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THE BATTALION Page 7
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1974
Brutal juvenile treatment detailed
(Continued from Page 1)
move contraband, and to minimize
violations of pupils’ dignity.
The emergency interim order of a
year ago prohibited brutality, use of
tear gas and long periods of solitary
confinement with no visitors. It also
prohibited the assignment of some
boys to homosexual dormitories.
The opinion released Tuesday re
counts numerous instances of boys
being “racked” or beaten by correc
tions officers, being forced to per
form work such as pulling grass for
several hours without bending their
knees and being confined in their
cells and tear-gassed after suicide
attempts.
“The frequent use of certain
forms of brutality have given rise to
a jargon peculiar to the Gatesville
inmates and staff, ” the opinion said.
“A ‘peel’ is administered by forcing
a boy to bend over, striking him
hard on the back with a fist or open
hand; a ‘tight’ is applied by forcing a
boy to bend down to hold his ankles
and toes and then striking him on
the buttocks with the handle or
straw end of a broom. A boy is sub
jected to ‘brogueing’ when he is
kicked in the shins. Such punish
ment has been meted for ‘wearing
panfs too low, losing a baseball
game, leaving shoes out or leaving
cards.’ ”
Extra duty at Gatesville includes
forcing a boy to work in the “R. D.,”
a sewage or garbage ditch.
“After working in this ditch up to
the waist in garbage and stench for
four hours, a boy would then be re
quired to go to lunch without chang
ing clothes or bathing,” the opinion
said.
The boys in the Mountain View
institution were assigned grass
pulling as an extra duty. “For as
much as two hours at a time, with
out a break and for as long as six
hours a day, boys were required to
pull grass from the ground. In fulfil
ling this task, they pull grass from
the ground, bending at the waist,
knees straight, without looking at or
talking with other boys. Boys bend
ing their knees were racked, kicked
in the teeth, punched and beaten,”
the opinion said.
“Boys were put on this duty for
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talking back, talking in the chow
line, not finishing all the food on
their plate, wearing shoes in the
dormitory, not changing their
pants, irritating a correctional of
ficer, or going to the peach orchard
without permission,” the judge
said.
Sen. Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena,
chairman of the Joint Committee on
Prison Reform, said the ruling
“could have very encouraging ef
fects in the long run of moving Texas
correctional programs toward
community-based corrections.
He said facilities at the Gatesville
State School “are in fine shape” and
might be converted into institutions
for the mentally ill or the retarded.
The nearby Mountain View State
School could be converted into a
medium-security unit of the state
prison system, Brooks added.
Study forms
cost-benefit
comparisons
Roadside safety improvements
are compared on a cost-benefit basis
in the first of a series of highway
safety projects conducted by the
TAMU Texas Transportation Insti
tute.
This study allows safety engineers
to make improvements yielding ef
ficient return on each safety dollar
spent on freeways. The report states
that single-vehicle accidents rep
resent one-half of fatal accidents on
freeways. Most of these are caused
by such obstacles as bridge rails,
signposts, utility poles, steep side
slopes and guardrails.
The research complements exist
ing ways of selecting locations for
spot improvements. The study can
identify probable locations of high
accident potential. Accident re
cords identify known high accident
spots.
The report points out that such
safety improvement programs com
pete with other programs, such as
new construction, operational and
other safety improvements.
“The cost-effective approach is a
powerful tool in selling roadside
safety improvements. For example,
some improvements will cost less
than $20 per prevented injury acci
dent, is a convincing argument for
funding a program to effect these
improvements,” the report said.
The Transportation Research
Board said the report, hopefully,
will provide the incentive for indi
vidual states or other highway agen
cies to enlarge on present data.
State or local cost, accident and traf
fic operational data is included in
the model to analyze improvements
for specific highways.
Grame Weaver, principal inves
tigator of the study, said the com
puterized procedure has undergone
extensive field testing during the
past year and will be put into prac
tice statewide during the coming
year by the Texas Highway De
partment.
Jet injection
research gains
large grant
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station received $24,299 for re
search of “jet injection” equipment
for veterinary medicine.
Jet injection is the theory of
medicine applied painlessly by
blowing a thin stream of fluid
through the skin.
Dr. Steward McConnell, Veteri
nary Microbiology Department, di
rected this research. Modifications
made the injection equipment ef
fective for a number of animals. It is
also available for large scale disease
control programs.
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