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[TTolume III, Number VIII

ICASTLE'ON THE‘CUMBERLAND

February 15, l96h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LUTHER THOMAS, Warden

LLOYD ARMSTRONG, Deputy Warden

W. 0. LONG, Acting Captain of the Guards
-Rev. HOUSTON E. INMAN, Protestant Chaplain
Rev. THOMAS CLARK, Catholic Chaplain

HENRY E. COWAN, Supervisor of Education

 

 

 

CAS TLE STAFF

Lawrence Snow, Editor

ADMINISTRATION IN THIS MONTH'S CASTLE:
- The Honorable EDWARD T. BREATHITT, Governor Castle News 2
F The Honorable HARRY WATERFIELD, Lt. Governor Chaplains' Corner 8
% DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Editorials 9
JOSEPH CANNON, Commissioner
3 Social Scenes (Cartoons? ll
;‘ MARSHALL SWAIN, Deputy Commissioner
: Dr. HAROLD BLACK, Director of Institutions SPECIAL PENAL PRESS SECTION
g- 'W. Z. CARTER, Director of Education The Prison Editor 13
A
BOARD OF PARDDNS a. PAROLES Penal Press Excerpts 15
Dr. FRED MOFFATT, EXecutive Director Exchange Page 17
WALTER FERGUSON, Chairman
Tall Tales 18
SIMEON WILLIS, Member
Department Reports 19
ERNEST THOMPSON, Member
, THE STORY OF DISMAS HOUSE’ 21
Mrs. LUCILLE HURT, Member
Crossword Puzzle 25
Statistics 5. Movies 21;
PENITENTIARY ADMINISTRATION
The Castle Laughs 2h

Harold Arnold, Associate Editor

James McKinney, Art Editor

 

WILLIAM EGBERT, Vocational Instructor John Busby, Multilith Operator

 

 

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 IPAROIE CHIEF ASKS _ BUDGET RAISE TO IN-n
GREASE EFFECTIsznss OF HIS DIVISION

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FOR 1W” INT PROGRAM

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INMATE

 

W. Parker Hurleys acting Probation &
Parole Division director, will
a budget increase of abnost $h005000 fur
his department. The money, said the
Louisville Timess will be used to in»
crease the division's strengths increase
travel allowances and pay for new trains
ing programs for parole and probation
officers.

Hurley said he wanted six new officersa
three with master's degrees» and also
wanted to increase salaries for officers
who complete the new training programso
Training will be in two stagesg he saidg
and will include inwservice training al»
ready underway and additional work at
the University of Louisville's Kent
School of Social Work.

The $3909298 increase Hurley is
represents a 50% increase over the
biennial budgeto

seeking
last

GARY LANGFORD DIES OF HEART FAILURE

 

Jana 15 -~ A 38—yearwold inmate died of
heart failure in his cell tonighto Gary
Langford, a former insurance agentg was
serving a year sentence ,for obtaining
money under false pretenseso The senm
tence was imposed in Edmonson Countyg
where Langford lived with his “wife and
childreno '

Langford was a native of TBnnesseeo

PRISON GETS TRUCKLOAD OF FOOTBALL EQUIP:
MENT FROM COACH CLAYTON OF PRINCETON

. OF GROUNDWORK

VUntil the casenerkerss
ask far
areoemmendatiom

 

Inmates interested in playing football
should be happy to learn of a contriw
bution made by Coach Fred Clayton of
Princeton's high.schoolo

Clayton sent the prisoners a truckload
of used but serviceable football equipm
ment, including uniformsg protective
padding and helmetso Formerlys ‘pPiSw
oners who wanted to play football had to
play in makeshiftg incomplete uniforms
m- or none at ally The 'equipmentg if
purchased new» would cost about $1090000

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s siologists and
psychologists grovided fee by Task Force
and recent actions of
the State gave Ament become vailables
an inmate club may carry Cit one phase
of a proposed 7fimpOiut program aimed at
total rehabilitation of prison inmatesa

