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CASTLE ON THE C'UMBERIABD

April 15, 1962

 

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The Honorable Bert '1‘. Combs
Governor

Wilson W. Wyatt
Lt. Governor

W. G. Oakley
Welfare Commissioner

Marshall Swain
Deputy Commissioner

Dr. Harold Black
Director of Corrections

Luther Thomas
Warden

Lloyd T 0 Armstrong
Deputy Warden

We To Baxter
Guard Captain

Kathlyn 0rdway
Business Mamger

Reva Paul Jaggers
Chaplain

William Egbert
. Vocational
Instructor

Henry B. Cowan
Supervisor of
Education

‘3 unParole Commission--

Dr. Fred Moffatt
Mac utive Director

Walter Ferguson
Chairman

Ernest Thompson
Member

Simeon. Willis
Member

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Castle News ............
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Special Fiction Section
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Hughie Hammock
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Billy Howell
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warden

The warden would like to extend his meet sincere

wishes for a pleasant and happy Easter holiday
to the inmates and employees of this institution
and to their families, and his hope that future

Easters will be Spent in happier circumstances.

 

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NEW PAROLE BILL AFFECTS 155 KSP INMATES

 

A bill recently passed in the state
legislature and signed by Governor Combs
will benefit more than 155 Kentucky
State Penitentiary inmates.

Under existing parole laws, all but
first offenders must serve one half of
any sentence of from one to fifteen
years before becoming eligible for
parole consideration. The new bill will
make it possible for everyone, including
multiple offenders, to be considered for
parole after serving a third of the timeo

The bill does not affect persons serving
more than 15 yearso

DIRECTOJ x? U of L CORRECTIONAL
DIVISIQWLL??ES THERAPY FOR DELINQUENTS

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Juvenile ccurts and agencies must stop
using reformatories and other closed
institutions as dumping grounds for de-
linquent teenwagers who do not belong
there, Professor Charles Lo Newman,
director of correctional training at the
University of Louisville, said at a re-
cent conference of social workerso

According to a IOUISVILLE TIMES story,
Professor Newman proposed a "Pay now and
save later" program for the rehabilitau
tion of juvenile delinquentso Stating
that only a small percentage of those
confined at the strictly regulated
closed institutiods really belong there,
he advocated the development of foster
homes, forestry'camps, half-way houses
and special treatment centers where
effective therapy could be undertaken
away from a prisonrlike atmosPhereo
"It’s going to cost money," said Pro-
fessor Newman, "lots of money initiallyo
But we can project that in the long run
it's going to be more economical."

He stressed the need for more and
better-trained people to work closely
with delinquents and concluded: "we're
willing to spend $3000 a year to keep a
boy in an institution, but we haven't

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our; ‘

spent $5000 a year to keep him in the
communityo" ‘

"JOINT HELP" THERAPY WORKS FOR ADDICTS _
(Based on a LIFE Magazine picture story)

For all‘their years of training, psyb
chiatrists are able to do very little to
help a narcotics addict stay off drugs.
And, in,spite of the latest equipment
and drug-substitutes, only some two per
cent of addicts commited to the federal
narcotics hospitals are ever curedo

But there is hope for the confirmed
narcotics addict, and it, like the hope
Alcoholics Anonymous has brought to
drunkards, comes from a private, rather
than a governmental source, and it comes
from relatively untrained persons.

The hope is Synanon House, a private
haven for dope fiends that owes its
success to the same "joint—help" treat—
ment that has been such a blessing for
alcoholicso Operated by Chuck Dederich,
a formeniAlcoholics Anonymous member who
wanted to try the technique on drug ad—
dicts, Synanon House is located in Santa
Monica, California and maintained by
private contributions of food and cash.
Currently, some 75 addicts live in Syna-
non House, and Dedrich hOpes to open
new Synanons in other California cities.

Synanon House is open to any narcotics
addict who wants to be cured. The ad-
dicts live in the home, and in many
cases, the children of the female adv
diets live with themo Room, board, and
"WAM" -— walk Around Money -- is pro—
vided free, but the addicts kick the
habit “cold turkey" —- without synthetic
drugs or other artificial means of alle-
viating the physical tortures of with-
drawalo

After withdrawal from narcotics has been
at least partially completed, the ad-
dicts engage in ruthless group apprai—
sals, with each member laying bare his
soul before the cold scrutiny of the
otherso “

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Until they have become senior members,
Synanon House inmates are not allowed to
leave the premiSes without a senior mem-
ber to accompany them. It is one of the
few restrictions placed on members.

