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UNITED WE STAND

DIVIDED WE FALL

THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY

Honorable Wendell H. Ford
rGovernor

THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

John C. Taylor
Jo Ea Baker
we Parker Hurley

‘Hononable Julian Carroll

Lieutenant Governor

Commieeioner
Deputy Cemmiseionen _
Director/Probation & Parole

THE KENTUCKY STATE PENITENTIARY

John w. Wingo
Jehn W. Drennon
w. G. Herndon
Jerry Wilson
Duke Curnutte
DowaJdmmm
Max C. Salb, MD.
Donal Cole

vPo R. Walker

Jim 3. Greekmun
Fro Delma Clemons
Rev. F. P. Loman

CASTLE.STAFF

Chas DuRein Acting Editor
Herbert Gilbert Black Reporter

Under the supervision of Mro James Ra Hubbardg CASTIE is an inmate

canteen production.

CASTLE WINTER

Warden

Asseeo Werden/ Adminiet,
Aeeooo Wenden/ Custody
Aeeoeo Wanden/ Treatment
Chief Conneeler

Senior Captain

Medical Director
PnewReleeee Programs"
Educational Director
Vocational Director
Catholic Chaplain
Protestant Chaplain

Bob Redmon Editor to be
Clifford Hell Frees Openo

1972

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GAS$LE_iS published= by the inmates of the Kentucky State
Penitentiary neaE Eddyvilleo The primery purpose Of this publication
is to promete a better understanding between the prisoners and interu
eeted persons Outsideo The views End comments contained herein de
not reflect these er the Administration. Permission te reprint all
meterial is granted previded the souree-ie—aeknowledgedo' GASTLE 1S
available to Subscribers anywhere in the United States fer $2900 e
year. (exeept in areee where fraud is prohabited by law)o

FROM THE EDITOR ‘2a3au
AN EDITORIAL.OPINION 5
PENAL PRESS EXCHANGE e
GUEST EDITORIAL‘ 7
BITS AND PIECES - 8
GETTING IT TOGETHER 9u10
SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS UP II
SLIGHTLY USED GOSSIP 12u13
POETRY lumls
OLD YARD KAT 16

NP UNIT & TELEVISIONS 17
THE FACES WE.WEAR IN PRISON 18
MY PRISON 19
CONVICT'S TEN COMMANDANTS ' 20

EDDYVILLE ( 88 YEARS OF BUSINESS) 21w22¢23e2u
SPECIAL NOTICE TO PRISON EDITORS 2h

71'“

De you mind if I write this while laying
deem? It tee been a rather trying period

——-————~« einee the laat ieeue of CASTLE was patted
gently and sent on ita merry wayo Sinee theeg live received some odd
mailg teek a trip and wrote a geed number at strange ltttereo

. Digging theeugh the CASTLE mail bagg l tame upon one V
of the happiest lettera Ilve ever reado Drawn en it wee ,L\ ‘ﬂ
a happy little faeeg a happy little fleweeg and a happy ~I£77 =
little house a and the_very definite etatementg “HI CASTLE?

I love yeu‘”o This letter tame from a eellage prefeeeee in
New‘Hampahiee whe alee wanted te knew if I ever listened te the anew
fall. Wellllllg net lately“

\ Next tame $2o©© and a teed from a eiee eld lady in Texas who
said she weulu pray fer uea The.meney was ehanneled into .the””Chile
dren's Heme Fermi9 ands einee turnaabout is fair play entree I eame
-from, I dug out my beade and was-about te put in a few geod werde for
her te my patreeveaiute ' “