The programs drawn up by KflPls voluntary
psychiatric consultants Dre Jo'flysocki,
provides for concentratien on physical
fitnessé psyeliatrie treatment where
necessaryg pastoral counselings motivaw
tion and rewmotivation sesSionsg
marriage counselings a citizenship prOw

gramg academic and vocatienal training
and a system of progress reports for
parole‘vconsiderationo The cluba the
Barons of‘ Good Wills would divide its
moremthanmlOO members into groups of
about 10 men,9 each with' a Specially
trained member as moderatorfl to conduzt

the citizenship phase as outlined by Bro
Wysockio

Material used in the sessions would be
the same as that studied by immigrants
applying for naturalizationg said a slub
representative. Later, when trained
help is available” these classes will be
expanded to include larger segments of
the populations Other phases of the
program will also be initiated at that
timeg it was announcedo

The Barons of Good Will ‘was organized
about h months ago around the nucleus of
an earlier club by the same names In”
strumental in the reorganization were
Dre Wysookig the officers of the clubs
and an inmate who had been participatim;
in the psychiatristVS social therapy
seesionso The purpose of. the reorgas
nized group is social reorientation mfi
self helps

Since the reorganization; the club has
grown from-its original 6 members to ape
preximately 155. The Barons have also
been instrumental in raising donations
for worthwhile causesg including 'helP
for the floodeetricken town of Smiths

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

land, Kentucky, and persons in financial
difficulty'because of illness.

The officers of the club include James
Yager, president; Eddie Arnold, vice
president; Gene Henry, treasurer; Herman

Ferguson, secretary; Ted Lewis, public
relations director. Casey Newsom, the
inmate who helped in the reorganization

of the group, is Special consultant.

Dr. 'Wysocki, who is chief of medi-
cal staff for western State Hospital
(Hepkinsvillel, serves as executive

director of the club, with other prison
officials acting as Special advisers.

There are no dues or fees, and the only
qualification for membership, said a
Impresentative, is "an honest desire to

_ help yourself."

lAWYERS ASK FOR COUNSEL FOR POOR

 

(From the Louisville Times)

Jan. 22 -- A lawyer's group will ask the
General Assembly to provide for defense
counsel for poor people facing criminal
charges.

the Legal Aid Society of
Louisville. It will seek adoption of
the Model Defender Act, designed to
allow any of 5 methods of providing
legal counsel.

The group is

At PreSent, courts may appoint defense
counsel, but they get no pay and no
expense money. ‘

The model act was
National Council of
Uniform State Laws.

drafted by the
Commissions on

The bill would allow Fiscal Court to
provide pay for courtnappointed lawyers,
or to contract with some legal society,
or to appoint a public defender.

Ralph H. Logan is chairman of the
porting committee.

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PRISON] BUDGET TO BE RAISED, BUT
PAROLE Roms MAY DEFEND ON HOW MUCH

 

Jan. 27 -- Governor Breathitt's economy
drive will result in slashed budgets for
many State agencies, but the Department
of Corrections budget will be increased.

That was the 'word given to Louisville
Times reporter Dick Berger by Kentucky's
new chief. "we are going to move ahead
in corrections," Breathitt told him.
"It (the prison budget) will in no wise
be curtailed."

But, Berger was told by Parole Board
Chairman Walter Ferguson, liberalized
parole regulations cannot go into effect
until it is definitely known whether the
Department will have a sizeable enough
increase. '

The present prison budget is $3,799,000.
In order to begin hiring some of the 120
qualified personnel the Task Force says
is necessary to bring Kentucky’s prisons
up to something like modern standards,
and to carry out other programs, the
Department of Corrections is asking for
$6,703,000 for the coming fiscal year.
This represents a $2,565,000 increase
over what would be needed just to main~
tain the status quo.

