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Prison officials call for chaoses
By ROBERT BERRY
Staff Writer .
Early releases due to prison over
crowding are crippling the criminal
justice system and major reforms are
needed to solve the problem, prison
officials say.
'The crisis is never over," David
Guth, public information officer for the
N.C. Department of Corrections, said
Wednesday.
On Oct. 13, the state prison popula
tion went over the "supercap" of 1 8,000
mandated by the state legislature and
remained over the maximum for five
days. When that happens, Sam Boyd of
the Parole Commission said Wednes
day, parole officials lose their 'discre
tion over parole decisions and any eli
gible prisoners must be released.
"When we top 18,000, we lose the
ability to say no," Boyd said.
Since the five days spanned a week
end, there wasn't time for many re
leases and the effect was "minimal,"
Guth said. However, the emergency is
not over, and the state has until Dec. 22
to reduce the prison population to 97
percent of the 18,000 cap, or 17,460.
Relief money available for N.C. disaster
By WAGNER DOTTO
Staff Writer
North Carolina would be able to come
up with more money in the event of
another natural disaster, even though
Hurricane Hugo has substantially hurt
the state budget, said a spokeswoman
for the Department of Crime Control
and Public Safety in Raleigh.
"If there is another emergency in the
state we're going to find the money to
help the victims," said Renee Hoffman.
She did not specify the sources where
Gorbachev outlines
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HELSINKI, Finland Soviet Presi
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that Moscow would cut its nuclear
forces in the Baltic Sea and would
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On Wednesday, the population was
17,662.
Boyd said while parole decisions
were once made solely on the basis of
risk to society and the prisoner's ability
to survive on the outside, now numbers
must be considered.
"We would say that there are people
being paroled today that should not be
paroled. That is a fact."
During the last fiscal year, Guth said
the department had 21 ,000 admissions,
and this year it anticipates more than
24,000. Capacity remains constant at
18,000.
"What this means is that when some
body comes in the front door, some
body has to go out the back door," Boyd
said.
He said 500 new prisoners arrived
each week. "I don't see how we can
continue to take in the numbers we're
taking in now."
Even with new prisons completed,
North Carolina will be unable to meet
the accepted minimum standard of 50
square feet per prisoner with a popula
tion of 18,000.
"It's not the parole commission's
the money could be taken from.
North Carolina is expected to spend
an estimated $10 million in relief for
Hurricane Hugo's victims. That value
would represent only 25 percent of the
total money to cover the losses. The
federal government is expected to pro
vide the remaining 75 percent.
If Hugo had cost more than $15
million for the state, the situation in
North Carolina would be characterized
as a "catastrophic disaster" and the
destroy four aging submarines and the
nuclear missiles they carry.
Gorbachev also said the Soviet Un
ion has removed all tactical nuclear
missiles that could strike the northern
European region, and it would take
certain types of sea-launched nuclear
weapons out of the Baltic Sea.
In a 45-minute speech to Finnish
business leaders, politicians and other
guests on the second day of a three-day
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fault," Guth said. "It's the failure of
public policy."
Boyd agreed that public emphasis
on incarceration as punishment the
temptation to say "lock him up"
must change and the public must under
stand the seriousness of the problem.
Shorter prison terms and early releases,
he said, have led criminals to consider
imprisonment "a simple cost of doing
business."
"We have severely damaged the
integrity of the entire criminal justice
system," he said.
Building more prisons, while proba
bly necessary, is not the answer, Boyd
said, citing the example of California,
which recently spent $2 billion more
than its education budget to build
new prisons, only to find them immedi
ately full.
"It's time to try something differ
ent." Boyd said sentencing reform and
alternatives to incarceration offering a
lesser degree of supervision were
needed. Some such programs are elec
tronic house arrest, which uses elec
entire amount would be covered by
federal agencies, Joseph Myers, direc
tor of the state Division of Emergency
Management, said this week.
The N.C. General Assembly had set
aside only $900,000 for emergencies
for the entire year, which is far less than
the $10 million that actually might be
spent.
Gov. Jim Martin, trying to raise extra
money for relief, is expected to ask the
Council of State next week to dip into a
$30 million reserve fund that had been
planned
visit to Finland, Gorbachev repeated
his hope to eliminate nuclear weapons
from the 148,600-square-mile Baltic
Sea.
Fraud
Fox case allowed public universities to
limit commercial speech on campus.
Formerly, universities were required to
adhere to the "least restrictive means"
of limiting commercial speech. Schools
can now draft more restrictive regula
tions. Kuncl said he did not want regula
tions that would endanger the civil lib-
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tronic devices to monitor a convict's
whereabouts, and intensive probation,
under which those on probation must
report as often as daily to probation
officers; While these methods are avail
able on a limited basis in some N.C.
counties, Boyd said he would like to
see a comprehensive shift away from
imprisonment toward these forms of
punishment.
"There are some people in prison
who I think, in the future, will have to
be punished in some other way than
incarceration," Boyd said.
Guth said prison is appropriate for
some, such as drug kingpins and deal
ers. "Those people need to be behind
bars and taken off the streets." How
ever, he said many other drug users, as
well as DWI offenders, may be better
off in community service and treatment
programs. The public doesn't realize it
must pay the cost of tough laws like
crackdowns on casual drug users, he
said.
"We know we can't put everybody
behind bars. We have to pick and
choose."
set up to cover rising health-care costs
for state employees.
It is difficult to predict the exact
losses Hurricane Hugo brought to North
Carolina, said Tom Ditt, public infor
mation officer at the N.C. Division of
Emergency Management.