Then aleng tame Chief Eellet Hatg Mtg Jamee R0 Hubbard
the GASTLE euperviseeg with a eaed item a witehlll mu»
A bena fidedg teed earryingg epell eaetlmg Galifonmia
Hitets She was real unhappy abeut my inclination ten
ward atetting lady meequiteeao Being the eewaed that
I amg I teat a bleed eath te tip my hat before emaeho
ing a-methee meequite in the futueeg and te mail a
_eheek to bee eueviveteo Getting bit by lady meequiteu
ea never tethered me all that muehg reallyg what huge
me it that their feet are alwaya at date eeldo
I don't think all these peemiaea paeified the Wieked. teeth hef.-the
West, heweverg beeauee ever einee Ilve had at ieteeiatable urge to
howl at light bulbs and etiff fiee tlugeeo 1
At the beta titled9 teed eareyingg epell eaeting Galifeeniaﬁmﬁteh
pointed out” lady meequiteea eertaiuly have their e5 teeu'bleeo "
They have huebande Wh© ueually flyg eeeree ef - ‘,':
babies that do whatever baby meequiteee aes
_ and all these wettiee ateut ineeet repellc
ante. Yet ene tan imagine that their pram . -.
blame are emall indeed tempered te the plight“
ef a leveaeiek girl peekypieea . ‘1”
(think ateut that oneg Friday) \ ‘\Qs;_
With the help ©f the'felleue in Jayeeea at \ ==
Rheee Ialandua HQWan prison» we made a pretty fair ShGWing it _tee
Paradise Friendly Heme driveo Themaa Reea weete te eay that the
Jayeeee may-take up the fund drive at part ef their regular aetivitm
iee.

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CASTLE 1 WINTER 1972 Pageéa

The Paradise Friendly Home depends entirely it: its enistanees
on donationso It gets no state aideo The Ghnrehes of Christ and
“friends” usually maintain the home well enoughg bot needless as it
is to say” Mr. Lee Mardook oan use any sort of donation he tan get.

It follows that Perry Joseph would get it in his head to solicit
clothing» ooohing utensils, and even furnishingo After his leadg we
have become sooh firey oolleotors that one prison offioial was ever»
heard saying» WWe better keep and eye on those squirrels; or the next
thing you know they'll have as sleeping on the ooaeho“

Perry‘doseph has worked on the fund raising drive for yearsg but
started off this time by ordering those pietare post oards of the
prisono When they sameg we didnvt have a dine to pay for ‘v
them. Bntg oonviots being eonvietsg we soon hit upon o
sehene and slipped the bill to Mro Seillian9 the prisonVs -:
Chief Clerk. He took one load at the $lt8 dong and shonta
ed something liheg “I“ll fix the ceiling when I some down? ;

Aotnallyg we dingt understand exaotly what he did say 2
we were too busy dodging ash traysg paper weights? waste
paper baskets and other assorted flying ohjeetso 19m only
kidding9 of courseg Mro Soilliang as well as the whole
prison staff have been just wonderful about it allo in feet ‘
Warden Wingo same to our aide with the money doeo

Counselor William be Cottringer was saddled with the job of
driving Berry and I over to the Children‘s Home to deliver the balm
anoe of the aeoounto Mr. Cottringer had some to wort that morning
without his glassesg a small detail he negleoted to mention until we
were zipping along the narrowg winding road whioh leads iron: the
prison to the highwiga

_ err

y found a remedy for our problemo He perched
V~;g on the hash rest of the front seat and volunteered
3” suoh information as “Do an eighteen degree right

turng now%” or ”Gently three degrees lefta” Or
- better yetg ”Sinietraeh approaohing at 2: oe‘
,ijhkiw O'olooh a down hill speedl“ All the while Mro Cot
f¢'¢"‘5“\tringer kept askingﬁ ”Deﬁning that the hell are
*gﬂ ‘“ ’yos mumbling about?
:<’f\' “Oar father who art in heave-anew”M

We stopped by Mro Gottringerls plaee to pith up his glasses,
when he discovered that he had also forgotten his honse heyo so
-there/we were» not out of the Penitentiary 3Q ninetesg and braking
into a house!

t was one of those warmg springmlike dayso So we drove task to
the prison by way of Murray State Universityo The girls were all out

in their onto little minie skirtsg and before Mrs 9 “5 f4
Cottringer oould drive through the tOWhg Perry 2 r.? (a a
and I fell in love a total of 29 timesa g7jg vv V 3
When we got baok to the prisong the final ‘7 £3 l
5 1e (f t6 6%

score was Dnhain lees Joseph 150 Perry oleins

that I cheated beeause I fell in love with a

fat waitress where we stopped for loneho She eonnted one and a half.
I am somewhat less disoriminating than he“

