University Daily Kansan, March 9, 1982
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House approves plan for new prison building
By JULIE HEABERLIN
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
After months of tension between legislators and Gov. John Carlin, the house overwhelmingly passed a bill Friday at酬持 $7.1 million for a month's July, on a medium-security prison at Lafayette.
If the bill is passed, the prison would be built to relieve crowded conditions at the Kansas State University.
The bill, part of a $7.4 million appropriations package for the next fiscal year, left out a $1.3 million pension plan for the guards and slashed a million from the governor's original proposal.
State Sen. August Bogina, R-Leneca, chairman of the Select Committee on Prison Construction said yesterday he expected the Senate to easily pass the Senate and Carlin's desk.
Carlin, under pressure from state prison officials, recommended an emergency appropriation in January to speed construction on a new dam. The governor after serious questions arose about security.
A guard was stabbed to death by an inmate, and seven prisoners escaped from the maze.
The recent appropriations, Bogina said, were the first phase of an extended 10-year plan presented by Bogina and Slate Rep. Joe Cahill on Monday for two weeks of intense hearings earlier this session.
THE 10-YEAR plan endorses Carlin's prison proposal and recommends another 700-bed facility at Lansing by 1990. Other key points include accelerated renovations at Kansas State Pententency and proposals for alleviating the loading of the prison while construction is underway.
Frustrated Democrats, who had been accused Republicans throughout the meetings of holding up progress on Lansing problems, immediately approved the plan.
Carlin also signed a bill last week approving money for final prison plans, the purchase of additional land for the prison site and an expansion of communications system at the existing building.
In 1978, Carlin, then house speaker, spearheaded opposition for a medium-security prison proposed by Democratic governor Robert Bennett. Carlin favored a community-based approach and implemented after defeating Bennett that year; hired McManus as corrections secretary in 1979.
EARLY IN February, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a $401,180 emergency appropriation to install a security telephone system at KSP after several meetings with prison guards, who protested about the outdated communications.
During this period, State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita and chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, also proposed a 700-bed, medium-security prison in Wichita, opposing Carlin's recommendation for an attached building at Lansing.
According to State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the appropriations, including the proposed $7.1 million, are federal revenue dollars, but other funding for the projected $70 million program will come from a mill tax.
The tax proposal must be approved as a constitutional amendment by two-thirds of both houses and then approved by the voters in each state. Money can be used for institutional building funds.
The tax would raise about $5.9 million a year, Haven said.
BECAUSE OF A tight fiscal year and questionable handling of current prison renovations by McManus, the Republican-controlled Legislature has moved slowly to appropriate money for a new facility, Bogina said.
"I don't think it was necessarily Democrat or against Republican," he said. "McMann has logos that I didn't have."
Legislators also criticized McMans for a lack of progress on the $3.6 million cellhouse renovation ordered in 1978 but begun only five months ago, Rocina said.
He said McManus presented conflicting testimony to two special legislative prison committees, one investigating personnel and another reviewing prison construction.
good intentions in complaining about the Med Center to the Kansas Civil Rights Commission, but that the changes Justice wanted had already been made.
"Justice alleged a lack of promotion opportunities for minority employees," Williams said. "Only there have been several recent promotions that dispute this."
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Discrimination Prison
Williams said Justice's complaints might have validated two years ago but the recent changes in the rules could make it easier.
Next week's affirmative action program will be directed by Glen Norwood, an instructor of the law school.
THE DISCIRRATION program, funded with a federal grant about two years ago, is titled
But the program, Norwood said, has been plagued by low attendance since its inception.
"Poor response and low representation have been a constant problem with the program," Norwood said. "It's tough to run a program that has little interest."
In January, a report by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs stressed that management needed to attend the Boomerang program, Norwood said.
The OFCCP report also recommended that management receive training in areas of disease.
The OFCCP does not investigate individual complaints but investigates affirmative action programs of companies that receive federal contracts.
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Saturday's six-hour program will center on audience participation and films, Norwood said.
"There's no immediate relief for us," Singleton said. "But they don't have to move us."
"If we say we get along with this person, they don't listen. Anything they don't want us to have, they deny us of, and say it's because of security."
ONE PRISONER said a black man recently as forced to share a cell with a prisoner who had been in hiding.
The prisoners said the overcrowding also resulted in a lack of prison jobs. Prisoners normally spend 14 hours a day in their cells, but the jail is much larger than that, because of the lack of employment.
With only three-fourths of an acre set aside for recreation out of the institution's 11 enclosed acres, overcrowding also caused a lack of recreation space, prisoners said.
"They keep saying, 'Work, work, work.' What are you going to work at?" a prisoner asked.
THE PRISONERS did not blame overcrowding on prison officials, but said the officials were responsible.
"We're intellectuals. We think just like they think. We know what we need here. We're all there."
"All we ask is, treat us like humans," Donahue said. If they worked with us, the prison would be free.
A prisoner who identified himself only as Tom agreed that all the prisoners were united.
"They used to pit inmates against inmates—blacks against whites in here," he said. "But if there is a blowup in this institution this summer, inmates must seriously it's going to be inmate against inmate."
"All the anger is pitted against the guards."
Other prisoners supported Tom, saying he had helped establish such programs as Alcoholics Anonymous, Black Awareness and the Lifers Club at the prison.
"Tom had to fight like hell for these programs, but we don't want them," we said. "We want them to get ourselves."
SINGLETON SAID the prisoners supported the traffics of Patrick McMcnamus, state secretary of corrections.
"He's a progressive individual," he said. "I've seen him on this prison more times than I've seen
"But they want to hold him responsible for everything that's gone down here."
"People can't live like this," Singleton said.
"This is worse than a dog lives."
But a few prisoners said that if McManus and other prison officials did not ease the overcrowded conditions at the prison by summer, as they had been in the treatment of prisoners, an "explosion" would occur.
Donahue said, "We're backed up against a wall. We're going to relieve these pressures any way we can."
"There's going to be some bloodshed this summer."
Linda Moppin, prison public relations director,
said that nearly all of the prisoners' comments
One example of this, Moppin said, was the prisoners' allegations of food shortages at the prison. No such shortages have occurred, she said.
Before the visitors left the activities room, many of the prisoners asked them to come back.
"No one else will listen to us," they said.
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