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393" USPS 091-380 Crime in Spotlight at NCCU Substance Abuse Summit, Stop the Violence Confab Set r'^m^ M/ill hp in fhp cnntlioht at „i * _r .1 • • Crime will be in the spotlight at jyforth Carolina Central University Xhursday through March 26 as (liree separate conferences address crime-related issues. The national board of the Nation- [ Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice meets in Durham fhursday through Sunday as the as- ociation opens its headquarters of- ice in room 106 of NCCU’s A.N. (Vhiting Building. In addition, the North Carolina chapter of the association meets Friday and Saturday at NCCU. Ses sions will be at the Whiting Build ing and B.N. Duke Auditorium. On March 24, NCCU Chancellor Julius L. Chambers will host a Tri angle area Substance Abuse Sum mit attended by,administrators, law enforcement officers, and substance abuse counselors from the area’s colleges and universities. The Substance Abuse Summit will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the LeRoy T. Walker Physical Edu cation and Recreation Complex. And March 25-26, concerned citizens of Durham will gather to discuss a variety of techniques for stopping violent crime at a com munity conference sponsored by the Durham Interagency Council on Community Education and Recrea tion, in cooperation with NCCU’s Institute for the Study of Minority Issues. The conference will be at the Miller-Morgan (Health SHAGARRIE GRADY, age 4, flnished her blood test for lead poisoning at Head Start. (Photo by Ray hent) Lead Abatement At Operation Breakthrough Continues By Ray Trent When lead was found at the i^hitted School building on Um- lead Street, which houses Opera- on Breakthrough Head Start Cen- :r, immediate action was taken to )lve the problem. O.B. Director Herbert Carter con- iCted Mike Mulheird of Durham ublic Schools Facilities and a plan as drawn up to provide a lead safe ivironment for the children. The Whitted building, along with any other schools and housing cilities, were constructed before *73 when lead paint was forbid- in in such constructions. Workmen immediately began clean up at the Whitted building, where loose paint chips and dust from classroom windows were determined to be the main areas of concern. The workmen are using a High Efficiency Particulate Air (99.97% efficiency) vacuum cleaner. Then they wet wipe the area with a Trisodium Phosphate solution and seal the surfaces with paint. To prevent access to the chew- able surface by children, lattice bar riers are being installed over all windows and wood surfaces up to five feet above the floor. To allow for emergency egress, one of the sections of window lat tice will be easily removable. For ventilation, a window exhaust fan that exhausts 580 CFM of air (which exceeds fresh air standards) has been installed. To ensure a continued lead safe environment, there is a surveillance program in effect to identify and correct any deteriorating condi tions. All of the children at Head Start (over 500) were tested for lead and with over half of the testing com pleted, results were found to be WORKMEN correcting the problem of lead at Operation Breakthrough. (Photo by Ray Trent) Sciences) Building. The National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice will have its board meetings at the Dur ham Omni Hotel, with board mem bers also slated to attend dedication ceremonies for the national head quarters and meetings of the North Carolina chapter’s conference. The dedication of the head quarters office will be at the office (106 Whiting Building) at I p.m. Friday, with an open house begin ning at 2 p.m. A justice roundtable is scheduled Friday by the N.C. chapter, with presentations by two federal correc tions officials and a staff member of the Tennessee Parole Board. Dr. Kathleen M. Hawk, director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, will be a featured speaker at the formal opening of the N.C. chap ter’s spring conference, at 9 a.m. Saturday at B.N. Duke Auditorium. Also scheduled at B.N. Duke Auditorium Saturday is a 10 a.m. "Director’s Forum," featuring chief administrators and senior officials of major correctional departments from across the nation. Sunday afternoon workshops will be held at the Whiting Building on a variety of topics of interest to criminal justice and corrections professionals. The March 24 Substance Abuse Summit was called by Chancellor Chambers to establish strong com munications between the area’s col leges and universities in terms of their responses to drug and alcohol abuse on their campuses. Chancellor Chambers explained his invitation in his letter to his fel low chancellors and presidents, "We realize that criminal activity and drugs canot be successfully thwarted on campus unless there is some effort