THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1978
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l iiilcd Press International
jDSVILLE, Ga. — Prison authorities
nday a group of black inmates prob
ed two hostage guards in a violent
that left two white inmates and
guard dead at the Georgia State
unday.
tigators also said the bloody out
lay have been inspired by a similar
|ance at an Illinois prison, where
iuards had been killed and three
vere injured a day earlier,
administration feels that it was
and it did stem out of the occur-
n Illinois, said State Corrections
nan Sara Passmore. "It was some-
milar. There were no demands by
ioners."
Stigators were also trying to deter-
the uprising — the fourth at the
sprawling prison since March — was racially
motivated. All three victims were white and
authorities said the inmates who took the
hostages were black. Corrections officials
said the three earlier incidents were ra
cially motivated.”
Passmore said authorities suspected a link
to the Illinois prison violence because
“sometimes when we have incidents in our
institutions, it spreads to others; it s like
wildfire, I guess.”
She said the two guards rescued when the
prison riot squad charged into barricaded
dormitories may owe their lives to a group
of black inmates who wanted to help make
peace.
Passmore said Evans and Warden Joe
Hopper went over initial investigation re
ports early Monday and found that some
black inmates locked the two uninjured sur
vivors — one black, one white — in a part oi
the dormitory just before the riot squad
charged.
“Their lives being saved was actually
credited to a group of black inmates,” she
said. “They closed themselves in one of the
dormitories. When the riot squad came in,
they were unharmed.”
The uprising began about 4; 10 p.m. as
inmates were being taken to dinner. Offi
cials said several black inmates grabbed four
guards as hostages and set fire to bedding
materials in two dormitory buildings.
An hour later, a prison-riot squad broke
through barricades that the inmates had set
up. They found one white guard, identified
as Dan Harrison, stabbed to death. Another
guard, Preston Foskey, 32, was hospitalized
in serious condition with as many as 10 stab
wounds.
The other two guards were not injured.
Lhe riot squad also found the bodies oi
two inmates, who were not immediately
identified pending notification of their
families.
Prison authorities confiscated numerous
homemade knives which were found hidden
in inmate belongings following the distur
bance.
Passmore said the two buildings in which
the violence occurred contain four dor
mitories each. Six of the dormitories house
black inmates and the other two white in
mates.
G S. District Judge Anthony Alaimo is
sued an order earlier this month requiring
the state to segregate living quarters for 60
days in an effort to cool racial tensions.
Alaimo also ordered the state to reduce the
2,895-man population of the prison by 600
men.
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rsonal ties cause judge
decline Passman case
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. n -EVEPORT, La. — A federal
1 Ban ?» hdsen to hear the bribery-tax
iBturei i trial of former Rep. Otto
. n Monday removed himself
>s otlsi e case because of family tics
rybuyti accounting company that
i Passman’s hooks.
new 1 |nd Judge Tom Stagg said he
pxcuse himself from the case
e his brother-in-law, John
f, is senior partner in a
La., company that dealt
ssman.
learned Friday that he was
jideover the trial of Passman,
is accused of conspiring to
$213,000 in bribes from
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South Korean businessman Tongsun
Park, accepting $98,000 of the
money and evading taxes on the
amount.
Stagg said Saturday that he did
not expect to remove himself from
the case because the tie was so re
mote. But Sunday he said he had
reconsidered and would present the
issue to the senior judge of the cir
cuit for consideration. Monday his
law clerk said he had decided to
eliminate himself from the case.
It would appear that if John Sav
age is a witness, it might be better
that I excuse myself,” he said. “1
don t think anybody can fail to be
aware that judges want to avoid im
propriety or any appearances of im
propriety.
Savage is married to the sister of
Stagg s wife. He is senior partner of
Savage, Moore, Miles and Johnston,
which reportedly handled Pass
man’s accounting. But Stagg re
fused comment on the matter, say
ing it would be unethical to discuss
clients' affairs.
Senior Judge Nauman Scott of the
Western District of Louisiana origi
nally was expected to preside over
the trial, but he removed himself
because his son also was involved in
accounting for Passman.
No date has been set yet for the
trial.
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