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Behind the wall
U r r y Baker #35021,
O.S.P Correa tondent
Prior to June 1976 when an O.S.P.
prisoner was railed over the loudspeaker
from the recreation yard, job assignment,
or even the showers, to report to the
control center to see his counselor, it w u
very normal to see him climbing the
stairs leading to the ‘Inmate Counseling
Floor' looking raggedy, hair uncombed
and sloppily dressed. But during June
1976 at least 145 prisoners out of the 1500
population found themselves instructed
Phil U n e #39520
Aaal. Correa,tondent
to report to their counselor, Ms. Sandy
Moore. Many were suddenly caught with
an astonishing look on their faces and in a
loud questioning voice shouted...“Sandy
who?"
As the male prisoner began to climb
those same stairs he would search out a
fellow prisoner coming from the Counsel
ing Floor to ask, "Hey man, I was told my
new counselor was a Ms. Sandy Moore.
This has got to be a joke - isn’t it?”
A CASE WORKER ON TH E I.M .F. FLOOR
Patience...no. Love of her work...doubt itl
Perhaps...
Concern for what
individuality that can still
be found in the fog from the
many roles forced upon both
our
person through this rat race
called “Prison Existence"...
She seems to flow with the many avenues I've
come to transverse in my
course of understanding
these elements constituting
the dual purpose of
Rehabilitation...and...Punishment
A
smile or encouraging word
when needed
or
A healthy slap whenever
Ego pokes its head too high
She sees not the Blackness of my skin,
nor my past deeds, but whether or not her
energy can be a lever in eliminating
existing problems
Through endeavors known to an inner consciousness
of her being, she envokes sincerity, in our need to under
stand the whys and why nots of this place existing in
the realm of deceit, confusion and lies...but most of all -
her actions to me...a Black Man
proves, that
there is still, a
Tomorrow.
J.D. Snowden #38013
Julius I). Snowden #38013,
Poetrv Editor
1 ne descending prisoner would reply.
No, that s right, the people who run thia
joint, have gone and hired a woman.”
As the reporting prisoner walks up to
the correctional officer on the counseling
floor, he is directed to have a seat next
to another prison inmate who is also
waiting outside the door with the name
plate reading "S. Moore.”
Both prisoners sit nervously, one pulls
out a comb and begins to groom his hair,
while the other begins to straighten his
clothes.
“Hey man, you know what?”, says the
prisoner who has just sat down with the
other, “I have been around here twenty
years and we've never had a woman work
as a counselor inside these walls. What is
going on? Has Cupp, (O.S.P. Superinten
dent) gone stone crazy? Has John Akin
(Counselor Supervisor) gone and joined
the E.R.A. (Equal Rights Amendment)
crusade?"
“I'll be damned if I know,” answered
the other prisoner, “We got our rights,
remember. We have the right to remain
silent and not say one dog-gone thing to
her. That alone should drive her up a
tree. How do they expect any woman to
counsel any of these old con's? Remem
ber, some cons are in thu joint because of
a woman.”
As the door to "S. Moore” opened and a
prisoner was leaving her office, both
inmates searched for an expression on his
face. Funny thing, there was none.
The story of Sandy Moore's first
appearance at O.S.P. as a ‘male prison
inmate' counselor is history now, because
she is still here and so are many of the
prisoners on, her original case load.
The slender built woman with stylish
short brown hair, in her mid-forties, had
climbed a “stairway" of her own to
make her qualifications equal to any of
the other twelve co-workers - not as a
woman, but as a counselor.
Born in a run-down, integrated section
on the southside of Chicago during the
“Depression" Sandy and her younger
sister many times found their biggest
excitement came when the tax collectors
made their yearly rounds and the family’s
furniture had to be hidden. Both parents
worked as telegraph operators. Sandy’s
father was eventually forced to move his
family to a farm at Cobool, Missouri,
because of health reasons, and there
Sandy spent her first years in grade
school. She moved to Portland, Oregon in
1947, and attended Lincoln High. She
held after school jobs, such as babysit
ting. hospital aide, and pastry clerk, to e
help supplement the family income.
