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Tuesday, March 22, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Cubans approved for release Students who aided at hearings receive news from detainees
By Dayana Yochim Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Hearings for the Cuban detainees held in the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary ended Wednesday, and already, representatives have been notified of approved releases.
Dwaine Hemphill, third year law student and KU organizer of Project Due Process, said that every Cuban at the Leavenworth prison had representation at his release hearing. The hearings began Feb. 8.
"We've already received three postcards from detainees that were approved for release," he said.
Hemphill estimated that the releases of about half of the detainees at Leavenworth would be approved.
The hearings, which were conducted by the Immigration and Naturalization Services, determined which detainees would be eligible for release.
Hemphill said that the Cubans who were denied release would remain in detention until their deportation
hearings.
hearings.
He said the tone of the INS hearings changed after the first few weeks.
"The INS started digging for the positive things the Cubans were involved with," Hemphill said. "They started asking about their families and job skills instead of past criminal violations."
Hemphill said the volunteers also would work on the appeals process, which involves writing a letter to the Department of Justice that summarizes reasons a detainee should be released.
Project Due Process was coordinated by the Atlanta Coalition to Support Cuban Detainees. About 3,800 Cubans were transferred to federal prisons across the nation after rioting occurred at prisons in Oakdale, La., and Atlanta.
Jeff Duncan, executive assistant to the warden at Leavenworth, said the Leavenworth prison had 388 detainees. That is the largest number of
Cubans in any federal penitentiary.
Duncan said that about half of the Cubans originally sent to Leavenworth were transferred to other prisons. He said the prison did not handle the release of the Cubans.
The Leavenworth prison has not yet received information about the release of any Cub detainee, Duncan said. If the detainees who are denied release are kept at Leavenworth, their confinement status will remain the same, he said.
Carla Dudeck, coordinator of the Atlanta-based Coalition to Support Cuban Detainees, said the release of 160 detainees had been approved since February. She said that about 600 detainees had been represented.
Dudeck said that the hearings would continue through April and that the Cubans who had been denied release before the Atlanta and Oakdale riots would be given another hearing.
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