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Tuesday, March 19, 1968 Griffin Daily News
Prisons In Ark., La.,
Miss. Called Archaic
ATLANTA (UPD—Prisons in
Arkansas, Louisiana and Mis
sissippi have been cited as op
erating under archaic and bru
tal methods, in a report from
the Southern Regional Council.
The report, called “The Del
ta Prisons; Punishment for
Profit,” said that while many
state prison systems in the
South have undergone some de
gree of reform in recent years,
others seem to be moving back
ward.
According to the council, the
report was published because
“the public does not know what
happens in its prisons”.
“Beatings, lashings, bludge
onings and murders, in the
midst of unspeakable living
conditions are commonplaces of
penal history in the region,” the
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report said.
It read further, “The grisly
revelations which have recent
ly shaken the Arkansas Prison
System can hardly come as a
surprise to anyone who is even
vaguely acquainted with the
history of penology in the
South.”
Abolition of the convict lease
system, said the report, pro
duced two different systems; a
work camp system in the South
eastern states, and a state farm
system in the South central
states. Each, according to the
council report, produced their
own kinds of, “exploitation,
brutalization and degradation.”
The report said that in the
working of convicts, “archaic
and brutal instruments” were
used for discipline. The report
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said some of disciplinary mea
sures included, “Beating with
chains, blackjacks, belts, and
electrical tortures ”
The report in describing Mis
sissippi’s state prison at Parch
man, said disturbances among
the convicts there recently have
been attributed by some to fear
that the lash was about to be
reurned as a disciplinary
measure.
Illegal To
Conspire To
Commit Crime
ATLANTA (UPD — Gov.
Lester Maddox Monday signed
into law a measure long sought
by Georgia law enforcement of
ficers, making it illegal to con
spire to commit a crime, and
requiring punishments equal to
the seriousness of the crime.
The apt makes it illegal for
an individual “together with
one or more persons” to plan
crimes, and metes out a one
to-five year sentence or the
punishment prescribed for .the
particular crime—whichever is
less—for a felony. Conspiracy
to commit a misdemeanor is
punishable as such.
Maddox also signed a bill
governing purchase of student
class rings and graduation in
vitations. The law requires lo
cal public school systems to
comply with regulations con
cerning purchases over SIOO,
which the State Board of Edu
cation is instructed to establish.
Maddox said he was planning
to meet with supporters of a
bill regarding the Metropolitan
Atlanta Rapid Transit Author
ity, which he says he plans to
veto. The bill would make
bonds for the proposed system
more saleable, according to the
backers, but Maddox claims
the amendments to the bill
would give the authority a
blank check for spending.
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Youth Award
The Rev. Hartwell Kennedy, pastor of the Second
Baptist Church, presents the Christian Recognition
Award to Miss Carol Davis as the outstanding young
person in the church program during the past year.
She is the daughter of Mrs. Helen Davis, 215 North
12th street. The award climaxed Youth Week at the
church. Young people assumed leadership respon
sibilities throughout the church during the special
week. Hulitt Gloer, president of Southwest High
School student body and member of the West End
Baptist Church in Atlanta, was the youth service
speaker Sunday night at the church.
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Gov. Maddox Confident
Delegates Will Be Loyal
ATLANTA (UPD — Gov.
Lester Maddox said Monday he
is confident that the delegates
who will accompany him to the
National Democratic Conven
tion in Chicago in August will
be loyal to him.
Maddox, whose unit-rule dele-
Bolton Confirms
Drug Problem
At Reidsville
ATLANTA (UPD—State Atty.
Gen. Arthur Bolton today
worked on evidence of drug
traffic into Reidsville State Pri
son, confident there was suffici
ent cause for a full-scale inves
tigation.
Bolton would not say how
large an operation he thought
was going on in the prison, but
said Monday that “beyond a
a shadow of a doubt,” there
was a problem. He said there
is some evidence that prison of
ficers are involved in the drug
rings.
Gov. Lester Maddox and the
State Board of Corrections or
dered the probe after reports
from convicts of $750,000 in
drug transactions going on
within the walls of the 2,800-
prisoner facility.
gation could be challenged at
the convention said, “I plan to
take delegates loyal to the
titular head of the party.” The
Georgia Democratic party’s tit
ular head is the governor.
The governor has made It
clear he has no intentions Ox
OLD FASHION
HOLY GHOST
REVIVAL
Beginning third week with evangelist,
Mary Crews and family at
Sunnyside Holiness
Church
Services each night at 7:30, with
special singing.
Rev. Billy Anderson, Pastor
backing Sen. Robert Kennedy
and he has said he will oppose
him if Kennedy should secure
the nomination.
Regarding telegrams which
Kennedy sent to various state
governors, asking their support,
Maddox said he had received
one.
He said, “I do think it was
error on their part. Someone
must have told them to send
all the Democratic governors a
eopy and they just forgot. Per
haps they have more money
than they have some of the
other things.”