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United Press International
HOUSTON — The federal
judge, who last December found
the nation’s largest prison system
guilty of massive violations of in
mate rights, now has set deadlines
for reduced overcrowding and
said Texas must stop taking in
mates if the deadlines are not met.
U.S. District Judge William
Wayne Justice ended the trial
stage of the 9-year-old Texas pris
on reform case Monday with a
sweeping final decree, refusing
Texas Attorney General Mark
White’s request for more time to
negotiate with lawyers for plaintiff
inmates and the intervening U.S.
Justice Department.
White, who said the order ex
ceeded constitutional require
ments and w'ould cost the state at
least $3 billion, said he planned to
appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
However, a Texas Department
of Corrections spokesman said the
state might be able to meet the
first deadline Nov. 1 even if it
loses the first round of appeals.
Justice, who earlier had
approved a partial consent decree
in which the state agreed to im
prove inmate medical care and
make other changes, Monday
ordered TDC to double its guard
to inmate ratio, reorganize prisons
into smaller administrative units
and start reducing overcrowding
immediately.
By Aug. 1, 1983, Justice said
TDC — which has 30,000 inmates
and many inmates housed three
and four to a cell —- can have no
more than one inmate in each cell.
He ordered the change accom
plished in stages, making max
imum use of parole, early release,
work furlough and minimum
security programs.
By next Nov. 1, the judge said
the state must reduce its total
population to twice the number of
prison cells plus the number of
prisoners who could be housed in
dormitories affording each inmate
at least 40 square feet of space.
If TDC fails to meet this dead
line, “they shall not, until further
order of the court, accept any
further prisoners for confinement
until the population falls below
such afigure,” Justice’s order said.
TDC spokesman Rick Hartley
said TDC now has 10,000 cells and
6,000 to 8,000 inmates in dormi
tories. He said a $35 million
emergency legislative appropria
tion was financing three tempor
ary units to house 2,750 inmates
by November. He said new
women’s units would clear 1,400
more beds. He said the new beds
plus increased furloughs planned
makes Justice’s deadline feasible.
By Nov. 1, 1982, Justice said
TDC must reduce its total popula
tion to 1.5 times the number of
cells plus the number of inmates
that can be housed in dormitories
affording 60 square feet of space.
By Nov. 1, 1983, the total popula
tion must equal the number of
cells plus 60-square-foot dorm
spaces.
In addition. Justice ordered
TDC to double its guard-to-
inmate ratio, from the current one
guard for 11 inmates to one for
every six by Nov. 1, 1982. He
ordered TDC to reorganize its
prisons into 500-inmate adminis
trative units. Several TDC units
house 2,000 inmates or more.
Justice appointed a special J „
ter, Toledo, Ohio, lawyerVim* United Press I
M. Nathan, to work out thede: WASHINGTOl
and make sure the state compifleagan, who has i
Nathan performed similar roltjublic for nine d;
Ohio and Georgia prison rejjeen a pretty goc
cases. Justice ordered the sta!self and is settin
deposit $150,000 with the and rest pace duri
cover Nathan’s costs and&ion, a White Ho
hour fee. | Acting press
White said Justice hdfc es descr * e
ceeded his authority.
He forbade construction of new
prisons farther than 50 miles from
cities of 200,000 without proving
the work force will provide
enough guards. That order could
affect plans for a new prison in
Grimes County and one under
construction in Anderson County.
He ordered changes in discipline
and complaint procedures to pro
tect inmate rights and ordered
TDC to comply with state safety
codes.
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"We're not required by ttie.his lung will tal
stitution to build hotels forpr, than originally ai
ers,” he told reporters. “M Reagan has i
talking about several billion family quarters si
dollars, maybe three or fom the White House
lion dollars just for prison (Ben reports he
struction. The court c has some discon
appropriate any money today'jbreathmg.
But the inmates’ lawyer, 1
liam B. Turner of San Franct
said reform had been delayedlsj
enough: “It’s necessary in on
cure the broad, sweeping air.,.(
in the system. It’s about time’,
Reagan in ‘no mood to compromise’
Bush dislikes Demo budget plans
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United Press International
DALLAS — Alternatives to
President Reagan’s budget plans
by key Democrats are a poor sub
stitute for the White House prop
osals, charged Vice President
George Bush.
Speaking to students and busi
ness leaders, Bush termed the
alternative measures proposed by
Democratic legislators “poor im
itations” of Reagan’s plan.
“These substitute programs to
reduce spending and taxes may
sound like the real thing but the
truth is they are only imitations
and poor ones at that,” Bush said.
. In a strong attack on what he
termed attempts by Democrats to
“water down” Reagan’s budget
proposals. Bush warned that such
attempts would only slow the
country’s economic recovery.
Bush told a large gathering at
Southern Methodist University:
“One of the messages I bring here
today is that we can’t afford to
accept these substitutes that
would water down or otherwise
weaken the cure needed for our
country’s economic recovery.
Bush
Talking to reporters,
noted the administration never
expected “a smooth sailing” of its
budget proposals in Congress but
reiterated that despite strong
opposition, the administration
was in “no mood to compromise.”
“President Reagan’s program
must not be diluted if it’s to bring
about the economic recovery the
American people need and want,
and indeed, that they mandated
last November.”