And, although the “joint-help" technique
is the only form of treatment given to
Synancn.members, the program seems to be
working. The Board of Directors of
Synancn House is comprised solely of
fonner addicts, and doctors, narcotics
experts, and even narcotics officers
look upon the experiment with favor.
Dederich himself, however, claims no
cures; at least not until some of his
members have lived their lives without
reverting to drugs.

The word "Synanon," incidentally, came
from an addict's combination of "sympos:
inn" and “anonymous.“

 

 

CARD 0F THANKS

CHARLESZB. MATTINGLY
Wishes to express his sincere thanks

to

warden Luther Thomas

Gaptain'W.,T. Baxter

Officer J. G. White

Officer c. c. Hooks

For permission to attend the recent
funeral of his mother and for the
many kindnesses shown him during the
trip 0

 

 

 

RUNNER SUFFERS BROKEN SHOULDER

 

Jack Martin, the husky brute who works
as a runner in the yard office, is
doing his running these days with his
arm in a cast. The trouble? A chipped
shoulder.

It seems that Martin climbed into the
ring to wrestle with Grip Delaney, the
institution's one-legged wrestler. Evi-
dently, Grip decided that being one-
legged was too much of a handicap
against big Jack, so he made big Jack
one-armed and evened things up.

Jack is out of the cast new, but he's not
wrestling any more, he says.

COP GIVES HIMSELF TICKET

 

(PP) A police sergeant in Three Rivers,
Michigan, gave himself a ticket for not
having kept his car under control after
striking the rear of another car.

The officer said he lost control because
he was looking for a runaway youngster
instead of concentrating on driving.

INMNEE EALD$ HEAD OF HEART ATTACK

 

An inmate who has served more than 15
years here fell dead on the morning of
March 29 after taking part in a baseball
practice session. According to hospital
authorities, Horace Thomas, 56, died of
a heart attack.

Thomas, who came here in 19h7, was ser—
ving a life sentence without privilege
of parole, and was committed from
McCracken County. He had been treated
for coronary troubles during the past
several years.

Thomas, a Negro, was well liked among
the inmates and was an ardent baseball
fan. He had worked for some time in the
athletic equipment room, and always took
some part in the competitions with cuts
side ball teams each season.

 

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The Perplexing Mathematics of Justice

I hesitate to admit it, but there's somethin I don't quite understand
about justice. What, pray tell me, is this debt" people like me owe
to society, and how does a man go about paying it? '

Please don't misunderstand. I realize fully that we shave sinned
against the people and are being punished for it. I acCept that. (Ye
gads, I'd better}? But when people begin to talk about' a ndebt" I
begin to wonder what they’re talking about. ‘

For example, how are we paying this "debt"-by being provided with free
room, board, clothing, medical care, and anguish' for a prescribed
number of years? '

And how about those detainers we hear so much about? If a man is sen-
tenced to prison in State A, and State B, upon examining its books,
decides that the man also "owes" it some time and places a warrant
against him, is State B, when at last it receives the prisoner, there-
by enriched? . '

And let's say that I have served h years for a crime committed in State
G. Upon being released, a load has been lifted from my mind because I
can feel that I have "paid my debt" to society, ‘.And then I read in

the papers that $tate D demands, not h years, but the-hdeath' penalty

for the same crime I commited in State G. Should I volunteer my life

to make the last installment?

Or how about the fellow who serves a life sentence for a crime in
State 3 and then discovers that in State F the same offense is only a
misdemeanor and calls for a simple jail sentence. Does society owe
him a few years' change?

And which crimes call for the greatest payment, by the way?. Recently
three men with equally long records were sentenced to prison. One
man, who had bludgeoned a man to death, received 7 and a half years.
Another, who had shot a woman in the head with a .58 pistol, drew a
year in jail. Still another, found guilty of an attempted robbery,
was sentenced to serve 21 years.

It's a very perplexing system of bookkeeping, and I-'m afraid I just
donit understand it at all. But then, I'm really not very smart or I
wouldn’t be here at all, would I?

 

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SPORTS
REPORT

Billy Howell, Sportszlditor

 

 

 

This past month’s plans for a nerve»
shattering.basketball agame‘ were _oon-
ceived, and the strategy carefully
plotted, in the sports corner of hyShop.