Meanwhileg bank at the CASTLE offioeg I found ”MY ERISQNW'on the
desk. The author bribed me with a dollar contribution' to the Childu
ren's Homeo Later he had some second thoughts about raining his tou»
gh gay imageg so I let him bribe me with another dollar oontribution
.not to print his name. See page lg

comment or taxes PAIGE

CASTLE wmnn 1972 PAGE s

WMY PRISON“ obviously derives from'WPrison 13 3 Plno69 which first
appeared in the PRISON MIRROW on May 209 l966’:o i; 1 a b66n plagiariz~
ed in one form or another around the penal p1633 6661t°tbroughout
the United States beoauoe it strik66 6 responi 6
who r66d3 1to I am not sure Who the original 6 66 6639 b6t for th6
p66p666 of an argument» Ivll say it was Harle+ noven36n ” M1nneaota,
Stet6 Prison at Stillwaterq All of Whjpﬂ I 611696 learn until after
it 666 out into stenoil and sent to the printero Sorry about that.

Herbert Gilbert got some favorable 66666 3jgnal6 from his laat
B1666 Reporto The fellows in the Conneottoot 661366 gaV6 him a re»
sounding “RIGHT ON“o All of which had a rather 3166 ng6 effect on him
or should I say brought out a eharoot6613*°6 6663 1” d before. When
Herb gem patted on the book == his head 666ll30 6-366 u6gﬁ 9

In dependent of the prisonﬁs Vooational Hepartnent 13 the new
Electronics Classeso Ronald Phipps took an e331gnment to oover it
61?t6r having hiS arm twistedo Ronald 666 Wflllﬁﬂ'materiﬂl‘ for THE
READERUS DEGEST and other publioation39 whtom 66666 him semething of
6 oelebrity around her6o See DEPARTMENT OF “IIGH ‘ USED GOSSIPo

R®X Flot6herp Editor of Oklahoma Pr1sonﬁz3 Eye~0p6nerg reoently
61d 6 “Short History of PrisonsW whioh 663 36 go 66 6666 I undertook
to do a similar eketon for CAST HE 66666630 Homevevg 36666here along
th.e line I got so hopeleasly entangled 16 666633366 .nat there was no
663 to complet6 the thing by this 136660 So I966 666666 6p EDDYVILLE
APPROACHES ITS 88th YEAR OF BUSINESS 666 at V' ”

Finallyg to all the editora along
introducing BOB WON? He will be the ne

p6633 eirouit:
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the works when BOB

with the hoxt iSSer This 066 WES all 6\6 eg
663 assigned to bring the GASTLE staff up

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one ogzlete9 eooielogiett9 and in general”
peeple in the know are agreed that only something around ten percent
of the men in prieone are oleesified dangeroueg and that the rest
could safely be sent hoot todeyo =

‘So why isnlt tomething being done?

At:the prisons stand todayg they are little more than retaliate
long deeigned to satisfy the peoplele indignation at those who of»
fend their tmrmte Revengeg if you pltatta .-

The awesome ptite paid for this tetenge it recidiviemg and that
is just a fanoy'word for the feet that more than half of the.men who
have been in ppleon are beet within three yeateo ' -

'Berote any real progtete tan be madeg people will have to under«
30 some revolutionary ohengee in popular dogma as well at in the law.
They will have to shake off the ideet that teptetelomg legislative
fulminatlong and long prison eentenoee will eolve everythingo

” The penal oodee must be purged of long and irrationally punita
ive eententeeg At one longwtime oonvitt hat obeett©d3"A lot of us
are serving time beoaute the world domlt know what elee to do with
“8:0 99: I

The motions that oorreotione should entail punishmentg. pepres»
along and deterrent beta if nothing else» proved to be a failure of
greatest magnitudea; It should be pointed Ettard melntegratimg,'the
offender'into the social structure of his tommtnityo Parole should
not be ooneidered a privilege or a period of grateg beetowed only on
a fortunate fewg but rather a step forward in the total protege of
the reintegratiom of the offendero

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAQE
CASTLE WINEER 197l®727 PAGE‘ 5

Supreme Court Justice Burger has repeatedly called for reform
in the penal systems» and in the courtso As it stands now the court
system either causes accused persons to be held in jail for long
periods; or to be released on bond for equally long periOds of time.
Such a syttem either overloads prisons or trees those considered
potentially dangerousg without as much as a side long glance at the
problem which drove them into the ,hands or the law ,in the first
place.

