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Show 4 B DESERET NEWS, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1977 Warden explains classifying inmates UTAH STATE PRISON Inmate classification at the Utah State Prison is a tool that provides for security, safety, control and management, Warden Sam Smith told a group of visiting prison administrators Wednesday afternoon. The group, about 40 members of the Central States Deputy Wardens Association, met at the Utah prison Wednesday for the second day of their annual convention. Today was devoted to a tour of the Salt Lake area. A business meeting and electionof new officers Friday will conclude the conference. Smith and a panel of Utah prison officials explained the prisons classification system that categorizes each inmate and decides in which part of the Electrical short blamed in fire - A fire that nearly MIDVALE destroyed the interior of a Midvale residence was apparently caused by an electrical short, Midvale Fire Chief Armond Bosh said today. Chief Bosh said the Midvale Fire Department received the fire call at the home of Paul Green. 540 Van Buren, about 2:40 p.m. Tuesday. The fire was centered in the basement but burned through the floor of one bedroom, the chief said. Heavy smoke damaged the upstairs. maximum, prison he will be housed medium or minimum security or a community corrections center. Ideally, an inmate will move through the classifications all the way to a community corrections center and will be working and earning a living in the community before final release from prison custody, the warden said. Classification is a tool for prison officials to provide security by identifying inmates who are escape risks or may introduce contraband. The system also increases safety for the prison staff and allows greater or lesser control by the staff. It also increases management by identifying and classifying inmates who may not break prison rules but may increase tension by their attitudes. Smith drew a diagram and explained that the lower the classification, the more and internal controls an inmate has. At the same time, in maximum security, the staff makes up in external controls what the inmate lockup lacks internally. The classification system is also decentralized. Each cell block has its own classification committee, made up of social workers, correctional officers and counselors in the block. Deputy Warden Leon Hatch said decentralization adds to control by breaking the prison into several parts, rather than one large, cohesive prison of 900 inmates. Eldon Barnes, supervising social worker, also said that at the Utah prison, custody and treatment roles have been merged, udth social workers and correctional officers serving in both roles. Instead of confusing the two roles, the move has strengthened each, Barnes said. Hatch admitted that when the con A clean cept originated two years ago, there was some resistance and some remains. wardens, while The visiting deputy-focusinon the prison's classification system, asked questions. g Prison Steve Love, in charge of parole for the Adult Probation and Parole office, was asked if the community resisted residential treatment centers. Resistance incredible about a year ago was when a more suitable site for a center was needed, he said. If it has to be done again, he said, a center may be established and public resistance dealt with later. Love also said his office spends a great deal of its time trying to get. services from public service agencies. r Hatch, explaining the prisons com-- ? munity release program, said an inmate with a parole date can be working in the community for more than a year before his final release. Ten years ago, before the program began, the prisons relapse rate matched the national average! Prison psychologist Dr. Alan Roe said, however, it is not known if that success is due to the program or the fact that inmates most likely to succeed are chosen for community release. Y Continued from R- -i released in the future may not be the best risks, he said. MURRAY Murray Wright also said these inmates are not as well police were trying to prepared for release as prisoners who are released unravel a mystery today from community corrections centers. Inmates who after a thief drove away are released from those centers are usually working in a one-to- n street sweepand have a stable position in the community. truck. ing This will mean a specialized case load for the The man possibly took Adult Probation and Parole Office which will have to a potshot at the machines owner with a supervise the inmates closely. gun. We will want a study of the success rate. My Barry Wickel, a guess is that it will be good, Wright said. Wright also commented on the plan to divert sweeper, told police he referred to the prison for y prisoners diagnostic had stopped his truck studies to community correction centers. Some while working in the judges send people to the prison for 90 days for the parking lot of a shopping shock value of being in prison, Wright said. center at 5600-9tEast It should be understood that prisoners sent to the about 5:30 a. m. He said he was walking toward a prison for 90 days are not those who would have been supermarket when he eligible for probation, Wright said. The heard his vehicle start to program must be flexible and should be done at both the prison and in the community, he said. move away. Wickel told police he Todays corrections board meeting was Wrights turned toward the truck last appearance as director of the division. and then thought he On recommendation of chairman David Hughes, heard a shot fired above the board officially approved the appointment of his head. 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