"Until the whole operation is over
there is no way to say how much it will
cost." Ditt said the state would be ready
to respond to any kind of new and
unexpected emergency situation.
cots in Soviet nuclear forces
"We are prepared to come to agree
ment with all the nuclear powers and
the Baltic states on effective guaran
tees for the nuclear-free status of the
erties of individuals and companies.
But "I don't want students to be victims
of companies," he said.
At UNC, new regulations might
permit individuals, roommates or
suitemates to hold sales meetings, but
would prohibit large group sales, Kuncl
said. Such a change would eliminate
the group dynamic that operates in such
sales meetings, he said.
Regardless of University policy,
Bernholz offered advice for any buying
situation. "Take your time; if they're
rushing you or not wanting you to call
your parents, beware."
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Recovery from earthquake
continues on West Coast
From Associated Press reports
SAN FRANCISCO President
Bush's signature Thursday added
$3.45 billion to help Northern Cali
fornia heal the wounds of a killer
earthquake, as residents and busi
nesses tear down what can't be fixed
and look to the emotional salve of a
World Series and Halloween.
Crews were starting to tear down
some of the "red-tagged" buildings
those determined unsafe and
demolition continued at a 1-mile
stretch of Interstate 880 in Oakland.
For the first time since the Oct. 17
quake, tolls were charged on the
Golden Gate Bridge on Thursday,
partly because an average of
$107,300 a day had been lost and
partly because the free ride seemed
to encourage driving at a time when
officials are trying to persuade people
to use public transportation.
U.S. economy up 2.5 percent
WASHINGTON The U.S.
economy shrugged off Hurricane
Hugo and the poorest trade perform
ance in six years to grow at a moder
ate 2.5 percent annual rate from July
through September, the Commerce
Department reported Thursday.
The department said that the in
crease in the gross national product,
the country's total output of goods
and services, was accompanied by a
dramatic slowing of the inflation rate.
A price index tied to the GNP rose at
an annual rate of 2.9 percent, the
slowest in three years, as both energy
and food costs moderated.
The combination of moderate
growth and lower inflation was hailed
by the Bush administration.
Baltic Sea," he said in a nationally
broadcast speech in Helsinki's Finlan
dia Hall.
Gorbachev said the Soviet Union
Bernholz will conduct a program on
contracts Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in
the Ehringhaus Green Room, said
Ehringhaus Area Director Kari Turco-
Threshold
Rifkin, president of the Greenhouse
Crisis Foundation; Howard Ris, execu
tive director of the Union of Concerned
Scientists; and Mike Potton, legislative
assistant to Rep. Claudine Schneider
(R-R.L), co-sponsor of the Global
Warming Prevention Act.
The Indigo Girls will perform a
benefit concert in Memorial Hall Sat
urday at 9 p.m. Tickets for conference
participants are reserved for those who
preregistered, and tickets for non-participants
have sold out.
Norman Myers, deforestation expert
and World Bank consultant, and Har
vey Wasserman, historian, writer and
figure in the anti-nuclear movement,
will speak Sunday from 9 a.m. to 10:30
a.m. on strategies for the student envi
ronmental movement.
The discussion groups will meet
Saturday and Sunday to debate national
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News in Brief
Hostage's 5th captive birthday
BEIRUT, Lebanon Friday is
another grim birthday for Terry
Anderson, his fifth in captivity since
gunmen seized him after a game of
tennis that had been a brief respite
from reporting Lebanon's civil war.
He will be 42.
He has not held his daughter, born
three months after the morning he
was kidnapped March 16, 1985.
He probably does not know both his
father and brother died of cancer.
The fate of Terry Anderson, chief
Middle East correspondent of The
Associated Press, now appears to be
caught up in a power struggle be
tween Shiite Moslem factions.
He was kidnapped in Moslem west
Beirut by Islamic Jihad, a group loyal
to Iran whose name means Holy War.
Pasta maker under fire
JERUSALEM Israeli manufac
turers have filed a police complaint
against an Arab pasta maker whose
packages of spaghetti are red, white,
green and black the colors of the
outlawed Palestinian flag.
A spokesman for the Israeli Manu
facturers' Association said Thursday
the group has asked police to investi
gate the Al Ghazel Macaroni Co. in
the occupied West Bank city of Beth
lehem. "We asked police to investigate
why they are allowed to distribute the
flag in this way. It should be consid
ered against the law," said Danny
Leish, the spokesman for the group,
Israel's largest industrial association.
was taking the steps unilaterally, drop
ping previous conditions that Western
countries first agree to a nuclear-free
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george. She encouraged students to
attend because contracts can "impact a
student in a lot of ways they don't
anticipate."
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campaign strategies, Langman said.
"We'll just brainstorm and come up
with ideas for a creative national cam
paign." Kurz said a "facilitator" would rep
resent each group at the assembly on
Sunday. The facilitators will vote for
one short-term campaign for this se
mester and one long-term campaign to
end April 22, 1990.
The details for a national SEAC board
of directors will also be decided this
weekend, Kurz said. Each of the 18
regions will elect representatives to the
board after the conference, she said.
The conference, which has been in
the works since March, will probably
cost about $30,000, but funding from
government agencies, private donors
and foundations, Student Congress, and
academic departments at UNC, Duke
University and N.C. State University
will cover the costs, Langman said.
The conference may become a bien
nial event, Langman said. "I'm sure it's
going to happen in the future. I seri
ously doubt it will be at UNC next year.
This is a tremendous undertaking. It
will probably be in two years on a
different campus."
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