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Wednesdav. November 28,1979
University Daily Kansar
Prison...
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street (prison yard), said Ed Bell, who was at Lansing since 1953. Bell spoke slowly and calmly, and would probably have talked about zoning to the store for bread.
"IF YOU KNOW this is going on, you get a knife and confront him and say, 'Hey, I hear you are asking about me. If he says yeah, you'd best get to stab someone," Bell said.
"When you are in the penitentiary, you are going to see violence; you are going to see young boys get raped. I was walking by you when they came down and young boy down that they had beat bloody. You know it is wrong to do that, but if you step in you are laying yourself open to possibly killing someone or being killed, you can say, 'It's none of my business.'"
This year in Lansing there have been three murders and countless attempted murders, beatings and assaults.
"The other day in the yard I heard a talk and I turned around and saw a guy get stabbed twice. 'Bell said.' My attitude and my relationship with her settle, 'settle your differences and I tell mine'."
IN THE MIDST of this mama lurks rehabilitation, a word that flips around in the English language in a perfunctory way until its meaning is narrowed and obscured.
There are rehabilitation programs, rehabilitation facilities, rehabilitative education programs, and a supportive commitment. All these are ideally intended to create a proper life from a bad one—one that has been forged through perhaps 20 years of association with the profession.
This diversity of lifestyles in prison, intensified by confinement and by social outcasts tethered together, presents a double threat to the successful rehabilitation of
Prison is a crime college for many inmates, a how-to-it-better atmosphere that breeds rather than breaks down criminal attitudes.
"I WOULDN'T HAVE made any money if I hadn't gone to Hutchinson (refer-
maturity," said Bell as he dragged on an ever-present cigarette. "That's where I learned about crime. I was released in '72 when it happened." But that it was a nickel-and-dime operation.
Three years after his release from Hutchinson in 1975, he shot four people to death over $50 worth of cocaine.
Now Bell is in Lansing. He is a big man, about six feet five inches, 248 pounds, with a shock of black oil hair. He speaks closely, like a man who is habitually careful.
DURING AN INMATE's term, prison officials endear to correct his unsocial behavior while he tries to survive the rigors of prison life.
He is serving five consecutive life sen-
tence in the state of New York in 1990. The maximum time an person skies in prison for murder before seeing a parole board is 15 years, but his release is not delayed.
"I've never seen a place as treacherous as this place," said Elmer Swain, who is serving 30 years for aggrandgiving robbery and assault. "You can get killed for mending his own business."
Swain speaks in a soft whisper, and this time he leamed forward for emphasis. "This is a breeding ground for maniacs." It tears you down slowly if you are a maniac.
Prison officials are also aware of the effects of confinement and prison life.
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"SOMETHING VERY traumatic happens up here," said Robert Aldka, acting co-founder of the company in his head with his finger. "You start doing what we tell you without asking why. When you ask for help, you get out of here and you're like a fish out水, and they come back one
Murderers have the lowest recidivism
Dannie Hoffman conceived of first-degree murder, is busy doing what occupies most of a prisoner's time at Lansing—nothing
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RECIDIVISM RATES remain high, officials say, because a large part of the rehabilitation process hangs on an inmate's attitude.
rate of any criminal. Criminalists think this is because murder is a crime of passion and because a murder situation rarely repeats itself in an individual's life.
"I would say 99 percent of rehabilitation is the inmate's attitude," said Aardal Bauford, R.D. "If you're a bad inmate, you doesn't put anything into the program, if he's not prepared for it, the best program is to take it home."
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Unit Teams at Lansing try to mix correctional officers with inmates in face-to-face situations.
Buford said it was important that prisoners try to foster relationships with inmates when an inmate has a problem, he will more likely talk to a guard in casual conversation than to a teacher.
WILLIAM ARNOLD, associate professor of sociology at KU and a criminology specialist, said he agreed.
"One of the few programs that seems to be effective in prison rehabilitation is
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establishing a relationship in the work place or cell block with the guards. This way imitate can establish a rapport without having to admit they have a problem to deal with.
However, the convict code of ethics—"Don't talk to the man" makes relationships between guards and inmates difficult.
If an inmate is seen talking to a guard too often, he might be labeled as a sniff. One of two things happens to a sniff in prison. He is caught by the police and is a prison where his reputation is not known.
BUFORD SAID A rehabilitation technique he would like to try at Lansing would be to separate first-time offenders from regular traffic in hindrance at Lansing was the building itself.
sua films
Wednesday, November 28
THE PAWNBROKER
Directed by Sidney Lumet. Rud Steiger gives his finest performance as a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz in Ranus and runs a pawnbroker.
*Discussion and refreshments to follow the film in the international Room. Co-sponsored with Hillel.
Friday & Saturday,
November 30-December 1
THE INNOCENT
(1979)
Directed by Luchino Visconti, with Glancare Glancare, Laura Antonelli and James Hunt's last film, completed after his acclaimed an entertaining film of a man, his
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Sunday, December 2
DR. STRANGELOVE
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick, with Pet seller, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden and Slim Pickens. Annie Hall. Plus: Drusa Vector's "Southern Tolets."
Monday, December 3 THE QUIET MAN
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Directed by John Ford, with John Woolsey, Owen C'Mann and Barry Fitzgerald. The fighter who tries to lead a quiet life in an abusive society accidentally killing a man in the ring.
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"I not saying anything's wrong with the "place," he said. "It was just designed for another century. It was designed for a guy in and bucks and read his Bible all day."
"Most of the things we are doing are in spite of the facility. The facility just isn't designed to complement."
Lansing was built in 1876 as a state prison. Arnold said one of the most important rehabilitation techniques was to separate the criminal from criminal influences.
**YOU TAKE JOE OFFENDER, and you put Joe in a community setting totally different from your workplace. You would have to modify the behavior of Joe's wife or girlfriend, employees at work, or students studying abroad for recreation, his bowling league. But people won't put up with total government interference.**
"Immates have civil rights, too. You can't change them without taking away their rights in the process. You would have to control people's relationships."
But an inmate's attitude and his cooperation remain important if rehabilitation stands a chance.
This is the paradox of rehabilitation. The problem confronting rehabilitation is the fact that, if a patient will experience of his prison experience, and will prisoners will experience it, and because there will always be
"Prison has helped me," said Bell. "For the first time in 30-some years, I look a good look at myself. You have to get to pull your own weight. You've got to be."
I was a selfish, lazy person. Now, I'm 38 years old. At 34 most people are a success. I can't be a success."
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