The instigator (7) or master of plans-v

logy; was none other than our own irre-
pressible Chuck Garrett. Teddy Bear in~~
formed us he had challenged One Shop to
a pivot duel. As a student of sportSo-
logy and a lover of fairplay, we felt it
our sacred duty to give inside, .world-
wide coverage to the contest.

At tipmoff time we spot Garrett on the
sidelines giving last-minute instruc-
tions to -his “Fantastic Five.“ we feel

.in all fairness to Garrett we should say

here that only modesty' kept him from
playing himself and possibly changing
the outcome. After all,- at 5' 6“ (his
own figures),. ‘should be great as a
center. .» ' - .

Soon we'were seeing splans wrecked and
strategy laid aside. Unbelievable as it
is, the Fantastic Five are trailingl
Naturally we elbow our way through hunn
dreds of fans to consult the irrepressi-
ble one himself. He very carefully ex-
plains the slow start and halfntime
trailing as per his plans. Everything
is on schedule. His- fast break will
start clicking in the second half.- Vic-V

V tory is within reach. "Gelebration*im=
mediately.after‘ the game. Treats 'on '

Garrett. Now with all this assurance we
stop the presses at once. The editor is
irritated by all the changes, but he
also understands the importance of the
33315,, . .

With seconds to go in the last half
Garrett is still trailing. Slowly'we
once more elbow our way back to his pos-
ition. The court is not level! Ball
flat-sided! Main player didn’t show,

etc. we reach for our copy and go'ton
press. .

One Shop wins by hi

Just to show that*we haven't lost confi-

dence in Garrett, we go by h-$hop every
morning to hear how he could have won.
But, better luck next time, Teddy'Bearl

AROUND THE YIBD

vTie truly springttmei Baseballs are
flying, bats popping, arms sore. bats
cracking ... proof aplenty that the sea-
son has arrived. 'Ie have some second-
hand information that baseball will be
played in the compound this year. Only
time will tell if it was worth a cup of

coffee to get the information.

By this time next month we will have

-witnessed a ball game or two. we will

either knock it or praise it depending
on the outcome .

Someone once said, ”The proof is in the
pitching.“ we shall see.

Til next month, then.

 

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Presents Coo
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A full half hour of entertainment by the in,
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‘ amai macarorncmo WORLD

 

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the logo of watching in years past..

@M@ERE§ I would 3130 like to tell all of the
" outside teams that are good enough to
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some in here and play on this tiny ball

field that, as in years past, I will

give you a fair shake, take nothing from

a .. T a and ive "on nothin . If you win,

by B111 Burton igu‘ll hive tg'win on tfie field, and the
same thing goes for the Chiefs. I also
want everyone to know right now that I

   

 

! well, baseball lovers, winter has gone want a clean game at all times, and who-
; and with the warm weather all the ball» ever loses will have to be a good sport.
E players are beginning vto look alive, so Last year several games were thrown away
it"s time for me to dust off my chest beeause the Chiefs got to arguing an
; protector and start up the Umpire's mong themselves. This year Mr. Cherry,
i Corner again. First, I Want to let you the Athletic Director, tells me the team

know that we are not in either league yeto will play together or not at allo
At present there are only three towns in
the Eastern Dive, so here's hoping that by That's it for this timeo -_ The Ump.
the time the season starts all the other
teams will be ready to goo

 

I can also report that by the ties the BROTHER JUNIPER
league starts we will have some new '
equipment, sash as spikes, gloves, hats,
uniforms, and a new outfit for the oat-
ehero I sure hope the players will try
to take better care of the eguipmsht
than they did last year, beeause whee a
glove is left out all :night, and it
rains, it might as well be thrown aways
So, fellas, when we do get all this new
gear, letls treat it as if it were ours,
and make it lasto

 

 

 

I have heard so many youngsters some in
saying they had played with big teams
outside, and theh' prove they ooulflh't
throw or catch a ball that I have to
smile every time I hear it nowo But,
believe it or not, as I was strolling
the yard the other say I saw some good
pitohing being done on the sifielineso
The follow had some stuff on the ball
and he was fast, too, and I oan hope
that this year’s pitching staff will be
a lot better than lastvso But we'll

 

 

 

 

 

 

:' find out when they face the outside "Around here we EAST during oommereialsfi"
2 teams and try to get by Charley Paigh, '
j‘ Blaine, Fox, and all the rest of the (Fro Mao in the IOUISVILLE TIMES)

hard hitters that I have had the privi-

 

 

