P a s « 8 P o rtlan d O bserver T h u rs d a y. S a p ta m b a r 20.1979
American State Bank
Behind the Wall
David Crawford 039830
Assistant Correspondent
by Larry Baker 03502!
O.S.P. Correspondent
by Danny Arnegard 038348
A SUCCESSFUL
REHABILITATION PROGRAM
Yes, there is a successful rehabili
tation program going on at O.S.P.,
which was initiated some eight years
ago by representatives o f the Watch
tower Bible and Tract Society. To
date this program is here for those
who wish to take advantage o f it.
Rick Johns, Don Johnson, Dick
Reynolds, Ken Davis and a host o f
others oversee the spiritual welfare
of inmates who are endeavoring to
reform their past criminal lives.
The worship o f Jehovah has been
the motivating force behind the ac-
vitities o f Jehovah’ s Witnesses at
O.S.P.
This work is conducted basically
ihe same as in the 42,255 congrega
tions in over 205 countries around
the world.
Meetings and Requirements:
On Wednesday evenings a Theo
cratic School is held, a course o f
Bible instruction designed to increase
a students Bible knowledge, as well
as to improve his speaking abilities.
Also features how best to talk about
the B ib le ’ s message w ith fe llo w
prisoners in O.S.P.
The second and fourth Fridays
there’ s a book study in the main
visiting room, conducted by brothers
from the local congregation for two
hours.
Saturday and Sunday mornings on
the yard is a one hour Bible Study
based on a current article from the
Watchtower magazine.
We exercise control over who at
tends the in-prison meetings. Not
just anyone can come, and there are
reasons. Commonly inmates will join
some group in hopes that by so doing
they w ill be helped to get out o f
prison soon. So, how do Jehovah’s
Witnesses determine if an inmate is
sincere, and so qualifies him to at
tend?
In most cases a Bible Study is con
ducted with the inmate. Only if he
shows genuine interest is he put on a
“ call out.” But if he misses more
than tw o meetings in a m onth,
without good reason, he is dropped
from unit "ca ll o ut.” Then he can
attend meetings again only by
proving his genuine interest over a
period o f time.
In setting forth these requirements
we are imitating the fine example o f
our brothers in the Angola State
Prison in Louisiana.
There are four baptised witnesses
at O.S.P. and two others currently
considering water immersion.
Now, mind you, to be baptised as
one o f Jehovah’s Witnesses a person
must meet high scriptural qualifica
tions. And individuals are screened
to make sure they qualify. A person
must be able to answer at least 80
basic Bible questions including, for
example, the following:
“ What is the Kingdom o f God?”
“ What is God’s purpose for the earth?”
“ What is the only scriptural basis for
divorce that frees one to remarry?”
‘ ‘ W hy must lying be avoided?”
“ W hat is the C hristians view o f
drunkenness?” “ W hat does the
Bible say about fo rn ific a tio n ,
a du ltery, sexual relations w ith
another person o f the same sex, and
other loose conduct?” “ May a per
son who is engaging in such practices
t ’EHO'.AHo
at his medical records—or, for that
matter, at Tucker himself.
Because o f the P ro lix in , the
muscles around T ucker’ s jo in ts
inexorably hardened until his arms
and
legs
were
permanently
paralyzed. Yet, even after his true
cond itio n was diagnosed at the
hospital o f the Medical College o f
Virginia, Tucker was returned to the
penitentiary where he was le ft,
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be baptised?”
The answer is no.
Just recently, with the coopera
tion o f the A ctivitie s Personnel,
especially, C harlie Keaton, D .A .
Versteeg, and Bud Chapelle and
other staff advisors we’ ve been able
to have our very first baptism ever
inside the walls in May, and our first
small but S p iritu a l enlightening
assemble on August 31st, which con
sisted o f approximately 50 people.
This privileged o p p o rtu n ity
provided by our loving, m erciful,
Heavenly Father Jehovah God has,
and w ill, serve to motivate a change.
I Corinthians 6:9-11; Ephsians 4:22-
24.
James Q. W ilson, professor o f
government at Harvard University,
in his book ‘ ‘ T h in k in g about
C rim e,” showed what is needed.
