Wednesday, April 12. 1972
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University Daily Kansan
Penal Bill Stresses Rehabilitation
Editor's Note: This is the second of two stories concerning prison reform.
By LESLIE RISS
Kansas Staff Writer
The basic purpose of the 1972 Penal Reform bill is to reestablish the philosophy of punishment by putting emphasis on inmate rehabilitation rather than incarceration. ARO deputy warden at the state penitentiary, in 'anansing,' must be thought of although must be more humane reforms in prisons, serving sentences is not meant to be a comfortable or comforting place.
The bill, which will not affect in 1974, created a secretary of corrections. The secretary will be responsible for the supervision of penal institutions. This office will have the authority to manage the courts and correctional institutions in Kansas.
THE SECRETARY will be appointed by the governor for a term of four years.
Established within this office we work the department of profession, research research and planning, facilities and jail standards, and public
The secretary will have broad access to all the information confine any person sentenced to his charge and may transfer an inmate from one institution to another.
and equipment belonging to the state institutions will be in his care.
The secretary must create programs of classification, designation and training for vocational training, guidance and work and a library to facilitate learning.
IN COOPERATION with the state health department, the secretary will set up medical service at each institution.
The secretary will provide a 40-hour work week during which inmates may gain employment under supervision or vocation training. The new bill allows working inmates to receive not less than 10 cents and cash, not less than $5 per hour amount, however, will be reduced by 55 cents if a prisoner is confined for bad behavior. The present one is higher than the present one.
The work release program already in progress at Lansing is amended in the new bill. Inmates in minimum security facilities are required to be a member of his family is near death, for funnels, to receive health services not available at the institution, for interviews or prospective employers and other purposes if in the public interest.
THE LIMIT to the amount of time prisoners may be away will be 30 days.
Atkins said that this is an
Calgaard Picked As SenEx Head
Ronald Calgaard, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was elected chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee its first meeting Tuesday. Louis Scott Lawrence senior, was chosen vice-chairman.
Calgaard is one of three
faculty members in the
committee. SenEX is comprised
of six faculty members and three
students, elected from the
faculty committee.
Calgaard said that SenEx would direct its immediate attention to charging and appraisal for its business committees. Tentative assignments
for the three standing committees of the University Council have been made, be said, and will be held at the council in the earliest possible date.
SenXeill has no plans to hear a detailed presentation of the preparation which would make Jayshaw Boulevard and Memorial Drive one-way streets and place 400 to 600 yards away from Calgaard said. He said he would SenXeil would have the option in the future to review the plan.
excellent program in that it allows inmates to seek employment and to become part of the working environment
The regular meetings of SenEx will take place at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday for the remainder of the academic year, Calgaard said.
One new section of the bill stipulates that every officer in charge must attend a two-week training session four times a year. This is to ensure that guards closely make sure that guards and officers remain capable of defending their communities.
The new bill requires the secretary to protect the rights of an inmate is forced to labor at an unfortunate not required or that if labor is the personal benefit of an officer, will be taken against the officer.
IF AN INSTITUTION has over 50 inmates, the new bill requires that a minimum of one social worker be available for 100 inmates. A trained psychiatrist or psychologist must be available for every 500 prisoners.
Under the new reforms, the president will be appointed as the warden, will be appointed by the secretary. He must daily examine all aspects of the warden.
Where there is an institution with over 500 inmates, an ombudman who will report to the board of corrections will be provided.
The director has the right to govern the penitentiary and institute new laws which will influence the institution under his care.
THE SECRETARY must establish and equip the state industrial reformatory as a center for minimum security facility.
The bill establishes a citizen's advisory board which will have 25 members serving for four years each. It will report to the state conditions in penal institutions and make recommendations.
Funds have been appropriated for new Kane County Reception and Diagnostic Center" that will be created under the new bill. This center will provide scientific examination and study of each male felony offender so that he can be taken to the nearest hospital for rehabilitation. This center will be in Shawnee County, Texas. The Facility "been created at the
consists of five members. Their duties deal with all matters concerning probation and parole of offenders.
Persons will be eligible for aafter a certain time, for sentience to life improvement a sentence that, after good conduct deductions, equals more
A YOUTHFUL SECURITY Facility will be created at the center.
Atkins said that some prisoners are released without ever having been paroled. These persons are upon leaving will be unknown
If an immate is first paroled, he move able to adjust to the new environment. A penchant for sentientary are better able to have an idea what direction he should go.
Replacing the State Board of Probation and Parole will be the Kansas Adult Authority, which
ATKINS SAID that not until three months ago had any person, group or organization written a conditions or research report about the penitentiary. He said that perhaps many of the reforms more realistic had someone actually seen the institution.
While many of the reforms may improve situations concerning inmates who have no basis and would not benefit every institution, he said. Aimus suggested that penal houses should include those who have come to the prison and not by those who are on what they have read or heard.
HE SAID he was glad that the bill emphasized the rehabilitation principle instead of punishment.
"We must make continual progress toward balancing more to the ground, and punish," he said, "but this is evolutionary change, not
Atkins said that what is needed is a total revamping of the court system, including police agencies, the criminal system and the parole system.
"Penal reform is not the problem. We're talking about people reform—changed people, hopefully for the better," he said.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate Rate Subcommittee Tuesday approved a bill that would give more than 50 million American workers a $2.20 an hour minimum wage.
Committee OK's $2.20 Wage
The measure was opposed by the Nixon administration, which提议 that the present $1.60 floor be raised to $2 by 1974.
Nevertheless, the subcommittee sent the bill along to the full Labor and Public level without a dissenting vote.
The measure would provide a
a minimum twowheel load after an
enormous increase in year-
ear later, for all workers
under the labor-standard
Act before 1986.
For those brought in by the 1966 Act, chiefly employees in large retail stores and some farm floor furniture would go to $1.80 after enactment, $2 a year later, and $2.20 a year after that.
The bill would bring under the law more than six million additional workers.
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