University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 11, 1974
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Ex-Convict Not Bitter, Finds New Life at KU
By ALAN MANSAGER
Kanaan Staff Reporter
Carl Dunbar lived for nine years knowing that at any time one of 2,200 persons
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Dunbar, Boston freshman, is an exconvict from Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary attending the University of Kansas.
"I don't care if you've worked in prison or around it," he said, "you can't remotely fathom the reality of prison life. It has to be experienced to be understood."
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Dunbar has been paroled since Jan. 7. He served tunne for armed bank robbery and fraud.
He said the worst part of prison was the psychological trauma a prisoner ex-
"You have absolutely no say in your own affairs, he said. They control you to the extent that they are not."
"All the law has asked is that you be confined, not to become stripped of every sheet and morsel of integrity you possess" "And that's no sour grapes talking, either."
THERE ARE FOUR LEVELS of personality a prisoner must develop in prison,
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"On another level," he said, "you must prove to the guards that you are institutionalized, docile, so that you can get earole sooner."
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"Finally," he said, "there must be another part of your personality left that dominates all the other ones, keeping them away and preventing the other personalities comes to dominate you."
He said a person learned to adapt to his four personalities after a time and eventually he became used to the various roles he must play.
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Dunbar said from this type of experience came hardier individuals,
"Stronger, more capable minds able to withstand extreme stress come out of the dullness," he said.
DUNBAR SAID homosexuality was prevalent in prison life, but much of this homosexuality was caused by the nature of orisons.
"There are those who want to be homosexuals and those who are coerced"
"One homosexual necessarily assumes the female role, the other, the male role," he said. "Homosexual relations are trowned apart." It is also difficult to be the female, but not if one is the male.
Law Student Defends Photographer's Rights
Dunbar said homosexual relationships existed because of understaffing at the
Last Wednesday, Jim Lee of Security and Parking, threatened to confiscate photographic film from Bill Walker, a criminal associate in monsoon and a photolatourism student.
The incident occurred during an investigation of a student who had been sitting across from Watson Library blindfolded, gagged, and with an orange between his
L. Robert Kampschroeder of Security and Parking and two officers were attempting to determine what the student was doing. During the investigation, a crowd of 30 to 40 persons gathered, according to Loewen.
Ron Loween, Lawrence third-year law student, advised Walker of his legal right to keep the film, and told Lewis he was overstepping his legal authority.
Dunbar thought one of the biggest problems at the prison was the quality of food.
"The quality of prison guards would go up greatly if they were examined by an independent psychologist and not by one employed by the prison," he said.
prison. He said those who were caught were put into security for a while.
Dubar said the guards kept order at the arison by the "divide and conquer" axiom.
Walker said he had seen the incident progressing and had decided to take some pictures. He said that as he was taking pictures, Lewis approached him.
Walker kept his film.
"A prison guard with an 88 I.Q. is so powerful he controls every day of your life," he said, "as though passing a civil service exam entitles him to a place in heaven."
"YOU APPEAR before the adjustment committee if you break an institutional rule," he said. "From the minute you walk in, you're going to be because they figure a guard wouldn't have written out a complaint if he didn't have a sufficient reason. The whole investigation is over."
The photographers moved back but continued to take pictures. Lewis said.
Dubai said there were two kinds of courts a person attended in prison if he
"The administration keeps blacks fighting against whites and other minorities fighting one another," he said. "What they want is for us to force of prisoners working against them."
According to Lewis, Kampschroeder had asked the photographers to stand back and to refrain from taking pictures until the officers found out what was going on.
HE SAID when he worked in the computer department of the penitentiary in 1971, it was found that the average I.Q. of a prison guard was 98. The average I.Q. of the prison ward was 103. In an education past the sixth grade, he judge. Prison guards have an extremely high rate of sadism and neurosis, and the institution perpetuates these tendencies, he said.
Loewen intervened to uphold photographer's rights.
Lewis said he then approached Walker to ask him to respect Kampschroeder's request. He then supposedly threatened to take Walker's film
Loewen said, "There can be no question that the photographer was completely within his rights to record the activities of public officials acting in a public place."
According to Dunbar, a prisoner attends a federal court if he commits serious crimes, the police say.
Loewen said he talked with Kamp-schroeder later.
"You have a thousand times better chance in federal court than before the judge."
According to Loewen, Kampschroeder said, "There are times when we don't want mankind to have a place."
Loewen said he was not against the campus police, but that he saw no excuse for it.
John Thomas, director of Security and parking, said yesterday that he wants to confiscate film
cident was an isolated example of an official abuse of power and that the people in charge will take affirmative action to assure that it will not be repeated."
Harold Clark, 19, of Columbia, S.C., was charged yesterday in Douglas County Court with the rape of a 19-year-old University of Kansas woman in her room in Ellsworth Hall.
Prison has a social class system much the same as that which exists outside the prison.
Loewen said, "I only hope that this in-
The rape victim reported that a black male forced his way into her room early yesterday by threatening her with a small gun. The man raped the woman, threatening her with death, the police report said.
Clark, who is being held in lieu of $50,000 bond, is also charged with aggravated sodomy, aggravated burglary and possession of marijuana with intent to sell.
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"the armed robber belongs to the upper class," he said. "He is the elite. To the prisoners he is braver than any of the other criminals, and also possesses more machinaction."
"THE MIDDLE CLASS is composed of auto thefts, small burglaries and those engaged in crimes against property," he said.
Dunbar said skyjackers, big dope patrons and the big counterfelters came next
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"Rapists and child molesters belong to the outcast class," he said.
Dunbar said prison was a microcosm which "offers just about anything you want."
"The educational program at Leavenworth prison is poor," he said, "so the best way to receive an education is to have other inmates teach you."
He said prisoners operated stores, using cigarettes for money; they make their own liquor illicitly, and some even act as teachers to other inmates.
"There are some fantastic artists, entertainers and musicians there and I know two inmates who are better musicians than Eric Clanton," he said.
Dunbar said prison was dominated by a factory called "the green monster." He said two-thirds of the inmates worked in it, but only one-third earned from 17 cents to 85 cents an hour.
HE SAID the administration wanted inmates to work in the factory because it was easier to control someone grooved to the routine when he was in prison and the prisoner would also be more controllable when he not out.
Dubar said he had some problems fining employment since he had been recalled.
"Ex-cvons considers themselves a minority," he said, "and we demand opportunities like all other minorities. We are not willing to stand idly by."
He said former convicts today were more aware of their rights as human beings because they "see bigger crooks on the outside than we do within jail."
HE SAID former prisoners couldn't obtain employment because they had tainted records. They must do something to survive their shell and end up in prison again, he said.
He said most people thought that society created the first-time offender and that the prison system created the second-time convict.
He thought most convicts came from ghettoes and poor families, and that the best way to prevent criminals was to help them before they got into trouble.
"I believe it’s the other way around," he said. "The offender the first time sees both sides and has a concept of right and wrong. It’s not that what is right is only what he wants."
"The system we have now dealing with juvenile delinquents just doesn't work," he said. "Why should thousands of social problems be caused by a failed perpetute the same fadul system."
Dunbar is trying to earn a living by playing a guitar and starting a tennis school for girls. He studied both music and tennis while in prison. He is also negotiating for the release of an album he wrote titled "American Justice."
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He said he had to watch every move he made while on parole.
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