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KINGSTON, ont. iP) —~ ~ Behind the grey walls of Millhaven penitentiary, 39 of the 300 prisoners live aparl — spending most of their time alone in cells and eating and exercising in small groups. ~~ ‘They are Canada’s most dangerous prisoners. All have been. invalved i in violence while in prison, — mostly the niirder of other prisoners or hostage- (aking incidents, And by keeping them apart from olhiér prisoners . and restricling their movement, guards have ‘ahelter chance. of controlling the rebels among rebels, oy, P “I's an extra’ precaution,” said Millhaven : spokesman Dennis.‘Curtis, describing what the prison calls its speclal handling unit. Tes “almost: ; eo “liké*a separate institution. By: die somebody’ demonstrates. he is dangerous by ta ) Special units: 2: hostages er murdering olnerage yey inn: prion, il is Sensible to segregate him rol : whit he can do as soon as possible; Gurtis, said in an interview, But Gordon MacFarlane, executive director of "the John Howard Society of Ontario, aid repressive measures imposed on prisoners ie ap special handling units — are causing fence. * “In order to control prisoners, “the prisons are inercasingly repressive and that increases frustration and foments violence,” MacFarlane said. “It is a cyclicet thing occurring.” There are only two special handling units for Canada’s 9,-000 federal prisoners — at Millhaven angqat the Correctional Development Centre. in... *~ . It got under way ‘Tuesday with the defection of ~car dealerships, dirlines ind soda pop, was. really a Schon 4 t Bid oil fea tinder Wednesda era om Wed We: Mondyen!. Both house about the same number of eecrege sree ‘Minister.Rafa;Mair from the provincial ‘affer Dave Barred -leadkt of eh : ooptsiliae ae tie ae Jehan iF ajo shoWstorint OF the year auth ores “wut prisoners: “ cabinet to a seat behind the microphone of a local Barrett, riding bigh in the polls after year of | ‘The region was hit with 18 centimetres of snow la : > But violence in‘the prisons has prompted the federal government to promise to increase the - * number of prisoners in special handling units. Solicitor-General Rebert Kaplan announced ’ seeently that because of a hostagetaking incident at Dorchester penitentiary in New Brunswick and other prison incidents Lhi# yeas, - 16%. potebtially. .. tiolenk maximum-security prisoners acrass the sécurity cells, Under the new rules for speci prisoners must come belore three different internal review boards before they ate put ip eer ff. from a separateunit, where they can two years, This means prisoners clagsified as potentially dangerous, as well as those involved in viglent acts while in prison, can be sent to special handling tunis. No prisoners have been put into special handling units under the new rules because there hasn't been country would be segregated | ioe in high- . enough Ume since Kaplan's announcement for any lo be processed through the review boards, Curtis said. But Millhaven is ready for the additional speciai-unit prisoners with room for more than 100. But how useful are the’speciql units? The stabbing death last Saturday of a Millhaven prisoner is the fourth at the prison in the last three months. And the latest incident, the killing of Larry Dennis Labelle, 20, of Nakina, Ont., in his cell, took place in a special handling unit. And Millhaven director John Ryan said the. stabbing could not have been prevented without changes to existing regulations so drastic that the suicide rate would rise. Under existing regulations, prisoners in the special handling unit are allowed out of their cells for six toséven hours a day in groups of up to 12 at a time, Two guards are on duty during this time. Two prisoners have been charged with the rourder of Henry William MacDonald in his cell on Nov. 24, but provincial police are still investigating the other three killings, Police have said the killings are probably unrelated. Ryan has said he will inslitute a general lock-up If the killings continue, “The ofly way you can make sure something like thal. (a murder) doesn't happen is by having everybody locked up 24 hours a day,'’ Ryan said before the Labelle killing, “But- I'll tell you, if It happens again, I'll consider it.” But MacFarlane said it is exactly this type of action that increases Violence because it frustrates the prisoners. “They are human beings in these institutions," MacFarlane said, “They arénot animals, they are not ferocious people and they are hol ail dangerous. “Continuing to restrict or repress (a like screwing the lid on a boiling pot. 1t Increases violence, it gives people en excuse to take vengeance and people are looking over their shoulder all the time.” Convicted killer Fred Cadeddu, chalrman of a Milhaven prisoner committee, said Kaplan's separation order has created tensions within the prison population. . “The situation here is always tense because Milthaven is Millhaven,” Cadeddu said. “But the situation isa little more tense than it usually is. ‘T wouldn't gay it is a powder-keg, but it is tense because they Gan swoop down at any time ard lock you Gp." ng-urits; - Wee Patz You) Win Temnesi? tus" -, ‘theories about -natural Mount St. Helens. volcaho In Washington or “the “y don’t care WHAT Western - Canada ‘thinks — ts nat rrue!