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Larry Baier t 35021.
O.S.P. Correspondent
It »as once said "politics and
prisons don’t mix.” And « ’igow g to
be hard convincing some o f the
young legislators, thank God.
• On December 6th you couU have
found Jane Cease. House District 11.
roaming about the prison rapping
with inmates and employees about
the manner in w hich she could assist
those caught up in the crim inal
just ice system. To help straighten out
their lives and become productive
dozens once again
• Then up pops Chick Edward.
Distnct 33. »ho spent an evening in
the Legal Processes Class discussion
on parole: while Chabner Jones and
Betty Browne (parole board mem
hersl gave a lecture on the history of
the Oregon State Parole and what to
expect m the future.
• The O .S .P . Chicano Culture
d u b was entertained on December
8th by a large group o f Chicano
Dancers and actors from the City of
Woodburn. Oregon
• A group who call themselves
"Vagas" presented "rock and roll"
to the entire prison population on the
afternoon of December 9th.
• A couple o f inmates accom
panied Don Adams. Coordinator of
Community Services, to Taft High
School and laid out what prison life
is to a group o f young students
studying "Modern Problems.''
'Behind the W all’ awards Thomas
Burke as the "Arust of the M onth."
Hey! Merry Christmas people
by Linda Cochei! »40510
It seems to be easier today for the
prison system if all are called
’ prisoners.' I understand it has
dropped from, 'resident, 'inmate*
(presenting) aad soon will be back to
plain old 'prisoner I also under
stand it’s much easier for staff-type
employees to be able just to see
every body inthe same stereotype
Qualiflcxxior»: be a terrific liar,
which is the way some staff think
anyway, regardless. Be sneaky, like
you would steal the soles o ff the
s ta ff shoes — even while walking. A
big bragger — your crime is better
than another guy's.
Have lots o f money and brag as to
where it came fro m . Be a good
fighter and super disrespectful so the
staff can unload their mental strain
of working on 'prisoners’ by writing
an extreme amount o f disciplinary
papers. Even io the 'prisoners’ who
are stripped down, even while a
detective or minister sees. Fair? I
think not!
Now if you do not have any o f the
above qualifications, it will blow the
staffs’ minds. I f you have a severe
medical problem don’t worry, you
won’t get help — just delayed ex
cuses. I f you are religious you will
promptly be called a phony and just
trying a good excuse to get out of
jail. The prisons intelligent’ respon
ses will be a cover-up.
Have you ever been "on tour” to a
jail? Why don't you look a: a wall;
you’d see more! They tell 'prisoners’
to clear ahead In fact it will be
posted. Everything will be spotless
before the ’tour’ gets there. Also
hassles o f all sons are settled. But all
in all people walk through seeing not
the real’ thing but what the prison
wants them to see. I noticed on one
particular tour they were taken only
Juhas D Snonden •J M 13
Poetr* Editor
(PS’S) — Four years ago, the
United States Chamber of Commerce
estimated the cost o f white collar
crime conservatively at 540 billion a
year, ten times the value lost through
< proper:>-related street crime. The
Chamber figure excluded the cost of
? anti-tms: violations which, accord-
•• ing to a Senate staff report, may add
■ as much as $160 billion more.
I
Recently , the General Accounting
! Office (GAO) reported that, based
- on its study of 5250 billion worth of
; federal
economic
assistance
: programs, government fraud may
'■ rake off as much as 525 billion an-
• nually. Unfortunately, there is no
report available of fraud involved m
defense contracts and arms sales
• abroad.
’
The nature and scope o f white
collar crime can be gauged by a few
- examples:
•
• The Food and D rug A d-
; m inistration estimates that more
. than 5500 million annually is spent
-; on worthless or misrepresented
> drugs. In the famous Mer 29 case,
S W illiam S. M e rre ll Company
■ knowingly sold an anti-cholesterol
drug that subjected at least 5.000
persons to senous side effects, in
cluding cataracts and hair loss.
• G u lf O il C o rp oratio n distri
buted 510.3 million to American and
foreign politicians in illegal contri
butions between I960 and the early
1970s; leaders from Sweden,
Canada, South Korea, Ita ly and
B olivia were among the benefi
ciaries.
• The Equity Funding scandal in
1975 resulted in the conviction o f
Stanley Goldblum. Equity’s chair
man, along with several other cor
porate
o ffic ia ls ,
for
their
manipulation o f the price o f the
company's stock by inventing thou
sands o f fictitious insurance policies,
thousands of shareholders lost their
investments.
• C. Amholt Smith was convicted
in 1975 o f making illegal campaign
contributions; he pleaded "no con
test’ ’ that same year to federal
charges o f engineering one of the
biggest bank failures in history by
defrauding his own U.S. National
Bank o f 527.5 m illion, while ap
proving 5170 million in illegal loans.
• The Securities and Exchange
Commission m 1972 charged Robert
L . Vesco, along with twenty in
dividuals and 21 firms, with embez
zling more than 5224 million from
four mutual funds under their con
trol; Vesco is fugitive living abroad.
But the true extent of white collar
crime is unknown because so much
goes undetected and the federal
government lacks a statistics-gather
ing capability to monitor it.
