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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
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