Prejudice crackdown announced by HEW
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Nixon Administration announced yesterday a crackdown on suspected violations of federal school desegregation laws in 14 non-Southern states from California to Connecticut.
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In a report to Congress, Secretary Robert H. Finch of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) said that in the past, "the efforts of this department have fallen far short of equal enforcement of the law, North and South."
Acting under the 1964 Civil Rights Act forbidding federal financial assistance to any local program or activity practicing discrimination, Finch said officials of six school districts in five states had been notified of apparent violations of the act.
Altogether, school districts in these states are under review or have been recommended for review, he said.
He said two other districts had been referred to the Justice Department for possible action.
Furthermore, Finch reported that HEW has bolstered the Northern staff of its civil rights office to the point that it is bigger than the staff assigned to enforce nondiscrimination
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Murton related that an inmate was stripped and strapped down, the live wires attached to sensitive parts of his body and the crank turned to generate a flow of electricity until the prisoner faints.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) — A former Arkansas prison head, fired after he stirred up an investigation of inmate murders, told a Senate hearing yesterday that the nation's prisons are "monster-producing factories."
Thomas O. Murton, who said he was dismissed as superintendent of Arkansas State prisons because he "dug up bodies of inmates I believed were murdered," displayed to a Senate subcommittee an array of torture instruments he claimed were used on prisoners.
Further, he charged, youngsters as young as 14 are sent to Arkansas prisons where they fall under the control of "a group of armed inmates, some of whom are vicious, violent and emotionally deranged felons."
Murton said a 1966 investigation showed that Arkansas prisons were festering with inmate abuse and official corruption including death, threats, shooting of prisoners, gratuitous beating with rubber hoses, black jacks, brass knuckles, ax handles, torture, stompings, lashings, kickings, sexual perversion and other forms of punishment.
On the racial situation, Murton testified: "The Negro prisoners were segregated in even worse facilities than the whites. They ate only the scraps from the table after the whites finished eating."
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