Page 2-Thursday, May 20, 1982-The Michigan Daily Area officials prepare for inmate release (Continued from Page 1) . house inmates to approximately 73 for Washtenaw County, Frost said." Frost said that under the governor's executive order, inmates will beY carefully selected for release into the community, but will remain under corrections department supervision. "THIS SYSTEM provides for a more orderly release," Frost said. "They'll be under the supervision of a parole agent and supervision will continue in one form or another," he added. Frost said that the area's halfway houses normally operate at capacity. "Our beds are full right now," Frost said. "I wish we had more bed space, but we don't. There's only so much room in the end, and it doesn't take too long before you eat up bed space," he added. ACCORDING TO Frost, the central office of the corrections department in Lansing will notify area managers within the next few days which inmates will be eligible for the 90-day sentence reduction prescribed by the act. Caseworkers then will begin the parole process, he added. Frost said that while last year's release prompted a modest rise in area crimes, he doesn't know whether area residents can now expect a similar in- crease. "I believe that when they made the last release there was a slight increase in crime noted. Whether that increase was directly related to the release or not is open to speculation," Frost said. "Most of the people you're talking about would be released in 90 days anyway, and I don't know if the 90 days makes that much difference." "We're just going to do the best we can to handle the situation and take each day at a time," Frost said. Huron Valley Men's Facility Warden William Grant said, "My people are now working on it and so far we don't think we'll have anybody that will be released early."' According to Grant, the governor's order will not affect the prison because it is a maximum security facility and most of its inmates are serving long- term sentences. "The institutions that are likely to be affected by the order are minimum to medium security facilities," Grant said. Today The weather A little bit of yesterday is expected today with partly sunny skies in the forecast and temperatures in the mid-70s. The nonsexy senator Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich), took offense recently with a magazine article's description of him as "disheveled, balding, plump, perhaps the worst dressed man in the Senate." Levin said the Columbia Journalism Review ar- ticle written by C. T. Hanson suggested he wasn't as "sexy" as other senators. "Plump, balding, disheveled, even worst dressed, I can accept with some degree of serenity. But nonsexy. . . there are limits to what any man in public life ought to be asked to stand for and that crosses my limits," Levin said. "Or at least I hope it does, and my wife assures me that it does. Of course in that regard, maybe I cannot trust her judgment - after all, she picks out my clothes." A Rubik's cube, go home Rubik's cube, the colorful brain teaser, is being criticized by a Pe.king newspaper as a dangerous pasttime that can lead to divorce, abnormal behavior, high blood pressure, and aching fingers. The Peking News admit- ted the cube could be beneficial and help sharpen intelligence, but warned' that "side effects might-bring danger." Last November, the first shipment of Rubik's cubes to Shanghai, China, had hundreds of people waiting in line to buy the game. Q Happen ings4 Films CFT - Silver Streak, 3, 6:45 & 10:30 p.m., Which Way is Up?, 5 & 8:45 p.m., Michigan Theater. Cinema Guild - The Apartment, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m., Lorch. Miscellaneous Spartacus Youth League - class, "Building the Revolutionary Party," 7:30 p.m., Welker Room, Michigan Union.gy Latin American Solidarity Committee film, The Uprising, and speaker Elijio Rocha, 7:30 p.m., Nat. Sci. Aud. Chemistry departmental colloquium, "Structure and Spectroscopy of Binuclear Iron Centers in Proteins," 4 p.m., 1300 Chem. Bldg. Student Wood and Craft Shop - advanced power tool safety class, 6 p.m., 537 SAB. Folk Dance Club - ballroom dancing, 7 p.m., League. Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship - meeting, 7 p.m., Union. Campus Crusade for Christ - meeting, 7 p.m., 2003 Angell. Museum of Art - art break, Katherine Aldrich, "Leonardo's Return to Vinci," 12:10 p.m. Graduate Women's Network - meeting, 5 p.m., International Center. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109. The Michigan Daly* I i Gov. Milliken declares state prison emergency I (Coninued from Page 1) shower and toilet facilities and adequate sleeping space for prisoners. "WHEN Y(OU have that many people concentrated into a situation like that, it really creates problems," McKeon said. McKeon stressed that the act will not necessarily release prisoners, but rather make them eligible for parole at an early date, thus creating a larger pool from which parole officials can make their selections. "The Parole Board usually paroles 60 percent'of their minimum," McKeon said, adding "I guess it would be safe to say that approximately 60 percent of the inmates eligible will be paroled." ACCORDING TO McKeon, officials are not expecting a repeat of the ex- plosive riots last summer which were triggered by overcrowding. "All the feedback that we're getting is that things are calm and quiet," McKeon said. "We are going on the assumption that everything is going smoothly," he added. McKeon maintains that the state's budget crisis is a major factor con- tributing to the chronic problem of prison overcrowding. "THE BOTTOM is falling out of the economy and corrections is taking its lumps," McKeon said, citing the May 9 layoff of 58 state corrections officers and subsequent "notice" given to eight additional officers that they are next in line for layoff. McKeon explained that the over- crowded conditions plaguing Michigan's prisons are not atypical. "Overcrowding is a national phenomenon," McKeon said. "The only long-terni solution is going to be to have enough cells to put these people in," McKeon said. McKEON SAID that only two new state regional facilities are currently either in the planning or early construc- tion stage. One is a new 500-bed facility adjacent to the Phoenix correctional facility in Northville. - McKeon also cited the new "Diamon- dale" reginal faciltiy" which is located just West of Lansing. The 500-bed faciltiy currently is awaiting more state funds for construction to continue. Both new facilities are based on the "regional facility" concept. They will be multi-security facilities (minimum, (medium, and maximum security units housed in one facility) and are located in or around small residential com- munities. The Emergency Powers Act is triggered by a three-step process. In the first step, the state's inmate population must exceed "temporary emergency capacity" for 30 con- secutive days. The second step requires the state's five-member Corrections Commission to certify the overcrowded conditions to the governor, who then has 15 days in which to declare an emergency, which he must do unless he finds the com- mission acted in error.. In the last step, the governor declares the existence of a prison overcrowding emergency. Sentences are then rolled back 90 days. 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