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Friday, September 15,2000
THE BATTALION
Los Alamos scientist Lee
released under plea deal
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP)
— Wen Ho Lee celebrated at home
with family and friends after he was
set free with an apology from a
judge who said the former Los
Alamos scientist had been “terribly
wronged” by the government.
Lee’s release under a plea deal
Wednesday came nine months after he
was put in solitary confinement and
branded a threat to national security.
“The last nine months were pret
ty tough for me, but f survivied,”
Lee said.
In his tongue-lashing of govern
ment officials, U.S. District Judge
James Parker said he was angered
over having been misled into believ
ing the 60-year-old nuclear scientist
was a danger to national security if
released on bail.
“I sincerely apologize to you. Dr.
Lee, for the unfair manner in which you
were held in custody by the executive
branch,” said Parker, who singled out
the Energy and Justice departments.
“They have embarrassed our en
tire nation and each of us who is a
citizen of it,” he said.
In a rare public rebuke of the En
ergy and Justice departments, Pres
ident Clinton said he was “quite
troubled” by their handling of the
case and expressed his regrets.
“77ie last nine
months were pret
ty touch for me,
but I survived.”
— Wen Ho Lee
former Los Alamos scientist
“I don’t think you can justify in
retrospect keeping a person in jail
without bail when you're prepared
to make that kind of agreement,” the
president said of the plea deal
Thursday. “It just can’t be justified
... So 1 too am quite troubled by it.’
His comments came just a few
hours after Attorney General Janei
Reno refused to accept blame, say
ing Lee was at fault for not provid
ing the government with information
sooner.
“1 think Dr. Lee, from the begin
ning, had the opportunity to answer
this and 1 think now he needs to lod
to himself,” rather than expect an apo!
ogy from the U.S. government, she
said at her weekly news conference.
In Washington, the Energy De
partment issued a one-paragraph
statement Wednesday: “Dr. lie
pleaded guilty to a felony admitting
that he mishandled sensitive classified
information. That speaks for itself.”
The judge’s stinging criticism
came even as he signed off on the
agreement that freed Lee, who plead
ed guilty to one count of mishandfc
nuclear secrets as the governmental
but abandoned its crumbliniicase
Nile virus scares Israel, Jordan
(AP) — Anxiety in Is
rael was growing Thurs
day after the West Nile
virus killed an eighth vic
tim this summer, and hos
pital emergency rooms
were crowded With peo
ple who feared they had
contracted the mosquito-
borne disease.
In two dozen towns in
Israel’s hardest hit coastal
plain, residents closed
their windows this week
as machines belched forth
clouds of insecticide
mixed with diesel oil to
wipe out the mosquitoes.
In southern Israel,
3,300 geese were de
stroyed at a farm after
some of the birds died of
the disease. There were
minor outbreaks among
geese at other farms but
no wholesale slaughter.
Most fiocks have been
vaccinated against the
virus, said Dr. Oded Nir,
chief veterinarian at the
Ministry of Agriculture.
“This is not like last
year's outbreak of the
virus in New York where
they had crows falling out
of the sky,” Nir said.
There was little chance
the outbreaks in New York
and Israel were connected,
officials said. The virus was
probably brought to Israel
by wild birds migrating
from Europe to Africa, said
Dr. Alex Leventhal, the
Health Ministry's director
of public health.
Concerned by the cas
es in Israel, neighboring
Jordan asked hospitals
and clinics throughout the
kingdom to notify the
Health Ministry if any
cases were detected.
Eight people in Israel
have died this summer,
and 120 more have con
tracted the disease. The
latest victim was Nurit
Gurwitz, 54, from Rishon
Lezion, south of Tel Aviv,
who was hospitalized two
weeks ago and died
Wednesday.
Gurwitz’ family was
only informed a few hours
before her death that she
had contracted the illnev
said her husband, Shlo-
mo, suggesting that to
wife did not received
proper treatment froratk
start. The hospital denie;
the allegations.
In a sign of grow. 1
anxiety, hospital erne
gency rooms were crawl
ed w ith people with mi:
influenza who thoug
they had the West Nik
virus, which can bedea;
ly for patients with a wea
immune system.
“We calm them do«:
and send them home,to
more keep coming,” s
Dr. Motte Ravid. direc
of internal medicine at
hospital in KfarSava.
Prison programs allow fathers
to interact with their children
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — At
Missouri’s toughest prison, in
mates run a 4-H Club program for
their children. Imprisoned dads in
Florida, some barely literate, send
home recordings of themselves
reading storybooks.
Though many wardens and legis
lators remain wary, fatherhood pro
grams run by volunteers and non
profit groups are teaching parenting
skills and family values to more and
more of the nearly 700,000 fathers
held in state and federal prisons.
Some states avoid such pro
grams; others have one or two mod
est pilot projects. Pennsylvania has
expanded a program called Long
Distance Dads throughout its prison
system, and several Southern states
are preparing comparable initiatives.
The trend has contributed to an
upbeat mood at one of the first ma
jor conferences on the topic, the
North American Conference on Fa
thers Behind Bars and on the Streets.
The three-day meeting, which ends
Friday, has drawn researchers, social
workers and corrections officials
from across the country.
“Maybe we’re coming to the
point where the invisible families
are starting to become visible to peo
ple in policy positions,” said James
Mustin, executive director of the
Family and Corrections Network, a
co-sponsor of the conference.
Nearly 1.5 million American chil
dren have a parent in prison, accord
ing to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Many states already have special pro
grams for mothers behind bars. But
93 percent of the imprisoned parents
are men, and their role as fathers has
traditionally been neglected by cor
rections officials.
“Most wardens see their job as,
‘Nobody gets out, nobody gets
hurt,”’ Mustin said. “If they can do
that, they’ve had a good day.”
Over the past four years, Penn
sylvania has worked with father
hood groups to develop Long Dis
tance Dads and now offers the
12-week program to imprisoned
fathers throughout the state. With
a curriculum created in part by in
mates, and using inmates as group
leaders, the program encourages
fathers to assume responsibility for
their children while in prison and
after they get out.
Penn State University is sched
uled to complete an evaluation of
the program next June.
Parents in prison
In 1999, an estimated 721.500
men and women in prison were
parents to 1 .5 million children
under 18. Here is a look at
prison parenthood, based on a
1 997 survey.
Percent of prisoners who
were parents
55.4
63
43.8 percent of male state
prisoners lived with their children
prior to prison, but now their
childrens' caregivers* include
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^ Other relative 4.9
| Foster home/agency 1.8
Friends/other 4.9
64.3 percent of female state
prisoners lived with their children
prior to prison, but now their
childrens’ caregivers* include.
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®Sf§ Other relative 25.7
Foster home/agency 9.6
Friends/other 10.4
62.4 percent of male state
prisoners had contact with their
children each month through ...
78.4 percent of female state
prisoners had contact with their
children each month through •••
53.6
65.8
23.8
‘Some prisoners had children in
different homes.
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics
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