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" Lack of m< By DEBORAH JONES Gamecock Staff Writer Money seems to be the root of many of the evils in today's American prison system, according to a prison warden in Raleigh, N.C. Sam Garrison, warden at Central Prison, told the small audience of criminal justice students, "The constitution guarantees you freedoms, such as safety, but prisons are so crowded that we can't provide safety for our prisoners." Garrison noted that the prisoners in central, a maximum security institution, outnumber the guards about three to one because there is not enough money to hire more guards. "If the public does not give us more resources, we have to decide whether we are going to rehabilitate prisoners or build gun towers, stand back, throw food in three times a day and let them live off of each other," Garrison said. OVERCROWDING DUE to lack or facilities is a problem, according to Garrison and Camille Graham ,, & -^Ts* *?> / ' \ V :r xu * f The/ Clog your patutties ofj at ALM0S1 NUTS Unwn>Station S. Main, Cola. Thurs-Fii-? March 2-3 Lpicture ID requi ph. 771-9916 )ney causes Graham of Central Correctional Institute, also a member of the panel discussion. At the Raleigh prison recently there were 1,726 prisoners, although the prison was designed for 860, Garrison said. At CCI, there are usually 110 prisoners in the maximum security unti of Tunes ? on sole Ma Art Garfunkel 1 vuiKKCorea Roy Ayers 1 ? little Feat Blue Magi Tunes "Where music is not iust n i _ _ . f ? 933 ifium St. assoff ] r >at 4^ prison crow* which Graham is warden. Graham said that once the number of men in that unit passes 80, a potentially dangerous situation develops. "The proximity of violent people is a problem. It would be nice to have no one zoned together. But snmpHmpc Jhrn; li ? ? 1 ?V....VO v.iv-j nave c* guuu influence on one another and keep each other quiet. "Not only can you not put some guys in the same cell with one another, some guys you can't put on the same side of the building with one another. We make jokes about putting someone in a cell with someone else to control him, but if we ever did it might take someone only half an hour to get killed," Graham said. Graham and Garrison said they haH tlltl ivitlinn *" ?: >.uu viiv p\/*>v,i iu pui prisoners wherever they wished, but would never consider intimidating a prisoner by putting him with another more violent one. SHARING CLOSE quarters can lead to conflicts, both wardens said. "Imagine being locked up all *1 A 1 A A ~ me nine. m me ena 01 30 days, I could hardly live with Jesus Christ!" Garrison said. Things rch 2?4 $4.69 $4.69 U oo fV?7? c $4.69 & Things business but a way ollife'" Ph. 799-4412 I Boys! ] ling, officii n - '-SEs . Garrison Convicts settle conflicts with action, and this leads to the problem of murder with the prisons, Garrison said. "It's difficult for the state to kill someone, I but it is easy enough to set someone ] up (another prisoner) with a note," ! Garrison said. However, prisoners rarely come (idlJllli'ilJiM _ 1*5 1417 MAIN STREET {gj ^ The most Shocking a The Hospital. The'Nurses... I The Doctor The V UTT Rivlifji/ Hie Harold Roto What you dreair HAROLD B lis say to justice for committing a murder in prison, for few prisoners will testify against each other, primarily because a "snitcher" fears for his life, said Garrison. He said he has one prisoner who had killed four others in prison. SI |f'|| \ C1TI'ATI/\M ? ^ . .. villus uunilOl DC conducive to rehabilitation, Graham said. "If you were in the same cellblock with a hachet murcerer and he looked at you like you had ratted on him this morning, could you go to sleep at night?" r??1 v*ranam, wno was the first female appointed as supervisor of a male maximum security unit, said she had*been optimistic about the future of women in corrections until talking to people from other states. South Carolina has been more progressive than anywhere else in the area of corrections, she said. Graham's prisoners range from 17 to 50 years old. She said she knew many of the younger prisoners from working in Youth Services, but "the old timers felt I See PRISONS, page 11 "Tvrmciurl^ ' ?A%liV4l V ft P )lumbia area showing rs s... ictims... T~m corioh I Shows Mon thru Fri S* H 7:20-?:30 | M Sat. A Sun Shows ? p 3:10-5:10-7: JO-?: 30 M ins people* ? K?.flkfvilnf I iOBBINS' II IX^utT\ I f show Tm F FRI&SAT 11:15 W I "A Boy and I k His Dog" M