In 1951 Sandy enrolled at the Univer
sity of Portland, but after her freshman
year, fell in love and married, so she
dropped out of college and acquired
SPECIAL
VALUES:
h o m e fu r n is h in g s
fa m o u s,
to p - q u a lity
Whirlpool
SANDY MOORE
another professional career called “full
time housewife and chasing babies" -
seven of them to be exact.
It was not until 1968 that Sandy was
able to return to college and obtain her
degree in Education at Oregon College of
Education; after which she worked as a
substitute teacher in junior and senior
high schools in the Salem school district.
She also volunteered many hours at the
Oregon State Hospital and Salem Rehabi
litation Center.
Working toward a master's degree,
Sandy worked as a practicum student
with the Marion County Juvenile Parole
Department and in 1975 she received her
master's in Education, only to obtain
employment as a clerk typist with the
Oregon Corrections Division.
It was in June of 1976 that Sandy found
herself applying for a counseling position
at O.S.P. The challenge was there, not
because Sandy was a woman, but because
she was Sandy, the counselor.
As one of her male co-workers witness
es of her work at O.S.P., “Sandy has the
golden touch with a silver expertise in
counseling prisoners."
Ernest Watson, one of Sandy’s clients
states, “We can deal with the hard fact
and the bare truth with Ms. Moore as a
counselor.”
Robert Motton, another of Sandy’s
clients admits, “By Ms. Moore’s counsel
ing guidance in helping me, she has
become a finished piece of art."
Another prison inmate stated, “Hey
man, respect that lady? Who doesn't -
her middle name has become ‘Help’.”
So Sandy Moore has made her mark
upon the male prisoner's at O.S.P., but is
that enough? A few weeks ago Sandy
applied at PSU to work toward a doctor
ate in Administration of Jusice and Cor
rectional Management. When asked why
Sandy Moore replied, “I feel there is a
need for much expertise in the Oregon
Criminal Justice System, and because of
my caring for what happens to people, I
will be of assistance."
With this type of dedication and ability,
the administrator for the Oregon Cor
rection Division might someday shout
from his office after just being told that a
woman has been chosen to head one of his
state correctional programs, “Sandv
who?”
That s if he doesn't already know who
Sandy Moore is...He will.
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Black Affairs, will be held on April 7th,
8th and 9th at the Benson Hotel.
The convention will begin on Friday
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The opening session on Saturday will
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These are just a few walls of the
pictures that are not shown of the Black
man in today's society; and Black women,
when it is said that the Black man is
weak, look from whence your strength
cometh and know why you are able to be
strong, know why everyone wants to
copy you and run after you because the
Black man has given the ultimate so you
can be radiant. Know that the smiles and
the sparkle in your eyes are there
because the Black man has given his best.
Look into his face and know the agony
of his disgrace and know why he fails in
life.
Black women often times contribute to
the failure of her man as illustrated by
Elliot Liebow the author of “Tally's
Corner.” Society, as mentioned before,
has programmed the Black man (e fail
regardless of his efforts.
“...He is jobless simply because he
cannot find a job. He carries this failure
home where his family life is undergoing
a parallel deterioration. His wife’s adult
male models also failed as a husband and
a father and she expects no less from him.
She hopes but does not expect him to be a
good provider, to make for them a family
and be head of it, to be ‘the man of the
house.' But his failure to do these things
does not make him easier to live with
because it was expected. She keys her
demands to her wants, to her hopes, not
of her expectations. Her demands mirror
the man both as society says he should be
and as he really is enlarging this failure in
both their eyes.
Sometimes he sits down and cries at
the humiliation of it all. Sometimes he
strikes out at her or the children with his
fist, perhaps to lay hollow claim to bring
the man of the house in the one way left
open to him, or perhaps simply inflict
pain on this woman who bears witness to
his failure as a husband and father and
therefore as a man. Increasingly he
turns to the street corner where a
shadow system of values constructed out
of public fiction served to accommodate
just such men as he, permitting them to
be man once again provided they do not
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