University Daily Kansan, September 29, 1983
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Prison official offers plan to alleviate overcrowding
TOPEKA — The director of the state's penal system proposed steps yesterday to alleviate prison overcrowding, many of which might challenge the prevailing "get-tough-on-crime" attitude of the Kansas Legislature.
Corrections Secretary Michael Barbara went before his Commission on Prison Overcrowding to unveil a three-part program to hold down prison population by the summer of 1984. Barbara said the population at the prison was three-thirds, 3,688 by next June, with maximum capacity targeted at 1,486 inmates.
The penal system now has 3,405 inmates. The optimum, or most desirable, prison population has been set at 2,597.
"We should not expect our dedicated correctional officers and staff in our institutions to work under these stressful conditions, nor should we tolerate the further crowding of inmates when action can be taken to help alleviate these circumstances," Barbara said.
Extra showing planned for 'Day After'
Another showing of the ABC-TV movie "The Day After" has been added to the Lawrence premiere Oct. 12, Judy Billings, spokesman for the Lawrence Convention and Visitor's Bureau, said yesterday.
An 11 a.m. screening has been added to the schedule, which includes public screenings at 1:30 and 5 p.m. A screening by invitation only is scheduled for 8 p.m. Gov. John Carlin is among the dignitaries who have been invited.
Tickets for the showings, which are free, will be available beginning 8 a.m. Tuesday at the Student Union Activities ticket window on the main floor of the Kansas Union and at the Convention and Visitor's Bureau office, 823 Vermont St.
The added showing will increase by about 500 the number of people who will be able to see the film, which is being shown in Woodruff
"The Day After" will be shown on ABC-TV Nov. 20. The nuclear holocaust television movie was partially filmed in Lawrence last fall, and more than 1,200 students were used as extras.
Discontinuance draft to be discussed
Members of the University Senate will have the opportunity to discuss a revised discontinuance proposal at a special meeting scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17 in the Kansas Union.
The proposal, which was drafted by an ad-hoc committee of the University Senate Executive Committee and later revised by SenEx.
James Carothers, SenEx chairman, said that the meeting would permit open discussion of the draft but that no formal action would be taken.
The proposal outlines procedures that the University of Kansas must follow when eliminating programs for academic reasons.
It also makes provisions for tenured faculty members and students who would be affected by the elimination of an academic program when it is shut down.
Judge lifts KCTV restraining order
KANSAS CITY — A restraining order against KCTV-TV, Channel 5, barring the broadcast of an investigative series on a local business was lifted yesterday.
Judge Wayne H. Phillips, who imposed the order Monday, said he based his decision to lift the ban on legal prohibitions against prior restraint of broadcasts and publications. He said he did not think he could restrain the station under the First Amendment.
The series that had been barred by the restraining order is now scheduled to be broadcast beginning Tuesday evening, said KCTV Community Affairs Director Stan Cramer.
Cramer said that he was pleased with the judge's decision and that the station was shocked to learn he had granted the restraining order in the first place.
The request for the restraining order was filed by A&E Heating & Air Conditioning Inc., which is the subject of KCTV-TV's story, and two of the company's officials.
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Detective says rape suspect admitted entering apartment
The woman testified that the assailant, who wore a white handkerchief over his nose and mouth, entered her apartment through sliding glass doors
The Douglas County District Court charged Jackson on July 28 with 10 counts in connection with the three assaults. He was charged with one count of rape, one count of attempted rape, two counts of aggravated sodomy, and two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of aggravated burglary.
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
BARBARA SULT, the officer, testified yesterday in Douglas County District Court that the man, Dennis M. Jackson, 2414 Oustald Road, also told her during an interview July 27 that he was a carrying a knife at the time. But he did not admit to sexually assaulting the woman, she said.
Jackson pleaded not guilty to the charges at a preliminary hearing on April 23.
THE WOMAN whose apartment Sult said Jackson had admitted to entering testified earlier that on the morning of August 14, she met a man standing over her with a knife.
She said that he held a knife at her throat.
"I was afraid he was going to kill me," she testified.
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She said that he sexually assaulted
her, and was in the apartment for more than an hour.
The woman testified that the assailant later removed his mask, and that she would have no trouble identifying him. When asked whether the person who assaulted her was in the courtroom, she pointed to Jackson.
SHE TESTIFIED THAT the assailant became violent when she tried to escape.
Detective Jim Haller of the Lawrence Police Department testified that Jackson had told him during the July 27 interview that he had been in the country about four years and that he had been sentenced from his wife for about four months.
The two other women Jackson is accused of assaulting also testified yesterday. One was a KU student.
"The only reason I let things happen was because of the knife," she said.
She also testified that while the assailant was in the apartment, he told her that his name was Dennis, that he had been abused and that he had been having marital problems.
THE STUDENT TESTIFIED that the morning of July 11 a man entered her apartment with a knife in his hand and a white手kerchief over his face.
"He said something like, 'Don't scream, don't move, or something like that.'"
The student testified that the intruder asked her where she kept her money, and then stole it.
HER ROOMMATE TESTIFIED that the intruder tried to have intercourse with her but that she wasn't able to do what he ordered.
The student then testified that he had oral sex with her and then raped her.
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Dennis M. Jackson, 2414 Ousdahl Rd., is led to a courthouse in the Douglas County Low Enforcement Center by Douglas County Sheriff's Officer R.D. Osborne. Jackson is charged with sexually assaulting three women.
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