In answer to a question after his
speech. Bush said developing re
lations with Mexico was one of the
administration’s “most important”
foreign policy goals. Bush had
been asked about U.S. military in
volvement in El Salvador and said
the main thrust of U.S. policy in
that Central American country
was “to check the unimpeded flow
of weapons from Socialist coun
tries.”
port” the ruling military junta in
El Salvador was receiving from
the U.S. was aimed at helping El
Salvador withstand pressure from
Cuban President Fidel Castro and
Nicaraguan Sandinista elements
from whom he said the guerilla
forces were receiving arms.
However, Bush said, any Amer
ican help to El Salvador would
take into account the sentiments
of Mexico which the U.S. viewed
as “one of the most important and
foremost (of countries) in our fore
ign policy objectives.”
He said whatever “modest sup-
Bush said Mexican President
Jose Lopez Portillo and President
Reagan “get along very well and
are good friends” and that the
U.S. would only attempt to “trans
cend and not separate" Me\t J r '’ ' n a two-para
feelings when considering ?* en | Monday, s
kind of help to the junta in EISif r , ® collision
vador. |oid lengthy co
On the issue of Mexican alk P 6 ™^ t ^ ie P ron
Bush said he supported Tendons on a setl
Gov. Bill Clements’ suggestk:p vo ve d parties,
get some kind of certifications The Navy saic
authentication for aliens and about $4.2 millit
the new immigration policyunrT _
review by the U.S. Attorney Get su bmari
eral’s office would support ® a shington, opf
suggestion. surface, collided
Bush said Texas was not ' jf Nissho Mar
only state burdened by the alqP^ China Sc:
traffic. He said Florida n^^ater sank an
another state where the inlk:r en were killed
Cubans and Haitians hadcreaH The Navy sai
special problems. He said then-not the result of
immigration policy under rewj
would address these problems \
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Pastor retracts anti-Jewish words For
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United Press International
PLANO — Instead of saying
God did not hear Jewish prayers
or that Jews had “funny” noses,
the president of the Southern
Baptist Convention was saying
something very different — that
he would die for the rights of Jews.
Bailey Smith — the Del City,
Okla., Baptist preacher who made
world-wide headlines with what
were considered his anti-Jewish
remarks last year — attended a
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private Passover ceremony with a
Jewish leader and then talked to
waiting reporters.
Smith met Mark Briskman, di
rector of the North Texas-
Oklahoma Anti-Defamation Lea
gue of B’nai Brith, at Briskman’s
home just north of Dallas for the
Passover ceremony. After the
ceremony, both religious leaders
announced plans for inter-faith
religious activities designed to
bring their faiths to a better
understanding.
“We talked with the Catholics
for 2,000 years — we can talk with
the Baptists for 2,000 years,”
Briskman said.
Concerning the diversity of the
two friths, Briskman quoted
Smith as saying early in their
meeting, “I would die for your
right to live as a Jew in America. ”
After the ceremony. Smith said,
speaking of himself: “Bailey Smith
does indeed want to do everything
to promote the Jewish people and
the sincerity of their faith.”
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Smith since he made statements
last year aUa conservative politic
al-religious rally in Dallas. He re
turned to Dallas to offer his new
statements.
Last year. Smith said: “It is in
teresting at great political rallies,
how you have a Protestant to pray,
a Catholic to pray, and then you
have a Jew to pray. With all due
respect to those dear people, my
friends, God almighty does not
hear the prayer of a Jew.”
Later, Smith said, “I think they
(Jews) got funny looking noses.”
Briskman said after the meeting
that, “Bailey understands the ini-
tial hurt created by his statement
and has been open and forthright
in making it clear he is sorry for
that hurt. He is almost single
handedly moving the Southern
Baptist Convention to work in
greater cooperation with the Anti-
Defamation League and the Jew
ish faith,” Briskman said.
Smith announced that the
Southern Baptist Convention and
the Anti-Defamation League
would work in conjunction on
Sunday School lesson plans, semi
nars at seminaries of both faiths
and other interfaith cooperative
activities.
It was also announced that
plans were being discussed for
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Abbie Hoffman
Smith to lead a joint Bapi
Jewish tour of Israel, possibly:
early as this fall.
Both Briskman and Si
down played theological
ences and stressed what the
religions had in common.
“Bailey and the SouthernBi|leader who elm
tist Convention have found' police dragnet, s
have agreed to disagree and r to begin serving
respect each other, ” Brisbi in prison for selli
said, “not hurt each other, of cocaine to un
Smith added: “It is given fe Hoffman, 44,
theologically Christian and Jew! Him shirt, slacks
people have different interpreS irried the bo
tions of the (biblical) canons. Hf Minds of Men: 'I
know I believe in the uniques® volution, and
of Christ and I have a deep respf hacksaw blade t
for what they believe.” You think th
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his family attending along ri troom in state
Briskman’s family. The sent
evolved from a discussion the
men had last December after
turning from an Anti-Defamafal
League meeting in New feilTTl *___
which Smith also attended ir 1
attempt to defuse the controverij
around his remarks.
An Anti-Defamation
official from New York
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hers and to further the relate ^ enn 9^ a , r ^ a
ship between the two faiths.
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