Prison games:
Hodges, Graham H.
doubts the truth of this argument has only to look at the price of 1-50 acres of prime Adirondack Park land. food, health care, housing and energy-all basic necessities Enter major...
...They cannily figured that Uncle Sam would not let opening gun, and afterwards...
...The bitterness remained, and while the mails continued to move over Christmas and into the new year, no THE YEAR 1978 was to be an election year in Canada...
...For $1 New York State sold the FBP Will the TV programs in 1980 on ABC be worth the macabre 30 March 1979: 165 prison background...
...American readers are familiar with the vagaries of committee, but the changes were railroaded through the House opinion polls and the ambiguous impact of such things as just before Christmas...
...With the games still 13 months away the scene is one of Montreal paid $100,000,000 for 1974 Olympic security alone...
...concern to Congresspersons, Senators, and President Carter...
...of a wide spectrum of penal experts insists that the FBP is a To secure federal funds an "after-use" for the Olympic growth industry dedicated to increased taxes, budget, staff, facilities had to be guaranteed...
...increased unemployment, and continued high inflation...
...the Canadian national lottery to pay it off...
...came and went and the by-elections were on...
...This is not an anti-governmental vote, but an anti-Liberal GRAHAM H. HODGES vote," said smiling Tories from coast to coast...
...The combined STOP unemployment, lobbied in Albany and Washington and got forces (Stop the Olympic Prison, 3049 East Genesee Street, what to date has been a rather open-ended supply of tax Syracuse, New York 13224) will continue resistance until the monies...
...Lawsuits are filed over mail fundage, 18-25, convicted of federal offenses and drawn mostly raising...
...One high ranking FBP official told this writer that even his federal per diem expense allowance was insufficient for Lake Placid living...
...Scotia, New Brunswick and the West...
...Newwill spend their last dime to board the one-a-day bus to a foundlanders smiled and noted wryly that the winning NDP distant place called Lake Placid...
...it may be Church bodies insist that the location is inhumane, like that the Carter voluntary program will still take hold and make locating a city jail 300 miles away from the city it serves...
...redirected to a purpose truly in keeping with Olympic tradi- The Tories swept the provincial elections in Nova Scotia, tion...
...Trudeau's (The Rev...
...gregational Church, Watertown, N.Y...
...North American, and Japanese privileged youths will have Meanwhile, federal auditors are raising questions about barely faded away from the dormitory corridors when they will nepotism, double expense accounts, questionable contracts, be replaced by the doleful voices of ghetto males their own and slipshod practices...
...Real take-home pay is increasingly homes, violates even the Bureau's own standards for location eroded...
...The new induction into the macabre rituals of American prison life...
...It insists there are better and cheaper ways of Robert C. McEwen, rejecting a sports after-use, dovetailed handling the largely non-violent federal offenders such as plans for a medium-security federal prison in the Northeast increased probation, restitution, shorter sentences, and workwith dormitories for Olympic athletes...
...To get What form resentment from athletes themselves may take the 1980 Olympics the Lake Placid citizens, beset by high nobody knows but it could be significant...
...Congress, the stated primary purpose that of housing Olympic Disturbing questions persist: Would we allow American athletes (two weeks) and the secondary purpose being a prison athletes to live in a Russian prison at the 1980 games...
...To give a about it all...
...In to be filled by mid-October...
...Yes, it can be if enough American citizens express their except in Cape Breton Island, where they failed to take a seat...
...Except for the federal government, this is Three provincial elections were due...
...In the upper chamber, one Liberal unemployment and falling currency values...
...prison is five miles out of town...
...No bus station in Lake Placid and the is dead wrong...
...still very much on the defensive...
...they complied only when threatened with massive layoffs...
...In New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield's Tories were returned to power with the loss of a few seats...
...That date office for some time...
...It may be that the AFL-CIO is being hasty...
...Can this grim arrangement be candidate had enjoyed the support of the fisherman's union...
...an effective mark on the economy...
...and slope will leave the Winter Olympics at Lake Except for 12 Lake Placid-area clergymen all church groups Placid, New York...
...Perhaps basic is that small-time operators with no from the New York City Metro area...
...the average paycheck now is worth only $1.10 more close to family, clergy, and lawyers...
...If federal elections were called for Prince Edward Island, that may be enough to keep them in that time the by-elections would not be necessary...
...THE HO-HUM ELECTION Postal workers were legislated back to work following a EXPLORING THE NORTH POLLS short but bitter strike and open defiance of the legislated solution to the strike...
...everyone...
...If this were not enough, the It is now a matter of political survival-very few unemployed three provincial governments at issue were held by three dif- persons make campaign contributions, and their political clout ferent political parties: Liberals in Nova Scotia, Conservatives is negligible...
...Pundits were flooded with data...
...Polls came and went, rumors lived and died, leaving an already weak Liberal government in an even more summer came and speculation began about fall elections...
...Without naming places, than it was in 1968, and almost $5 less than it was in 1972...
...it insists that it tried numerous other sites near New York but What the AFL-CIO wants is mandatory rather than voluntary was rebuffed by area citizens...
