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* THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
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Honorable Wendell H. Ford Honorable Julian Carroll
Governor ‘ Lieutenant Governor

THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Charles J. Holmes Commissioner
Luther Luckett Deputy Commissioner

KENTUCKY STATE PENITENTIARY

Henry E. Cowan
William M. Egbert
William Reynolds
William Lasley
Duke Curnutte
W.D. Johnson

James R. Hubbard

Bob Redmon
Chas DuRain
Chas Ringo
Stu Tripplet

CASTLE STAFF

Superintendent

Admino Assistant

Assoc. Super./ Custody
Assoc. Super./ Treatmeit
Chief Counselor v
Senior Captain

Acting Educational Director

Editor ' ,
Illustrator»
Law Reporter

Press Operator

CASTLE is published under the supervision of Mr. James R. Hubbard
and is a member of the American Penal Press Association.

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CASTLE is published by the inmates of the Kentucky State Penit-
entiary near Eddyviikaa The primary purpose of this publication
is to promote a better understanding between the prisoners and
interested persons outsidea The views and comments contained
herein do not necessary refiect those of the administration.
Permission to reprint all material is granted provided the source
is acknowledgedo If there is any good here, use it with our
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FROM THE EDITOR , ‘ 2&3
COMMISSIONER HOLMES? CHRISTMAS MESSAGE " A
DEPUTY COMMISSIONERQS CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 5
WARDEN COWAN’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 6
OL' HARD TIME GETS YULETIDE AMNESTY 7
EDITORIAL OPINION 8E9n1O
A PASSING THOUGHT 11
CHRISTMAS EVE WITH SNOW 12
SOME FACTS ABOUT CHRISTMAS 13
LEGAL DEPARTMENT NEWS 14
OL' HARD TIME and THE CHRISTMAS CONSPIRACY 15
POETRY 16w17
A TOUCH OF GOD 18
SANTA COMES TO THE CASTLE 19
THAT'S A LOT OF KORN 20
CHRISTMAS PUZZLE 21
AS THE NEW YEAR ARRIVES 22
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' This will hopefully be my last issue
as Editor of CASTLEa No! I havenvt been
bustedo I made Paroleo 1911 be leaving
soon and going home to sunny? Southern Cal»
iforniag

When I look back over the years Igve
been here it doesnlt seem a long time at
all3 and again, too? it seems like forever
since my feet were on the brickse

IVm going out of here with a positive
attitudee I feel that I have made the "Son
Called" wasted time count for something bee
cause I have changed since being ,hereo I
discovered some time ago that a. man can
change if he really wants to and the rules
are fairly simpleg As a matter of fact
there are really enly tweo The first cone
sists in developing some sort of a love for lifey no matter where
you are or how tough the going seems te be» and the second one is
treating the other guy like you would like to be treated regard-
less of who he is or what the color of his skin or his religion»
or the fact that he represents authority» or whatevero

There they are: Two simple rules» but not quite as easy as
they sounds Try them on for size if you donit believe meo See
how long you can go for just one day living and acting by those
ruleso And I mean living and acting the part ONEmHUNDRED per cent.
It can be done!

I've tried it and I feel it has worked for meO I tried it
because I wanted to changes I wanted to change because I want
the full benefits that life has to offero I donlt want to go
around up tight and mad at the world anymore because good or bad3
it‘s the only world we have; and if you stop and think about it9
it‘s a pretty groovy worldw I don‘t want to hate anymore because
I've finally realized that hate is not "outwgoing" but "inmgoing"
If you doth believe that9 try hating the sink in your cell some
night with all the hate and venom you can muster up and see if
that sink cares one bite But that same hate will eat you alive
if you let it” And last but not least T denit want to come back
to prison with one of those sentences that would cause me to have
a long, white beard before I got out from under ite Most of all
I'm going to quit trying to prove te myself that I can somehow
beat the "system" by lying, robbing, cheating9 stealing9 and bull
dogging my way through life, because on Sunday afternoon9 the
yards of prisons all over the country are full of guys who have
tried it (most of them a lot smarter than me) and none of them
have done it yeta V

The people who really have it made in life live by those two
rules. The really happy people live by theme The really groovy
people live by theme AndS somehow; someway3 19m going to live by
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CASTLE LOTS OF CHRISTMAS CHEER PAGE 2

 Last year we received one Christmas Card that stands out in
our memory above all others,

Elegantly printed and reflecting the general good taste of
the sender, the greeting consisted of only four words: ,
“NEVERTHETfisqumamA HAPPY CHRIS TTMAS" v

i We have thought of the mes age of that card more than once
during the intervening monthso In a very real sense Christmas "
was, is, and always will be God's great "nevertheless" spoken to
a fallen raceo

itewas aicruel and sordid world into which the first Christ»
mas cameo Civilization after civilization had rotted and died,
At the moment Home was supreme, and her mighty cities were filled
with sin and shame and vice.

