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Hu- Krd and Black, Thursday, May 9, 1974
OLD FACILITY FIRE TRAP'
Commission considers new county jail
Photo by BETH JOHNSON
FRAMPTON TRIO WILL PERFORM "POP WITH C LASS"
Sunday-scheduled program will center on piano music
Frampton to appear
at Fine Arts Sun.
Frampton freaks here's your chance to enjoy top-notch
nightclub entertainment in the comforts of your own Fine
Arts Auditorium as the University Union presents the Mac
Frampton Trio with “Pop with Class" on Sunday, May 12
at 8 p.m.
Lead by highly-touted pianist Mac Frampton, the Trio
performs highlights of musical composition ranging from
Chopin to Top 40 ravers. The two-hour program will be
centered around Frampton's piano and personality.
Frampton has more awards and credits than Mark Spitz,
including international piano awards, work with the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, tube coverage, directing
the Broadway show, “I Ho, 1 Do” and the release of his
first attempt at vinyl pressing.
In between tours and awards, Frampton is working
towards a doctorate in music at the Cincinnati Conserva
tory. Here he inel up with percussionist Tony Phillipps and
bassist Douglas Smith They proved that three's not a
crowd as they perfected the Trio. Phillipps is known for his
adeptness with the marimba while Smith arranges and
composes music when when he's not blasting on his bass.
With backgrounds in jazz, popular and classical music,
the Mac Frampton Trio has conjured up a major following
in the nightclub and community concert fields. Frampton
won't be wearing Leon Russell's white rhinestone-and-
roses cowboy hat. But you won't ever catch Leon Russell
boogying to Mozart either, so give the Trio a try.
Editor's note: The Clarke Coun
ty Commission will discuss
raising funds for a new county
jail at their next meeting,
according to Jim Holland,
chairman of the commission.
The following is a look at the
controversy surrounding the
conditions at the jail, and the
necessity and possibility of
building a new one.
By THOMAS R. FRANKLIN
For years, officials in Clarke
County have been debating the
need for a new county jail.
Next month the County Com
missioners will discuss action
toward raising money for a
new facility.
Grand jury reports have
been negative on the existing
facilities for the past 10 years,
and the prison, which is located
on top of the county courthouse,
has often been criticized as a
fire trap.
Recently the Citizens Advi
sory Committee on the Joint
Building Complex recommend
ed that the county build a
justice center that would in
clude new jail facilties and
courtrooms.
COST OF the facility is
estimated at $5 million. Accord
ing to Tom Harrold, committee
chairman, ideal financing
would be 50 percent from the
Law Enforcement Assistance
Agency (LEAA) and the state
and the county spliting the
other half of the cost evenly.
"As far as I know LEAA has
no funds for capitol improve
ments," disagreed Jim Holland,
chairman of the county com
mission, "It would have to be
all local bond money.”
Holland explained that the
commission has not yet taken
action on the committee recom
mendation because they didn't
feel that "the climate is right
to call a bond issue right
now."
He feels that the bond would
be opposed at present due to
the delay in getting out the
1973 tax bills and the unknown
status of what 1974 values are
going to be, among other
things.
"To build something like this
would take a bond issue and
there is no need in going to the
people when you know it’s
going to be beaten,” he said.
"WE RE GOING to talk a
bout it, probably next month
during our budget time, and
see if we can arrive at what we
consider a proper time to call
it, because it is something that
is needed, no question about
that,” Holland stated.
Although Holland feels that a
new jail is necessary, there is
much disagreement over the
adequacy of the Clarke County
jail and its ability to meet
minimum jail standards requi
red by state law.
"I would say they are meet
ing the requirements as far as
the law and regulations are
concerned,” said Coleman Nor
ris, county environmentalist,
who is in charge of inspecting
the jail to see that it is
maintained in compliance with
minimum standards.
Although the jail was judged
to be slightly below minimum
standards on Norris' last visit
(94 points out of a needed 100
to meet minimum require
ments), Norris says that a lot
of work has been done recently
to bring the jail up to stan
dards.
NORRIS ADMITS that a new
jail would be an improvement,
but "as far as being able to
keep the prisoners comfortable
and in sanitary conditions they
can do it there, and I feel that
they are," he said.
Opinions on the adequacy of
the jail differ. “It doesn’t
appear to me, just from a
common sense point of view, to
be adequate at all," said
Harrold. He feels that condi
tions are so bad that “they run
the risk of having an injection
against the use of that facility
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as a jail."
Harrold charges that the jail
is a fire hazard. ‘There are
escape routes, but its question
naire in my mind whether or
not a prisoner could get to
them or somebody could get up
there to let them out," he said
County Commissioner Homer
Cooper agrees with Harrold
that the jail falls down on fire
safety standards. "There have
been changes made in order to
meet the fire marshall’s stan
dards. but these have been
band-aid kinds of things rather
than real changes." he said
According to Bill Condon, the
fire department official who
monitors the jail to insure
compliance with fire safety
regulations, the only require
ment not met is that of an
additional fire escape.
"TIIE JAIL was in bad
shape to begin with," he said
“but to my knowledge, right
now everything the law requi
res has been met, except the
fire escape.”
Most of the problems with
the jail stem from its structure,
according to Cooper. "They
don’t have individual cells, and
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therefore, any prisoner is at
the mercy of other prisoners
until a guard can stop fights or
whatever." he commented
Harrold is also concerned
with the lack of individual cells
and notes that prisoners cannot
be segregated "They have all
sorts of first offenders, young
kids that are up there on a
minor misdemeanor offense,
right in with some of the real
hardened, incorrigible types."
he complained
Cooper also pointed out that
the jail is located on the fourth
floor, while “the sheriff and his
people who are responsible for
the jail are on the first floor "
However, chief deputy Sheriff
"Sarge" Lumley thinks that
the present jail is adequate.
Lumley says that he sees no
need for a new jail and
certainly would not vote for
one as a bond issue.
CONDITIONS at the jail
have drawn fire from different
people around the county. Den
nis Whitfield, chairman of the
Republican party in Clarke
County, pleaded for a new jail
at a recent news conference.
"We desperately need a new
jail and law enforcement build
ing." he said.
Recent grand juries have
also sharply criticized the jail
After inspection, both of the
last two juries reported that
"we feel that the need for a
new county-city jail should be
considered as of the top priori
ties of this community."
Despite the criticisms sur
rounding it, the county jail has
received milder attacks than
the present city jail or stock
ade
On the same examination
that ranked the county jail
with 94 points out of needed 100
minimum, the city stockade
received only 50 The examiner
pointed out that only 4 percent
of the jails in the state received
that low a rating.
SINCE THEN suggestions to
deal with the problem have
included transferring city pri
soners to the county facilities
The county jail has a maximum
capacity of about 75, according
to Sheriff Tommy Huff.
According to District Health
Chief, John McKinley, the only
practical way to deal with the
problem would be to build a
new facility.
McKinley feels tha* the faci
lity is so old (61 years) that
renovations would be too ex
pensive and that new buildings
would be more practical
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