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APRIL 15, 2.002

EDITOR'S NOTE: “April 15, ZCKE" is purely a work of imagination. So far as
know, no newspaper entitled the KENTUCKY TRIBUNE exists, and none of the events
described herein have ever taken place. The section is simply an attempt to
describe a small segment of the world as we think it may exist: ho years hence.
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Designer's sketch of Port Goddard, Mars.
by the designer, James Fox, who left the 1

 

 

Port Luna, the Moon.(KTW§ -- The space~ personnel to journey past the moon since
ship'Bnterprise, loaded with suppliea the beginning of the joint spaoem
more than 30 Speciallybtrained exploration project.

the major news media of the world, will The journey of the ‘Enterprise will
lift off from Port Luna at 1 pm this establish another historic first, the
lunar afternoon. It will be the first first time that the highly vaunted atom-
time that the SSC has allowed civilian (Please turn to next page)

 

 

 

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THE WEATHER ; j? 7

Clear .and warmer- today . ‘

with showers as -SOhede

nuled tomorrow “afternoon. I ' E

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ENTERPRISE BLASTS OFF From MOON (CONT),

 

manned interplanetary flight.

It will not he the first time, however,
that persons ether ’than‘ astronauto
scientists have been allowed in spaceo
In 1991, the United Natiens“ ”watch degm
Space Security ccuncil, which adminis-
ters the jcint space project, approved
the -flight cf army engineers from ME
member nations for the purpose of set—
ting up the demed "cities" and the ccmu
plex mining equipment needed to extract
the wealth frcm the mineral fields.ef
the red planet.

If the launching proceeds as planned as
and there is, according to Captain.Raul
Kingsten, “A very lew prchahility ef
malfuncticning in the engine Systemm ~w
the Enterprise
in thEEt§zfi§e dayso This is seme
thirtyafive days less than was required
fer the thirtyhsinmillion mile trip by
jthe eld chemicalafuel spaceship, Mars I,
"Which first carried men=te Mars in 19850

The lh newsmen aboard the Enterprise
will stay on Mars for less than a mcnt ,
returning with the ship on its first
the moono The
bring back are are
interest' in other

stories they'will

pected ts drum up
mining sites on.Mars, and to influence
yeung men to sign up for service in the
MarseMiners Ccrpo The miners, however,
will remain for a full year, and there
has been me effort spared by the United
hle as pessibleo Goddard's Port, which
w as named after.America”s first rccket
technician, is situated near one of the
psuedccanals and covers nearly sixteen

51 by the mining equipment. Within the
confines cf the transparent,, blister-

like walls of the city‘s domes, however,
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is expected to reach Mere

PEN/IL PIONEER ANNOUNCES
RETIREMENT IN LOU/5 \ll LL E
hy'Lawrence Snow

Leudsville, April 15 -= Go Sykes
Johnscn, who gave up a career in journa»
lism te pioneer new techniques in the
reformation of criminal offenders, an-
nounced his retirement here todayz He
has been director of the Midwest Correc-
tions Commission since l987, the year it
was formed.

3peaking at a luncheon given in his
honor by Gevernor Millby, Johnson, 63,
reccnstructed the chain of events that
led tc the formation of the M00 and
ether similar regional and federal corn
recticns commissions.

it the age of 2h, Johnson recalled, he
was asked to sever the execution of a
cendemned prisoner for his paper. "I
censidcred it little more than a routine
assignment at first," he saido "Like
meet ether people of that period, I just
hadn't given much thought to our penal
systems“8

As the executicn got under way; however,
Jchnson feund himself comparing the
ritual tn the sacrificial rites of
ancient pagans, and began to feel as if
“I and all the ether witnesses had been
transpcrted hack in tine to a Roman
gladiaterial circuso Suddenly I ream
lised that this was a human being they
were strapping into the killing chair,
and I wanted to jump up.and protest this
ccld—hlecded, ceremonial murder.“

Johnson sea
editor to
of articles

Sickened by the execution,
cured permission from his
research and write a series

ccndemning capital punishment. The
articles, which gained him national

attention, drove home the point (known
to criminologists since the 19th can»
tury} that the death sentence served me

 

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ENTERPRISE BLAsrs OFF (com)

 

there is ample room for fifty or more
men a» miners, scientists, and govern»
ment personnel -- to live, work, and
play. A small movie theater has been
included in the plans, and there is a
compact, but complete, library for the
miners” use.

Nor will the miners and other personnel
be totally out off from the home planet.
Network TV programs, news, and even
chats with the folks back home will be
made possible through the communication
beam, a thin pencil of light that
stretches from Mars to the moon and from
the moon to earth.

