The Michigan Daily Vol. XCI, No. 15-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, May 27, 1981 Sixteen Pages Prison riots worsen JACKSON (UPI)-Teargas-equipped guards quelled a second disturbance at the world's largest walled prison yesterday night, containing 1,000 rioting inmates, but a new uprising broke out at a state prison 450 miles away. The latest violence broke out about 8:15 p.m. at the Marquette Branch prison in the Upper Peninsula, just as inmates at Jackson's Southern Michigan Prison were returning to their cells after leaving 11 fire-scarred buildings and a score of minor injuries. AT MARQUETTE, at least four guards were reported injured, none seriously. It was the third Michigan prison to be hit by a disturbance in five days. The Michigan Reformatory at Ionia, hit by bloody rioting last Friday after the first disturbance at Jackson, remained quiet. The Jackson rioting left at least 20 persons taken to area hospitals-most suffering from smoke inhalation. They included eight guards, five firefighters and seven inmates. ABOUT 150-200 maximum-security inmates at Marquette-which houses 820 of the most dangerous convicts in the state penal system-created a disturbance in the prison yard and refused to return to their cells. Three "significant" fires were set in the prison's industry building, vocational school and inmate store, said administrative assistant Paul Maynard. One guard was trapped briefly by prisoners in a cellblock but was rescued. Michigan State Police troopers and Marquette firefighters were at the scene to help restore order. AT JACKSON, which spans 54 acres and houses 5,600 men, six modular housing units, a school building and food preparation area were destroyed. A seventh housing unit and two per- manent cellblocks also suffered fire damage. The 1,000 inmates fled the main- prison yard and entered cellblocks af- ter they were warned, via bullhorns, that they would be gassed if they failed to move inside. Many carried luggage and pulled large wagons, loaded with their See MORE, Page 10 Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROO The thrill of victory The Michigan baseball team celebrates its 4-0 victory over Eastern Michigan in the title game of the NCAA Mideast Regional Monday at Fisher Stadium before over 4,700 fans. After losing their first game, the Wolverines came up through the loser's bracket, winning four games in a row to earn a trip to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska for the second straight year. See story, page 16. Medical program in doubt By SUSAN McCREIGHT The future of a federally funded scholarship program which encouraged medical students to set up practice in rural or inner city areas following their graduation is in question now that the Reagan administration has generated apparent momentum in Congress to trim the federal budget. The National Health Service Corps grants full scholarships to medical students who agree to practice in areas short of doctors for at least the first two years after their graduation. WHILE THE program waits for next year's funds to be appropriated by Congress, the future of the scholarship fundwill be determined by the success or failure of two congressional bills-one that would continue funding for the program at current level and one that would freeze the scholarships, allowing grants to no more than 2,500 medical students. Meanwhile, applications and new scholarships that the Corps nor- Grants spur praetie in rural, eity areas mally processes routinely by the thousands have been frozen pending the outcome of Congressional debates. The uncertainty about the scholar- ship's future worries some of the program's administrators and scholar- ship recipients who say that the unique scholarship has made the first significant step toward achieving an equitable distribution of doctors and an equitable distribution of minorities in medical school. "The Corps is the best tool we have right now for ammeliorating some of the inequities in this country," said Dr. Allen Noonan, director of NHSC scholarships in Maryland. According to Noonan, there are two primary inequities in the medical profession that the scholarships help offset. FIRST, eliminating the scholarship program would reduce the accessibility of medical school to many minority and lower-income students, Noonan said. Thirty-nine percent of the 232 students who received NHSC scholarships last year are minorities, compared to only 12 percent in the general medical profession. Thirty-six students at the University's medical school are par- ticipants in the NHSC program. The other inequity, according to Noonan, is a serious maldistribution of doctors. Physicians find it difficult to make a profitable practice in rural and inner city areas where there are fewer than one physician per 3,000 persons in a population which is scattered over a large geographical area. Doctors get lower reimbursement rates in rural areas because the people are often self-employed and have no employer to offer insurance benefits. Doctors in these areas are required to accept medicare and medicaid, and of- ten must charge on a sliding fee scale. Also, the problems of isolation and inaccessibility to consulting specialists confront the rural physician. THE PROBLEM of isolation is partly resolved if the NHSC physicians stay in the area and attract other physicians. But, if the physician leaves, the area becomes a shortage area again and a new graduate is sent to the site. About 40 percent of the practioners coming from federally-funded projects such as NHSC stay beyond their service See MEDICAL, Page 9