While the American public have become more concerned than ever
about law and order in the last.few years» the crime rate has soared
22h percent. This year alone» the American taxpayers will shell out
one and a half billion dollars ($l950090009000) to support a systan
which has never shown anything but failureo -

It is long past\time that the public demandedg and be, willing
,to,pay for? better ~and more intelligent pregrams to reintegrate
,those who are in prison back into their communities; and better laws
and court systems to reduce the large number of men and women who

don't belong in prison to begin witha

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THE LUPARAR: Box 26 Windsor» Vermont» (@5089): James J. Labor is
the new editor on the circuit, and he puts out a well balanced mag.
Try to enclude him on your mailing list. .-

SAN QUENTIN NEWS: Tamal Calif. Well hello Phill We°ve missed you.
Thanks for remembering uso We have some of your Alumni around here
who-like to keep up things around the old homeostead. Me too.
KALIEDOSCOPE: Nianticg Conno Joan, dearg are you suffering from
the heavy hand of censorship? Strong on girlie stuff: hearts, flo-
wers, interpeace9 and loveo ‘Drugs problem opinions gloreo But
very little about the happenings around the petitewcoat prison.
H.0.C. NEWS REPORTERe Frankling Niece Hi again Paulo Would' you
believe that the cover came off again? And on the very next issue
tool I didn"t have the heart to ask you for another copy° The
mule that brings the mail over from Eddyville township has develop-
ed a taste for your mago That9s pure flattery a he is very dis-
criminating; wont touch a CASTLEo

REBSTIGENg Horsens9 Denmarkg .We quiteg Kjaero Your Danish‘ Post-
master must have thought KENTUCKY sounded like something that be—
longed in Africao He sent our copy to Edwardsvilleg Kenya, The
Africian postmaster forwarded it on the KENTUCKY POST OFFICE, New
South Wales? Australiao Possibly because he could read English,
the Austie Postmaster circled our Zip Gods and penciled in "Try U.
S. of A.” We got the thing Sl days» about 309000 miles9 and many
canoealation stamps laterg‘and still haven9t found anyone who reads
Danish, or Dutch» or whatever. H

EXODUE, Quebec; Jacques non cher a Olest plus qulun crimeg c'est
une fautel I”m neither a Cajun nor a Ganuchq I am a green eyed,
red headdeoloismFrench(first eneration Yankee)

‘ SPEQIAL NO ICE l
I noticed a increase in the number of request for panel publicat-'
ions from college studentso GASTEE always sends them outg because
if there is anything the corrections field needs right now» it's
these brightg probing young mindso We strongly urge other editors
to do the sameo

Chas DuRain

CASTLE ' WINTER l972 Page 6

GUEST EDITORIAL
SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE RIGHTS OF PRISONERS

In the last twenty years or so there hane'beengin;therFederal
Courts a number of cases in which the litigants have been prisoners
complaining of the treatment they receive in prison. Until 1970
almost all of these cases were lost. The Federal Courts have shown a
passive reluctance to interfere in matters of basic concern to the
administrative operation» of a_prison. The Federal Court have not
seen it their duty to act as super-administrators of state and fed—
eral prisons. .

HoweVer in the last few years, one who reads almost any newse
paper or Federal Reporter can hardly help but notice that the courts
are encreasinglycondemning conditions that do exist in many prisons
'around the United States.

The treatment a prisoner receives in prison is by far and large
a very important factor because it defines.one limit of the culture.

"The degree of civilization in a society
can be judged by entering its prison."
, ’Dostoevski - The House of the Dead
_ LThe total number of prisoners in the United States is, relat~
ive small (about half a million), the number of people who are aware
of the conditions of a prison.are not small. Friends and members of
the prisonersI families visit the inmate and learn of the conditions
inside of the prison and they tell other friends who in turn relay
' information to their friends and neighbors. There are workers who
contract work from Federal Government and they too learn of any inn
humane treatment being handed out by prison administrators.

What does the citizen do who learns of some outrage on another
human? He does nothing of course. For in reality what can he do?
He is an ordinary human being' with his own problems. He can do very
little, so he accepts it as a part of life. In short his capacity of
outrage on humanity subsides. ’ ,

This passive outrage is an capacially insidious desease because
it feeds upon itself. If prisoners can be treated harshly, why can‘t
other people who are considered undesirable, but who are not in pri-
son, be treated the same way? ' .

