By KITY McKINSEY

OTTAWA (CP) — Federal
penitentiaries are factories
which turn prisoners in
solitary confinement into
apathetic robots’ or
dangerous subversives,
federal correctlons in-
vestlgator Ron Stewart sald
in a report tabled -in
Parliament on Tuesday,

“Tt is difficult to find the
words to sufficiently
dramatize the miserable
conditions that exist for
many of the inmates" put in
eolitary confinement to keep

- peace in prisons, he sald in

his report for the year ended
May 31, 1978,

Stewart echoed the words
of his predecessor, Inger

Tory. calls for
prison reforms

OTTAWA (CP) — A
Progressive Conservative
MP called Tuesday night for
an Investigation of the ad-.
ministration of the “Britlsh

[- Columbia region of the

fedeyal penitentiary service,
saying. it eannot handle
violence in prisons.

Benno Friesen of Surrey-
White-Rock Rock-North

Delta aiso said that asking |

that administration to in-
yestigate a prison dlstur-
bance is like asking a rabbit
to carry lettuce or asking the
Mafia to study violence, or
asking the Ku Klux Klan to
determine whether there is
racism in its own or-
ganization.

The administration would
whitewash itself and a

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thorough housecleaning was
necessary,

He said there have been
seven or eight hostage-
tackings at the 35.C.
Penitentiary in New
Westminster since 1975,

He, was speaking of the
Oct. 28 disturbance at Kent
prison — so-called Hilton of
B.C. penitentiaries — at
which between $25,-K0 and
$35,000 in damage was done.

He said the B.C. adminis-
tration practises the reverse

merit principle under which

It gets rid of young officers
wile protecting its own

e,

Bob Jarvis of Willowdale,
Ont., parliamentary
secretary to Energy
Minister Ray Hnatyshsyn,
told Freisen that not all the

- 65 prisoners at Kent were -

involved in the fracas, He
added that the inspector-
general of the penitentiary
service conducted an in-
vestigation,

Hansen, who said in her 107
report that conditions
solitary confinement see
tions of federal peniten-
tiaries have deterlorated
instead ‘of improved in
recent years. ©

“T really wonder what it ia

going to take to impress upon

the Canadian public and the -
Canadian Penitentiary

ARSON
SUSPECT

RICHMOND, B.C. (CP)
— Fire officials suspect.
arson in a fire which
claimed the lives of three
members of a Fijian fam-
ily early Tuesday in this
Vancouver suburb,

Two of the victims have.
been identified as
Kamala Krishna, 30, who
was pregnant, and her
six-year-old daughter
Nanliny. A 31-year-old
man, not yet identified,
also died in the blaze
which fire department
spokesmen say began
under the porch of a
three-storey house shared
by two families. |

Meanwhile, RCMP in
Port Moody, a suburb
east of Vancouver, say
they suspect arson in
another fire at the home
of a Fijian family and are
linking the blaze with the
one in Richmond.

No one was hurt in the
Port Moody fire and
damage was minimal = -

Service that something must
be done to imprive- the
Situation," Stewart said,
There is no distinction be-
tween prisoners who are put
in solitary confinement as
punishment and thoee who
are there for their. own
protection or because they
disrupt order in the prison,

_the corrections investi-

gator's fifth annual report
sald,

Segregation. areas are
sometimes filthy, offer no

opportunities for exercise
and are and usually boring,
Stewart said, This boredom
“eventually brings about
emotional reactions that can
swing all the way from utter

McCarthy admits

department erred

VICTORIA (CP) —
Human Resources Miniater
Grace McCarthy admitted

‘Tuesday an error in

judgment was made two
years ago when social
workers decided not to
remove children from a
Richmond foster home after
reports of child abuse. .
Mra. McCarthy, said she
has asked ministry officials
for recommendations on how
procedures can be improved
to prevent a recurrence.
The case Involved a foster
father who has sinca been
convicted on three counts of
indecent assault against
three female children who
were staying at the home.
Mrs. McCarthy said a case
of alleged abuse came to the
attention of authorities in
1977 but the social worker
involved, after consultation
with other professionals,
derided to let the children
stay in the home despite
disciplinary measures said

' to have been “‘excessive and

Senate solves
vote dilemma

OTTAWA (CP) —A Senate
committee has suggested a
way to resolve the dilemma
Liberal senators face when
they want to object to
legislation of the minority
Progressive - Conservative
government without
defeating it,

Senators were to begin dis-
cussing today a bipartisan
proposal that would allow
members of the Liberal
majority in the Senate to be
counted as abstainers in
formal votes.

