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Show Wednesday, December 15, 1971 Sick SomePrison O fficials Maintain 80-90% of Convicts Are Plain time, 15-20 — Page %8—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah By TOM TIEDE newsman heiped the convict 7 > 8.8 SE8SE82 SESR PENsers ce ease RAORTRSRB PHILADELPHIA — (NEA) —Several weeks ago a newsman walking through one of Pennsylvania's ons a stopped by a convict wil asked for : moment to say “Hey, man “ don't belong re.” At first the newsman shrugged. Prisons are full of inmates who don't belong in them. According to the cons, there isn't a guilty man behind bars today Yet this prisoner, 4l-vearold Harold Berry, made a different plea. He was, he adinitted, guilty as hell—but only of being a drug addict He wasa criminal, sure. He had been arrested 10 times since 1949. But he had been on narcotics for just as long, and, in fact, most of his criminal activity was related to the needie. So his claim: He wasn't a moaster, he was a sick hu man being; andhe didn’t bejong in a cell, but in some kind ofinstitution that could help or even cure him. The newsman agreed. He was especially convinced by Berry's assertic. that, “If you don’t help me now, I'll rot in here and never be any use to anybody.” And so, shortly after, the wt out of prison. It was a ridiculously simple procedure. The newsmanreserved a bed for Harold Berry in a Philadelphia drug rehabilitation program, and he contacted the Pennsylvania Parole Board, which took a look at Berry’s case and decided the man would indeed be better off unde>going a cure than growing old and unchanged behind bars. Inside a month, convict Berry was released to a pri- vately operated drug therapeutic community (Gadenzia House), The Pennsylvania corrections system had one less mouth to feed and body to clothe. And a frustrated, forgotten human being was given a chanceto prove that he could, even yet, be of some use to somebody (Proving his worthwill not be easy for Berry, even out side jail. Complete drug rehabilitation is an agonizing and time consuming process. Gadenzia Houseofficers say that half their new members quit in the first month—and the entire program is one to two years long.) But the potential happy ending here should provide no reader with any comfort Rather, it should raise an obvious question: If Harold Berry did rot belong behind bars, and if he was eligible for parole, why wasn't he given help before the newsmen came along? The question is more than important. It is frightful. By extension it suggests that there are others in U.S. prisons, perhaps many others, whoare eligible to get out but who remain inside,wast ing away for lack of happenstanc. To be sure, most medern penologists admit there are hundreds of ds of prison inmates who could be better provided for outside jail walis Something like eight of every 19 men serv Sars SESH FESRSASE RESS SSeTRVaRS® SASFm srrear oan roo cos danger to society, or the staggering drunk be- hind four walls and leave him there for a bet- ter chance at their future. Why aren't they then? But a bigger reasonis that the U.S. parole system is woefully ineffective. In fact. One reason is that there are precious few facilities other thanjails, to take care of the nation’s criminallyill America decided long ago that it was simpler and less expensive (at least in the short run) just to put the junkie, or the Peeping Tom, penologists call it the weakest link in the paper chain of penal ofticialism. Peggy Sunberg, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Board of Parole, and an ex-convict herself (she has served 18 months for second-degree murder), says bluntly “Pennsylvania now has a budgets. progressive parole board. Butit didn’t always, When | was serving time, | think the parole board was made up of old characters who thought people should stay in prison until the key was found. Critics complain that most state parole boards are com. prised of nonprofessional or plainly inept personnel wh meet a few times a month. ive to a mans wholelife Yet, even if parole boards were stocked with democratic angels, the system would still be insufferable Parole functions are de cidedly 1o.: priority. Of the meager money spent In the nation for prisoner welfare says a report from the Joint ional of requests for freedom, and Commission on Correct only three per or year, go over hundreds spend, often, an average of 15-20 seconds a case Manpower, cent is alloted ts parole This parole reform is imp edit ly impossible and Most inmates out their ownparole bre lems. And so many of 4 getlost in the woodwork” ex-con. and hopefuljy junkie Harold Ber Data i If there's no one to be, you don't get helpeg” country, are servingtimefor such things as minor alcoholism check writing, m sex bad fenses—‘‘crime: federal authority, rooted more in psychological disturbances than in any actual degeneration of char- acter.” Someprison officials maintain that 70 to 80 per cent of their behind-bars population consists of people who are, in fact, plain sick. They say that if there were outside Trudeau Dinner Medal Two things usually will cause a medal to become a highly desirable collector's item and increase its value. 