The problem is not a new one. Plato grappled with it in his
“Republic". Unless society is prepared to accept the proposition
that whoever in power chooses who the'dregs are and how they are to
be treated, with the entailing risk that what is done today may -five
years from now cause any one of us to suddenly be considered as the
dregs. The alternative must be embraced - the alternative is that
everyone be treated decently. Regardless.

In the past the man in the cold, dark, impersonal prison cell
has been left at the mercy of the prison administration. It takes
little insight into human nature to understand that no One Should be
left at the unfettered discretion of anyone.

Today, like some huge slumbering beset, the courts are slowly
awaking and shaking off their impassiveness, and are noticing the

plight of the lonely man in the cell and his impact upOn his life and
‘ the rest of society. It is a healthy sign. ' Q

s a s r a a a r a r errsRsKe §Q£b£3s r
Despaired by GOd, surely, prisons are the ugliest werks of mankind.
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In 1921 "Terrible“ Tommy O'Conners escaped from the Cook County
Illinois Jail just four days before he was scheduled to hang for kil-
ling a cop. Along with four other prisoners, he overwpowered a guard
scaled a twenty foot wall behind the jail and disappeared into the
back allies of Chicago. He hasn't been seen since. Even though the
state now has an electric chair for the death penality, if Tommy were
captured today he would be hanged because the court ordered it that
way. "Terrible“ Tommy O'Conhars' 50 year old scaffold is still kept
waiting in the basement of the Cook County Jail.

ABC NIGHTLY NEWS

YOU CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL

A Pennsylvania prison warden said that his inmate team may
be forced to withdraw from the state chess tournament competition. The
three member team dropped to two members when one inmate slipped'away
during the first meeting. At the second meeting, a second inmate
team member disappeared. The warden's statement was considered
superfluous since the prison will be without a chess team at all if
they enter one more competition.

Penal Press Exchange

TOUGH LUCK DEPARTMENT

Stanley Brick was an inmate at one of Australia's minimum
cgthdK prisons and decided that he didn't like it there.~ So he hid
under t e hood of a truck and rode fourty miles next to the hot
engine. He emerged from‘his hiding place, nearly exhausted, to find
himself in the center of the compound of Australia's Maximum security
prison at Stillwater where the truck had gone to deliver its cargo of
barkery goods. H.O.W. H.M.Prison, Queensland, Australia

ESCAPE PROOF?

After completing the construction of a jail on top a ten
story building, the Miami Flordia Sheriff's office announced that the
new facility was escape proof. Even if a prisoner sawed out of the
cell, sensory devises would snitch on him as he started down the side
of the building. The first five floors below the Jailwm€; equipped
with barred gates, all with different automaticu locking “ayatems
operated from the ground floor. The very first three prisoners left
on the very first night, and sure enough, they didn't go down the
outer wall by means of a rope, nor through the gates - they took the
elevator. NBC Nightly News

CRIME BUSINESS PICKING UP
The English Police reported a rise in the number of arrest ’dur-
ing the year just ending. They commented that it had been ‘" A very

good year for arresting the better class of criminal".
WRHAeFM Anna, Ill.

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.x;¢ PHASE II

Filat thanks to my Mother~in~law, Lola. Peace, Mom, I'm glad
you got the message. Then to the Penal Press' “Weekly Scene" of Somu
ers, Conn., on letting me know you fellows smoked over my article and
I will get the unity and peace within. Thanks. And to answer the
question of my wife, who makes this second part a must.‘ Thanks for
the idea. She asked was I Black Power and was I for the movement? I
guess this same question is on the mind of many of our whitelreaders.
Let me answer with this: Black Power is a call for blagk people in
this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to define their
own goals. The concept of black power rest on a fundamental premise.
Before a group can have a movement and enter open society it must
first close ranks. Our nation is moving toward two societies; one
_black, and one white a separate and unequal, segregation and proverty
has created in the racial ghetto a destructive enviorment totally un»
known to meat white American's. The resistance to his demands raises
in intensity and alarm, thelforms it takes vary from the overt and
barbaric murders and bombings to the more subtle innuendo of irritate
ion and disparagement. Which brings on an old phenomenon, white re»
sistence to the acceptance of the black as a human being. When
blacks demand such status, he has to develope more effective techs
iques to obtain the status. Black Power means sharing of control and
representation. It does not mean merely putting black faces into
.dffice; black visibility is not Black Power. Most black politicians

'7”around the country today are not examples of Black Power. The power

must be that of a community. And it has to emanate from there.