A tentative counter offer from the
budget department would give the prisons
a $500,000 increase. But negotiations
are continuing. ‘

Until the question is settled, hawever,
the Parole Board will continue to inter—
view prisoners under the old law. The
law, superceded by the parole reform
measure passed last summer, requires in?
mates to serve a third of their time be-
fore becoming eligible for parole.

Ferguson said it would be necesSary to
stick to the old law for now because
parole consideration under the new
scheme requires more information than is
currently available to the board.

He said medical and psychiatric evaluau
tions would be needed. "We have no full
tine doctors in the prisons," he_ said,

--3—

 "coo and we do not even have4 one psye
chiatristo“ ' _ ~.

He also said that more parole officers
would be needed if paroles are to be
liberalized.

Berger's story noted that the Commission
on Correctionsg the new watchdog body

created by the reform laws is also une
easy about the new budgeto "No real
improvements" can be possibles the Comm
mission said in a letter to the Goverb
nor:9 unless adequate financing can be

assuredo

CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN ADDRESSES PREwRELEASE

Umpiring Little League games is part ~of
the stressov » , I" - , ~

"ThereVs nothing tougherg" says program
director we Jo. innstadtero ."‘A Little
League umpire hasnlt got a friends, no
matter what decision he makeso :If he
calls a pitch a strikeg the batteris
competitive mother is leaping at him; if
he calls a balls the pitcherVS father
screamso He cath win either mayo"

Unless he holds his temper and wins a

parole.
BREATHITT NAMES LABOR LEADER, JUDGE»
TO NEW" COMMISSION ON CORRECTIONS

 

 

Jane 8 mm Reva Thomas Clarkg KSPVS Cathm
olic Chaplains discussed the role rem
ligion can play in and out of prison
before an audience of several hundred
here todayo Among the listeners were

members of the student body and inmates,

participating in the new prearelease

classeso

in the
church

Whether or not we participate
more social aspects of outside
lifes Father Clark saids the need for
religion itself is basic to the human
Spirito He emphasizeds howeverg that
religious habits could and should be
started in hereo

Father Clarks a native of Leitchfieldg
Kentuckyg is also pastor of Ste Paule
Churchg Princetona and works with mena
tally retarded children in the areao He
is in the prison to conduct Sunday Mass
in addition to two counseling sessions
weeklyo

ODD PUNISHMENT FOR PAROLE HOPEFUUS

 

Vacavilleg Califo (PP) me If a convict
can survive as a Little League umpireg
he has a good chance of readjusting to
societyo

That9s the thinking behind a program at
the California Department of Corrections
facility hereg which is experimenting
with a onewyear program to prepare cone
victed violent criminals for parole by
testing them in stressful jObSo

ah.”

Jan. 25 mm Franklin Circuit Judge Henry
Meigs and Louisville labor leader Jerry
Thompson have been named by Governor
Edward Breathitt to succeed Judge Lo Re

Curtis and labor leader Earl Bellow on
the Commission on Correctionss a watch=
dog group created last year to oversee
prison affairso

Judge Curtis lost his bid for rem

election in Novanbero The law creating
the Commission specifies that two judges
be among the memberso ,

Thompson is education director of the
State AFLwCIO Committee on Political
Educationg said the Louisville Timeso

EVEN CROOKS CANVT ESCAPE TAXES NOW

 

A group of city and county officials in
the Louisville area are trying to take
away the lawbreakerVS single advantaga
over the honest johno

They want to make him pay taxes tooo

The officials want the General Assembly
to pass a bill providing for a $2 tax on
lawbreakingo The tax would be levied
against anyone convicted in Jefferson
County of any crime except minor traffic
violationso

Crooks won“t even have any representar
tion with their taxationo The tax money
is already earmarked coo.for a new jaill

 

 

 

  

 

 

"FREE" GUESTS OUTNUMBER PRISONERS AT

BIG BROTHER MOVEMENT MAY BE FORMED

 

