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VOLUME VI

 

 

 

Mrs. Ruth Carr, President of the Pinevllle Garden Club, ioo‘ks on
as Earl Carr [left] and Ron Stokley plant two coffee trees
donated to the Bell County Forestry Camp.

 
 
  
  
  

 

1 operations of the Bureau were»
passed during thel978 ses-

. 1 Assembly and have been sign-
- ed into law by GovernOr Julian
' Carroll. ‘

' - Representatwe Dwight Wells

, , sale of prison- -made goods in
. state- -operated gift shops. 5.“ - '

l-Iouse Bill 362

1. sponsored
'jil‘by Representatwe

Bobby

mits the use of performance-
based criteria in parole regu-
lations and requires that pre-
liminary revocation hearings

of both parolees and condi-
-tional releasees be heard by ,

two hearing officers who are
' 1 attorney‘s ~

\.

'sentative Bobby Richardson of
1 ' .Glasg6w; and Mark Fitzgerald

I of Lyntmana, directs the es- . .9

tablishment of a ta'Sk force to '
1 study the state’s legal system

 

 

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sion of the Kentucky General .

House Bill 90, introduced by '

RichardSQn. of Glasgow, per-

, House Jbint Resolut1on 86,
1, Wjomtly sponsored by Repre- j

Correcf‘i ons Changes

,5:

Several bills affecting the.

   
  

‘ date for SubmiSSion 6f the ta'sk.

. , force study. .1-

Senate 13111 69, 'réiaiiiig 16'
the State Penal Code,-
introduced by Senator Tom

1' Garrett of Paducah

1110111 Richmond allows for the

" i._ The joint resolutlon appro-
‘ ' pr1ates $100; 000 for the study ~

- ment,
plaint pending against a state

v Katemf of LouiSville,1_ 1
Garrett, requires- persons con-1
. trading with convicted crim-

The Bill 1ncludes prov1smns

Which prohibit a second- de-
'gree persistent felony offender,
,ffrom eligibility for conditional
discharge; require final dis- ~

position of any untried indict-'
information, or com-

prisoner; and allow a felony

sentence‘ of a state court to run - 7
concurrent with any federal .

sentence received by the _same

defendent for a federal crime. .

- Senate Bill-J 1162,
”sponsored by Senators Dayid

inals for" re -ena_ctment of the

7 crime by way 0f television, .
'iradio, mOvie or book preSen-E;
tation to pay all money the‘
'- criminal would receive ever
.to the Crime Victims Compen—

sation Board. The money will

be used to reimburse victims '_

of crime.

 

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Jointly ,

'a'ndU

‘ he says,

, any grievance.
* V have been set for'each step in
the
prompt responses. Residents
filing a grievance may choose '

.1

JUNE 1978

Number 1

Grievance Procedure Expanded,
Now Includes KSR And KCIW

FRANKFORT—
griéVance procedure hasbeen

expanded to KCIW and KSR "

as of April. 24, according to

.Mike Bradley,“ Bureau of Cor-

rections [ Ombudsman. "Plan-

ning and the design of _the
' prOcedures has been going on
since the first 6f the year at; 1,

both institutions.

“The procedure is in effect

fcr all the1 women at KCIW ”~ ’

 

i'Pr1or t6 the implementatlon'

._gbf the procedures at KCIW
and KSR, only: the BlaCkburn '
and sets July 1,1979 as the

Correctional Complex ] had
_-S11ch a procedure. It was
begun I111 May, 1977, ’with

"1 aSsistance’ from the Center for

COmnwnity Justice in Wash-

Iiiiih‘gton, D. .C. Over the past

year, the Blackburn procedure

"has handled 43 grievances,~

with 33 resolved at the institu-
tional level.

Bradley points out that
Kentucky is one of only four
states in the country to have a

grievance procedure of this

type. [He also points out how

__ the Kentucky procedure dif-
rfers from .those used in New
York, South' Carolina,
' California.

and

“What distinguishes this
procedure frOm the others,”
‘is that it involves
particiption by elected inmates
and by line staff” 1n designing

the procedure and in actually 1

resolving the grievances.

"nder the procedure, 111-1
mates are guaranteed a writ-

ten response, With reasons, to
Time limits

procedure, .. to. assure

The .'

another

Included in the steps of the

1. grievance procedure is the"
.right to appeal to an 1ndepen-
dent review bedy outside the .,
Governor s; ’
Commission ' on Corrections
and Community Services and

bureau. The

   

1i“.

, 7 of the procedure" at both 1‘
institutions was arrived _at

through the effOrts of a resi-

dent/staff design committee

and the Center fer Community

,' Justicea

According to~Bradley, cer-
tain things are not grievable

inmate" of a' staff
1 member to‘represent them at»
'all levels, ‘while the procedure
is monitored by the the Om-
budsman. ,

, mute set up for A1111); tment

 
 

  

- population at the reformatory,
4‘1plans call for it to be estab-' ~

in late summer or early 1511

under the procedure. “We
can’t get into court decisions,“
parole .board decisions, or
complaints involving agencies
other than the Bureau of
Corrections,” he says. . ‘.‘Ad- 9 a

1 Justment Committee dec151ons
1,Ca11’-t be appealed through the
procedure.

The' procedures
they use to arrive at their

:deciSion may be appealed, but

there’s already an appeal pro-
"ommntee dec1s10ns
After the grlevance proce-
‘dure lS expanded to the entire“

 

 

lished next at KSP, sometime

 

The Center, for Community
Justice is providing the bureau 1 . . 1
with consultants through a - ,
grant from the Law EnforCe- f ’
ment Assistance Association.

Eagles Scar As KSR
Features Slam-Dunk

By Larry Lenston-

LA GRANGE—If you had.
walked into the gym at the
:Kentucky State Reformatory 1»
on Saturday,'February 18, you
would have wondered who let .

all the eaglesout to soar.

Strange sort of eagles at

that. Two legs, two arms with A‘
a round ball 1n one hand. They'

[would run, soar," twist and

finally, \on their 1’ return :to '

earth, put the ball into a 'Small
round hoop. It took awhile, but
finally I knew where] had seen
these moves before’.5ln-'a game

called basketball. They called ,
it the slam dunk, and KSR was ‘
holding its first slam dunk ’

contest. ,

, 'could exhibit the most m‘oves

‘ There are three judges,who1
" 5w6uld award each man a total

. man automat1cally lost two 1.1,,
1 points if he missed the dunk.1

The object of the "contest is
to see what man out'of a group

 

andistyle in putting the ball 1'

d ’ into the hole, while suspended .

aboutJO feet from the floor. 1

of 3 to 8 points for style. A

 

 

We started with nine ' fledg-
ling eagles in a head _to' head f

“ elimination. In order to ad-
‘ ‘ vance- into the next bracket,'--'

one must score more points

than the other man in a 'series’ ,
of five dunks. With a Score of

81 points, Andrew, Masden‘

won the title of “Dr. ~
.Du‘nkinstein of KSR.”