At that moment, the Scriptures tell us, "the fullness of the
time had come,” The clocks of heaven had struck, The cup of
manis iniquity was filled to overflowing, But, behold! Instead
of thunderbolts of judgment rolling through the skies, as men had
every reason to expect, angel voices filled the midnight air with
messages of peace on earth and God's good will toward men,

What a ”nevertheless!" The world had given God nothing but
sin, and in return He offers men nothing but gracea

The world Huiiinrned its back on God, but NEVERTHELESSua”God
so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoa
soever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting
life.“

Thank God, Christmas is still the great festival of ”never=
theless s" for you and me—cualso in the year of our Lord, 39723

Our gift to the Lord at the end of another year may be an»
other diary of scarlet sin, a record of pettiness, prejudice,
lovelessness, sinful pride, and cruel selfishness,

NEVERTHELESSE! Nevertheless, God reaches down to you and me
at Christmasutime with His message of peace, of pardon, of para»
dise reopened,

Christmas 1972 may find us weighted down with a peculiar
cross that the Lord in heaven has fashioned just for our shoulder
loneliness, illness, pain, the limitations of old age cr‘1.el
slight by friends and loved ones, the loss of a beloved

NEVERTHELESSEl Nevertheless, a Happy Christmas can be yours,
For Christ has been borno And He is the mighty God, the Prince
of Peace, your Savior, and your Lord,

, It is He that assures you this Christmas, as He has so many
times before, "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the
world!"

There is, indeed, ‘rich meaning, deep comfort, and great
cheer in the greeting: "NEVERTHELESSam-uA HAPPY CHRISTMAS,"

 

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v =A CHRISTMAS M ‘SSAGE FROM COMMISSIONER HOLMESa

The Christmas season symbolizes the spirit of
giving, and I hope that this spirit will pervade
your thinking and govern your actions today and in
the future, Inmates have talents, skills, and ex»
periences that could help many people. Imparting
to someone your strengths or saving them from your
mistakes is worth more than fame or fortune, ”and
these are truly the lasting gifts for they lift the
human spirit.

During this Christmas season I hope we all can
take time to reflect on our lives; What has been
good and what has been bad, and how we can improve
in the future. This, then -_ the spirit of giving

and reflection ~# I hope for all this Christmas.

Commissioner Charles Holmes

 

   

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9? What does Christmas really bring?
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CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

Onee agatn we appnoach the beaéon whteh we taadt~
ttonatty eatt Chatetmae. A Aeabon whteh haA, 60a two
thouband yeaaé, been heaatded by mankind at a ttme 06
peace and gaod—wttt. A teaton when a Apeetat fleettng
peameateb oaa thtnhtng, can aettvtttee and the atno-
Apheae aaound at. A Aeaéon that hat, 6aom ttA tnctp-
eney, boane the eaamaah 05 GIVING and among men 05
good-wttt, tt Ahatt even be.

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hattdag 4ea40n wtth the 5e4ttuttte4 that manh ttA ob-

Aeavance. May Hope and Peace pneuatt tn eveay heaat

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THE TIME CAPSULE

A young man enters prison, The gates close behind him and
time stops. TIME STOPSEE

An old man leaves prison. The gates open to freedom for him,
Time resumes its march, The old man was once the young man. There
is no time between the day the gates close and open upon him. Time
in prison stands still,

Men in prison stagnate while the world outside their walled
environment passes by. The day the man enters prison the girls
are wearing calfwlength skirts with dozens of petticoats. Ten
years later he leaves and they are wearing skirts high above the
knee, and have burned their bras. They are no longer the girls of
l962, but the militant women of l972,

In all of the time he spent inside, none of those changes
taking place affected himo They were only vague rumors of a world
barely remembered. Memories once bright are tarnished with years
of handling. They were all he had to sustain him. Now he finds
the whole world an alien place, one of strange sounds, sights,
music, and social habits, He has suddenly been transported into
the future from the past he dwelt in for so long.