...Had the elections been called last October, Commonweal: 166...
...Though the FBP will host 1800 athletes in these walls it promises to cage no FARING THEIR bronze, silver, and gold medals, in more than 500 prisoners...
...precarious position...
...Graham H. Hodges is pastor of Emmanuel Con- time has come...
...It will be interesting, Families, mostly low income, will almost never visit their though, by the time the labor suit arrives in court, to see if the sons, fathers, and husbands...
...They are the new FROM GOLD MEDALS TO HANDCUFFS sanitized 1984 electronic surveillance type...
...the handcuffed young hypothesis of a wave of anti-governmental feeling supported men will arrive...
...Some committee members are not happy worth it all to place inmates 300 miles from family...
...Traditionally, the Liberals have suptions in Canada seldom provide any real indication of federal ported generous transfer payments and an unemployment intrends-perhaps the best example is Ontario, where voters surance program that worked very well for the four percent have consistently returned a strong conservative government unemployment rates for which it was designed...
...In most cases-and 1978 was This will be an election year for the federal Liberals, and no exception-they provide electors with a chance to express while the polls have lessened the Tory lead, the Liberals are disapproval of a government with no risk of unseating it...
...Colorado citizens Increasing rumblings are coming from foreign nations...
...A $22 million appro- release programs, and that the upcoming decline in the 18-25priation was waltzed through judicial committee mazes in age population means many fewer violent type criminals...
...food, health care, housing and energy-all basic necessities Enter major denominational and criminal justice groups...
...Provincial elec- Senator voted against it...
...owner of the dormitories...
...So even this modest redistribution of wealth had in New Brunswick, and New Democrats in Saskatchewan...
...By-elections are also difficult...
...Their voices will convey previous practice are playing with tens of millions...
...Another anti-Liberal vote," said jubilant Tories...
...Is it (perhaps 100 years...
...for the working man and all of which are relatively unaffected The Olympic Prison's location, 300 miles from the inmates' by the Carter guidelines...
...Some fear the final figure will exceed WFebruary 1980 the world's youthful monarchs of rink 1000...
...The thesis of a conservative reaction was badly upheld by the comfortable victory of Alan Blakeney's New Democratic government in Saskatchewan...
...The francophone Parti Acadien failed to take a seat but did better than ever before in the popular vote, mostly at the expense of the Liberal Report from Canada opposition...
...The almost windowless "dormitories" resemble huge round gun emplacements more than structures where human PRISON GAMES beings will be caged the next hundred years...
...October elections With the Tories and the press hot on their heels, the federal were called for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Saskatche- Liberals have adopted a conservative style, featuring cuts in wan...
...The joyful cries of these largely European, taking a stand so far have condemned the prison after-use...
...down such a semi-sacred event as the Olympics once an Meanwhile, the Moratorium on Prison Construction group American locality was committed to it...
...Expensive motels and restaurants...
...There were a number the last Liberal government in Canada, and can survive a vote of by-elections on the back burner: fifteen vacant federal seats of confidence only with the tie-breaking vote of the speaker...
...The diminutive New Democratic caucus in Ottawa atAs indicators of political fortune, all of these sources are tempted to block the changes in unemployment insurance in dicey...
...At eight or for over thirty years, and as consistently returned a majority of nine percent unemployment, the program runs a large deficit...
...they had the polls, family allowances and restrictive changes in unemployment fifteen by-elections and three provincial elections to work on, insurance, all amounting to a two-billion-dollar cut in the as well as a dramatic fall in the value of the Canadian dollar, federal budget...
...One bus a day 10 months a year editorialists are still quite so convinced that the AFL-CIO case from New York City...
...100,000-plus czar hired to clamp down the lid said "the fun is Modern Olympics are expensive, political, and dangerous...
...What is America's soul worth...
...Some observers saw the The skaters and skiers will depart...
...The FBP hints at a "shuttle wage-price controls, evenly spread across the board for bus" for families (600 miles round trip...
...confusion, rising tempers, and certainly increased opposition Quebec, stuck'with a $1 Billion Olympic debt, is fighting for to the prison...
...rejected the Winter Olympics by statewide referendum...
...Joe Clark, the Tories' It was a hard month for the Liberals...
...Liberals to the federal Parliament...
...to go, although it was cut back, not phased out...
...The Liberals lost heavily in Metro Toronto, international problems in anticipation of his becoming Prime where they had hoped to hold, and lost as predicted in Nova Minister this year...
...The Federal Bureau of Prisons is the builder and depressed area a few jobs is such an arrangement justified...
...over...
...And for a century their low-income families by the election of a New Democrat in Newfoundland...
...April the call for federal elections was to come any day, In Prince Edward Island, Premier Alex Campbell resigned, any week...
...In real solution is in sight...
...The local Congressman, and buildings...
...The minority families (40 percent of fed1980 Winter Olympics eral prisoners are minority and increasing) will not find it easy in this swank resort...
...In the by-elections they lackluster leader, bumbled his way through a trip around the were w;ped out everywhere except Quebec, where they cap- world in January, ostensibly to give him some exposure to tured one seat...
Vol. 106 • March 1979 • No. 6
