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1 1. lambda JAN. ^79/Page 7_. Gay Voices From Prisons cont. fron p.age ^G 1.) Rape by non-gay inmates . 1‘.) cSsorshlp of taSe/outgolns aail Interference «.) Beatings and verbal harassment by inmates and guards witnout of P'^ison administrations , inmates until they see a prison 5. ) Prison parole boards that wen t^parole g y psychologist and go ’straight t^e right to attend church 6. ) Prison administrations that ^ ^der to make money to be services, attend school, or join work crews in order to used in the commissary onv frpe ' 7. ) Prison administrations that deny gay inmates access to ope y ^7 people through visits or letters. o'Pell 21 employed in a Hew York City crafts studio, became Interested in prisoners while tjorking with a California (Stop the Olympic Prison), a group opposed to prison for 18-26- 5efrfidfffffir?s used bylorkg^; Athletes competing in the 1930 Winter O-.P., an organization supported by the «f f-r-gayVrouJf'^ants ' Construction, local, national, and not into another the facility turned into a center that will serve human needs and n prison that will «--tLftrc;Llina - Ho. 5 in Prisoners In Horth Carolina, an enlightened °^^^°’^Hews md’observer calls a sees a 77-unit, 13,800-Inmate prison system,^that tte to tuild '■'troubled, overcrowded, obsolete .^tions —*^under threat of a federal new cells, improve maintenance 'ipgrade system's first Slack takeover of the state s prisons. ..e '^inyo* action "entirely appropriate" in Muslim chaplain, calling the September, 1978, action entire y at-F light of the estimated 250 to 350 Muslim j.g in prisoners, Reed north Carolina, the 11th most populous ’ ,.„„3ea partly because the state told the Charlotte Observer. The prisons ar states would mean a county sends criminals to prison for in favor of stiff jail term, Reed said. Me also blamed judicial attitude sentences for the state's large prison popu a • "damaged people," Reed, 62, the father of sir. children sees most ““ f because the by-products of society’s ic4s fSled them. the hones the school, or the various social s penal system. After Fortunately, many citizens are mc-C'^senior Jason Dotjdle wrote the visiting the Polk Youth Center in ^^^^^"arresponsibillty. Daily Tar Heel and eloquently considered orisons is the responsibility "Lerything that does or does not f act on our behalf but of the state, and thus of the people. If we a either responsi- don't Icnow or attempt to be dAuschwitz claimed ignorance of bility or sense. The Germ^ people aromdJusc vjhat Tras going on inside, too. Yet hi iT judge us?" RESOURCES Brian O’Dell H.Y. Gay Prisoner Support Union ilewslette P.O. Bor. 2 Village Stn. „ r 27705 Hew York, M.Y. 10014 Durham, N.C. 277J5 JOIN HANDS Box 42242 San Francisco, CA 94142 fr*>P to call Stuart Wells (967-S591). For additional resources, feel fr^e to f'l
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