Portland Observer, March 23, 1983 Page 3
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Carroll prepares for jail move
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Christina Robinson
by Larry Bakrr
Rocky Bude Jail is not in Cook
C ounty,
Illin o is .
M ultnom ah
County Correctional Facility is not
the Tucker Farm in Alabama and
C laire Argow W om en's Center is
not near Sylana Brand in Los Angel­
es. But all have something very
much in common. They hold feder­
al, state and county pre-sentence
prisoners who have been accused of
committing crimes. All are bulging at
the seams with human beings, and
operating on budgets too small to
function properly.
The treatment behind any set of
bars is only as humane as the "keep­
er o f the keys" or superintendent
wants it to be.
A year ago, M ultnom ah County
went in search of its new "keeper of
the keys" and found a black man
named Joe Carroll, Jr., age SO.
Today Carroll is in the process of
upgrading and m odernizing the
training of his 133 correctional o ffi­
cers who will operate the new Mult­
nomah County Justice Center.
"Being a professional correction­
al officer is my number one priority
in training my s ta ff," said Carroll,
"because that’s what the taxpayers
expect us to be in our treatment of
prisoners.”
C a rro ll has a long history in
upgrading the management of jails
in Arizona and Ohio. A fter retiring
with 21 years in the Armed Forces,
Carroll obtained a graduate degree
in Sociology specializing in crimin­
ology, ethnic and m inority groups
and criminal justice.
" A t the present time the classifi­
cation system in our M ultnom ah
County Jails is inadequate to sepa­
rate the dangerous offender from
the non-violent," said C arro ll. " I
have just returned from C ontra
Costa and San Diego, C a lifo rn ia ,
after which we will be modeling our
new justice center.”
Carroll continued, " I am a strong
believer in the counseling concept
and this w ill be u lililzed with full
strength in the new Justice Center
Housing Facility. There will be one
officer placed in each unit with 32
inmates. Their main job will be ob­
serving the prisoners' activities.
" I f inmates do not adopt to the
unit, they will be reclassified and re­
assigned to a living unit which is
more compatible with their beha­
vior.” said Carroll. “ Also I will not
tolerate any verbal or physical abuse
between inmate and staff and I be­
lieve this type of setting will elimin­
ate those acts.”
C arroll would like to see the in­
mates and staff become more famil­
iar with the newly adopted grievance
procedures, because these rules are
established to eliminate problems.
" M y first duty is to m aintain
strict security, but in doing so I be­
lieve in fair treatment all the way
around," said Carroll.
C a rro ll, married 31 years with
two grown children, wants fam ily
counseling to become an intim ate
part of treatment in the center.
" M o re than anything, we need
ja il space in M ultnom ah County,
but I am not just for locking up peo­
ple and throwing away the key. I
Community workshop
aids legislative action
More than 2$ area organizations
are
co-sponsoring
a
N orth-
Northeast Portland workshop on ci­
tizen advocacy at the state legisla­
ture. The one-day workshop is set
for Saturday, A p ril 9, 9 a m .-5
p.m ., at Portland Community C ol­
lege, Cascade Campus, 705 N. Kil-
lingsworth.
W orkshop leaders w ill include
private and public interest lobbyists,
legislative administrators, and legis­
lative aides. The one-day program
will conclude with a forum by
North-Northeast Portland legisla­
tors who are invited to describe their
legislative assignments and one issue
of special interest to them.
The featured morning speaker is
Kathleen Beaufait, Chief Consci for
the State o f Oregon Legislative
Council, the office which guides the
drafting o f most state legislation.
The principal afternoon speaker is
Merris Summerall.
Ms. Beaufait will present an over­
view of the state legislature and how
a bill becomes law. Ms. Summerall
will describe the organization and
planning of a public interest legisla­
tive agenda, including letter writing,
testimony at legislative hearings,
and mobilization of constituents.
Merris Summerall is a program
manager for Portland Action Com­
mittees Together in the areas of
food, health care, housing and legis­
lative advocacy. She is also a lobby­
ist for the Oregon Hum an Rights
C oalition and has lobbied for the
Women’s Rights Coalition. She has
worked on the development o f the
Oregon Coalition Against Domestic
and Sexual Violence and is a board
member of the N A R A L.
At the workshop Ms. Summerall
will describe how a public interest
group plans and organizes its legis-
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want to see vocational training and
education go to helping a person not
to commit any more crimes. I am
proud o f our county correctional
people; they have come a long way
from the image o f the guards that
we have seen on television.”
It is a practice of Carroll to go to
the homes o f his correctional o ffi­
cers when they have a problem or
stress.
Robert Skipper, chief of Multno­
mah County Corrections, and Sher­
if f Fred Pearce are relying heavily
on Carroll to guide the new concept
that will be implemented in the new
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support or oppose legislation.
A unique opportunity to learn
from key people in the legislative
process will be provided by morning
and afternoon workshops that will
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