A man in prison gains only the experience necessary for him
to cope with that environmento He learns negativism. No matter
how.many Opportunities are offered, how many progressive programs
are available, he cannot truly relate these to the free world he
will reenter one day" For whatever amount of time he serves, he
learns nothing of the social obligations demanded of him by socie-
ty. He does not experience prpblems that exist daily outside the
walls. Problems that the average citizen copes with automaticall ,

Conflicts easily resolved by the lB~year~old will throw a 2%-
year-old ex~con into panic. Bills, rent, sickness, social obli-
gations, he's never had any of them to handle. Experience~wise,
he's still an lBeyeareold after ten years of prison.

Few men in prison ever learn how to handle responsibility.
The very irresponsibility that put them behind bars for breaking
societyls laws seems to be reinforced by the penal environment.
Whose fault is it?

Surely no one person is responsible, not even the prisoner
himself. we are all, as B. F, Skinner puts it, products of our -
gentic and environmental heritage. Behavioral Modification, ad-
vocated by Skinner as the only solution to social growth and in-
tegration, has been the basis for penal reform for years. It has
been a failure. The environment of prison teaches a man two
things: (1) Negativism, and (2) how not to accept responsibility.
Decision making is not a part of the rehabilitative processes.

The rehabilitative processes start, for a large percentage of
men in prison, at an early age, They have gone from juvenile hom-
es to penitentiaries, right on up the penal scale of institutions.
In not one of these places does a man, or child, learn what it
means to be selfwsufficient. He does not learn how to handle him-
self in social situations that simply do not exist in institutions.
He is told when, where, haw, and why, in everything he does. He
is fed, clothed, housed, educated, entertained, and kept healthy.
He takes, there is nothing for him to do but take. He never
learns how to give or earn.

 

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He does learn how to hustle, wheel and deal, and connive. He
learns ways to commit new crimes in bull sessions with his fellow
prisoners. He does by rote, what he will do tomorrow, next week,
next year, 10 years from now. Every day is the same, even the
minor variations in routine can be predicted. He never learns to
be responsible for himself in order to have a stable, orderly life
in the free world. He learns one thing. How to survive in prison.

Release him and he returns to prison. Often with a new crime.
A crime committed in order to survive in the only way he knows how.
He is rejecting a society that has rejected him. He has become
a savage in civilization. His jungle is the prison, his native
habitat. There he is able to compete and survive on the very
terms instilled in him by the authorities that released him.

Turn out this institutionalized young man and from one hour to
the next he has gone from complete dependency' to total independ-
ency; from no responsibility to full responsibility...and he pan-
ics. The trauma is terrific! The savage thrust into the concrete
jungles of civilization of the future. Whose fault is it? His?
The prison? The state's? Society‘s? Yours?

Yes: It is all our faults. All of us are to blame. The
young men cannot accept responsibility because we have not ac-
cepted our responsibility to him..... or to ourselves.

I‘ve said: "I, we, us, and ourselves," because like many men
in prison I have learned a great deal about prisons in relation to
society and the way it works. Because many of us-are fighting a
battle to regain our lo t place in society. Because in doing so,
we have aligned ourselv s with the law-abiding segments of the
free world. Because it is the entire social establishment, as
well as the men-in-gray who must bring about needed refOrms in or—
der to step wasting the lives of thousands of prisoners.

A lot of cons don't like to admit that there are people in

the world who are behind prison reforms, But there are. Unfor-
tunately, they are voices in an apathetic wilderness. Prison off—
icials would make changes if they could, but society will not let
them. Society will demand reforms, but the law will not uphold
them. There is no cohesion and no unity. Still there are those
who try.‘
' If we who try, fail, then it is because of the forces of dis-
approval, of hatred, of ignorance, and of fear arrayed against us.
No prisoner, no agency, no socially aware group can succeed a-
gainst the masses who refute change. '

Too long have we been swept aside, thrust into the dirty lin-
en closet, hidden away from the eyes of the world like horribly
deformed children. You cannot blind your eyes, deafen your ears,
and hold your tongues in hopes that we will disappear, like bad
dreams. We are real. And we exist by the thousands.

