00:00:09.240 - 00:00:29.580

Well, we're Ah. We're disappointed that the three young guys who authored it chose to repeat really extreme kind of charges which suggests that we're allowing the feces and food and that sort of thing. We've investigated those, uh, inmate allegations earlier very thoroughly, and we're satisfied they're

00:00:29.580 - 00:00:48.090

completely untrue. Mr. Guthrie does the trouble that SOLEDAD result primarily from a racial problems. I think it would be wrong to suggest that a primary reason for problems which I developed there is race. It would also be wrong to suggest that there are no racial problems

00:00:48.090 - 00:01:06.810

in any institution, any prison, that prison is really a small society, which is merely a reflection of what goes on in the bigger world in general society. And certainly there are racial problems, racial concerns, whole new attitudes developing in our society. And that same thing is

00:01:06.810 - 00:01:23.620

true in the smaller prison society. I think if you can pinpoint one cause that probably has more bearing than any of the others. For troubles that develop in prison at Soledad in any place else, is the frustration and bitterness which men feel that being deprived of

00:01:23.620 - 00:01:40.500

their personal freedom Yeah, first thing we didn't have to have a study to discover how bad the conditions were. The number of deaths during the course of the last eight or nine months. Uh, certainly lens best evidence of that. But even after we have completed the

00:01:40.500 - 00:01:57.590

study, we suddenly discovered that there were, um, accusations that run the gamut from what is put into persons food thio outright opening of sales to permit one inmate to attack another inmate based upon race. We also discovered that there's a difference in terms of the nature

00:01:57.590 - 00:02:11.780

of the rehabilitation jobs that are assigned and that that decision apparently is made on the basis of Race. Way discovered that there are some guards who are permitted to have access to prisoners who are known persons who expressed, uh, certain kinds of racial attitudes. We also

00:02:11.780 - 00:02:23.990

discovered that there's some prisoners there who are incarcerated for 23 a half hours a day in a very small sale and only given 30 minutes a day of exercise that have anything to do with race. Uh, no. I don't think that has anything to do with

00:02:23.990 - 00:02:35.350

race, but it just so happens that most of the people in that category happened to have been members of minority groups. Uh, they maintain that these were the more violent, prone persons. And what have you and what we discovered in summary, I suppose, was that there

00:02:35.350 - 00:02:54.010

is very little rehabilitation going on in Soledad or any other prison in the state of California. The next move in the Soledad controversy is apparently up to the Legislature. The five black lawmakers have made demands for a formal investigation by both houses of the Legislature on

00:02:54.010 - 00:03:08.280

conditions at the prison. Governor Reagan may have something to say about that, that his Tuesday news conference. And it may also point out at that time that all five members of this so called black caucus or Democrats in Sacramento Jack Bates reporting for a news watch.

00:03:13.140 - 00:03:41.860

Yeah, e yeah, strong.