White collar crime eats away at
national income through embez
zlement. consumer fraud, govern
ment fraud, tax evasion, kickbacks,
and securities fraud, to name a few
o f the m ajor categories. It con
tributes heavily to productivity losses
in the workplace, a major source of
in fla tio n , which result from
negbgen: and criminal behavior that
impairs the health and safety o f
workers. It cheats consumers of the
real v alue o f goods and services they
purchase. The pervasive double
standard
under which street
crim inals, typically, receive s tiff
punishm ent, while white collar
criminals frequently get by with slaps
on the wrist, creates cynicism toward
the law and abets criminal behavior.
Despite the costs and hazards of
white collar crim e, the federal
government devotes a miniscule pan
of its budget and manpower to its
prosecution and control. In the wake
o f W atergate. Congress has both
helped and hindered enforcement.
On one hand, it has stiffened anti
trust penalties, but has also blocked
IRS cooperation with Justice Depart -
ment investigations. Resources,
training, and expertise devoted to en
forcement remain meager. O f the
52.5 billion in the current Justice De
partment budget, only about 5139
million (5.5 percent) is devoted to
white collar crime. O f the nearly
56.000 Department employees, ap
proximately 4,800 (8.6 percent) work
in the economic crime area at all
levels. The Criminal Fraud Section,
which oversees prosecution o f all
fraud against the government as well
as corporate bribery cases, has a
budget o f only 52.4 million and 50
lawyers. The Public Integnty Sec
tion, which handles major political
corruption cases, has a budget of
51.3 million and a staff o f 25 attor
neys.
Many programs designed to com
bat white collar crime appear to
thwart serious enforcement efforts.
For exam ple, responsibility for
policing such crime is scattered
across various regulatory agencies as
well as the Justice Department. The
most aggressive regulatory bodies,
like the Securities and Exchange
Commission and the Federal Trade
Commission, are strapped for funds.
Many are enmeshed in conflicting
mandates, both in policing the in
dustries they regulate and assunng
them a good climate for growth.
There is no single consumer protec
tion agency to check consumer
fraud
The American Bar Association last
year concluded that the federal white
collar crime effort is "underfunded,
undirected, and uncoordinated,"
and where resources exist, they are
"poorly deployed, under utilized, or
frustrated by ju ris d ic tio n a l con
siderations.”
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in specific places and any other
places requested were explained
rapidly.
Why u it the prison and jails can
not be seen as they are — not covered
up and not made to look better than
they
really
are?
Why can’t the public see actual
procedures and ways people are
’allowed’ ’ to live? Why are these
things so shielded from public eye?
Something doesn't seem quite up
to par. Another point — ‘tourists’
should be allowed, and so should
‘prisoners’ , to ask questions.
W hat’s your feeling on this sub
ject.
Oregon Stale Penitentiary has re
cently put into effect these new Visit
ing Rules and Procedures.
1. P H Y S IC A L C O N T A C T — It
White collar crime serious problem in USA
by John Conyers, Representative
A m erican S tate Bank
Behind the wall
There are reasons for the timidity
o f the federal enforcement effort
against w hite collar crime. For
example, cases are often complex,
requiring months and even years of
investigation and litigation. Law en
forcement officials are also disposed
to focus their energies in other direc
tions since the public has so little
awareness of the costs of white collar
crime and is often distracted by the
sensationalism o f street crime.
Beyond these disincentives is the
nature of the business-government
relationship itself. Individualism and
belief in the virtue of free enterprise
are deep)y-engrained in the business
mind, and these attitudes contribute
to the notion that regulation is
illegitimate and that its criminal law
igamst improper economic behavior
are not always deserving of respect
Some critics note that since the
business world is a heavy contributor
to political campaigns, too rigorous
an enforcement policy would not
exactly be in the interests o f
politicians.
Furtherm ore,
the
revolving-door relationship between
the public and private sectors —
whereby businessmen work in go
vernment agencies that regulate the
companies they worked for and ex
o ffic ia ls move into corporate
positions — tends to create a
cooperative ratheT than an adversary
relationship
A senous national strategy against
white c o llar crime is obviously
needed. To that end, the House Sub
committee on Crime has launched a
major inquiry into white collar crime
which, h o p efu lly , w ill prod the
government, from the President on
down, to go after the boardroom
criminal as aggressively as it pursues
the street criminal.
(Representative John Conyers (D-
M i. J is C h airm an o f the House
Judiciary Committee's Subcommit
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is permissible to have one embrace
and kiss at the beginning o f the visit
and one embrace and kiss by the
door (adjacent to the restrooms) at
the termination o f the visit. At the
termination o f the visit, the inmate
will leave the Visiting Room im
mediately after the above mentioned
embrace. You cannot wait at the
door with your visitor for the escort.
2. During the visit it is permissible
to hold hands w ith your visitor
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extent o f the physical contact This
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others dhows, hands on each others
knees, or other parts of the body
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5. C o n tro l o f children in the
Visiting Room is the responsibility of
the visitor and the inmate — they are
not to disturb other visitors.
Children will remain at the inmate*«
table or in the playroom, they will
not be perm itted to play in the
visiting area.
6. Tables in the Visiting Room
must remain between the visitor and
the inmate.
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