■ 8 Portland Observar Thursday, July 12,1979
Behind the Wall
by Larry Bakr r 93510!
O.S.P. Correspondent
R ocky B u tte goes to trial
But. oh, the living look at you
with human eyas whose suffering
accuses you,
whose natred reaches through the
swill o f dark
to strike you like a leper’s.
You cannot stare that hatred down
or chain the fea r that stalks the
witches
and breathes on you i t ’s fe tid
scorching breath;
cannot kill the deep immortal human
wish,
the timeless will.
Robert Hayden
M iddle Passage
Multnomah County Corrections
personnel and former county o ffi
cials will soon have to answer to suits
filed by prison inmates charging in
human and brutal treatment while
lodged in Rocky Butte Jail.
The charges against these officials
are the same charges now being
brought by 32 inmates o f Rocky But
te—who last week staged a hunger
strike— inmates who are held be
cause they cannot afford bail but
who have not been found guilty o f a
crime. When these cases reach
federal court’s, the general public will
be shocked to hear about the uncivi
lized and cruel treatment alleged to
have been initiated by form er
prosecutors.
The class action suits by Rod Ad-
dicks against Rocky Butte Jail em
ployees and former Deputy District
A tto rn ey Forrest “ Joe” Rieke,
allege that he was held for 144 days
in solitary confinement without a
disciplinary review or a hearing pro
cess. Addicks alleges that Rieke, who
was the prosecutor o f his criminal
case, ordered that he be held in the
“ hole,” and conspired with Rocky
Butte staff to deny access to legal
material and denied access to coun
sel.
Addicks charges that he was
physically assaulted, was beaten
about the head and body and kicked
in the groin repeatedly by a Multno
mah County Deputy Sheriff because
he refused to answer questions
without an attorney present. He filed
com plaints but was denied a
polygraph exam to verify his truth
fulness and was not given access to
photographs o f officers to let him
identify the assailant.
He also charges that jail personnel
and Rieke provided misleading in
formation about his behavior to the
Diagnostic Center, the Parole Board
and O.S.P.
Addicks alleges that his confine
ment in isolation, the denial o f access
to legal assistance, and physical and
mental abuse denied him his right to
a fair trial His allegations are expect
ed to be supported by a number of
persons who say they received similai
treatment at Rocky Butte and who
believe this treatment was designed
to extract guilty pleas from them.
For three years a small group of
inmates at O.S.P. ha*e worked con
tinuously w ith the assistance o f
volunteer attorneys and private citi
zens to expose the treatment they re
ceived at Rocky Butte Jail— the same
treatm ent prisoners there claim
today. In some cases these inmates
claim their mail was tampered with
— and even destroyed— mail which
contained evidence to be used in their
trials. These inmates will have their
day in court.
The trial was to have begun July
9th in U.S. District Court, but has
been postponed.
•’Butte” as a tomb for the poor who
could not raise their bail fee, in order
to inflict such treatment upon them
that they are forced to plead guilty
— those prosecutors and their
accomplices should stand trial on
criminal charges o f obstructing jus
tice. A Portland, Oregon W ater
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Tom Murton, former Warden of
Arkansas' penitentiary once wrote,
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For years Rocky Butte Jail has
been an infested sore to Corrections
and law enforcem ent o fficials.
Grand Jury after Grand Jury has
found its so over the years. I f Ad
dicks’ charges are proven true— that
certain prosecutors have used the
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O V E R V IE W
A N N U A L T R E A T M E N T REPORT
ON
A L C O H O L IS M E D U C A T IO N & T R E A T M E N T SERVIC ES IN
N .E. P O R T L A N D -A L B IN A C O M M U N IT Y
A ctu al Clients T re ated :
Alcoholism Formal Treatment -T o ta l number of clients served
1
A ve.
Belweee AMer A W eiM ef tea
408
Alcoholism Counseling & Treatment—Adult Males
Alcoholism Counseling & Treatment—Adult Females
Group Therapy and T re atm en t M eetings:
A A —one meeting per week
Exodus Phase A —one meeting per week
Exodus Phase B—one meeting per week
Total Therapy and Treatment Meetings
304
T otal
S2
62
52
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A verage A ttendance
Per M ee tin g 'W eek
14
31
17
■ET
104
Yearly
A ttendance
728
1612
884
3224
C ontracted Services:
Exodus contracted with Multnomah County to serve 146 clients
Exodus actually served 408 clients
Exodus total trea tm en t plan, plus tharapy is as follows:
Outpatient Couneeling, Planned Day Treatment Programs, and Recreation and a fifteen (15) bed 24 hour
supervised Residential Facility which provides three dietary hot meals per day on a seven (7) day per week
schedule.
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Em ploym ent:
Exodus employs 20 full-time employees, plus contracts with various consultants as needed to provide
round-the-clock coverage and security for the clientele of Exodus.
S ta ff Training and Education:
Exodus provides on-going inhouse training for its entire staff, plus weekly professional application reviews.
Three, six week classes were completed on the Exodus Treatment Modality. Number of staff students
graduating were 22.
FIREFIGHTER EXAMINATION
APPLY
JULY 2-16,1979
PORTLAND CIVIL SERVICE
510 S.W. MONTGOMERY ST.
PORTLAND, OREGON 97201
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O utside Sem inars and Training:
Number of staff attending were 7.
N e w Programs;
Exodus contracted in Apnl 1979, with the Department of Labor to implement a Youth Program on
Alcoholism Awareness for Multnomah and Washington Counties (as a summer project).
Number of youths in attendance update are 28.
A cknow ledgem ents:
The executive body of Exodus wishes to thank the staff for providing such high quality of treatment and
therapy even through the bitter cold of winter; also, to thank the Albina Community and its citizens for recog
nizing the need for these long overdue services and providing support in the delivery of treatment.
Finally, to thank other cooperating agencies such as: The Multi-Service Center under the direction of Mr.
Ben Talley and Dr. Eugene Taylor, the Judicial System and its Judges, Work Release Centers and their
Management, Physician & Surgeons Hospital — Care Unit, Health Help, Outside In, Project STOP, TASC,
Community Mental Health Agency, Holliday Perk Hospital, Woodlawn Park Hospital, Emanual Hospital
Providence Hospital, Bees Kaiser Hospital, Hooper Memorial Center, Dr Walter Revnolds and his clinical
staff, and Multnomah County's Mental Health Staff Special thanks to Bishop Daniels and Father Griffith.
The Fiscal Year 1978-79 was challenging and measurably successful.
R o s a l i e J . B O o th e
E x e c u tiv e D ir e c to r
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