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Thuraday. October 12. 1978
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Larry Baker »35021
O .S .P Correspondent
by Julius D. Snowden »38013
First, an accepted understanding
o f society — a prisoner is the product
o f an injustice perpetrated against
society and or a system. Depending
on the intelligence o f the masses,
their concept o f justice, humanity
and etc. , . the information given
them by the necessary authority
would and could be tolerated
However, for one confined behind
the gray walls o f O .S .P .. the many
dimensions presented as avenues for
construction, in some respects are
more destructive than constructive.
Today for those incarcerated the
input is placed on rehabilitation — a
change — rather than punishment.
However for this change to come
about there must exist some form of
motivation in order to warrant the
action — opportunities for construc
tive corroctiveness to not only
the prisoner and society. but the so-
called necessary authorities who are
compelled to concur their con
clusion. findings . . . that would
allow a prisoner to be returned back
as a responsive and responsible
citizen o f the community A ll the
psychiatrists,
sociologists
and
psychologists could never truly un
derstand the whys and why nots o f
someone who has been committed to
an institution o f this caliber fo r long
periods o f time, especially when you
consider the hypocrises, hum iliation
and mistrust they are forced to en
dure by both authority and fellow
inmates in their pursuit o f construc
tive change.
(T ru th . Justice, Mercy and Love
are not empty concepts they are as
real as strength and weakness.) It is
said that rehabilitation must first
begin with the prisoner. This is an
undeniable fact! There must also be
a force, a true motivating factor
capable o f bringing about this
change. However, rehabilitation —
like metamorphosis, a change o f the
physical mental structure — is an ac
tion occuring with time (need I say
tune is one thing we prisoners have
plenty of?) But because o f a pastence
our efforts for constructive change,
individually , are stymied.
(The individual is more important
than the state. The things men have
in common are stronger than the
things which separate them.) A
young man confined to the S&I unit
one night took his own hfe. Why?
Could it have been because he lacked
the incentive, mental strength in
coping with requirements associated
with this farce called rehabilitation?
A senior resident on the honor block
one dav complained to the sergean.
o f said block about having chest
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Poetry Editor
pains and asked for a pass for the
hospital. The block sergeant told him
that sick call was in the morning and
that he (the sergeant) was not making
out anv passes. That afternoon the
old man was found in his cell where
1« had died o f n heart attack!
A ll the present existing programs
dealing
today
with
criminal
rehabilitation are a hoax. In order
for one to return with a positive at
titude back into society he must
believe and know that by returning
he will be able to add something, not
just to his growth, but to society as
well.
W ithin these walls there are
programs dealing with vocational
training
(depending
on
the
population) and they are available to
those who can meet the criteria.
.Again, depending on the education
or trade level an inmate has, his or
her (O W ’C C ) chances o f par
ticipating in such programs are far
and few — almost like a pipe dream
to some.
_
A nd there are those existing within
the
system
who
refuse
to
acknowledge a decision handed
down from the courts regarding a
prisoner's sentence — at times forc
ing him or her to undergo such
degrading and humiliating con
ditions and or acts that m order for
some to maintain/" hold onto what
sanity they may still have they are
Com pelled forced to assume an at
titude already displayed before so
ciety (by a system more corrupt
than those they are responsible for a
supposed rehabilitation) as being —
a n im a ls '
In order for rehabilitation to exist
constructively, the person or persons
involved should First understand the
sigmficence of this endeavor to not
only the prisoner, his or her family
and friends, but to the true inner self
in beginning a program that in the
long run strengthens a concept o f
understanding. The crime or reason
should be second (although they too
are factors) to the person. N ot only
must the prisoner — man or woman
— change (rehabilitate), but society
too. It seems that once a person is
committed
to
such
institutions
people have the tendency o f forget
ting that one day that same person
will again be returned back into the
same
society.
In
ordeT
for
rehabilitation to work, as it is put up
to be, we must all become involved .
. . Outside as well as inside must
unite true efforts if this avenue called
rehabilitation is to be a fact rather
than what it is — a F A R C E .
Prison reform and the elimination
o f crime in the street. . . begins with
you, the person!
MARIE’S KITCHEN
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Behind the wall
by Ruth Spence
The Portland Public Schools, un
der C E T A IV , have been awarded a
grant o f $398,975 for a Child
Development Specialist project con
taining 34 employment slots. It ’ i aim
is to prevent behavior problems in
the primary grades o f the Marshall
High School feeder schools.
Mrs. Bertha Baugh, a teacher at
Bridger Primary School, is volun
tarily retiring from the Portland
Public Schools after 25 years with
the District.
M r. Robert Blanchard, Superin
tendent o f Portland Public Schools,
explained that the excessive suspend
ing o f Black children from schools
(at six times the normal rate) was not
for punishment; but, to get parents
to come to schools for conferences.
He did not indicate how the parent
involvement component o f the Title
V I I proposal related to these parents.
Dr. D orothy Holden, Director of
the Sickle Cell .Anemia Clinic, Down
State Hospital Brooklyn, New Y o rk ,
was the recent house guest of her
sister, Mrs. Edna Basket.
M r. and Mrs. Earnest Gngsby and
their young sons Eric and Trent
recently vacationed in Disneyland.
Maude Young. Alcenia Booger,
Audrey Ellis, M a ry Fuller, M arjo rie
Ingersall,
Inez Mayberry, Kaye
Bogle,
Margaret
HiU,
Fannie
Freeman, and Genevieve M artin
About 2,000 persons a rt expected
to attend
the National Adult
Education Conference OciobeT 25 th-
29th at the H ilton H otel in Portland.
Education will cost the country
$155 billion this year.
Mrs. Geneva is a loan executive
from Pacific Power to collect dollars
for United W ay. She is assigned to
the Education West Division in
cluding colleges, high schools and
elementarv schools. She expects to
collect $93,000.
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