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National Conupotadelll-NNPA
The Department of Justice
recently reported, that of
586,609 priso rs in U.s. jaik,
246,833 - or 40% - are Black
me� and men.. I
"One of the things that
f . ghtens me about Black
America right no , is that I don't
see that zeal to win or to survive
as bard II use to see .
that scares . I see people be-
co mmg ddictive to
materialism. y tend to forget
that there is something that has
made us survive all these years.
It's called moral fiber," accord
ing to Samual F. Saxton, Presi
de of the American Jail As
sociation and Director of Cor
rections for Prince Georges
County, Maryland
Saxton. explains that most
people get into trouble because
they are followers nd pot
leaders. "They get socialized
. 0 tro ble. There is a te dency
to see people come to jail in
two' d four', and for years
nobody understood that"
Saxton suggests that one of
the key reasons for the growing
number of inmates is that the
system i not focused on some of
the critical areas that need to be
serviced. "Weare putting our as
sets in the wroog place. The bat
tle in corrections has been that
60% (incarcerated) right in' the
middle who cause most of the
trouble. The system has tended
to 100 everybody as exactly
the same, and they have ignored
that group in the middle."
Accordiag to the Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS) female
prisoner growth outpaced male
inmate in 1987, by 2.4% or
28,839 women jailed .
"The great majority of the
men incarcerated are caught
up in the drug scene somehow.
And the . ds are going to get
caught up in that too, unless we
can find a way to divert that,"
stated Saxton. "You see some
men getting into trouble in
dependent of men, but it is stiU
the rule, that the average woman
that gets into trouble, did so in
coajuncti n ·th a male."
The omen, he says, are
more difficult to deal ·th be
cause of the "strong attachment"
to their children. "We've got to
have programs that ��t
how to raise ypunpters here m
the jail M of them, (mother
jailed) have not been educated
enough to woe with the . ds," he
explained
Saxton has promoted his
vi on jail reform with the goal
of moving the jails into the �
century." Competency based
education, work relese, and
ho detention are the opera
tional concepts to significantly
upgrade the system, says the
former Marine.
Saxton says "I don't be . �
. that much in the Ged in the Jail
setting. because the (JED and 75
cents will get you a alp of coffee
in most places. So what you h!ve
to do is make it a much more
career oriented education and
give them something they can do
and play to their strong suit."
Having access to programs in
the community, he sa� is man
datoty to achieving success.
Currently Saxton operates a
100 bed wor release detention
center, which is being expanded
to house 300 inmates enrolled in
the program. In the prison's
wOrk release to home programs,
the individual is required to hay
a job and to support his/her
family. The family he says is aiti
cal to the overall process.
"I have family counseling as a
component of this institution.
Moving towards the end of your
sentence our strategy is to have
you meet up with a after-care
counselor. After-care coun
selors come from the community
and e've trained them. In
home-detention you re still
obliged to come bac to the
work release center for family
conseling. That brings you, your
wife, and your kids - all that
back together. We can begin to
talk about how three of them can
begin to wor it out and become
ole again," he slated
Saxton says he violate prin
ciples th t used to be
sancrosanct. "We encourage of
ficers to talk to inmates, We en
courage them to get to know
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them. We encour
courage prisoners
positive kinds of .
dealing with a
motivated to say
me."
You have to play the game, he
says, to win, when responding to
the inmate. "You can find your
self getting out faster. You'll find
things are going to work out bet
ter for you. All of a sudden you
begin to see maybe I don't have
to be as I was before. Backing
that up with vocational training,
with education is a more practi
cal kind of way."
South African
Union serve
Shell nice
(NIS) - The head of South
Africa's powerful Mineworkers
Union, making a surprise ap
pearance the shareholders
meeting of the Anglo-Dutch
Shell Group, warned the giant
oil congolmerate that it will be
t rgeted for anti partheid
.protests unless it withdraws
from South Africa.
otice w; served earlier this
month by Union Pres'ideut
J ame Motla � who attended
'the annual closed meeting at th
H a shar older. An
tiapartheid organizations had
purchased shares of' the
company's stock on behalf of th
union leader.
Motlasi, charging Shell with
"fueling partheid", was joined
aty the meeting by John Bonovic
of the U.S. United Mine
Workers.
Dutch and, Danish anti
apartheid activists protested
outside. •
II
By Dorothy 1tObI __
If your child is having trouble
learning to spell, as them to
spell the following words: Mac- ... ..... - �
Donald; Wendy; Burger King;
Pepsi; and Coca Col Chances
are the child can spell these
words correctly because he has
mental pictures of these. ords
firmly etched in his mind
The ability to take mental pic
tures, store them, and call upo
them when needed is one of the
miracles of the human mind
Every tim we remember some
thing which happened or the
way something looked, we are
pulling out pictures from our
mental storeroom.
