Monday, March 20, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Opposition to prison camp swells
By CAROL HUNTER
staff Writer
Opposition to a proposed prison honor camp at Clinton Reservoir grew among local government officials and residents last week.
Beverly Bradley, Douglas County commissioner, said yesterday. "If I would have to vote on it right now, I would be against it." "I really think it doesn't make much
"I really think it doesn't make much difference what I think."
The County Commission has little power over the prison camp, she said. The bill to fund the construction of the camp was introduced in the Kansas House. State legislators may not consider the county commissioners' opinions, she said.
Robert Hannigan, director of the Toronto honor camp, said last week that all criminals, with the exception of sex offenders, would be eligible for the camp. A prisoner is chosen on the basis of his prison record. He also has a voucher by prison officials, he said.
The bill to fund a camp at the reservoir, four miles southwest of Lawrence, is now in the House Ways and Means Committee. A maximum of 55 prisoners, to be housed in doritories, would do construction and maintenance work at the reservoir.
Bob Neis, county commissioner, also said he was concerned about what type of prisoner would be at the camp. Neis said last week that he opposed the camp.
Bradley said that the county had not been assured of any state funds to hire more sheriff's deputies. The Douglas County sheriff's department would have to apprehend any prisoners who escaped from the honor camp.
The reservoir was not built so that a prison camp could be put there, he said. Rather, he said, it was built for flood protection and recreation.
culating petitions, which oppose the camp, for landowners to sign. Members also are writing legislators, he said, and association members who have signed all during hearings of the House committee.
THE CLINTON Lake Area Landowners Association voted last week to oppose the camp. I.J. Stonebuck, the association's president, said the association was cir-
"The state is pushing this thing down the county in the city," citizens up the county in the city, "the climate area are against."
William J. Brink, an association member,
said that the federal government had bought
the land for Clinton Lake from area land
for flood control and not for a prison
"I don't think they have a right to put a prison camp there," he said. "And I think it's backhanded and close to fraud if they put a prison camp on that land."
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