
hopes to complete a erossuindexed chard
file this summer, too.

Oddly enough, none of the books in the
library had been elassified prior to
Parksu assignment to the jObo Volume B
of an encyclopedia would be intermingled
with works of general fiction, while
Volume 0 might be found hidden under a
stack of Bibleso A book by' author D
would rub shoulders with that of author
Z, and the result, of course, was utter
confusion.

One stimulus for undertaking the job,
Parks says, was the books that have been
pouring into the library from our gener-
our readers at the University of Keno
tucky, and the hope that other persons
might contributes ‘Whatever the case, we
owe Parks our thanks for weeks of hard
WOI’ko

Page 3

CASTLE ON THE CUMBERLAND '
,, ___________________‘L

_._- . _,-\_~_’r ___._. -. a ,. _.. _\ V « .
F—JH, —r\———‘_ <——/‘_—»"‘—/\——r._—"—-—4‘—F——-z‘—~—"—~—’

-With the coming of

' cleaning the winteer

FOUR MORE PLEDGE EYES T0 LIONS BANK

Four more men, Walter Lowe, Bolas Harper
Elmer Alleng and Donald Rich. pledged
their eyes to the Lions Eye Bonk last
month, making a. total of £46 Kit? inmates
who have pledged. Other innetes wishing
to leave their eyes to the tank to help
restore the sight of blinzl persons are
urged to contest the editor at the
comm offices below the cookshaolzo

SWIMMIM POOL (DPBNS.9 some: HOURS EGIN

. hot weather lest
month. the ESP swimming pool, believed
to be the only such pool in a maximum
security prison anywhere. was thrown
open to swimmers. As a result, men and
tempers are cooler.

The lifeguards, dhester Sebrowoski,
Herman Flwings Alvin [nosey and Jack
Henry, were responsible for the task of
accumulation oi"
scum and grime from the pool before it
opened. All four of these boys do e.
conscientious job of keeping the pool
clean and safe.

Shortly after the pool opened the new
summer hours went into effect, end men
who do not have late Ohm will rennin on
the yard until ha 15 pm.9 one hour later
than in the winter.

GOLDBEL DINK com TO M

colonel Dink Emory, who has on radio show
in Hopkizsville‘, Kentucky. brought his
troupe into the prison last month to
bring an afternoon of solid entertain»
ment to the innates.

In addition to a program of country
musio, the show included a ventriloqoist
act and a fireueeter. A. large crowd of
prisoners turned out to see the ShOWo

An estimated 50 million persons were con-
damned to death as heretics during the
middle ages.

GASTLEON THE momm

Castle Nels

TYPING CLASS ADDED TO PRImN GURICULUM

Inmates who have completed Bth~gradc
training in the -prison school, as roll
as qualified inmates who are not
presently in school, now have an oppor-
tunity to learn to type, according to
school officials.

The new typing class, taught by a former
new instructor named James L. Wars, is
being held in the school library between
the hours of l2 and 1 pm. Most men
presently assigned to other jobs will be
able to fit the instruction into their
schedule. The first class is filled up
on the library measures just 10 by 15
feet and classes must be kept small-
but the current students will be allowed
to progress as fast as their abilities
dictate and there will be openings from
155.1116 1'50 timeo

Space is one of the critical needs of
the school. Although the school has 100
students in seven classes «=- from second
through eighth grades ’-=«= all classes
must he held in the prison gymnasium, an
open room not more than 50 by 100 feet
big. A permnont boxing'ring squarely
in the center of the room takes up addi-
tional specs9 end there are no portin-a
tiers between classes. Discussion, of
course. is impossible, lecturing diffi-
cult, curler such circumstances.

In spite of limited facilities and funds,
hamsters the school is doing a real
teeohing job. During the year and a
half jest past, 525 illiterates have
learned to read and. write. and 110 other
inmates have earned eighth-grade diplm-
mes. compared to earlier achoivoments
of the sohool (begun in 1955 as a dump-
ing; ground for juvenile convicts), such
a record shows substantial progress.

Much of the sredit goes to the inmate
teachers. In spite of the fact that
attendance at school is compulsory for
inmates under 26 who have not finished
the 8th grade, a lot of knowledge is
(Please turn to next page)

Page h -

mamas-um. n. .0 ”mom—wrap. we.
a '__H.... M... A .,~,...‘—.

a
mm
{a

llww‘”1w’-Fﬁwrmlﬁwﬂﬁrrw—Hw4‘ W,...4.——. f‘ A A A“ a. ., r A . ._ V

A u.:‘.‘.’.t‘:"l<1:!

[5
l .
l ‘( V
i g
j
r:
{
§.
r}
2":
U
3; l
i
}r

Au, Lair: m up; 313$;‘u-‘i

'-:-.-:Cu'-r;sfu;i:1:uv'-r—v~w1 A»~¢>.4K;&.a'“..uzn~umvy~v- "(w mm. W“

T’-""""—___——_——————'—————————————~——————————*4*

antle Nero

transferred to the students by dint of
sheer hard work on the imtraotors".
part. But a large share of the credit
goes to the two civilian supervioors of
the school, both of whom arrived here in

1960.

Henry Goran, 33, is the educational
opporvlsor. A big sen, he carries .moro
than 250 pounds on hlo sixufootnplao
frame. Prior to coming to his pro:-
sent position, he me a former Allaﬂooa
forena football star and coaohoteaoher
in Kentucky public schools.» Taking a
bachelor’s degree in physloal oduoatloa
at Western State Toaoher°o College, Mr.
Cowan, who played high eohool, oollogo,
and army basketball as well as football,
went on. to become ooaoh and aoo‘lotant

primipal at Fol-tome junior high eohoolo

Later transferlag to the senior high
eohool, he taught soloooo and physloal
education thereo Boning here” he raised
the standards of the eohool to thooe of
a comparable outsioo sohool and loetla
tuted a program of flux: disolpll he and
nomacas ease toaoh log.

William Egbert” 50, lo Mro Gowahne
assistant and the vooatloml irotraotoro
He, too, studied; at Westerns, taking hie
degree in English‘, one. later taught for
6 years in grade oohoole and. high
schools in Kentucky. A veteran of both
World War II and the Korean War (he rose
to the rank of oargeantmjorl he hoe
also served as a hlghmoohool prlnolploo

Ax; interesting feature of the oohool lo
that students are allowed. to progroeo
from grade to grade as qulokly as they
complete the worko The sohool m",y