There are a lot of answers. But too few ask the questions.
Those who recognize the futility of the present prison system are
too few to bring about positive changes.

How can we condemn Buchenwald and Bergen-nelson when we al-
low such tragic waste of lives in our own country? Since the dawn
of mankind the watchword has been "progress". Dut as long as the
public refuses to face the facts, they must bear the guilt for the
prisnns they silently condone.

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Some of the answers to the questions that must be asked are:
Smaller prisons without the miasma of defeat and failure of these
stone-walled monstrositieso The majority of men going to prison
are hurt more than they are helped by places like this. Small
facilities within the community or near the community where a man
is sentenced. Most prisoners and their families are poor. So
with todays prisons he's apt to be separated by hundreds of miles
from his loved ones. werk release programs for long-term prison-
ers. Conjugal visits. More communication and inter~relationshifs

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with the community. gaycee clubs and others have proven high
successful in the past in other states. Educate the community as

to the value of men in prison and destroy the stereotyped image
that is so erroneous.

Give us more, much more, responsibility in nearly every phase
of life inside. Let us help in making the decisions of program-
ming, life-structruing, and living conditions. These are merely a
few of the many things that can be done. And they are not new
suggestions forwarded by me. Penologists, criminologists, psycho-
logists, and psychiatrists have all said this much and more in
their studies of needed prison reform.

But these things cannot be done without the active support 0
you, the public, the administrations, the politicians, and the
convicts. Lip service is not enough. For without your aid, pri-
sons will always be a.mark of society's failure to understand and
cope with its "Misfitted" youth.

Do these things and more, and you will open the Time Capsule.
For the man-in~gray, time will never again cease to move forward.

Bob Redmon

 

 

 

 

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A PASSING THOUGHT

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human beings who rerealize that characters
grow and are capable of growing» I know of noth-
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have his rehabilitation and growth completely diam
counted by red ink marks on the debt side of the
ledger, maybe years agoa _

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valuated in terms of a. crime committed twenty
years ago makes a mockery of rehabilitation and of
penology. Frankly, I don‘t know how society exe
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give credit to individuals who by dint of long,
hard work and careful thinking have rehabilitated

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can't develop, and if hard; oonstructive_ work
can’t blot out the mistakes of the past, then life

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 some F§0T8 aBOUT xmas

Once again the month of December arrives with the annual
celebratafifitirth of Jesus Christ on the 25th. It is impossible
to determine the exact date of the birth of Christ, either from
the evidence of the Gospels, or from any sound tradition.

During the first three centuries of the fififfigfiinsyeah there
was considerable opposision in the church to the pagan custom of
celebrating birthdays, although there is some indication that a
purely religious commemoration of the birth of Christ was include
ed in the feast of the Epithany. After the triumph on Constank
tine, the Church of Rome assigned December 25th as the date for
the celebration of the feast, possibly about 320 or 353 A. D. By
the end of the fourth century the whole Christian world was celeo
brating Christmas on that day, with the exception of the Eastern
Church, where it was celebrated on January 6.

In England, the Puritans condemned the celebration and from
1642 to 1652, issued a series of ordinances forbidding '2 a
services and festivities. This feeling was carried over to Amer~
ica by the pilgrims and it was not until the nineteenth can»
tury wave of Irish and German immigration that enthu31§¢aagi ;w
feast began to spread throughout the country. Objections- ”Were
swept aside and the old traditions revived among the Protestants
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Christmas Carols date back before the thirteenth century,
but until that time, century hymns in honor of the Nativity of
Christ were generally solemn and strictly religious.

Christmas decorations were brought in the medieval German
plays, when a tree, the Paradeisbaum (tree of paradise) was used
to symbolize the Garden of Eden. After the suppression of these
plays, the tree was used in the home, and gradually there evolved
the custom of decorating it with cookies, fruit, and evenually
candles. The use of mistletoe, evergreen wreaths, lights, etc...
was brought about later.

The origin of the Christmas Card is disputed. Accordin to
some, William Egley, an English artist, designed a card in 1%e2,
while others give credit to John C. Horsely who was commissioned
by Sir Henry Cole to design a Christmas card for him in 1875. At
the present time over two billion cards are sent annually in the
United States.