Remember my first article, I said we as blacks fail to see the

paronia of being like the Jones. . So if we endorse the procedure of
roup solidarity and identity we don't have to strive for the same
rind of end results obtained by white society. The ultimate values
and goals are not domination or exploitation of other groups, but a
effective share in total power of society.

Some have said that advocate's of Black Power is racists, «that
self identification and determination is Black Supermacy in revﬁrse.
"This is a deliberate and absurd lie, there is no analogy by any
stretch of definition of imagnation between the advocates of black
power and white racists. The goal of the racists is to keep black
people on the bottom, arbitrarily and dictatorially as they have done
'in this country over 400 years."; A.

The goal of blacks is self determination and black self lindenta
ity. ,Black Power is full participation in decision making progress
effecting the lives of black peOple.and"recogniti0n of the virtues in
themselves as black people. I would like-to quote here, and I quote
from "Soul on lost" "In America everything is owned ...untillrecently.
the blacks themselves were counted a part of somebody's private pro»
parity, along with the chickens and the goats, aThe black have not
forgotten this, principle because they are still treated as if they
are a part of someones inventory of assets - or perhaps in this day
of rage against the cost of welfare, blacks are listed among the net»
ions liabilities. On any account, blacks are in no position to help
maintain the institution of private properity." What they want is to
divert it to their own needs. This is whattthis is all about. This is
the course of all brutality ....

I hope this article is enlightment to my wife, Barbara, and the
people. So like the late Rev. Martin L. King, we as blacks “Have a
dream". I say that the day will comeﬁwhen white society/will under“
stand that.blacks are not for non-existence in a co-existing world.

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CASTLE . - WINTER 1972 Page 9

And the harsh statements and revolts are not for a separate natiOn.
But for equality so that a great nation can in union shout “Free at
last, Free at lastllz' Great God Almighty, we are united at laSEiLL"
Dig it black America: Dig it white America, can we live as one? Sure
we can. When we say welcome to the United States, mean it. It's not
Black America, and White America; if so, then change the name from
United States of America to White and Black America and then we won't
be lieing on our nation motto as well as the State of Kentucky. Get
it together people we can do it. .

Herbert "Motion“ Gilbert

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When the story or little Lesley Bennett's last Christmas appear-
ed in a Louisville newspaper, the convicts of Eddyville came through
with flying colors. Without so much as a second thought of ruining
their tough convict image, they poured Christmas cards through the
mail to Lesley. Mrs. Bennett replied with a message to Father Cle-
mons: - ‘

"Father Clemons, Dec. 13, 1971

This is in reply to the many, many cards Lesley has received
from the men atLEddyville. Will you please print a thank-you
note in the prison newspaper, if you have one, thanking the
men for their wonderful cards. It is impossible for me to
thank each one personally, for Lesley has received over 700
cards so far. I have been putting them up in her room. It's
wall to wall cards. Larry Haag wrote a note with his card
saying he would ask you to pray for Lesley. So I thought you
would know how to handle a thank-you so everyone would hear
or read about it. Enclosed is a picture of Lesley. If it can
be used, feel free to do so. The cards mean so much to Lesley
and to us. Thank you so very much for helping us say thank
you.
' The Bennetts
Lesley, Amanda
Lester & Jeanie”-1

(Lesley's picture is posted at the CASTLE office for anyone who
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CASTLE WINTER l972 Page 10

SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS UP 9h PER CENT

Encluding an Adult Education Program at the
Farm Dormatory. the latest school report
shows a delightfully promising raise in inn
terest in education among the inmates popul—
ation. This is second only to the enthusi-
asm of the school staff. This enthusiasm is
,--g - , . justified. '

The results of the semester just past show that out of eightrone
inmateestudents. seventwaive showed real progress a one with a 2.6
raise in grade level. An adult California test was employeed ~ cal-
led the TABE TEST SYSTEM. In addition. there are l0 inmates waiting
to take the G.E.D. test which requires a 10.5 grade level to qualify.