Other recreation facilities planned for
the near future include a small gymnasi-
um and even two classrooms where miners
may continue their studies or take up
new ones via TV teaching.

It won't be a complete life of ease,
however. water will have to be extract-
ed from the'Mantian rocks, and most of
the food consumed by the personnel will
be grown in hydrOponic gardens situated
in the psuedooanal. And the limited
supply of oxygen inside the dome city of
Goddarst Port will permit few sight»
seeing excursions beyond the confines
of the blisters.

Uranium is the principle mineral sought

by the miners.

 

PENAL PIONEER Fromm (com)

 

useful purpose, and in 1967 his state
abolished the death penalty altogether.
(By 1972, the death sentence had been
outlawed throughout the United States
and at this date no country in the world

Becomes Prison Guard

 

Although the articles had assured his
future as a journalist, Johnson found
himself becoming increasingly concerned
with the problems of crime and punishw
ment. Studying in Indiana and Kentucky,
he secured a second degree in crimino-
logy, and finally resigned his newspaper
job to become a guard in the state peni-

tentiary. He wrote his first published
book, Prison Welles A StudyinWas-bed

 

Lives, during this period.

During his almost three years as a pri-
son guard, Johnson'Was surprised to dis-
cover that most of the inmates had a
real desire to reform, even those who
had been in prison three, four, and more
times.

"Why ooulngt they change?" he asked.
"First of all, they had little direction

and almost no encouragement. Many of
them were serving hopelessly long sen-
tences, and very few of them could sus-

tain any hope of making a good life in
the future because the future was too
far off or too uncertain to think about.
Practically the only help they had was
from outside organizations, such as
Alcoholics Anonymous, and the groups
they formed themselves."

Self-Help Best

Johnson was convinced that the only way
inmates could be reformed was to reform
themselves through 'what he calls the
"jointuhelp therapy of talk."

88Just as the only person who can truly
understand an alcoholicvs problems,“
Johnson went on, “is another alcoholic,
so the only person who can understand
the compulsive offender is another
offender. Groups such as SPADE and

 

 

uses legal executions as punishment for Alcoholics Anonymous did ‘wonders with
crime). that philosophy, but they were noses»
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sarily limited wonders since they were
bucking the most destructive force
imaginable —- the prison existence."

After Prison,'What?

 

Another failing of the
stems, said Johnson, was
little or no guidance was

old penal sy-
the fact that
given to the

inmate after he was releasedo “Take an
alcoholic away from A. A0," he said,
"and before long he'll be drinking

again. The same thing holds true for an
offender when he leaves prison. That's
when he needs help most, and that's when
he wasn't getting it."

Halfeway Houses Helped

 

Johnson was impressed by the record of

the halfway houses -- centers set up by
religious groups to provide financial
assistance and guidance to released

prisoners. Only about 1 per cent of the
men who were helped by these halfmway
houses, he found, ever went back to
crime. By way of contrast, of the row
leased prisoners who did not have half—
way house guidance, more than 70 per
cent soon found themselves back in prim
sonso The miracle? "The therapy of
talk,” says Johnson.

With the help of Alcoholics Anonymous
and the halfway houses, Johnson and
three other oriminologists set up a
statewide organization of volunteer
workers to assist those prisoners who
were not eligible for halfway house aido
Unlike the other organizations, however,
they began their work in the prisons
themselveso

Courts Recognize Efforts

 

Before long, the courts of the state
were sending first—offenders to Johnson
as an alternative to sending them to
prisono The program worked out so well
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PARENTS CAN QUIT WORRYING --
THE KIDS ARE REBELLING AGAIN:

 

April 13, Chicago (UPI) ~- Back in Great
Granddad's day, rebellion was a way of
life for adolescents. The kids roared
around the countryside in Stutz Bearcats
andIModel.A's, drinking from hip flasks
and loudly decrying the moral codes,
political views, and general mores of
their elderso In the nation's colleges
and universities, the kids toyed with
socialism, atheism, and free love, and
every boy worth his salt dreamed of be-
coming a giant in business, literature,
or politicso It worried Great Granddad
sick.

Then, sometime during the 60's, socio-
logists began to note a curious phenome-
nen among the younger set. Gone was the
Spirit of rebellion, gone the dreams of
glory and wealth, and gone was the quest
for anything but personal security. And
it was Granddad‘s turn to be worried.