™ Poitcs and he ar John Reynolds, dumped by CJOR after he failed to - VANCOUVER (CP) Local disc jockeys have been assuring their listeners all week that they have no political aspirations. . It's hard to tell if they're joking. Sun columnist Denny Boyd calls it*‘the damndest game you ever saw in your life, a version of snakes and ladders that might be called pols and gabbers."” Another year has opened in the never-never-land that is B.C. politics. radio station’s open-line show. The burly, bearded Mair is not the first B.C. politician to lend his talents to what is known in the trade as openmouth radio. The big joke at election time ined to be that the Social Credit goverument Was run by auto dealers. But thetruth is that the three cabinet ministers with — car lot connections are outnumbered by those with broadcasting backgrounds. _ Take what happetied Tuesday. Fallow carefully. - Mair's predecessor in the health ministry was Energy Minister Bob McClelland, who vaulted into politics from a fille country- randwestera station | in Langley. " ‘Mair’s replacement is Jim Nielsen — a formes broadcaster at the sameastation Mair is defecting to - who previously held the: omsumer affairs 'por- ° tfolic. ’ ‘The new boy in Gonsumer aitairs | is Peier Hynd- “man, who worked his way through law school asa. broadcaster in And then: there's, Finance Mipister Hugh Curtis. The dulcet tones that now deliver budget speeches twed to grace the airwaves of Victoria. . _ That’s only the beginning. . Mair,a lawyer by trade, was as recruited to replace é improve the station’s perennial bridesmaid position. - behind ratings leader CKNW. Reynolds, a Conservalive MP for seven years . until he retired in 1977, now runs a chain of res... taurants but also pops upin television commerciais for a men's wear shop. The talk around town is that cor owner Jim: Pattison, master of a business empire that includes Socred fumbles, turned it flat, while Malr was quick ta accept ata reported salary of at least $100,-100 a year, If Reynolds was‘ Parliament's gift to broad- casting, it was te repay radio for Marke Raines, a former open-line fost who spent a quiet term as as ~ Liberal MP for Burnaby-Seymour before, bowing out with the May, i979, election,’ Thelist goes on: The late Judy LaMarsh presided | over & hot-line Program in Vancouver after her _ exile from Ottawa. Barrie Clark, still holding the afternoon spot at CKNW, combined open-line radio with five years asa Liberal MLA. Chuck Cook, Tory - MP. for North Vancouvéer-Burnaby, used to work weekends and swing shifts at CJOR: And not to forget.Jona Campagnolo, who went . from selling air time at a dinky north coas! station . fosports minister in the Trudeau cabinet. Defeated in 1979, she now presides over a chat show on the CBC’s British-Columbia television network. Sometimes ‘this cheerful mix of politicians and broadcasters proves embarrassing. Ed Murphy, a former open-line hast at CJOR, was convicted last | year of trying to bribe his old: station-mate Jim Nielsen in attempt to gain cabinet favor in a land Canada. . The question is often aniawered with mysterious . phenomena, such-as the "y earthquake in Italy, Re Bunk, say Canadian government metecrologists. The reason for the record cold experienced in ‘ resent weeks in much of Ontario and Quebec is . simple, says Pat Pender of Environment Canada’s © ‘Toronto office: ““Wintertime.” tt probably hasa't “happened for at least two Washington last year had anything to do‘ with the * q@irfent cold spell in the east, or for-the unusually mild \emperatures Western Canada hag been ex-. - ‘periencing, - “We get these patlerns every once ina while,” be said. record cold and sow while Whitehorse had a warmer winter than usual, _ Dr, Joe! Myers, president of Accu-weather, a : What is the cause of this aviul weather, inmiy . “Canadians are wendering, especially those suf- : fering through the current cold sap in central oar Ron Miller of the Toronto weather office sald he | * | doesn't believe the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Pre _. Forexample, he said, during the winter of inre-f7. : . .the eastern part'of North America suffered from *'U.S.-based private. weather. service, said he is .- - “quite positive that (Mount St.Helens) has had no significant impact on the weather.” If none of this is comfortizig, Toronto psychiatrist Jerry Cooper says he has a way people can learn to - cope with bad weather — think, warm thoughts. “Think about sex,” said Cooper. “Have happy, : warm feelings. ee “Above, all, don't take mid-winter ‘vacations in warmer climes, he sald. - = “Tt only depresses you wher’ you get back and . makes it harder to adapt." - Ontario residents got a break Thursday from the heavy snow which had forced highway dlosings in” +. Many areas of the province, but temperatures a continued to be well below average. Miller said-Ontario bad sunny ekies with a few _ Isolated snow flurries, particularly in the sn0W, ‘belt re a. area near Georgian Bay. |. 15 C below normal for this time of year, and Miller paid the end is just barely in sight,‘ - , -"In southern Ontario, temperatures were in the — 2 C range, while thermometers ‘in Northern On- tarig continued at about —23 C. ‘ _ Faken ars 7 : ‘Temperatures, ‘however, continu to be about 10> _ Normal temperatures are expected Monday, - ” Miller said, “but even then it may not be long-lived" ' a @ new mass renee air is expected to head toward the province. ry in Ottawa, sunny skies, gave S aly ‘Officials a & U-hour period, causing at least three fatal. Ce ’ eidents. . The city faces a $1.25-million bill for removing. snow from streets, some of which still were clogged : from previous storms. Across the country, temperatures varied from - -~ ./, 26 C reported in northern Manitoba to 5 C in Vane: *.. couver. Generally, the warmest areas were west of - a Calgary and the coldest were in Ontaria and ot western Quebec, : * publication must be signed. LETTERS WELCOME: The Herald welcomes its readers comments. : All letters to (he editor of general public interest ‘ will be printed. We do, however, relain the right. to refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad laste. We may also edit letters for style and length, -All letters to be considered for Noy chet “I'm geting mastalgic for the Ca arter years alread.”