‘ A new project underWay is the Learning- Lab. This project is
made possible by'a $229000 grant supplementing the educational pro~
grams here. Courses available will enclude English. Mathematics. and
Reading.

There are three levels available. each related to the other. and
all providing for the specific needs of the individual. Each student
'assigned to school will first be given a battery of test to determine
his achievement level and his weaknesses. According to their abilitn
ies, each student will be properly placed and allowed to progress at
his own rate from his starting level to. the G.E.D. certificate. or,
possibly to the Murray State College courses soon to be availalble.

The first level (Basic Education) will be designed in a laborata
cry setting. offering courses to enable the student to move through
basic middle school education. or between fifth and eighth year. The
Lab may be entered at any time the student .becomes interested. but
students assigned to this level will be required to take two hours per
day. and one hour outside the Lab.

The second level'(Intermediate) will serve two functions in the
education system. It will first allow the student to improve in weak
areas; and second expose him to new fields of study. Intermediate
students will have an elective choice as well as an opportunity to
strengthen his basic education. “

The third leVel is the G.E.D. Lab and designed to prepare the
student for that test. This will require the student to take one
course other than his electives. '

There are two other areas available to inmates.
One for prisoners who score below the fifth grade “
level on the placement test, and the college
courses from the Murray State University.

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CASTLE WINTER. 1972 PAGE 11

THE DEPARTMENT OF

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For the benefit of our outside readers who are interested in the
happenings around the prison yard, we shall continue what was former-
ly K.S.P. NEWS. However since the news is somewhat stale around the
prison by the time we go to press we have decided to change the title
of this column. Also, this change gives us a chance to work in a few
of the unconfirmed, but persistent rumors. ed.

THE EDDYVILLE PROJECT

Recently the Madisonville area:VOCational School brought to
the Kentucky State Penitentiary aatwo year course in Radio & T.V.
Repair. This new program was christened the Eddyville Project
and is under close supervision by mr. Bill Bleier, Instructor; Mr
Bleier discussed at length the goals sought, the philosophy, and
' what this project should dd for the participating inmates. j

"Our intention is to provide the above average student with
means to become a first class technician, while facilitating in
depth study at lower levels of the trade for those slower in
learning, so that no student need spend his time without bettero
ing his future potential as a selfasupporting, taxnpaying, selfo
respecting citizen." mr. Bleier‘says.

There are eight major blocks which make up the entire course.
BASIC ELECTRICITY, BASIC ELECTRONICS, BASIC TRANSISTOR THEORY ,
BASIC RADIO REPAIR, BASIC B&W TZV. REPAIR, BASIC COLOR T.V. RES.
PAIR, ADVANCED BRW TaV. REPAIR, and ADVANCED COLOR T.V. REPAIR.
Upon completion of the courSe a student has 26h0‘hours of Theory
in Radio and T.V. Repair and is awarded a diploma. -’ ’

' It is felt the‘ EddyVille Project Will be a Success beCause
each student voluntarily enrolls ”and”he“iS"permitted ”to advance
”at‘his”0Wn'pace. "In addition,' the textbooks are adapted to fit
the individual needs of the student."

Students presently enrolled are:

James Baker Sylvester Thomas Edward Parker
James Bronston William Haskins Arnold Taylor
Gary Cole Williathibson Jack Williams
Jesse Combs Nathan Gibbons Doyle Geary

Presently the.space and the relative newness of the Project
limits the number of students, however there could be an. eXpana
sion in the near future.

WOOD SCULPTURE CLASSES

Mr; Kessler's art classes nowrhas a new addition; WOOd scul-~
turing. Five students are enrolled in this class, while seven other
inmates are busy with regular art classes. Mr. Kessler brought a
piece of cedar from home which the sculpture students are making or-
namental things from. Plans for expanding the class into sort of a
hobby crafts part of the art classes are in the works. The art :class
progress can be viewed at the Library.

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

CASTLE WINTER OF 1972 \ PAGE 12

LEGAL/ASSIST”??? DEPARTMENT‘.. .

With an eye toWard'diSCOuragingj the flood of fliVolous. repetm
itious, and poOrly prepaired Writs, "the'priSOn‘administratiOn has
opened a legal assiStahce