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Thursday, October 27,1977
University Daily Kansan
Prison conditions called inhumane
Bv HENRY LOCKARD
Staff Writer
The inhumane conditions in Kansas prisons must be corrected and this requires changing rehabilitation methods and improving present prison facilities, according to State Rep. Patrick Hurley, D-Leavenworth.
Hurley spoke last night at the Lawrence Public Library on the findings of the legislature's interim committee on corrections, of which he is chairman.
rursey said it was the aim of his committee to find an effective diagnostic and rehabilitation program in Kansas. He said Minnesota led the country in effective rehabilitation and the committee's study focused on Minnesota's developments.
He said the conditions of the prisons in Kansas were infiltrate and deplorable and that the inmates were in a state of abuse.
was needed. For example, Lansing doesn't even have naint on its walls, he said.
MINNESOTA IS a state with double the population of Kansas but its prisons hold about 500 fewer criminals than the prisons in Kansas, Hurley said.
To reduce the crowded situation in Kansas prisons, which he said comply with state prison occupancy limits, Hurley said his committee had investigated the possibility of building a new 400-bed prison at Hawatowita County jail to accommodate Lansing, and making major renovations at Leavenworth, Lansing and Hutchinson nisons.
The corrections committee was formed in May and consists of seven legislators and seven laymen who act as an advisory board.
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She said she received 250 letters and calls a day and many requests that she appeared on the news.
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HURLEY SAID the committee seemed to be more in favor of a community corrections program than building another 400-bed prison. In Minnesota, he said, there were crimes that were inmates were actually unguarded but escape records were almost non-existent.
SHE SAID she also was offered her own TV show. She would have portrayed a psychic detective who helped her boyfriend identify the girlfriend. But she said it wasn't worth the gamble.
He said there were Minnesota prisons where private businesses leased ground in the prison and fired inmates at union wages to work for them. In return, those inmates would pay room and board at the prison for as long as they were employed.
Hurley said he thought it would be beneficial to educate prisoners. He said they should be taught to read and write and to do skills a person must know to get along in the job.
"We can't just incarcerate people and forget about them," he said. "We need to rehabilitate them, educate them, train and treat them for whatever they need." he said.
project estimates from two architectural firms, the consulting firm of Touche-Ross, in Kansas City, and the technical firm of Robert J. Schaefer, Wichita.
Treatment should be provided for alcohol, drug, and sexual problems the prisoners
Touche-Ros estimated $89 million to build the 400-bed prison and the dormitories, and to make major renovations and other technical improvements. Their cost estimate of just the new prison was $23 million as opposed to Schaefer's estimate of $16 million. Schaefer did not submit an estimate for the entire project.
rursey said he did not know why there was a $13 million difference between the two bids for the new prison, but each firm could afford it. Mr. Sackett paid $9,000 to continue working on its plans.
SHABBATON
WHILE HIS COMMITTEE continues researching the program, Hurley has been appointed a member of a three person committee responsible for hiring a new Secretary of Corrections. When Robert Marquez was appointed as the acting Marquez, Gov. Robert Bennett's pardon and extradition attorney, was appointed acting secretary.
DISCUSSION, DEVOTION, DELICACIES
HE SAID ANYONE imprisoned in Lansing, Leavenworth or Hutchinson prisons would be turned into a hardened criminal in six months.
Hurley said they were offering a salary of $35,000 and had placed all over the country. He said the salary was higher than most other state salaries for Secretary of Corrections. However, he said, they had received few applications.
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