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PRISON DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD:
Judge says jail is no deterrent
By BETH ROSENBERG
Sending a young person to prison does
not deter crime and does more harm
than good, according to Detroit
Recorder's Court Judge Samuel Gar-
dner.
Gardner came to the Center for Afro-
American and African Studies yester-
day to speak on "The Criminal Justice
System and How it Affects Blacks" as
part of Black History Week.
PRISONS, GARDNER said, only
"warehouse little bodies for limited
periods of time and send them back to
society and the same environment.
Jail is supposed to teach convicts a
lesson, Gardner said. However, the
lesson it teaches is a lot different than
the one intended, he added.
"In jail, juveniles are exposed to
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other criminals. They get an education
there. Then they come out feeling they
know how to commit crime, better,"
Gardner said.
IMPRISONING someone is like
casting them aside, according to the
judge. "We had dungeons hundreds of
years ago. It didn't work then and it
doesn't work now."
Imposing sentence is the hardest job
a judge faces, Gardner said. "I
sometimes walked the floor at night if I
thought a sentence was wrong. If I
found that to be true, I called the person
back and gave him another trial."
Realistic alternatives to incar-
ceration are necessary, according to
Gardner.
IDENTIFYING the typical common
criminal is an important factor in
solving the crisis of high crime, Gar-
dner said. A typical defendant is 17 to 22
years old, male, black, a high school
drop-out or "push-out" and unem-
ployed or underemployed, he said.
Of the 12,000 cases heard in Recor-
ders Court last year, 11,000 involved
blacks, Gardner added.
For three months, Gardner has been
testing what he called a "pre-aversion"
program in his Detroit courtroom. Of-
'in jail, juveniles are ex-
posed to other criminals.
They get an education
there.,Tlhey come out feel-
ing they know how to comn-
mit crime better.'
--Detroit Recorder's
Court JI d ge
Sai nu el Gard ner
Drug dealers, however, are one group
the judge is likely to send up river. "I do
send drug pushers to prison. They get
big time. That's my big hang-up. Drug
dealers are dealt with harder than most
homicides."
Although he is against drugs, Gar-
dner said marijuana should be decrim-
inalized. "There is no evidence that
marijuana leads to crime. The same
isn't true for heroin. The cost factor is
so high that addicts are driven to com-
mit crimes."
GARDNER DOES not deal as harsh-
ly with addicts as with pushers because
he looks at addicts as victims.
"I had a case where a 17-year-old had
a $200-a-day drug habit. He had to steal,
but hadn't been caught for two years.
He was a bright boy, but somewhere
our system missed him. We miss a lot of
people in our system. They aren't born
criminals - it's not hereditary, -
they're forced to (crime) by society."
Studies show that crime decreases as
education increases, Gardner said. A
former Detroit Board of Education
member, he said the city's education
system is a disaster. "That's why all
the public school teachers send their
kids to private schools," Gardner
commented.
Detroit's crime situation will turn
around, he predicted. As blacks rise up
the economic- ladder, the dispropor-
tionate number that appear in court
will also decline, Gardner said.
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Begin, who will be making his third
visit to Washington since taking office
last June, said he would hold three days
of talks with President Carter. No dates
for the visit were announced, but White
House spokesman Rex Granum said it
would probably be early in March.
Granum said it was important "to
have thorough discussions with Begin"
on the Middle East situation similar to
the conversations the President held
with Sadat during his U.S. visit earlier
this month.
BESIDES the issue of U.S. arms sup-
plies to the Arabs, Carter and Begin are
expected to discuss the question of
Israeli settlements in occupied Arab
lands. The Carter administration op-
poses the settlements as illegal under
international law.
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Under the $4.8 billion arms proposal,
the United States would sell Saudi
Arabia 60 F-15s, the premier U.S. war-
plane, and Egypt 50 of the less sophisti-
cated F-5E fighters. Israel would
receive 15 F-15s to augment the 25 it
began receiving 14 months ago, and 75
F-16s.
Selling the advanced F-15s to the
Saudis was clearly the more worrisome
element of the package to the Israelis,
despite Saudi Arabia's status as a
moderate state not in direct confron-
tation with Israel.
BEGIN claimed Saudi Arabia had
promised "a certain Arab nation" the
aircraft it received would be deployed
agains Israel in the event of renewed
warfare. He gave no' source for his
assertion, implying that it came from
an intelligence report.
Saudi Arabia sent small ex-
peditionary forces to help Syria against
Israel in both the 1967 and 1973 wars.
Begin said the F-15 would put Saudi
bases within 10 minutes' flying time of
the southern Israeli port of Eilat and a
few more minutes away from Israel's
population centers.
The Israelis are likely to lobby again-
st the proposed sale in Congress, which
has 56 days to veto the deal.
Congressional opposition to the
proposal is already building, but Israeli
newspapers were saying yesterday that
this country has lost its automatic
majority of supporters in Congress sin-
ce Sadat's U.S. visit. Also working
against the Israelis is the Carter admin-
istration decision to link the sale of
planes to Israel with the sale to the
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