Wbe� children are ed to
spell a word, they are being re
quired to caU forth their mental
picture of that word. If the men
tal picture is very clear and ac
curate, they can spell the rd
easily and accurately. If the n
tal picture is fuzzy or incorrect,
they will have difficulty spelling
the word. I f they have never seen
the word, or if they do n bold
a mental picture of �e way the
letters are arranged to produce
that particular sound, they will
be unable to spell that rd,
Helping children to become
better spellers is primarily a
matter of helping them to make
mental pictures of words.
Children automatically ow
how to make mental pictures (it
is their gift of being human), but
sometimes they have to be
taught how to take th time to
focus their mental "camera" on
the words they must learn to
spell .
Tell the mild to close their
eyes and picture a blackboard in
their mind, put the lettersl of the
word 00 thi ntal blackboard,
look atthe rd for a moment,
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eeIt en s of the
igger Boy" remar gets ·Chief fired
By C A. H·· r.
Washington, D.C. (NNPA) Black flJ'efighters.
- After more than a k of Montgomery County
tense standof posturing, NAACP Vice President Hanley
Michael May, white chief of i. orment, said in an interview,
Hyattstown, Maryland, volun-: "They (the Black firefighter )
'teer fire department who ad- ar 't the only people who were
milled calling a Black fireman of�t:!ed by this. While they,
"nigger boy", resigned under' the Ives, may feel comfort
pressure. able being called antebellum
The incident generated so names, they canno speak for
much beat that the Montgomery other Blacks."
County Council voted to withold ontgomcry County is ad-
more than $35000 orth of nt to Howard County,
funding from the fire depart- d, wb�re in February of
ment unless Chief May resigned, ar, a white manager of the
and 35 Black fuefagbters, who te Turf Club w forced too
work throughout the county, after he w accidentally
staged a news conference and h d to say on telephone re
demanded that May step down. cor r he thought w discon-
May, who had issued a public , nected, "This nigger ... I'm oing
apology and agreed to enter sen- to put . I up against th� wall.
sitivity training, alleged that it remarks re triggered
was a common joke at the station by a from a Howard County
for him to address the Black NAACP official questioning
firefighter "Diggers" and for hiri practices at club.
·themtocallhim"honky."Hewas t the in istence of the
backed by 77-0 vote of his CP, the manager was fired,
fare fighters, 0 include several e Hyattslown incident .
I;)orothy
Robin
then call the letters out they
see them. They ould be asked
to do this several times .. th each
of the rds they are learning to
spell. They will sOoo learn h
to mentally foc s on words
automatically. 10· process is
called "Imaging."
An exqellent b k on this
technique for young people is
Imaging: Think Your WIlY To
Success In Sports And
Classroom by R. Ohley.
(Atheneum 1985).
..... Drawing from the winning
te iques used by successful
athletes around the orld,
Olney has gathered their mental
f$lSing methods and p them
in a step-by-step procedure
which can be used by other
aspiring athletes to become win
ners. He then takes the winning
techniques out of the sports
aetna and ap . to the
classroom.
I Explaining t the muscle
memory must be trai ed just
carefully other in the
body by persistent practice and
discipline, tle states, "Every time
you repeat an action, any action,
the pattern becomes stronger
and easier to follow again."
He also gives ry detailed
procedures on to develop
confidence, ho to relax, and
other techniques uld be able
to learn everythiDg else with
ease.
If you ould try the spelling
technique with your child, us
hear about the results. Write to
DorothyW. Robinso P.O. Box
19156, Otago, 11... 60619.
"parallel to on in Gaithersburg,
Maryland, fire department Just a
year ago," Norment recalled.
"Th fire chief Robert Wilson, a
whi e man, was relating an anec
dote at meeting attended by
several Blacks. He finished with
the punchline, • I've never met a
nigg r who w uldn't steal from
me. Wilson was fired also."
The three towns are located
short distances of one ano er in
an area that is largely small town,
rural and where Ku Klux Klan
activity bas been recorded.
Fifty years ago last fa the
then newly formed Montgomery
County NAACP brought legal
. action on behalf of a Blac
. school teacher seeking equal
pay. They won the case. The
lawyer: Thurgood Marshall,
who was then chi f counsel of
the AACP's "Ink" (Inc.) Fund
Mar 8lI is now a justice of the
u.S. upr me Court,
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