In effect, Liberals would

be saying they oppose the

legislation, but they realize
members of the :appointed

upper’ housé’ should” nét™

frustrate the majority will of
the elected House of Com-
mons where the Tories
dominate,

There are 71 Liberals in
the 104-seat Senate, com-
pared with 28 Conservatives,
There are two independents,
one independent Liberal and

vacant,

_ Under ; current ; Senate”
her hag to”

rules, asenatar eit
leave the chamber during
the vole or give reasons for

abstaining. If the senator ©

chooses to give reasons, the
Speaker then asks all
senators to decide whether
those reasons are good
enough.

Senator Hartland Molson
(Quebec), who tabled the
committee proposal Tuesday
in the Senate, described the
practice as archaic, The

' senator also said in an in-

terview he cannot remember
the last time a senator rose
to give reasons for ab-
staining.

Molson said the proposal
likely will be approved
today, but he predicted some

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debate, “There are always
some diehards who don't like
any change.”.

The current procedure
would not even have raised
an eyebrow if the Con-
servatives had not won the
May 22 election, But now the
Liberal-dominated Senate is
in the position where it is
asked to approve Con-
servative legislation.

inappropriate,”

“Methods of discipline,
treatment of the children
and their approach to
fostering were thoroughly
discussed with the foster
parents by the professionals.
involved," Mrs. McCarthy
said. .

Officials ‘continued
monitoring the home and the
children were apparently
loved and well cared for.

“These children had been
in this home for seven years
and the home was con-
sidered a permanent
replacement. For ‘ these

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reasons the children were
not removed,” Mrs, Me-
Carthy said.

“In retrospect, however, I
can say that this decision
was an error in judgment,”

She said action was taken
as soon as it became ap-
parent there was more to the
situation than questionable
disciplinary methods.

Bizarre
suicide
named

VICTORIA (CP) — A 24-
yearold Alberta sailor has

en identified as the man
who died in a bizarre suicide
last Friday on. the deck of the
HMCS Gatineau.

Leading Seaman L. W.
Schultz of Edmonton shot
himself with a .44-calibre
Magnum revalver as the ship
was moored in Victoria’s
Inner Harbor.in preparation
for Remembrance Day
ceremonies, an armed forces
spokesman said.

He said Schultz went to the
ship's upper deck and fired a
shot in the air, then turned
the gun on himself. After the
incident, in plain view of
visitors to the harbor, there

apathy to extreme vielen-

“te recommended that
those in solltary confinement
be given something con-
structive to do, such as
correspondence courses,
training programe or be
allowed to exercise.

He also said the
penitentiary system should
conduct scientific. - ex-

periments to determine
whether Inmates in solitary
confinement experience
sensory deprivation.

In a counter-report
released Tuesday, the
corrections service rejected

this suggestion but said it

would investigate what
current practices do to
prigoners.

It added that prisoners in

Mickey

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~ “Council should serve the people,
not the opposite”

- wants our recreation facilities to be
efficient and affordable

.~ rect input from Council te Regional District

The Herald, Wednesday, November 14, 1979 Page 7

Penitentiaries slammed as crime factories

solitary confinement will be
allowed to participate in a

specially designed program.

beginning next year, No
details were given,

Stewart's office handled
625 complaints by inmates
between June, 1977, and
May, 1978, down 32 per cent
from the number a year
earlier.

The volume dropped
because prisonera were told
to use internal grievance
procedures first and only
rely on the corrections in-
vestigator as a last resort,
Stewart said. .

Stewart. said in an In-
-terview he gave his report to
former  solicitor-general
Jean-Jacques Blais a year
ago. Blais said he did not
table it in the Commons

Johnson

controversial issues

because he wanted to give
the corrections service a
chance tocorrect some of the
things Stewart criticized,
The largest number of
complaints were about
prisoners being denied
transfers they requested or
being transferred to other
Prisons against their will.
These involuntary tran-
sfers, called scoops or
kidnaps by the prisoners, are
often made with no ex-
planation and prisoners can
roused in the middle of the
night to be flown across the
country,
The corrections service
said reasons for transfers
willbe carefully documented

In the future in case
decisions need to: be
reviewed later.

oe

ON NOVEMBER 17th ELECT.

JOHNSON

Michael (Mickey)
TERRACE COUNCIL

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