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Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, October 25, 1984 Former inmate: halt strip searches United Press International LUBBOCK — A former Lubbock County jail inmate has asked a fed eral judge to halt what he calls un constitutional practices in the jail in cluding w.eekly strip searches of prisoners, court records showed Wednesday. Samuel Jackson, 22, requested $28,000 in damages for the strip searches as well as for censuring in mates’ mail and for limited access to what he called an outdated legal li brary. Jackson said he spent about five months in the jail on an assault charge before he was released ear lier this month. “Plaintiff and all other detainees in his cell area were subjected to rou tine mass (strip) searches,” attorney Stephen McIntyre said in the lawsuit he filed in U.S. District Court on Jackson’s behalf. “They’re still doing it,” Jackson said of the cell block strip searches, which he said occurred weekly while he was in the jail. “It’s not right what they’re doing to prisoners,” Jackson said. U.S. District Judge Halbert Woodward earlier this year ruled unconstitutional the jail’s former policy of strip searching all people booked into custody. That ruling stemmed from a case in which Barbara Wilkerson won $15,000 in damages for a 1983 ar rest and strip search. The jail’s cur rent policy gives people 24 hours af ter a bond-setting hearing before they can be strip searched. Jackson also asked the federal court to rule invalid a new jail policy that prisoners cannot write letters to one another. He said he wrote letters to a woman inmate, but she never re ceived them. Two such letters were turned to him by jailers, Jackson said. Jail administrator D.L. Young wrote a memo dated Oct. 10 saying that as of Oct. 15 jail inmates would not be allowed to receive mail from other Lubbock County prisoners. “Due to the contents in some of the letters being written from one in mate to another, the policy of allow ing one inmate to receive mail from another inmate in the Lubbock County jail has been recended.” Guatemalan school granted protection Ready, aim, fire Photo by SONIA United Press International GUATEMALA CITY — The Ed ucation Ministry Wednesday called on government agencies to grant protection to teachers at a rural school who were harassed by leftist guerrillas last week. Deputy Education Minister Adolo Juarez Toledo said the Interior Min istry and national defense forces had been asked to protect the teachers from La Palva agricultural cooper ative in La Libertad. Guerrillas from the Rebel Armed Forces, one of four rebel groups fighting in Guatemala, reportedly entered La Palva’s small public school Thursday, burned examina tion papers and threatened to kill the teachers, according to reports from the independent newspaper La Prensa. La Prensa reported accounts from villagers in La Palva with some 150 families who <said that armed men occupied the village threatening the citizens that if they did not leave the town in 20 days, the rebels would re turn to burn it down. A military source said that army patrols were searching for the group of rebels in the isolated region. In other developments. Interior Minister Adolfo Lopez Sandoval re jected a harsh report on human rights abuses in Guatemala released this week by the London-based Am nesty International. The human rights group released a report criticizing 11/ countries for human rights abuses. In its section on Guatemala, Am nesty International charged that Guatemalan security forces and par amilitary groups acting on govern ment orders continue “massive viola tions” of human rights, including torture, disappearances and extra judicial executions. Riflery is a sport which requires a lot of practice and a lot of concentration. Sophomore Diana Pena, a member of the A&M rifle team, prepares for competition. The team placed first in the Southwest Conference in 1983. New trial for insurance dispute United Press International AUSTIN — The Texas Supreme Court Wednesday rejected argu ments that the survivors of an air plane crash could not collect insur ance benefits because the plane had not been inspected as required by the insurance policy. The high court ordered a new trial in a dispute between Joe Beth Warren Puckett, the survivor of one of the plane crash victims, and U.S. Fire Insurance Co. On July 18, a Cessna 337 aircraft co-owned by M. Hunter Puckett crashed near Pampa. Puckett and two passengers were killed and a third passenger was seriously in jured. U.S Fire claimed it was not obli gated to pay any damages or defend any claims arising from the crash be cause the plane had not been in spected for air worthiness as re quired by the insurance policy. A Randall County district court agreed and the decision was upheld on appeal. But the Supreme Court noted that pilot error — not the failure to inspect the plane — had caused the crash. “It would lx- against public policy to allow the insurance company in that situation to avoid liability by way of a breach that amounts to nothing more than a technicality," Justice Franklin Spears wrote in the major ity opinion. But Chief Justice Jack Pope dis agreed. “Courts are not in the business of writing insurance contracts,” he said. “T he court has written out of the contract the clear and express provi sion that the aircraft air wonb certificate shall be kepi in and effect.” in another case, (hecouitf to hear arguments on Jan. Sim ing a workers compensaiiondia Uiwana Bryant of Corsicana, sued the firm that insuredihtt Street Bakery, a nationally fruitcake firm. Bryant was laid off by the ki in October 1982 and retumei weeks later to pick upherfiml check. 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