Jan. 5 ~~ An estimated 85 guests from
the free world mingled with 29 impriSa
'oned A0 A» members at KSP‘s 7th Alcoa
holics Anonymous anniversary banquet.9
held in the prison chapel todayo

A9 A0 members and others interested in
the movement came to the prison gatherm
ing from as far away as Louisville and
Frankforto Others came from Hopkins»
villeg Padueahs Princeton? Murrayg
Russellvilles Cadizs Mayfield and
Madisonvilleo

Among them were Jack D09 director of the

Louisville Alcoholic Rehabilitation
Clinic, and Harry We, one of the origi»
nal 100 A. A. members of the Ohio

groups, formed more than 2 decades ago”
as well as railroad employeesg business~
men, executives and a newspaper editoro

Commissioner of Corrections Joseph
Cannon, also on hand for the affair»
spoke during the afternoon of his "posim
tive" experience with prison A0 A0
groups in‘Ohioo He called for an inn
creased manbership in the penitentiary
and asked interested outsiders to velune
teer for participation in a "Big
Brother" movement in the areao

flm Big Brother groupss an offshoot of
cooperation between inside and outside
Ao Ac organizations, exist to provide A0
A0 Sponsors for alcoholic prisoners bee
ing released on paroleo A similar move:
ment is being formed at the LaGrange
Reformatoryo

Cannon also urged the prison membersg as
he had earlier urged convicts in the
prison schools not to "hang your inc
terest in A0 A0 on the gate when you
leaveo"

The guests were welcomed at the 10 A0 Mo
Opening of the banquet by Protestant
Chaplain Houston Inman, who serves as
the group's inside Sponsors John Po
emceed the banquets with inmates Wayne

A0 A9 GROUP'S 7TH ANNIVERSARY BANQUET

So and James P° Speaking on behalf of

the insiders 0

Also speaking were the
sponsors Comer Jo of Hopkinsvilles
Warden Luther Thomas, Deputy Warden
Lloyd Armstrongs the Louisville clinic
director and the neWSpaper editor.

group's outside

Jimmie V0 of Madisonvilleg who has atm
tended the prisoners7 activities since
the group was formed 7 years agog called
on the outsiders for contributions to

the inmate treasury following a buffet
style luncheono
It was also announced during the affair

that the prison group will be entered in
the world and regional directories by
the HOpkinsville chapter, and fliat the
same group was donating a coffee urn to
the pr is oners a

Food for the banquet was provided by the
prison messhallo Several Hepkinsville
women an Mrso Barba Porters Mrso Vere
nelle Jamess Mrso Lo To Jamess Mrso Emma

'Wislons Mrso Lilly Wilson9 Mrso Bob
Rogerss Mrso Ray Shepardg Mrso Charles
Eastland and Mrso Charles Rieves we
baked cakes to send in to the banquet»
as was done for the A0 A0 Christmas
party last montho

The luncheon break was followed by in=
formal fellowship and additional
Speecheso The banquet ended at 5 Po Mo

with Joe Rose leading the men in the

LordVS Prayer;

\

PRISONS NOT PRISON UNDER INDONESIA PLAN

 

Jakartag Indonesia (AP) m= Indonesia has
started calling its prisons "socializing
institutionsg" and plans to move them
from cities into the countrysideo

A cabinet minister said there will be
"new status for convicts as plain human
beings under the present socialist ate
mosphereo"

3.5.:

 MASONRY 'WORK UNDER WAY ON PRISON'S

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEMBERS ARE PAR=

 

TICIPATING IN GROUP THERAPY SESSIONS z

NEW" SCHOOL AND GYMNASIUM BUILDING

Bricklayers recruited from the vocam "An attempt to get to the roots of the
tional school's masonry class and other alcoholicfs problemss" is the 'way mm
sources recently began laying the member summed up the purpose of the

walls of a new building that will pro=
vide additional room for academic study
and recreational activitieso