“ Wicked people exist,” he noted in
claims the A C L U ’s National Prison
Project, "v irtu a lly unattended and
untreated in his paralyzed state for
six months.”
Tucker developed enormous bed
sores which became infected and in
fested w ith maggots. Eventually,
back at the Medical College, Tucker
underwent skin graft operations for
the bedsores, and his hips were
surgically removed.
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SEPTEM BER
According to John Stambaugh the historical cycle of
society revolves in the following manner:
Society's progress from bondage to spiritual faith —
from spiritual faith to courage—from courage to
freedom—from freedom to abundance—from abun
dance to selfishness (when the abundance reaches
selfishness consider it a warning)—from selfishness
to apathy—from apathy to dependency—from de
pendency right back into bondage.
While this describes the rise and fall of sociological
civilizations, and in general lets us know where we
are in this cycle, as a society, it also can be used to
check our attitude toward our personal relationships.
T w o Q uestions:
1. Where do you think our society is at this point in
time?
2. Where do you FEEL you are within our society at
this point in time?
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its final paragraph. “ Nothing avails
except to set them apart from in
nocent people.”
This is true. But who can judge
who is wicked and who is innocent?
And then set the wicked aside per-
mantly, but not behind prison bars?
His word promises: “ For the upright
are the ones that w ill reside in the
earth, and the blameless are the ones
that will be left over in it. As regards
the wicked, they will be cut o ff from
the very earth.” Proverbs 2:21-22.
After that, people w ill be governed
by God’s laws. Such laws will be en
forced by a loving but firm govern
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have been taught to pray— God’ s
Kingdom under Christ. How fine it
will then be to live without any need
for prisons, when everyone on earth
can be trusted as a friend! (Matthew
6:9, 10)
Should the UN look into America's prisons?
(Continued from Page 1 Column 6)
to evaluate what the drug might be
doing to hirn.
For seven days, at one point, he
was isolated in a cell at the back o f
the prison hospital and there was
given large doses o f Prolixin— five
times the prescribed amount—by un
trained and unlicensed inmates
w orking in the hospital. No s ta ff
physician or psychiatrist even looked
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Now pardoned, Tucker is bound
to a wheelchair fo r life . He did,
however, win an unprecedented
damage award o f $518,000— ten
times larger than any damage
payment ever received by an
American prison inmate. He has to
use it, o f course, to pay fo r his
round-the-clock care and if it runs
out before he dies, Tucker will be a
ward o f the state again. In this case
too, no one has admitted any respon
sibility for what happened to Henry
Tucker.
Nor is what happened to him
unique. As his lawyer, Stephen Ney,
says, “ Who knows how many
thousands o f human vegetables are
sitting, right now, in institutio ns
around the country? U ntil there’s a
lawsuit, only the prisoners are look
ing. W hat happened to Henry
Tucker could have happened
anywhere in this country's prisons.”
Looking hard at America’ s prisons
during the month o f August was an
unprecedented team o f seven investi
gators— all o f them international
jurists. They were asked to conduct
an independent probe o f possible
human rights abuses in American
penal institutions by three organiza
tions that had filed a petition with
the U nited Nations in December,
1978, asking it to investigate
violations o f the human rights o f
American prison inmates.
Divided into fo ur groups, the
seven interna tion al investigators
conducted copious interviews in
prisons throughout the country while
also examining trial transcripts, a ffi
davits, and court documents. They
concluded that a “ clear prima facie
case” exists o f human rights
violations in American prisons, in
cluding forced drugging and manifold
abuses o f "behavior m odification"
programs. The team has recommended
a United Nations investigation, and
it is possible that its report, now ap
pended to the original petition, may
reach the General Assembly floor.
“ There is no question,” says
Richard Harvey, one o f the jurists,
“ that United States policy on human
rights has had a salutary effect
around the w orld. A ll the more
reason, then, for its own abuses to be
examined. Furthermore, if we can
expose America’ s violations at this
high a level at the U .S.— the first
tim e any nation's human rights
policies w ill have been this
thoroughly dissected—there can be a
breakthrough toward really focusing
on what other nations are doing in
their prisons.”
A fter all, Jimmy Carter has em
phasized that he wants the United
States to lead the way in matters o f
human rights.
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