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'Scared Straight"
To Air on WPTF-TV
7 rm ""!
"Scared Straight!," a
hard-hitting Academy
Award winning documen
tary about a prison pro
gram designed to scare Che
crime right out of juvenile
delinquents, will be broad
cast May 18 from 9-11
p.m. on Television 28. r
Host Peter Falk guides
us through Rahway State
Prison in New Jersey and
we witness an extraor
dinary program developed
by a group of hardened,
criminals in that max
imum security prison. An
unlikely group of crime
fighters, these ( convicts,
serving life sentences for
murder and other major
cirmes, have . committed
themselves to helping
juveniles get back on the
right track,. r;
Twice each day, with
the full support of the
prison -officials and the
surrounding community,
a group of juveniles enters
the prison to serve a three- v
houri'sentence."
The cameras allow us to
join one such group of 17
chronic juvenile offenders
as they get a dose of the
prisoners' special brand of
"shock, therapy." The
frightened younsters are
forced to listen as the con
victs describe in brutal and
explicit detail the horrors
and realities of prison life
the homosexual rapes,
suicides and murders, the
boredom, bells and
brutality. The convicts
shout, swear and threaten
violence whatever it
takes to shock the kids in
to realizing the conse
quences of their lives of
crime.;
To date, more than
10,000 teenagers have
gone through the "lifers"
program at Rahway. Par
ticipating communities
report that 80 to 90 per
cent, are scared ... into
"going straight" ; by; the
terrifying experience, ,
A word of warning
about "Scared Straight":
The prograny documents
an actual session in prison
and the language and
descriptions of conditions
are presented as they oc
curred. The people in the
film are not actors, but
real convicts and juvenile
delinquents. In order to
preserve the essence of this
effective method of crime
prevention, the film has
not been censored.
While this daring slice-of-life
documentary will
most probably gain
notoriety for its explicit
and brutal language,
Durham Life Broad
casting Service hopes it
will encourage people to
talk about solutions to one
of the major problems of
today's society the
epidemic of juvenile
crime.
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Encourgos Leon ScHivcn I o
Fight African Apartheid -:
Peabo Bryson
In Raleigh
Peabo Bryson look a momenj out from his SRO performance in Raleigh to meet
the PD's from the market. Pictured are L-R: Paul Ingram, Operations Manager
WLLE; Peabo Bryson; Alvin Stowe PD WDl!R; & Morris Rogers S.E. Regional
Promotion Capitol. The occasion; was also a birthday party after the show for In
gram and Rogers.
The Religious Leader '
Summit Conference spon
sored by the International
Freedom Mobilization at
the - United Nations'
Church Center responded
enthusiastically to the
position of the Organiza
tion of African Unity
when their representative
gave the official African
policy on Rev. Leon
Sullivan and his attempts
to attack apartheid by su
ing the "Sullivan Prin
ciples". The black Baptist
preacher who started
patronage boycotts in
Philadelphia against ma
jor corporations to obtain
jobs for black workers
had told black religious
leaders of the United Na
tions' Church Center
Summit Conference of his
plans to help eliminate the
hated apartheid system.
The OAU represen
tative at the United Na
tions said, We of course
are unequivocally opposed
to apartheid and en
courage the forces that are
" fighting militarily and
economically against it.
However, because we
believe that Dr. Sullivan's
efforts might be helpful,
we do not discourage what
he is doing. We wrote him
a letter to continue to try
to enforce the guidelines
calling on United States
businesses to ignore the
strict racial separation
laws." The ministers at
tending the "Sullivan
Principles Workshop"
voted for a board resolu
tion attacking apartheid
and called for economic
sanction and the breaking
of diplomatic relations,
but did not attack either
Rev. Sullivan or the prin
ciples. The first Atlantic telegraph
cable was opened in 1858.
Federal Agencies Fail
To Enforce Rights Of
rants, Farmworkers
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RALEIGH The
North, Carolina Advisory
Committee , to the U.S.
Commission on Civil
Rights charges that state
and federal agencies do
not enforce the laws that
ensure the rights of
migrant and seasonal
farmworkers. In its report
release
Committee said camp, con-'
ditions : are often
deplorable, abuse in
recruitment, pay and in
the provision: of adequate
meals Is common and the
food stimps are often dif
ficult to get in some coun
ties. The ' r eighteen-month
study 1 of the Advisory
Committee focused on the
enforcement of laws
related td migrants and
the accessibility of legal
services to migrants. Dep
site the lack of enforce
ment of the law on the
part of federal or state
agencies, it was found that
migrants have almost no
chance to seek relief
through civil legal action.
Since the study was
begun, one legal aid pro
ject has been established
in Sampson County as the
result of a federal grant.
The Advisory Committee,
however, , says more are
needed and that the state
should help fund them.
Rev W.W. Finlator, a
Raleigh minister and
Chairperson of the Ad
visory , Committee, cited
conflicting laws and
responsibilities as well as a
lack of coordination as the
reasons for what he term
ed "a climate which not
only permits but promotes
the exploitation of a
helpless group of people."
The state agencies in
volved are the Employ
ment Security Commis
sion, which fills work
orders for farmers, and in
spects migrant camps
before they are occupied;
The Department of
Labor, which inspects the
camps after they are oc
cupied and the Depart
ment of Human Resources
i which inspects both before
and after occupancy.
The Human Resources
inspection is required by
state law, the other inspec
tions are required by
federal law. The camp
'operator, or farmer, can
,be in compliance with the
state law and still be
Violating federal law.
) The Federal Depart
jnent of Labor receives
criticism from the Ad
visory Committee also.
Three divisions of U.S.
Ubor are responsible for
rnforcing four laws
related to migrant and
jull reveiw of the work of
the Department of Labor
on behalf of
farmeworkers, is needed.'
A reorganization which
would put. the enforce
ment of farmworker law
under one division of the
department should be con
sidered," according to
Bobby D. Doctor,
rector, at -the-.
..u.fc; , . commission- on
Civil' Rights! The tf.S.
Department of Labor has
already been found guilty
of illegally supporting
state agencies which,
among other infractions,
referred farmworkers to
jobs where the living and
working conditions
violated housing, health,
and sanitation laws and to
unlicensed crewleaders or
to those who operate il
legally. The rulings of the
U.S. District Court,
District of Columbia in
NAACP v. Brennan were
made in 1973, 1974 and
November 1978.
The North Carolina Ad
visory Committee also
recommends that North
Carolina designate one
agency to administer
farmworker law. Based on
information gathered
from federal and state of
ficials and farmworker ad
vocates, it was recom
mended that the state law
governing the sanitation
of migrant camps be
repealed and that the State
Department be solely
responsible for camp in
spections. '
Chairperson Finlator
said the revelation that
some county food stamp
offices use unusual and
burdensome procedures to
determine if migrants
qualify for food stamps
was among the most
"shocking" facts un
covered in the Advisory
Committee's 18-month
study. Often the ultimate
result is the denial of food
stamps to persons in need.
"Although officials of the
State Department of
Human Resources say
they cannot make the
county agencies change
their procedures," said
Regional Director Doctor,
"the U.S. Department of
Agriculture cequires that
the food stamps , be
distributed under uniform
regulations, and it is the
state's responsibility to see
that it is done."
The Advisory Commit
tee will forward the report
to the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights in
Washington for action on
the federal level.
The U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights is an in
dependent bi-partisan
agency which collects in-
iormauon relating to the
rints oi women
minorities,
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