Used bricks» salvaged from an old school
building in the Lyon County area and
cleaned by inmate labors are being used
for the secondmstory wallso Concrete
blocks will be employed in the firstm
level wallsa which have not yet been
started0 A reinforced concrete skeleton
provides support for the second flooro

Emcavation for the new building began in
September, 1962o Madisanville architect
Lawrence Casner designed the structures
which is being built primarily with in?
mate laboro

When completedg the building will house
8 classrooms and school offices on the
first floore The second level will be a
gymnasiumo Bleachers and a stage have
been included in the plans to permit the
gym to be -used for assemblies and
movieso

weather permittingg the building should
be ready for occupancy near the end of
1961;o Classes are now being held in a
smalls older building which serves as a
gymnasium when school is outo There are
no partitions separating the classeso

Project engineer for the building is
Hancil weire The officer in charge of
construction is Harley'Hillyardg formerm
ly of the cabinet shopo

"DON'T CROSS YOUR EYESQ" CHAPLAIN SAYS:

 

In a talk to A0 A0 members recentlyg
Chaplain Inman commenteds "The man who
has one eye cooked on yesterday and

another eye cooked on tomorrow is bound

tn be cockeyed todaye"
-5e

therapy sessions now being conducted for
A0 A0 menbers in the prisono

Protestant Chaplain Houston Inman is
serving as moderator of the hourmandeae
half sessionso Present plans are to
continue the sessions for a period of 1h
weekse

A0 A0 members have been split into two
groups of 1h each for therapy purposeso

in existence more
known as the Hopeful

The prison chaptero
than 7 years‘9 is
Groupo

Chaplain Inman is the inside

Sponsoro

groupie

HIGHEST LEVEL OF COMPOUND EENCED OFF;
SECOND 'WATER TOWER WILL BE ERECTED

 

A high wire fence has been strung around
the crown of the hill that forms the
prison compound to protect the equipment
and rigging of a construction crew that
will build a second water tower beside
one already standing in the prisono

Core drillings for the project were made
early last yearo

The auxiliary water tower is necessary
to supply water to nearby residential
areas not affected by the relocation of
the towns of Eddyville and Kuttawag and
to increase water pressure in the prison
itselfo ‘

The two towns were moved to nearby sififi
to make room for a new governmenv=
sponsored waterway projecto A lake will
surround much of the prison when the
project is.completede

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

PRISON ART GOES TO COLLEGE IN INDIANA

A collection of h} sketches
ings by inmates of the Indiana State
Refonnatory at Pendleton and the State
Penitentiary at Michigan City, Indiana,
went on exhibit last month at that
state's DePauw University for a 16-day
showing of convict art.

and paint-

Two Pendleton inmates, artists Morris
Williams and Joe Grady, accompanied the
exhibit to discuss art and creativity'in
prison with DePauw's students. The
prisoners were accompanied to the uni-
verSity by Commissioner of Corrections
Arthur Campbell.

The art work, selected from the best
work performed in prison art classes,
was to be sold following the exhibit.

FEDERAL PRISON DIRECTOR CALLS FOR PRISON
FURLOUGHS, MORE WALL-LESS INSTITUTIONS

 

Jan. 23 (AP) —- James V. Bennett, direc-
tor of the Bureau of Prisons, said
yesterday there should be more "prisons
without walls" and a work-furlough law
for prisoners.

"We should have more cpen institutions
when further new construction is contem—
plated," Bennett said at a hearing be-
fore the Senate judiciary sub—committee
on national penitentiaries.

SURGmN GENERAL'S REPORT: WHO CARES?

The Surgeon General's report on the
effects of smoking have created a stir
elsewhere in the country, but few here
have been overly disturbed by it, as
Witness this overheard conversation:

Inmate A: "Man, why you smoking those
cancer sticks?"
Inmate B: "Just doing my best to beat

the State out of some time."

