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Nation/World
Friday, Oct. 25, 1985
Criminals might walk free
United Press International
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Hardened criminals who should be locked up will walk the streets because of a federal court order barring the state from hiring inmates to Tennessee's overcrowded prisons, of officials warned yesterday.
"I'm sympathetic to the people of the 'm state." State Sen Frank Lashue said. "They're going to be in danger when they get killed." It out will be dangerous to the public."
Sterling Gray, Davidson County criminal court judge, said, "There will be some cases in which a person is unsafe to be on the streets."
U. S. District Judge Thomas Higgins, saving brutality is "standard fare" in Tennessee prisons, barred the state Wednesday from admitting
new inmates until it meets a 1982 court order limiting convict populations.
Higgins accused Gov. Lamar Alexander and the Legislature of ignoring court orders to put an end to overcrowding and other unconstitutional conditions in the state's 15 prisons — which are dependent onception centers for incoming convicts.
The judge accused state officials of being reckless and indifferent to the 1982 prison reforms ordered by U.S. District Judge L. Clure Morton.
The state filed a motion asking Higgins to modify his order so that the most dangerous criminals could be sent to prisons.
The motion said local jails were not secure enough for murderers, kid-nappers, rapists, habitual drug users and other "Class X" criminals.
Sheriffs reported many jails in Tennessee already were full.
Alexander said he was asking judges to delay sentencing some convicted criminals. He said the state's 95 sheriffs telegrams asking them to accept more state prisoners.
"I'm full up, and if I can't find someone else to keep them for me, I like to go to the store."
In Sevier County, Sheriff Carman Townsend said he already had inmates sleeping on mattresses on the floor.
Chief Deputy B.J. Smith of Shelby County said the judge solved the state's problem but created a greater one for the county jails.
"We send 60 prisoners a month to the Department of Corrections. These are convicted felons," he said.
Technology regulation sought
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The revolution in the telecommunications industry has far outpaced the nation's legal system and new laws are needed to protect the privacy of individuals. Congress was told yesterday.
A report issued by the congressional Office of Technology Assessment said existing federal laws do not adequately cover new and emerging electronic surveillance technologies and leave consumers unprotected from intrusion. Currently, the law is unclear about protecting the privacy rights of people using home computers, cordless phones or even electronic mail
"If protections are not provided, certain new technologies might never be developed and consumers concerned about their privacy might not use (new technologies)," warned OTA's Frederick Weingarten.
OTA issued its report on a request by Rep. Robert Kastenmeier, D-Wis., whose House Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing on his proposed Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which would deal with loopholes in the law.
"This report confirms the need for legislative action to assure that our
citizens are guaranteed the privacy protection they expect," Kastenmeier said.
The congressional report said the contents of phone conversations transmitted in digital form or calls made by cellular or cordless phones are not protected from unauthorized surveillance.
It said existing law provided little or no protection for data communications between computers, digital transmission of video and graphic images and electronic mail messages.
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