But,
Chicago's

according to the University of
School of $ociology, parents
can quit worrying. Studies of the lat-
est crop of teenager. indicate that the
old spirit of rebellion is coming back.

A poll conducted among 1257 students of
high school and college age indicated an
upsurge of atheism and agnosticism among
the kids, and a growing dissatisfaction
with the moral codes of the let Century.

A few of the adolescents studied even
admitted membership in the controversial
Social Democratic organization.

And at the University of Chicago itself,
there was a pantyhraid last month -- a
type of collegiate high-jinks unheard of
in more than 55 yBars.

So quit worrying, Pop ... ithe younger
generation's going to hell in a handcart
again!

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that eventually judges were granting
probations to second and thirdatime
losers on the condition that they attend
the 0‘therapy of talk? sessions at the
Johnson organizations.

”No one -~ not even the men who had prim
son sentences hanging over their heads
-~ was made to feel that he had to join
in the ,disoussion," Johnson relatedo

"Everything was on a completely volun-
tary basis, because we had discovered
that you can“t help men who don't want
to be helped 0.. but that if you leave

 

them alone, pretty soon they‘ll come
around on their owno"
Official Recognition
By 1982, similar' organizations, known

by various names but operating along the
same lines as G. Sykes Johnsonls 'origi-
nal groups, had spread across the coun~
try. Then, in l98h, the governors of
Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky asked Johnu
son to head up a committee to continue
his work as an official instrument of
the courts, Johnson agreed, and in 1987
the Midwest Corrections Commission grew
out of the original committeeo

“Sociology," said Johnson, “was at last
catching up with technologyo“

Only Six "Prisons" in Nation

 

it “worked? Because it
the Midwest Cora

HoW'well has
never gives up a case,

rections Commission admits no failures.
As a practical matter, however, less
than 5 per cent of the offenders who

come under the jurisdiction of the MCC
ever give society any further troubleo

What happens to those who do?

“we keep on trying," said Johnson, “And

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'nighto

we leave the rest of it up to the
courtso They can commit an offender to
one of the six regional treatment
centers around the nation (Note: Only
fifty years ago, there were more than
300 penal institutions in the United
States alone, and overcrowding was a
constant problem}. There the men do use—
ful work in the communities during the
day and report back to the center at
The desperate ones, the really

dangerous ones, are kept under stricter

supervision, of course. But even in
these cases, welve had some encouraging
successes.»u

Will Keep on writing

Johnson doesn°t plan to retire to a life
of idlenesso He says he will keep on
writing and will continue to serve as an
adviser to the M00, "But younger heads
are best,“ he says. “we older fellows
tend to become dogmatic in our dotagea
And in this business, that's the worst
thing that could possibly happeno"

SHOTS MAX REDUGE OVERWEEGHT

 

Duke University, April 1); (AP? --=- Dr.
Frans Orlov of the Duke University
School of Medicine says a new drug perm
fected by research scientists as the
school may end overweight problems for
the nationVS obese»

The drug, to be given in a series of
shots, will affect the glandular system
of chronically overweight persons and
increase the basal metabolism rate,
allowing the individual to eat what he

likes and as much as he likes, within
reasonable limits, without gaining
weight, The ability of the body to rev

tain salt and water, 'another factor in
obesity, will also be changed by »the
injections, Dre Orlov says.

When will this latest of wonder drugs be

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released? As soon as studies of the
drugls effect on personality‘ are come
plated.

2> "While it is still too early to make any

conclusive statements," said Dr, Orlov,
m'present indications are that personal-
ity changes wrought by the drug will not
be great enough to warrant witholding it
from general medical use.”

 

4: THE LEW IS THE LAW

 

(Via the Penal Press)

Up in the Blue Ridge mountain region, a
young lady'gave birth to a healthy son
and promptly accused a neighboring farm—
er of being the father. However, this
gentleman had an air-tight excuseo The
reocrds proved that he had been released
from prison only three months before.

Mush to his amazement, however, the judge
declared him responsibleo

m’In this here court," said the judge, "If
the maker can't be found, the last endorw
ear is held responsibleom

 

CASTEE ON THE CUMBERLAND $TILL WITH'WS

 

They said it'd never last, but the penal
publication known as the CASTLE- ON THE
CUMBERLAND is still going strongo

The CASTLE ON THE CUMBERLAND, began in
1961 at the old state penitentiary at
Endyville, was transfered to the new re=
gional treatment center in 19969

New celebrating its hlst anniversary, the

CASTLE is healthier than ever° Only to

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