to involve, inform, and educate the wider community and to exchange ideas, strategies, and concerns through networking." Planning for the substance abuse summit is continuing, but panels in volving student affairs ad ministrators, law enforcement of ficers, substance abuse counselors, and students are expected to be fea tured. The community conference scheduled March 25 and 26 is co sponsored by the Durham Inter agency Council on Community Ed ucation and Recreation, the Dur ham Coalition on Chemical Depen dency, and the institute for the Study of Minority Issues. Its theme will be "Stop the Violence: Neighborhoods and Agencies Taking Action." Cecil Brown, senior assistant city managers of the City of Durham, will be the keynote speaker at an opening session at 6 p.m., March 25, in the auditorium of the Miller- Morgan Building on Nelson Street at NCCU. That session will be fol lowed by a 7:30 p.m. "Town Meet ing," to be moderated by Nick Ten nyson,.director of government rela tions of the Greater Durham Cham ber of Commerce. Panelists for the Town Meeting I include Stale Senators Wib Gulley and Jeanne Lucas and State Repre sentatives Paul Luebke and H.M. "Mickey" Michaux. March 26 activities in the com munity conference include con current workshops on community leadership and involvement in crime prevention. Thurman Hampton, Secretary of the N.C. Department of Crime Control, will be the featured speaker at a March 26 luncheon. A $6 registration fee will be charged to participants in the con ference, to cover costs of the lun cheon and materials for the work shops. Registrations should be made by March 21. Information is available at 493-4554. WILLIAM JEFFERSON, age II, a sixth grade student at Shepard Middle School, won the tide of 1993-94 SpeUing Champ at MSM by defeating 16 other contestants (including some eighth graders) Jef ferson then represented SMS in the County-Wide Spelling Contest He is the son of Ms. Annette Jefferson. (Photo by Ray Trent) y*i**x**x**x**i**i**z**x**i**x**x**i**t**^^^ Meet the Candidates at the NAACP general monthly meeting Sunday, March 27, 4 p.m. at Mount Calvary United Church of Christ 1715 Athens Avenue, Durham Candidates for: Sheriff, State Legislature, County Commission and other offices. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED. Department of Corrections Sees Dramatic Increase In Prisoners RALEIGH — By the end of 1993, the N.C. Department of Correction had tallied an 82 percent increase in the number of offenders it super vised Compared to a decade ago, and.a 35 percent increase in the past five years. According to figures released by the department’s office of Research and Planning 125,627 offenders, including inmates, parolees and probationers, were supervised by the department in 1993 Compared to 68,829 in 1983 and 92,583 in 1988. ' ■ ■ At the end of 1993, the state had 88,376 probationers, 18,188 parolees and a daily average of 20,980 inmates. While 1993 prison admissions increased little over 1992, the 30,995 offenders sent to prison in 1993 is a 60 percent increase over admissions in 1988 (19,325) and a 107 percent increase over 1983 (14,927). - Nearly twice as many offenders were admitted to prison for property Crimes as assaultive crimes, of the 12,018 property offenders, 8,920 were convicted of larceny or breaking and entering. Robbery and assault accounted for 4,265 of the 6,244 admissions for assaultive crimes. Nearly as many offenders were admitted to prison for- narcotic and drug offenses, 6,257, as assaultive crimes. Compared with 1992, 1993 felon admissions. 18,831. increased slightly and 1993 misdemeanant admissions, 12,164, decreased slightly. There were 12,946 offenders sent to prison after being revoked from probation in 1993 compared with 13,606 offenders sentenced directly to prison. of the 22,098 inmates in prison on the last day of 1993, 10,722 were serving lime for assaultive crimes, including 3,107 for homicides and 3,319 for robberies. Another 6,185 were in prison for property crimes, in cluding 3,702 serving convictions for burglary or breaking and entering* There were 4,948 offenders sentenced for public order crimes, including 3,404 convicted of drug crimes. (Continued On Page 2) Despite government efforts, crime rate up Between 1987.and 1991, local, stateandfederalgovemments increased their law enforcement staffs and budgets signifigantly, but the crime rate continued to climb. iMilsI Federal I ■ State and local F i More F V employees U Employees for police, corrections, judicial/legal: 1.8 million More money Expenditures for police, corrections, judicial/legal: $87.6 billion im^criMi on m/KHM $58.7 biMloiT □ •Ql ’91 '87 '91 SOURCES: StatisticaJ Abstract of the United States, Census Bureau, Justice D^>afPnent KRT Infographics/JUDY TREIBLE
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