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VOL. XVI NO. 45 An Infonned People is A Free People OCTOBER 2 - 8, 1994
By APRIL CALDWELL
plIel.' to Mlchlp.n Citizen
LA I G ( pit I • rv-
le ) - Although the population
behind bars at the 70-ye r-old
State Pri n of Southern Michi
gan in Jackson i 67 perc nt
Black, no African American con
tracto have been hired on the
$116 million renovation project
underway.
The renovation project,
which will take ix ye rs to com-
I oro
t 0 in 10 Viqpn
Black,y 60 roentof
state's prisone a Blae
Th ns for thi di •
parity include poverty, un
employm nt, drug ,
akohol nd rae' m.
Gov. Gear Allen id
his plan to revamp n
ten and liminate pa
role will Yen th field for
Black char g d with
crimes. He propo e to
8 ndardiz nten and
redu th I way given to
jud in picking a puni h
m nt. Critics, however,
qu . tion wh ther's Allen's
"Proposal X" ill pinch the
pipeline frotn crime-ridd n
Black n ighborhood to the
ta '8 prisons:
The plan won't limit th
b d di ret ion that poli
hav in choosing whom to
and that proeecu 0
in el cting wh t
char to file, id Julie
McConnell, a i tant di
rector of the Virgini
Chapter of th Am rican
Civil Liberti Union.
"I ha n' n anything"
in Prop<..681 X that will -
duce th in qualiti
plet , will break the pri on into
frve individual facilit.ies, ex
plained Maur n McNulty, De
partment of Man gement nd
Budget pok pe on.
"This is a monum ntal t k,"
McNulty aid.
The first phase of reno va ions
be n earli r thi y r. It in-
volv s 10 buildin and co
46 million.
However, no subcontractor
has . n found to work on he
two maximum ecurity c II
blocks and the two support
buildings, which con in medi
cal facilitie . nd recre t ional ar
eas.
Granger Construction of
Lansing i the general contra -
torinchargeofth ntir proj t
and also is in ch r of hiring
he subcontractor to do peci
fied portions of he work. Right
now, th r ubcon-
needed.
RUTH R I HARDT i the
only female own r of construc
tion company involved in th
project, handling a budget of
$235,000. However, ther r no
minority own d ubcontracto
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After loot r cuffled over bag of rice tolen from Port-au-Prince, one man crouched to crape
grain from the ground and tucked them into hi shirt, which he held with hi teeth to form pouch.
Hunger on th Island i pervasive. Observer say over 1 million person are fed daily by relief
a net s.
AAC
ettlement is 'sellout'
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By RON SEIGEL
MICHIGAN CITIZEN
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continues to
ourish.
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du ing I t Saturday' game
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