 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

 

Dear Ed itor:

I've read of the prison reform bill in

the prison paper, the Castle on the
Cumberland, and both Louisville papers,
the Courier Journal and the Louisville

Times, but as yet I haven't read anyh

thing indicating help for inmates such
as myself. That is the inmate who has
been granted parole and still can't

leave the institution because of lack of
employment.

The program advocates rehabilitation
through education and vocational train-

ing. This is teaching us how to do the
job, but it doesn't tell us how'we will
get the job. What good will this teach—

ing do toward rehabilitation if we have
no assurance of being able to go out and
find a job or of having the job waiting
for us after learning ‘and being granted
a parole?

I believe this problem is a deterrent to
rehabilitation and will be as long as it
exists. I believe that each and every
one of us reaches a psychological point
of rehabilitation where we are good
parole risks and ready to take our place
iJisociety. This point is lost when a
man finds that after being granted a pa-
role he still can't leave prison because
he doesn't have a job waiting for him.
At this time he becomes depressed and
slips back to where he started. There—
fore I contend the whole rehabilitation
program this bill is intending is de—
feated before it starts unless this
problem is remedied.

-- Albert B. Johnson

LIVE OUT OF STATE? INCLUDE ZIP CODE NO.

 

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If you subscribe to the
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Code number with your address. And
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REV. HOUSTON INMAN, PROTESTANT CHAPLAIN

The other day I was talking with one of
the officials about a code of ethics
among the inmates. It really appears
that a code of ethics doeant exist here
at the institution. In other wordss the
philosophy of most of the inmates is”
"Every man for himself and let the devil
have the rest."

This attitude can be summed up in a
little rhyme, as follows:

Roses are reds

Violets are blue.

You clobber me

And I'll clobber you 000

Actually. this attitude is a carryvover
from the "free world." Many people live
their lives according to this “dogweate
dog" rule. All that a person hopes to
accomplish is to make himself a dangeru
ous rival. His personal relationships
are based primarily on the principle of
retaliation. This kind of policy offers
no hope for the future. and it is as old
as the jungle. This kind of life can
only bring sickness and despair.

Jealousya anger and selfishness are all
the results of the cardinal sin of love5
lessness. God is love. The characters
istic of the citizens of His Kingdom is
love. If love is smothered by sudh
character traits. the door to the King»
dom is closed.

Jealousy is an active fonn of the lack
of love. It focuses the spotlight on
ourselves. corrupting the whole being”
and displacing love. Anger is a natural
product of lovelessness. It is an emoa
tional explosion usually turned on by an
aroused egoism. The result shuts one out
of the true inheritance of spirit' which
marks the Kingdom of God. Selfishness
is the general attitude by which one
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REV. THOMAS CLARK, CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN'

On that first Easter afternoon when the
little group of Apostles and friends of
the Lord were gathered in a secret room
in Jerusalem, it was a scared, downs
hearted, worried gathering of human be-
ings. Suddenly” a familiar figure stood
in their midst and bolstered their
Spirits with the greetings ‘"Peace be to
you." It was the Master. Quietly Eb
continuedg "My peace I give you: not as
the world gives do I give to you."

These few recorded words of Christ were
sufficient to bring calm and faith to
the followers of Our Lord because they
new again saw His presence among them.
we find ourselves in a somewhat similar
condition as the followers of Christ im=
mediately after His death and burial.

Perhaps we keep trying to convince our=
selves that we are trying to be reasonae
bly 'faithful Christians: not real
zealous” but after all. we don’t like to
be fanaticsg So we adjust the MasterVS
teaching to suit our changeable feelings
and whims. If it9s convenient to give
in to our voice of moral righteousness
once in a whileg walla we don't mind be:
ing a hero for just a few minutes. But
mostly we console ourselvesg like the
Pharisees by mentioning what we don9t