Thursday, February 13, 1975
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New penitentiary head uses practical approach
By GLENN MEYER
Kansan Staff Reporter
Gary Cunei is in charge of a 22-acre mass of steel and concrete that functions primarily to prevent 1,900 men on the inside from getting outside.
Three weeks ago, McCune became the
leader at Leavenworth Federal
Penitentiary.
Despite the imposing nature of his job and the lack of patience, he soft-spoken, not hard and dynamic. Except for an occasional restless movement of his hands, he sits mollentess when he speaks.
He runs one of the country's oldest and largest prisons with a practical approach.
That doesn't mean, McCume says, that a prison shouldn't try to help those who want it.
"If rehabilitation is the sole issue," he says, "a prison is the place where we should try to accomplish it. Rehabilitation can best be done in the community."
"BEYOND THE OBLIGATION to contain people, our mission is to help them resolve problems that arise during confinement or when we have to work in the field, make opportunities available to those who want to improve themselves," he says. "I think we have a lot of men who are interested in changing their lives and the ones they've gotten into, in and out of prison."
MUCCINE SAYS his style in running a prison is to talk to the inmates as much as
"immates want to find out just how far you're willing to go and what you plan to do."
"I don't like inmates to operate on rumors. That's a dangerous thing to let inmate run around."
McCune says a major problem in the controversy about inmates' civil rights is that the state has been insulted.
"An inmate has some basic rights," he says. "One is the right to human treatment."
"BUT IF HE INTERPRETS his rights to the point that he thinks it's his perogative to dictate how the institution is to be run, I think that's where his rights end."
One route is through a relatively new府 system, a system called administrative remedy."
If an inmate has a complaint or question about the way he is being treated, he has to be informed. The police will inform him.
An inmate who chooses to use administrative remedy submits a formal complaint to the department involved. He gets a receipt for the complaint, and a deadline is usually set for hearing the complaint.
IF THE INMATE IS disatisfied with the hearing, he can appeal to the warden, to the regional office of the U. Bureau of Prisons and Correctional Services, or the bureau's headquarters in Washington, D.C.
If he is still dissatisfied, McCune says,
The prisoner can appeal to the federal
courts, write to his lawyer, to a court judge,
or to write to the attorney general.
President or to a newspaper. Federal prison
MCCUNE SAYS THERE IS a fixed procedure for disciplining inmates.
guidelines prohibit the inspection of such manneled anews before the vleave the priser
When a person enters the penitentiary, he gets a list of prohibited acts and corresponding punishments, as well as a warrant for an inmate's rights and responsibilities.
If the staff reports that an inmate has violated a rule, he has to have a hearing within 24 hours. At that hearing, he may defend himself. He may call witnesses and select a member of the staff to counsel him in his defense.
If he is found guilty, he may receive one of a variety of punishments ranging from a verbal reprimand to "segregation"—or both. He may be placed in a cell block set aside for that purpose.
An inmate who wants to appeal the result of the hearing may follow the same
MCCUENE 15, a young age for a warden at Leavenworth. The three previous wardens to McCune were older men who retired after one or two years.
procedure as the inmate who makes a complaint.
McCune joined the U.S. Bureau of Prisons as a case worker 14 years ago. In 1972, he became warden of the federal reformatory for young adults in Petersburg, Va. At that time, he was the youngest warden in the bureau.
His first reaction to the Leavenworth penitentiary was, he says, "Not much." It was bigger and older than most and had an impressive staff. he says.
McCune says the penultimate has a good academic program that ranges from remedial (below fifth grade) to college work.
In addition, he says, it has a good vocational training program in computer science.
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By Jean Girandoux Adapted by Maurice Valency
"The Madwoman of Chaillot"
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University Theatre—Murphy Hall
February 16 at 2:30 p.m.
February 14, 15, 20, 21 at 8:00 p.m.
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