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Texas' 10-year-old case lingers on
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Ruling supports prison reform order
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE — A ruling by
the Justice Department support
ing reform of Texas’ overcrowded
penal system came as no surprise
to officials of the Texas Depart
ment of Corrections.
“It s not proper to make a de
finitive comment (on the action)
until we can have attorneys review
the document, TDC spokesman
Rick Hartley said Tuesday. “But I
don t think the position of the Jus
tice Department comes as a sur
prise. Their position was clear
during the trial and the appellate
process.
In legal papers filed with the
5th Circuit Court of Appeals in
New Orleans, the Justice Depart
ment supported U.S. District
Judge William Wayne Justice’s
mandate, except for a portion that
stipulates the size and location of
additional prison facilities and a
portion that Would force the Texas
prison system to increase its work-
furlough and community correc
tions programs.
“Judicial restrictions on the
state’s ability to increase prison
facilities, of whatever size and at
whichever sites it deems approp
riate, transgresses the permissible
hounds of the court s remedial au
thority and must therefore he re
versed. the department said.
The Justice Department asked
the appeals court, which soon will
hear arguments in the 10-year-old
case, to overturn those portions it
objects to.
“The remedial steps in the areas
of overcrowding (except as noted),
security of inmates. medical
needs, disciplinary proceedings,
exercise, access to the courts and
fire safety were warranted, the
government said.
The state is appealing the ruling
before the 5th Circuit Court of
Appeals in New Orleans and nego
tiations are continuing to settle
some issues. Oral arguments in
the appeal are schecjuied for De
cember.
The Justice Department joined
in 1974 as a plaintiff in the lawsuit
filed by TDC inmates alleging
violation of constitutional rights.
Assistant Attorney General
William Bradford Reynolds, in
charge of the Justice Depart
ments Civil Rights Division, said
the gov ernment is discussing w ith
Texas ways of settling a number of
issues in the ease.
In a related matter, an investi
gator appointed by Judge Justice
for the special master reported
that wardens at three TDC units
(Ellis, Retrieve and Ramses I) said
they had no plans to allow prison
ers in solitary confinement ami
administrative segregation time
for exercise, as the judge had
ordered.
The order said confined ar
segregated prisoners should gcla
recreation opportunity 1 withml
three days of the confinement ami?
then at least once a day foratjcailj
one hour, unless the' reeffatij
created a serious threat to pq
security.
The investigator's report,>\;hid
was filed with the court Tuesday,
cited examples in the three uitiji -
where prisoners had been held jis
long as 2'/Tyears without- oppi|
trinity for exercise.
The report quoted one prisoner
who tried to clind) a dffei a
v ear in a segregated cnviroWtenl
as sav ing that activity was his only
release.
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Kraft said:
“The best argument nowibriiot
transferring it is that it is hi'ix'
now. All of the hardware is Iiot,
all of the people are here, all oftk
know-how is here. To move il
some place would lie expeiVsiiy.
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the people in flight - operations i>
different and. in my dpiiiipn. tlii>
leads to the right separation of re
sponsibilities. People just think
differently.
I don t say it coukln t ho done.
It could, hut given the facts as they
now exist. I think the most econo
mical and efficient thing for tlie
United States government is,to
have those activities done herein
I louston, ”
Kraft said it was “not ones-
peeted that new administrator
James Reggs would "questionhow
we are going to proceed in the
future.
The magazine article said the
document prepared in \larks
office' discussed the possibility nf
transferring mission control oper
ations from T exas to Florida as ear-
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