Santa Claus is another American symbol of Christmas. Early
Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam introduced the idea of Santa
Claus. They called him St. Nicholas and in EurOpe had celebrated
his Feast Day, December 6, with festive sports and gifts for
children. The name Santa Claus thus came into American English
through the Dutch.

In 1822, Clement C. Moore, a New York professor of Theology
wrote a poem titled, "Twas he Night Before Christmas". His old
St. Nick had clothes of f twinkling eyes, merry dimples,
cheeks like roses, and nose like a cherry, beard white as snow,
and round belly "that shock when he laughed, like a bowl full of
jelly." This protrait became indelibly stamped in the imagina-
tions of American children.

Bob Redmon
CASTLE PEACE ON EARTH PAGE 13

 LEGAL NOTES

Since the last article, the United States Supreme Court has
affirmed its opinion of last June, holding the: Death Penalty as
unconstitutional to the thirtymeight states who maintained the
Death Penalty as deterrent to capital punishment.

The Chicago Tribune, Monday, October 9, 1972, featured an
article on the states who had abolished the Death Penalty and the
years of abolishment prior to the Supreme Courtvs ruling. Furs
ther stating the areas9 change. Such as Tucker Penitentiary in
Arkansas, using the chair for cutting inmates‘ flair. Pennsylvanc
ia's execution room has been partitioned into offices for jail=
house counselors. New Hampshire is storing potatoes and other
vegetables in the drop portion of the gallowss Idaho uses theirs
to store medical supplies and equipment. Connecticut claims that
the closing of their Death Row has been a saving of $50.000 a
year in not having to man the area around the clock.

Among the other states named is Kentucky. This being only
part true. Kentucky as many other states'.condemned men are hav=
ing to suffer further restraints because of: the slow court pro:
cess in the original trial courts”i§%§3§§§§ggg§ p§g§§dgfi,qnggpa

 

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Presently pending the Federal Court action is a class action
on Kentucky Death Row prisoners for an injunction ordering them
removed to original trial courts for resentencing. Many of these
men have accruded parole time for review.

The Kentucky Prisoner who was to be executed September 1,
1972, was only timely saved from State Law Execution by inmate
representation, the Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the pun;
lic awareness through news media by the Superintendent, even thoe
ugh the penalty was declared void°

Three Kentucky prisoners are now: awaiting the Federal Court
to order their sentences of life without privilege of parole, on
the convictions of murder and robbery. These convictions are unm
constitutional because the only statue prescribing such punishe
ment is Rape.

MISSQyRI'S LOSS, KENTUCKY'S GAIN

Thirteen states have an Interstate Compact agreement for the
exchange of prisoners. Kentucky recently exchanged: four prisono
are with the state of Missouri. In the exchange we lost a good
writ man and gained two. These men are tough! The old saying
goes: I'm from Missouri, you‘ll have to show me, surely holds
true. They are showing meS They have brought new areas of law
to our postuconviction remedy as applied in Federal Courts under
Federal Standards as we all shall see the betterment for it.

Up to date we have eleven men under life sentences awaiting
either freedom or relief in the courts. Four of these fll‘fiififip
under the Fifth Amendment (Double Jeopardy), where punishment was
imposed on each principle charge and the addition of life eggs
imposed as Habitual Criminal Act. Another is presently awaiting
the Supreme Court reaffirmance of the Sixth Circuit Court of Ape
peals decision on this point.

Chas Ringo

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A red rose I'll wear in a special way

For all the world to see,

And to let you know in my own simple way
All the wonderful things that you are to me¢

So Mom, please don't cry, or wonder why,
When you read what I'm writing to you,
It's because I love you,

And will until I die.

And thank God for your love so true,

You're my light from heavena-wmy "guiding star",
All the warmth from God aboveo

I could never on earth explain what you are,

But simply, that you are love.

On the velvet red petals there is mist and dew
Mingling with my fallen tear,

Because Mom, I can't be with you

On this special day of the year.

The rose that I wear may someday turn white,
And be drenched with my sad falling tears,
But thank God for your sweet shining light,
I'll remember for all my years°

I won't sleep tonight, Mom, I'll think and pray,
And hope that my prayers will come true,

That next year you will find me where I can say,
"Merry Christmas, Mom," to you!!!

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