1) a piece containing subject of national interest. struck in an extremely limited edition or 2) any piece of a similar subject struck in an ‘unlimited edition but allowed to drift into oblivion beforeit has been publicized. In the case of the Trudeau Dinner Medal, illustrated above, the quantity wasrelatively low since the piece was intended only as a memento for guests paying $100 12 Inch* BLACK & WHITE TELEVISON year later an offer of $110 for the same medal was refused. By the end of the American Numismatic Association convention in August, 1972, the price of this piece should be established at around $150. It measures 1% inches in diameter and roughly %- inch thick. The obverse shows2 contemporary quarter profile of the prime minister facing left with his name, ‘‘Pierre-Elliott-Trud- eau,” arranged in a syllabicated manner to the right, thus- by Mort Reed a plate to attend the Canadian prime minister’s dinner. The Lombardo Mint of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, struck 3,000 copies of this piece in bronze before destroying the dies. Little thought was pe to the possibility of it becoming a collector’s item at any price. Consequently, no publicity was attached to its issue or the fact that it was being presented to such an exclusive gathering. During the summerof 1970 an offer of $50 was made for a single copy of the Trudeau medal and finally accepted hy one guest. A little over a “ RRE- -ELLI OTT- TRUD EAU.” The reverse is pleasingly plain. Using a mistral type face, the designer placed Prime Minister's Dinner in two lines toward the top and March 5, 1969, Toronto, in the possibility of anyone owning a copy without knowing there may be a collectors’ demand for it Quite often such pieces are given as gifts or tokens, or even found in an exchange of coins and medals. But unless someone takes the time to catalogue or research each medal, its true value may never be known. I doubt whether many of Trudeau's guests are aware that the medal they received at the $100-a-plate dinner in his honor, is in fact worth the price of admittance. eee Certified Eisenhower Dollar A memorandum from the 99 Company, 34190 Sepulveda, San Clemente, Calif., announces the mailing of orders received for the Eisenhower Certified Dollar Cover. Orders for an uncirculated 1971 Eisenhower dollar in a first day cover certifying it was one ofthe first of that coin struck, has swampedBirtSlater’s office. 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Readers who ordered out the advantages and these pieces should be recapabilities of the small pri- ceiving them shortly. vate mint and, second, notes (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) reg. By VERNON SCOTT UPI He!lywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPI) —You are Mark Rydell, a director with only two movies under your belt, and you are aboutto direct John Wayne in 2 new oe What goes through your “Well, I went to Santa Fe, N.M., to meet Dukeon location with a great deal of apprehension,” Rydell said. “After all, Wayne is an historical subject. A monument. He's worked with the directors in the business and he knows more about the West Tever will.” Rydell, whose ‘The Fox” and “The Reivers” were oustanding pictures, was prepared to dislike Wayne because of his politics and his -2aty defense of his own rights as an individual. “I had a reverse prejudice toward Duke,” Rydell said. ‘I expected him to be an insensitive dolt —what he has appeared to be in his films, “T could not have been more mistaken. Duke Calls Him “Sir” “He called me‘sir’ when we were introduced, and never referred to me in any other way on the set. Once in a while SolonLikely To Leave Duke made timid suggestions. When they were good I used them.If not, I didn’t.” The picture is “The Cowboys”in which Wayne honochos a cattle drive with 10 children as drovers. It is poignant and action filled. told Duke, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ “Then I was horrified that I'd be fired by Warner Bros. In front of 200 persons Duke listened silently to what I had to say. At the end of the day’s work he checked off the set In one scene involving 1,500 without a word to me headof cattle and the children, Expects the Worst Wayne grew enthusiastic and in “When I got back to my hotel the excitement hollered: I expected the worst. There “Okay, head ‘em out.” was a note that Duke had Rydell, with five cameras telephoned, I returned his call. ready to roll and 30 wranglers All he wanted was to get out of lens range, was together for a few drinks and infuriated. No actor calls the dinner. shots on a Rydell set. “Duke didn't mention the “T yelled for everything to incidentthat night or ever.” stop,” Rydell recalled. “Then I Rydell came awuy from “The Cowboys” a fanatical John Whopping Package NEW YORK (UP I)--Marketers will wrap up this year in a $2. billion package, literally, according to a study by the research department of a lea itch whisky distillery. That figure represents the cost gift packaging for 1971. An estimated $750 million of it is spent in the ThanksgivingNew Year’s season, the study shows. 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