Friday, October 31, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Convicts seek useful lives
Becoming useful members of society again through a program of "remotivation" is the goal of two prisoners at Ft. Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks.
George Battet, a prisoner for three years, and Howard "Hap" Palmer, a prisoner for 15 years, told a crowd of 38 persons in the night that they wanted to rejoin society.
Both inmates are members of a group called the Seventh Step which is designed to help prisoners deal with themselves in and out of prison.
Battes said that Seventh Step had helped him realize his "full potential" since his incarceration for conspiracy and mutiny three years ago.
"I believe in people…that's me," I states.
"I can look at anything and out of that."
"You have to be careful."
Part of the goals of Seventh Step involves strengthening one's strength and building on that strength.
Battes he intended to enroll at KU in January and set the education he wanted.
"I want to go to school!" he emphasized,
"I have been a power of choice, something I've learned."
However, Battes said, society stereotypes ex-convicts and makes it difficult for them to adapt.
"Once he goes out, his actions and his movements are all generalized," he said. "Society says all like him are the same."
encounter resistance to his coming here.
A letter from the dean of his office, he
Fred McEhleney, associate dean of men, said that he didn't think the letter said that. He said sometimes his office advises contacts to the dean before he goes on, or is going to need before they come.
"We don't discourage them from coming," he said.
Palmier said he intended to come to KU to camp the summer after he gets out of prison.
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"The letter made me feel I couldn't come as an individual." he said.
said, discouraged him. It said that, in the past, ex-cavnicts didn't adjust to the atmosphere of the academic world, Battes said.
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After her death, he said, much of her estate was sold, except for three portraits of members of her family. The family was from a New Orleans plantation. The portraits were donated to the University of Kansas Museum of Art, he said.
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